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Old 3rd Feb 2014, 20:15
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I am not a B777 pilot, but I have flown Boeing a/c with Land 2 & Land 3 annuciations. Land 2 did not require a G/A it just changed the DH from Cat 3A to CAT 2 and it was still an autoland. So why the G/A? I would have expected that before executing an LVO ILS there would have been an extensive briefing of what to do normally and what to do if a common mis-hap occurred. Why was there a sudden surprise? Equally, the gotcha of pushing the wrong TOGA button is not a first and I'd have expected the captain as PF to be extra alert to where his fingers were close to DH. Does AF fly LVO as a monitored approach? Can the F/O call G/A above DH? Do not get diverted by a discussion about a 20' DH. It is irrelevant to this. I haven't read the report, but from the details given in the first post the incident was created by some strange behaviour above DH. Without knowing the SOP's in AF we can not make reasoned comments. Let's keep any comments to relevant facts.
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