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Old 18th Jun 2012, 13:21
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sleeper
 
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Why do you consider an ILS with a DA of 652 and vis of 3.0 km, a visual approach? Won't that ILS (Rwy 35) support an autoland albeit with those minimums?

I presume your company isn't qualified to do the two RNP AR IAPs:

Runway 17 508 and 2.6 km.
Runway 35 542 and 3.0 km. [
The ils gp on rwy 35 hits the runway (no pun intended) far beyond the touchdown zone. If you would autoland the beast you will have problems stopping the aircraft before the end, especially in wet conditions. So autolands are not authorized in Quito.
In reality you would leave the gp at 2 miles and "dive" down to the touchdown zone. I would call that a visual final approach.

As for your other remark,
Yes we are qualified for rnp-ar approaches.
Again these are not approaches you can autoland from. Thus again visual finals with the same dive-down for rwy 35. Don't forget the final approach speed is about 180 groundspeed due to the altitude.

And guy's, I didn't say visual approach. I said visual Final approach.

Last edited by sleeper; 18th Jun 2012 at 13:24.
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