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12th Apr 2005, 00:36

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Mr McGoo

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If you are doing an approach to a runway that is not in the GPWS data base (05L/23R ?) and Terrain Overide is not engaged (QF43 ?) then GPWS will activate regardless of the terrain (as it thinks you are going to land in a paddock).