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Old 27th Sep 2009, 10:07
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It's almost unthinkable not to have abeam points isn't it? But yeah, I fly for Transavia (low cost owned by KLM group with all 737NG) and we had KLM guys flying for us for the summer and lo and behold they thought "abeam points" was a neat new feature! Seems KLM doesn't have it as they have old -300s and -400s aswell as 7,8 and 900s so didn't order the option to maintain commonality!

PS we even had abeam points in our old -300 EFIS a/c but then we've always flown some pretty long haul routes - north Africa, Egypt etc so need it for those long "proceed direct to" stretches.....

Flew AMS-Hurghada-AMS last week - 10 hrs 20 total block with non augmented crew. Don't want to have to keeping building abeams with stretches like that!
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