Radio altimeter fault triggered Turkish Airlines crash

In article 0,
says...
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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

Dave Doe wrote
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?


Probably about 1 in 20. The company would have liked more, but that
took all of the fun out of flying.

Bob Moore

In article 7,
says...
Dave Doe wrote
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?


Probably about 1 in 20. The company would have liked more, but that
took all of the fun out of flying.

Agreed, ANZ *want* the pilots to do 1 in 7, the actual ratio is
probably far less. A mate flys a 777, I'll ask him what they do
(actually)

--
Duncan