Low Visibility Operations in Biz-jets
Hello All,
I have an airline background and my experience of LVOs is Cat II / III with Autoland. To support a piece of work I am doing, it would be really useful to understand the philosophies within Corporate Aviation to LVOs. May I ask the following questions to the Business Aviation community?
1. Is Cat III / Autoland a common capability in biz-jets?
2. Is it routine for Corporate operators that use autoland to 'prove' each runway (like airlines) with a practice autoland before using it in anger? Do operators share any of this data or does each operator have to establish their own approvals?
3. The Corporate world seems to be a long way ahead of the airlines in the use of features like HUDLS / EVS / SVS. My perception is that these features allow Cat II / OTS Cat II approaches (with manual landing) to be flown at lots of airports without the need to 'prove' an autoland. Hence, although not quite bestowing the 75m RVR capability of Cat III, this philosophy comes close and is ultimately more useful. Is that a fair summary?
Thanks for any replies.