BA 777 crash at Heathrow

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


That's right. The aircraft has to be certified, and the runway and the
crew. There's not a lot to it with us. the autopilot does it and we
monitor. There are a number of gates where we check to make sure it's
all working and the right lights come on and what not, but it's pretty
much just switch the stuff on and guide it onto the ILS. Almost every
large airliner still flying can do it nowadays.
We're not licenced for 0/0. nobody is because the airport would be
logjammed with people taxiing into each other! We can land with 200' vis
which ain't much!



Bertie