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Old 23rd Mar 2018, 06:03
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My bad, I'll take some spelling lessons too.

Never seen one of those "don't go outside XXnm from D5 UKS" on a procedure turn before. I learn something every day.

can you explain what difference the procedure turn distance makes to the incident at hand?
Did I say it did? Sorry for throwing in all these tangents. I will in future preface all such comments with "Thread drift". On the subject, it does seem a bit odd that there is a 10nm limit from a fix that in all likelihood the crew has no displayed distance to it (unless they had a GPS-updated FMS). It would be much simpler to have the limit based on the DME.

Thread Drift: why would there be a 15DME (10 on 5) limit on the proc turn? Doesn't seem to be any limiting obstacles...
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