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Old 21st May 2017, 03:09
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Alternatively, your forward thinking company could produce an App that allows you to stick the temperature, QNH AND the altitudes and produce a set of corrected altitudes in seconds. Or a rough and ready table on the winter ops guide. I have worked for airlines that have done both.

It really is isn't difficult. It takes 5 minutes away from reading the paper in the cruise. Checking your vertical profile in IMC is a business of life or death. With the switchover to paperless flight decks it surely can't be long before LIDO, Jepp, Navtech insert a function into their approach plates for you to enter the QNH and temperature and automatically display the correct crossing altitudes.
Cold temperature correction wasn't an issue here. The crew properly corrected the FPA and MDA according to Air Canada's cold wether SOP. But the flight path diverged due to winds, and the crew didn't verify distance vs. altitude.
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