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Old 30th Sep 2017, 10:20
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Cocky, love your humorous take . Comps don't like me either & I am sure people are pointing fingers at me and talking about me in the pub ! Airbubba, forcing me back to the glory days. Older generation FMC's were updated by radio aids. Remember things like IRU's and the triangular cocked hat resolution that would often be the very reason for position error ? SOP was for areas of known or potential poor radio updating , handling pilot to be on raw and non- handling to monitor the map. That was for departures as well as arrivals.

I worked for one company that never really got it, loved automation, and, not kidding, actually recommended the other way round.

Modern kit, I believe has satnav and very accurate. Raw data deps and arrivals might be openly laughed at by the......." kids of the..........." ,oooooops, sorry, nearly said it,modern pilots, even for monitoring. Can't , really, blame them for following the magenta line, eh ?
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