Perhaps the industry should reflect on why some operators believe that it is necessary to fly ‘practice’ autolands. With modern, high reliability systems it should not be necessary to prove technical integrity.
But it is! For a proper LVP Cat II/III autoland to be carried out there are three requirements:
1. The runway in use must be equipped Cat II/III and LVP in force.
2. The crew must both be current Cat II/III
3.
The aircraft must be cleared and current Cat II/III, a satisfactory autoland having been carried out within a previous subscribed period, possibly 28 days, operators will vary, (also, if an aircraft has been 'snagged' and lost it's Cat II/III capability, when rectified, a practice autoland must be executed before Cat II/III capability is restored).
I think some of these muppets posting here
Bit strong
White Knight! Having a bad day/beer?
