cactusbusdrvr wrote
"I don't know how Air Canada does it, but at my airline we set the FPA .4 before the FAF. At the FAF we pull the knob and we start down at that preset angle.
If you are late, as you said, you can adjust the FPA to recover to the "doughnut" which is the vertical guidance path indicator. Withing a few hundred feet you should be stabilized at the correct FPA. "
Air Canada procedure,so I was told is (or was when I flew the A320) to descend to FAF crossing altitude. Once you have ALT capture select FPA at zero. .3 nm before the FAF select desired FPA value in the window. If you crossed the FAF a little high, you can increase the FPA.
Last edited by Retired DC9 driver; 17th Nov 2018 at 03:05.