On Sun, 20 Jan 2008 09:22:34 +0000 (UTC), Bertie the Bunyip
wrote:

Big John wrote in
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The radio gear has improived quite a lot since then. We regulaly do
Cat3
autolandings and damned if the airplane doesn't do them almost
perfectly. I mean the needles don't budge on the way down an ILS. Used
to be I could go donw an ILS almost as good myself, but we use auto
aproach so much nowadays that edge is disappearing.
Don;t know about the 380. I vaguely remember one having a runway
excursion, but I can't remember where.


Bertie

Thanks for the info. I'll rest a little easier when in back end and
approach is to minimums in heavy rain at night.

Oh yeah, it works very well. We can land in absolutely zero/zero
perfectly safely, though we actully need a little bit of vis to be legal
just so we can find outr way of the runway! But in many places we land
with no DH at all, and no requirement to see anything before touchdown,
though we always see something. We can land in places we can't take off
from! On touchdown, the airplane will continue down the runway
absolutely on the center line. The autobrakes will stop us the
speedbrakes auto-deploy and the only thing we do manually is select
reverse if we want it.



380 may not have been current? You notice that things seem to get
recycled at later dates when somone just receives it and forwards with
no date of event.


Yeah, I can't remember, exactly, but i think it was some time ago.

Dunno.

Bertie
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Bertie

I can see now why the Airlines are talking about taking Private Pilots
who have just upgraded to Commercial and putting in right seat to fill
coming Pilot shortage due to lack of retired Mil Pilots.

Knew you all had zero zero but haden't read that was authorized,
except only at a few airports with special birds and trained aircrews.
Big brother all the way.

Big John