We operate 2 long-range Bizjet commercially, and we maintain CAT2 status on both of them.
Problems are:
- We do not operate with reliable regularity to CAT2 airports, which makes it difficult to maintain the currency. To shorten recurrent SIM training, you are supposed to do a number of real or practiced CAT2 approaches during each 6-month period between SIM sessions, and we struggle to do that.
- On in the SIM we have to maintain EVS/HUD, CAT2, Right hand seat, London-City qualifications. Couple that with the requirements for UPRT, RTO, non-precision, circling etc... and most of our time in the machine is devoted to box-ticking instead of "real" training. There is a limit to how many SIM session you can reasonably pile on in a recurrent, and we would really like to keep our OPCs to 1 day....
Once the rules and requirements for EVS/CVS approaches allow us to reach 100ft minima on most airports and in most countries, we will be very glad to ditch the burdensome CAT2..