Steven P. McNicoll wrote:
wrote in message news:cjlgf.4216$pF.687@fed1read04...
You're mistaken. There's no need for approach couplers and autoland systems
when the weather is good. It's not a problem because the pilots can see.

wrong. There might be "need" to do autolanding for 3 month (?)
currency. I hear this often at night for jets going into SFO.
Granted the pilots turn off the autopilot with no loss of
safety but the need is still there.

Gerald