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Old 25th January 2009 | 11:36
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NigelOnDraft
 
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The 'bus has a gadget which shows an arc of where the plane will end up at idle thrust, it becomes active when flaps are selected. I think it should be changed to always show glide range in present configuration.
I trust you aren't serious

If you are, I doubt the Crew looked at their ND in the whole process, and the ND the Airbus types I fly do not show useful things like rivers, bridges and ferries, just useless things like Waypoints and NDBs that are not a lot of use when your engines fail at 300' However, Mr Airbus installed some nice windows, and I suspect this crew looked out of those... an art somewhat being lost

NoD
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