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Old 5th Apr 2012, 00:27
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Originally Posted by DozyWannabe
In MANAGED mode, the corrections applied by the autoflight system are displayed in the SELECT window of the FCU panel. I want to make clear at this point that we're not talking about control inputs of a magnitude to effect 5000fpm descent rate immediately, simply that this is the value the software uses in certain configurations. Lower to the ground, you'll see -1500 appear in the window for a split second as corrections are applied, but you don't start descending at 1500fpm.
Never heard read or seen anything like it ... Anyone with valuable experience on 320 to confirm this ?
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