Originally Posted by
Rev Thrust
I'm curious... what reason would sensibly account for BRI not being in the FMC?
The descent profile for managed descent is based on the track miles remaining from whats programmed in the box. So having CPT-POMAX-BRI-procedural ILS will have a lot more track miles than you can actually expect and hence a rubbish descent profile, as 99 times out of 100 you will get something that approximates to CPT-POMAX-CF27. The BRI will be tuned on the ADF so if on getting to POMAX there are no further instructions (ie radar vectors, which is almost 110% guaranteed) then it's pretty easy to track the needle.
As I said it's very easy to add the BRI if needed (just press DIR then type BRI, or insert BRI as TO waypoint).