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March 6th 09, 11:45 PM posted to rec.aviation.piloting
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Radio altimeter fault triggered Turkish Airlines crash
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The word "autoland" refers to a system in aircraft.
It is routine to turn on autoland during approach and turn it off just
before touchdown.
That's not how we did it in the B-727s that I flew at PanAm.
Autoland was a procedure during which the autopilot flew the
aircraft to touchdown.
Bob Moore
ATP B-727 B-707 L-188
CFII
It was suggested (stated I spose) by another poster here that "most"
landings are autolands. I categorically disagreed with that statement.
Air New Zealand do about 1 in 7 autolands.
What ratio did you do?
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Duncan
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