Airbus FBW family - flight plan predictions
Please would anyone advise:
When a flight plan is first loaded and altitude constraints are shown the intervening waypoints altutdes are then predicted.
In the climb phase will a predicted altitude ever be higher than a subsequent constraint?
Similarly on descent will a predicted waypoint ever be lower than a subsequent constraint.
The answer would seem obvious (that a smooth path is always predicted) but I have been advised that this is not always the case.
Many thanks