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Old 24th Dec 2013, 16:48
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Halfnut
 
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Some mom in her Kia minivan has better ground navigation then us in $50 million plus jets.

The write off with BA at Johannesburg would have put a bunch of TSO'ed ground GPS mapping units in a bunch of jets. A PA / KLM at Tenerife or NWA at DTW only exasperates the blood on the FAA's hands.

Lower then 30 knots with the plane not commanded in the TOGA mode should have the Jepp 10/9 page on both NAV displays.

It's cheaper to program aircraft / airport specific into the data base vs. heads down with 1900 technology paper taxi diagrams or iPads.
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