Originally Posted by
PilotJames
Guys, what is the advantage of having a LOC only approach in the FMGC rather than just the ils for that runway.
If you fly the loc only you can only fly this with loc/fpa. I can't see any advantage to having a loc only approach rather than just selecting the ILS approach and then if needs be selecting loc only and fpa modes if you need to fly a LOC only approach.
A some airports there is both a LOC approach and an ILS that can be selected in the FMGC for the same runway.
A LOC approach may also have an intermediate step down fix between the FAF and the runway that the ILS may not contain. I want to say SFO has one of these but don't have the motivation to look right now but it was a foot stomper in recurrent on why to selec the LOC if doing a LOC versus just the ILS.