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Old 12th May 2010 | 12:04
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charlies angel
 
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I think your lack of ambition to fully understand the nuances and complexities of an aircraft that you (presumably) fly extremely worrying.
The OEB you allude to is concerning go/around from a fully managed NPA not a precision approach so irrelevant to anyone with a basic understanding of Airbus.
Tell me does a managed VOR approach fly down the green line,the GPS derived track to touchdown,the inbound course from the RADNAV page?
In an FMS2 aircraft for example (if you can be bothered to check!) the RADNAV page does not tune to the approach ILS frequency until within 250nm to touchdown(or is it track miles,or direct?) so will arming the approach actually do anything outside 250nm?
On your autoland does the aircraft yaw on landing with reference to its last GPS derived track to touchdown, or does it yaw in relation to the inbound course you (presumably) checked at 700'? Does it change if the aircraft is CPIPS1 or 3,FMS1 or 2 ,honeywell or collins equipment?
This is not a Cessna 150 my friend, it is a COMPLEX MACHINE.Lack of technical knowledge has caused many many accidents amongst the "whats it doing now" brigade.
If you cant be bothered to get your head in the books and merely want to push some coloured buttons go and work at Tesco check out
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