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Old 10th Jul 2019, 11:41
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Originally Posted by Microburst2002

In some cases I think it would be OK not to pull HDG. That would give better VDEV (if you pull HDG the FMGS computes direct distance from a/c to the WPT TO.)
The FCOM does talk about using the Direct To function with one reason given being "The VDEV to be computed on reasonable distance assumptions".
Anybody have a good explanation for this?
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