On our fleet, both 757(?) and 767, the first flap setting allows 'speed intervention' while remaining in VNAV PTH ('approach mode').
There are about 4 triggers to get into 'approach mode'. Flaps is the easiest to remember and often the first trigger that engages 'approach mode'.
And then there's always the FMA - yeah you asked for something...but what did the 'box' (FMA) actually give you?
Last edited by misd-agin; 14th October 2014 at 13:40.
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