Munich Airport A320 CAT3 Autoland - Low Visibility Approach & Go-Around with PFD Zoom

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CAT3 approach with no DH. At 100ft the Autopilot degraded the approach from CAT3 DUAL to CAT2 for unknown reason. Then the Captain decided to Go-Around.

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Very interesting to watch a shows how subtle a downgrade is. It took a second or two to appreciate the downgrade had happened and the go around initiated. I’m not criticising the Captain here as he was concentrating very hard at this stage of the flight (200 ft above the runway), and reacted brilliantly. Excellent, textbook response and great team work between the two pilots. I’m wondering if they found why the downgrade happened and if it was still CAT 2 when they tried again. Assuming they didn’t divert which is probably unnecessary if they had the fuel for another go.

There’s only about four reasons why the A320 family would downgrade from CAT 3 DUAL straight to CAT 2. The auto thrust failing (not what happened here), a BRAKES RELEASED ECAM (again, not what happened here), an AC BUS 1 FAULT or a RAD ALT 1(2) FAULT. I suspect the rad alts had a moment and one decided to throw a wobbly. Which probably caused the downgrade.

Excellent reactions and a great example of how to perform the go around at low level on an autoland. 👍

VmcgHD

It switched from CAT 3 DUAL to CAT2. Go around was imperative

ilfordino-fordfiestatutori

Klasse Video! Allein schon auf dem Jumpseat mitzufliegen ist schon der hammer aber dann noch ein Go Around! :D

Pilot

When I clicked on the video: "oh nice, cloud surfing at FL250"... then the 1000 callout!

charlieolson

Excellent video! Good and valid decision! Keep them comming :)

mvaldman

Autoland capability downgrade above alert height (I guess it's 100 RA on the airbus, Boeing typically used 200ft) likely without the required visual references = go around.

JustMe

When the flight is just above 50 feet from touchdown flair should appear on PFD otherwise pilot must perform go around procedure. And that is exactly what done here.

myjobsuae

good catch. i get this in the sim quite a lot but never irl, good decision

manunitedphong

That was interesting to see, did you ever find out the reason why it degraded? Is it normal that something like this happens?

albula

Hey great catch mate! Can i feature this in one of my upcoming episodes? Of Course you will get credit for it! Thanks

AviationDailyNow

FMA changes: CAT3 DUAL to CAT2. Cricket sounds, NO DH, TOGA

nthx

thx for good video. from korea pilot tranee

oneonly

Shouldn't there be an announcement of approaching minimums and minimums?

dejanpopovic

Can someone explain what could potentially happen if they had let the plane perform the autoland despite the cat 2 downgration?

leonidasg

Coming back to this I just realized that the FMA said NO DH
Maybe the capability was downgraded, because someone forgot to insert the decision height?
Don't know if that would happen and I'm too lazy to try it out in flight sim but that might've been the case

Noah