Radio altimeter fault triggered Turkish Airlines crash

Mxsmanic wrote:
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The shuttle does an autoland approach and touches down manually.

There's no such thing as an "autoland approach." You can automate the
approach, but if the automation doesn't take you to touchdown, it's not an
autoland.

Funny, the FAA seems to think otherwise:

http://www.faa.gov/airports_airtraff...pubs/PCG/A.HTM

From the ink:

"AUTOLAND APPROACH- An autoland approach is a precision instrument
approach to touchdown and, -IN SOME CASES-, through the landing rollout."

Emphasis mine.

Wrong again.


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Jim Pennino

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