Originally Posted by
ZapBrannigan
I would've bet a paycheck that before we started redeyes they would've implemented auto land. It's is stunning to me that you could have a crew fly all night long, then have the Captain hand fly a CatIII, attempting to see the HGS symbology washed out by the rising sun, while the poor FO just sits over there thinking "hope this guy/gal knows what they're doing."
Not to mention the clear benefit being that auto land also offers auto go-around - go arounds being another event that has in the past required the entirety of the pilot group to come to Dallas for a chat.
Whoa whoa whoa Eeyore... that kind of thinking runs counter to the Warrior Spirit. Don't be a puss.... you can hand-fly a cat 3 after a redeye. Just remember, if you complain about sun in your face while you're trying to land, the "Dammit Chappy I'm doing it my way" bunch will tell you that you'll be in the soup eventually on a cat 3, so don't worry about it, and if you're really a HUD cripple like me, the first thing you should look for when you sit down is the HUD visor and if it's missing, you take a delay, you ground the plane, you kick, you scream, you whine and you take it all out on your FO.
