CAT III Approach

mooneyguy

mooneyguy

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ok, after getting rickrolled on the other cat III thread I figured I would actually post a cat III approach. Check out the line in the clouds at 55 seconds which is about the entry point.

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That first one is what I always used to teach my instrument students about what lights you can do what with on an instrument approach.
 
Last time I went to ZRH we had CAT II minimums and I thought that looked scary! I can't imagine what it feels like up front seeing nothing at 50'!
 
Holy hell. Awesome! I know in most European airports, they have follow me trucks. But after a CATIIIc landing at a US airport, how the eff do you get to the gate?
 
What is interesting for Cat III and even some Cat IIs is with a slight crosswind (10-15kts) you expect to see the runway at 12 and it is not. The drift will present the runway at 10 or 1 as the case may be and that is almost always a surprise.

When instructing, we would take the sim and put it at 200ft with half mile. Then down to 100ft and the start backing down RVR for Cat IIIa and b. Also, freeze the sim and add winds. Then day and then night. With and without landing lights. The demo took about :20 to go through all the cues and situations but then we take the sim back to 200 and a half and it looks like the field is VFR. Interesting exercise.
 
d_mckerrow06 said:
so with cat IIIc the airplane can actually land itself? with crosswind?
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We did Cat IIIB with a 50ft ALERT HEIGHT (AH) and at that point you merely had to ensure all was working. Different from a Decision Height (DH) where you had to DECIDE. On one IIIB into LAX, it took longer to get from touchdown to the gate than it did to slow, configure, shoot the approach and land. Groping in the fog... And yes, the airplane (3 autopilots) lands itself.
 
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