Can`t you use the VOR(s) "wassup doc?" If you are in RVSM can`t you request a non-RVSM and maybe get/need a re-release or am I talking out of my NDB - which you can also use if there are any left. It means you are now driving
but you can stay in Selected mode and autopilot and well, easy life, you have just got to get on with the nav without any delay. You have your charts. Just do some work for a change.
>>>@pantload - you`re silly.
and, and, if you are truuuuuly lazy you can ask for vectors (if they can see you) and get them the ATC boys to do some work for a change. Seriously, though in reality everybody will be lending a hand, some will offer, others will have to be delegated, all in all the outcome will be brill - just trying to figure out the ILS bit - do we have an ILS? If not can we use VOR + DME - if no DME then find somebody who can a/. Navigate well and b/. can count.
Raw VOR with no dme in IMC would be interesting, kind of a bad weather circuit using a VOR - that`ll give aerodrome atc a run for their money - but hey there`s approach control, Approach Radar, life `aint so bad. the thing is you see - to go somewhere nice where they have such ATC facilities, like SRA and PAR with gorgeous bright runway lighting a nice set of ALSF-2 should be suffice and yummy vectors. Or, if you are too proud for vectors then QTE`s and QDM`s - being too proud for vectors though, is a bit like being too proud to accept Kate Upton`s invitation to dinner. Is it far to the sea? Are there mountains around? How about some high ground - this`d be interesting in MEX, but, but you can also use the AWR map mode . . thing . .mode, but if the FMGS is out then do we have AWR, must do . . except it, the awr display, lives on the screen and the screens may be out or the awr has its own dedicated screen. hmmm. You have to sort something out quick though you are travelling at 4.46 m/s which is shifting PDQ. A320. Ah, no a/p. . .well, thats no hardship in a bus which holds everything anyway.
@OCAMPO no, just close your eyes, delete the lot and it will all go away - not happening am afraid you actually have to deal with it - which means putting the chat up lines to the FA on hold and doing some real work, I know, I know, its a hard life sometimes . . . but best to be cuddly wuddly with the hostie at the end of the day and at the end of a long G&T rather than cuddling a freezing cold mountain now isn't it? so, the IRS, or INS in English, will still be working, giving nice things like, position and ground speed and wind.
While we are all here - they should spring this one on us in the sim, much more often, if necessary - it would make for a round-up to the day. Especially at the end of a successful session. After all, the proverbial always seems to hit the fan just when you are about to finish off your Mini Cheddars:/