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Old 9th Apr 2019, 10:18
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Originally Posted by yanrair
The Tristar taught flying GPS G SPEED approaches in serious headwind landings - none of this is new, but it is being forgotten. So here we have big jets using this technique when it is the very opposite of still air!
Surely the Tristar predated GPS by some years.
I looked that up just to see how many were still flying. One thing I found is that you can apply a GPS package to almost any Flight Sim aircraft.
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