Originally Posted by
Swedish Blender
The A300 doesn't maintain centerline during and autoland. To say it was an eye opener landing about 30 feet from the centerline on my first autoland is an understatement. You put runway heading vice localizer course in the heading window. It doesn't track localizer until after touchdown to get back on the centerline.
I know the feeling. Many of the guys I fly with now land that way. It scared the #2 out of me the 1st 100 times. Now it only scares the #1 out of me if I haven't used the lav recently
. Once on a wet runway with a direct 20 kts x-wind, the entire aircraft was on the downwind side of the runway.