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Old 20th October 2005 | 08:34
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Walter Sobchak
 
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Question Cold Temperature and VNAV approaches

Whilst I was reading the OM check thread I started wondering about the temperature corrections during a VNAV approach.

How do you correct for it during a VNAV approach(B737NG)? According to Boeing you shouldn´t alter anything from FAF onwards because you are messing up the programmed approach logic, except as stated in FCTM 5.36 “... crews should make cold temperature altitude corrections by applying a correction from an approved table to the waypoint altitude constraints.”

So what should we do?
Use the descent forcast page?
Change values from FAF onwards?

I am quite sure the isa dev on the descent forcast page allows only for a rather high temperature(can´t recall the value) and I think it is for descent planning only.

Anyone in the know? Meanwhile I am back to good old V/S.

Regards, the Walter
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