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Old 8th August 2012 | 19:40
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DozyWannabe
 
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@BOAC - there's been loads. There's a good general thread here (the initial question is prosaic, but the subsequent discussion is very interesting):

http://www.pprune.org/tech-log/452973-fpv-fpv-cage.html

A brief summary by HN39 here:

http://www.pprune.org/tech-log/45283...ml#post6484413

But the short summary is that the Honeywell systems used by Airbus and Embraer use baro data to calculate the FPV - if air data is unreliable then FPV is unavailable.
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