with more and more information being handed over to the interested public, I see my initial suspicion confirmed: SIA, like many airlines from the warm weather league, does not really have a practical concept on LVP and autoland.
- LVP is when it is in force. It's the airport that decides, not the captain.
- LVP required (mostly) autoland.
- Autoland has nothing to do with visibility. It's an automatic landing. You can do it in any weather.
- Practise autoland should be done in good weather conditions. That's how you keep up your currency.
- Autoland should only be done when LVP is in force, when protected zones are granted OR when it's good weather (so you can see that something goes wrong, i.e. you have an aircraft in your protected zone).
I see here a complete mess-up of procedures, rules and principles. All in all I'm not surprised this has happened.