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Old 3rd Apr 2017, 03:07
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Hi guys,

I'm having a bit of trouble understanding what's going on in that report. Looking at figure 1, it looks like the aircraft captured the 9 degree glideslope, with a VS of 1400fpm.

My understanding is that when the GS is lost, the AP will continue in an "inertial mode" descent, with the associated failure flags. What I don't get is why the aircraft seemed to descend on a 3 degree slope, parallel to the GS, instead of the 9 degree slope that it had captured. Why wouldn't it continue at 9 degrees?
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