oicur12,
Computer trimsheets at main base and main hubs but manual loadsheets at out-stations which are not connected to the mainbase seating computer.
Yes we call 1000 above (or below) in all cases. We did'nt originally, but our authority made us change.
No, cos now we are calling as above!
AnQrKa,
I was very happy to have the aids hard tuned one night when we got a mapshift and GPS/FMS position disagree coming out of KWL. The a/c turned 45 deg towards the high ground which the PF seemed quite happy about! We had to revert to selected and it was very nice to have the aids available immediately. Since China has not been mapped to WGS84 standards there are plenty of times when the a/c is not at the co-ordinates that the GPS thinks it is! China is just now trying to address this but I understand it will take some time. With their participation in the Gallileo sattelite system, clearly this has been made a priority. on another occasion I was doing a managed VOR into XMN in CAVOK for practice with GPS primary, coding was correct etc, but the a/c was in excess of 7 deg off the inbound track. Tower were so worried that they asked if we were visual, which we were.....I'll stick to hard tuning thanks!
I asked the question about the turn radius on EOSID and I have been told categorically that this has been taken into account in the performance calculations by Ops Data who design the EOSIDs.
I agree though, about the documentation. Unfortunately the computer system was not as flexible as some thought. I understand more work is going on to address this.
