Level Abeam
Hello all,
After flying overseas for many years many in the US, I've come back to EU flying and have encountered the slightly tricky UK ATC clearance of being on a radar heading and then "descend to FL xx be level abeam XYZ wpt"
I'm sure many aircraft FMS systems can cope with this easily but on my simple machine, if I'm not going to the wpt then VNAV isn't very useful, so we're left with swagging it, which feels a bit wrong and depending on the geometry is prone to error.
Just curious how other people manage this? Also, I can see now useful it is for a controller but just to raise the point that it's a bit of a tricky clearance for some less advanced aircraft!
Cheers
TDK
Former Blue Suit ATCO at LATCC many moons ago...