How much CAT 2 (maybe CAT 3) approaches are you making in a year on commercial flights?

Question

I mean, what is the percentage? Maybe 2%?

Answer 1

i do less than 5 a year.

Answer 2

In 23 yrs with a major airline I have done 2 real CAT II app. and landings. 1 in fog and 1 in snow. One second you are in the clouds, the next you are on the ground. The hard part is finding the terminal after landing. But of course we do them every 12 months in the simulator.

Answer 3

The only time that I've ever had to do them was in the sim for currency's sake.

Answer 4

I was cat II qualified for several years at a very busy regional airline, and I never did one, except in the simulator.  It's a rare occasion when you need one for the weather, and the airport you are going to has one.  Sometimes the planes would have a restriction, a deferred item that wouldn't allow a Cat II approach.  So, not very often.

Answer 5

Id say VERY small percent.  The airline I fly for, which is a regional airline owned by US Airways doesnt even have the ops specs for even a cat 2 approach.

Answer 6

Depends on what airline you fly for and where it is

I fly out of Singapore, regionally, and the weather is such in the tropics that i don't ever do them.  Not that many airports around here even have cat II approaches.

Answer 7

U are correct but it is close. to 3-1/2 or close to 2 as u said.