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Old 31st May 2007 | 09:35
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Sax412
 
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ILS course set ... risks!

After a many years flying Bell 412 and flying now A 109 E and S, I found out a very strange thing to me.
Flying the A109 E/S, during an ILS approach if I change the main course set the helicopter follows the new course set getting out of the right loc / path. I found out that even the AW 139 works the same way but I don't understand why.
The "old" Bell 412 like many many others helicopters and aircrafts, as far as I know, works differently.
If you tune an ILS frequency the FD recognizes it in a way that does not allow the helicopter to get off the right path once it's been locked.
So I guess why modern helicopters work differently ?
Thanks a lot to everybody,
Sax.
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