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To: carriage_hill

That’s got to be a typo or a screwup. 2 meters visibility is effectively “zero/zero” weather (zero ceiling zero visibility), and the only types of aircraft allowed to land in that weather are those with highly sophisticated Category III auto-land systems—AND, the landing would only be permitted at an airport with special high-precision ILS systems that the computers onboard the airplane could use to make an automatic landing. In short, both the airplane and the particular runway have to be certified for Category III landings.

I’m not 100% sure but I don’t think a regional turboprop like an ATR-72 would be certified for Cat III autoland. I could be wrong, though, but I’d be surprised.

}:-)4


31 posted on 07/23/2014 1:01:00 PM PDT by Moose4 (Sufficiently feisty.)
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To: Moose4

I had to re-listen to it 2x, but he did say meters. Maybe he meant kilometers. Now you’re getting into terminology/numbers which are way above my pitiful pay grade, but I hear what you’re saying. Heh.


32 posted on 07/23/2014 1:54:24 PM PDT by Carriage Hill (Some days you're the windshield, and some days you're the bug.)
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