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Old 1st September 2001 | 21:05
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M.Mouse

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spoilers yellow,

You said '1. The aircraft itself must be capable of performing a cat 3 approach(usually with autoland)this requires a visibilty down the runway of 200m(cat3A), 150m(cat3B), or lower which would be cat3C, they all need a height above the runway of around 50FT at which the pilots must be able to see at least some component of the runway lighting system in order to make the decision to allow the aircraft go land itself.'

Although you go on to correct yourself in a later post and it has been pointed out by others, 0' DH and 75m RVR is a common minima. It is on my fleet - 757/767.

My personal record is 125m and I saw nothing until the nosewheel landed. Taxiing in fog with RVR below 200m is not easy and 75m must be bordering on the impossible!

Nobody seems to mention and I don't know the answer either but JER's runway is not very flat. It has significant undulations which might well preclude autolanding anyway even if the equipment/protection was in place.
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