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Stop poking the hornet nest and fire up the discussion again. Seems like it took you some time to figure this one out, but unfortunately not much of it is true, again…

I don’t know where you live but here in Europe a substantial amount of airports are CAT II / III equipped.

Most professional airlines are CAT II / III certified including the pilots. Last couple of operators I have flown for were all certified for LVTO down to 125 m and CAT II or II/III…

It is not necessarily true that you need experience to fly CAT II / III, depending on what you mean by experience. The only requirement before commencing CAT II/III OPS is 50 hrs or 20 sectors on type including LIFUS, which you can’t really call experience. You are then restricted RVR +100 m to some time, so you can fly CAT II/III (just not all the way down to published RVR). What you do need is an airport equipped with a CAT II/III ILS and LVP in force, the operator and the aircraft need to be certified and the pilots must be qualified to fly CAT II/III, the last one is not a big deal, its 3 approaches in the sim or so every OPC / LPC.

Depends where, some airports often experience CAT II/III conditions.

Simply not true, most modern airliners are CAT II/III capable and even most old dinosaurs.

Edit: And as @PZL104 says, autoland and LVO are two separate things.

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