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Old 10th Jul 2012, 17:01
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The common understanding on our boeing fleet is that raw data flying consists of manual flight with flight directors and auto thrust off or in ARM. However non precision approaches have to be flown from the database and the presentation to the pilot is exactly the same as on an ILS. Therefore it is of course not true raw data flying, just flight director off practice and following an artificial presentation of a glide path and approach course even if the pilot flying is switching his ND to approach mode instead of map.

Precision approaches are of course "true" raw data if it is an ILS, in the case of GLS approaches there is no way to fly "true" raw data.
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