Originally Posted by
Check Airman
At the same time, do we know for sure that ANC was in their nav database? Quite frustratingly, I fly by many long, suitable runways every day that aren't in my database. I have to pull out my chart to know they're down there.
Flying the NOPAC how could PANC not be in the database? And, OZ has flown into Anchorage from the gitgo. An A380 pax load would sure help the Captain Cook with occupancy this time of year.
But I agree, those legacy Pegasus FMS's with 6
megabytes of memory and limited databases should be long gone in airline ops by now. The wifi in the cabin has gone through more upgrades than the boxes in the cockpit in many cases. Hopefully this isn't problem on the A380, maybe they have 16 megabytes of memory in the boxes by now.
And all those military fields should be shown for emergency purposes, like, say, a cargo fire.
