Originally Posted by
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Well I tried it on the 717. Doesn't work.
717 = aerosim vfd. Close to the ground it says "screw you buddy" and runs to the join the black box for the flare. Whether that's what the real machine does, I dunno. But if they were using the RNAV and pulled the CBs for the other stuff, makes me wonder if a satelite can say "yeah man, I talked to GPS receiver X4124891DF1029 at 02:21.04 and he was here, and at .05 here..." ?
We were going into Dubai last week, it was the F/O's leg but he needed to fill the Cat III App. square, so we did an autoland to fill the square.
The wx was clear and a million, a slight crosswind, maybe 8kts from the left, but a steady wind, zero turb. It flared smoothly, put the left main down very, very gently, then the right, then lowered the nose very gently. We were all stunned at how nice it was!
WOW!
It was the nicest autoland I've ever seen!
Now, sure, the 777 is the easiest, softest landing plane that I have flown, but usually when we do an autoland, it's firm. Not hard, but you know you've landed. So does everyone in the back. I'd give it a 7 out of 10.
I don't know if maybe there was a little gust in the flare or what, but I have never seen an autoland like that! It just rolled on so gently, left main first, then the right, slowly, you could barely tell we were on the ground. It was an 11!
That was so sweet I think I'd let it try to land out of an RNAV, or heck, even autoland out of a visual, with the autopilot off, just like the Asiana guys did!
What could go wrong?
