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Summary Of: AutolandAutoland systems were designed to make landing possible in visibility too poor to permit any form... Autoland may be used for any Category III... Autoland requires the use of a... once autoland is engaged and the ILS signals have been acquired by the autoland system... this prevents accidental disengagement of the autoland system at a critical moment... Most autoland systems can operate with a single autopilot in an emergency... Because autoland systems are fully automated and can be extremely precise... autoland system does not get tired... The autoland systems response rate to these external stimuli work very well in conditions of reduced visibility... Autoland capability has seen the most rapid adoption in areas and on aircraft that must frequently... Autoland is highly accurate... Traditionally autoland systems have been very expensive... Commercial aviation autoland was initially developed in... The basic concept of autoland flows from the fact that an autopilot could be set up to track an artificial... very low visibility operations such as autoland can only be conducted when aircraft... the autoland system could discard the glideslope information when it became unreliable... Subsequently autoland systems became available on a number of aircraft types but the primary customers were those... Early Autoland systems needed a relatively stable air mass and could not operate in conditions of... absorb the costs of at least Category 2 autoland systems into their basic configuration... system which used a relatively low reliability autoland system monitored by the pilots via a HUD... procedures required to protect the localiser signal for autoland systems meant a major reduction in capacity from approximately 60 to 30 landings per hour... A typical autoland system consists of an ILS... For this reason Autoland systems are designed to incorporate a high degree of redundancy so that a single failure... at which point the autoland system will turn itself off... then the autoland system mode will change to... the glideslope is detected at which point the autoland mode will change to CATIII and the aircraft will be flown by the flight control... If the autoland system loses redundancy prior to the... then an AUTOLAND FAULT will be displayed to the flight crew at which point the crew can elect... If a single failure occurs below decision height AUTOLAND FAULT will be displayed... the aircraft is committed to landing and the autoland system will remain engaged... from disengaging so the AUTOLAND FAULT indication should inform the flight crew to monitor the system behavior very careful and...Encyclodia Page On: Autoland |
