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Old 8th Jan 2012, 10:08
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peterh337
 
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Come on MJ, having a bad day?

The OP had a valid question.

FWIW, I know of somebody who got Cat 2 approval for a twin turboprop (Commander) and that was single pilot, and single autopilot.

The advantage was minimal; IIRC DH drops from 200ft to 150ft which is frankly barely worth the extra effort, but it does mean that when the airport goes officially "CAT2 / low visibility procedures" in the ATIS (e.g. this trip) you can legally land there, whereas if you landed anyway (which with an autopilot driving the LOC+GS you obviously could, in CAT2 conditions) you would draw an awful lot of "attention". This private pilot, who had unlimited funding, chucked in his aviation career suddenly after climbing all the way to the top of the food chain because, in his words, he got fed up with running an airline.

BTW, Cat 2 is CAT II but not Cat 11 (CAT eleven). CAT 3 is Cat III but not Cat 111 (CAT one hundred and eleven)
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