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Old Nov 27, 2015 | 5:54 pm
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Originally Posted by Dieuwer
Then define "next to".
He was deadheading. I thought that was obvious? He was in J, as was I.

Originally Posted by upgradesecret
There are not enough airports/runways that have autoland capability and CAT 3 is not always available so a large percentage of landings have to have manual intervention. I would bet that it could be more than half of an average month.

I agree. For me it was news because another FTer had told me AC mandates pilots to manually fly approaches when in fact according to him they don't.

But yes, agreed, few airports have CAT 3
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