SpiceWeasel
Tre Kronor
Or just keep the FPV on the intended touchdown point....
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Or just keep the FPV on the intended touchdown point....
jtrain609
Antisocial Monster
Close.
In the JungleBus, FPA is a vertical mode that you select.
FPR is a button that nobody uses that shows you the Flight Path Reference (I think I'm getting this acronym correct). This actually bring up an indicator on the attitude indicator that shows what flight path angle you're flying at.
FPV is Flight Path Vector, which shows your current flight path.
Makes for a cluttered PFD, but you've got lots of great info in front of you.
Brain = Exploded
jtrain609
Antisocial Monster
You guys should get some of these things, it's really a nice airplane to fly around.
PhilosopherPilot
Well-Known Member
Yup, that's correct. The FPR line appears automagically on an ILS in the HUD. The HUD makes all the difference in the world. It isn't cluttered because it is so "zoomed in."
SpiceWeasel
Tre Kronor
I'm flying with an anti-HUD guy right now. Doesn't trust VNAV either. Woo!
By the way, I must be going crazy (or someone said I was), because I could SWEAR that on takeoff that the HSI on the HUD moves up a bit on the display once you shallow the initial climb to FLCH 210 from V2. Help me out yo!
PhilosopherPilot
Well-Known Member
The guys that don't trust VNAV have never learned how VNAV works. Then they "try" to use it one day and they screw it up. That just reinforces their "VNAV is broken" attitude, and round they go...
As far as the HSI moving up, I've never heard that, but I've never asked either. I'll see what I can find out. The takeoff pitch target DOES move as you rotate, but that's fairly obvious.
SpiceWeasel
Tre Kronor
The guys that don't trust VNAV have never learned how VNAV works. Then they "try" to use it one day and they screw it up. That just reinforces their "VNAV is broken" attitude, and round they go...
As far as the HSI moving up, I've never heard that, but I've never asked either. I'll see what I can find out. The takeoff pitch target DOES move as you rotate, but that's fairly obvious.
It seems like it's "attached" if you will, to the pitch, almost like the display is decluttered because of the initial pitch attitude. Time to crack open FCOM Vol II and the L&S Guide
jtrain609
Antisocial Monster
I wish we had HUD's. We've got the housing for the projectorss, but no projectors.
We also don't have auto brakes or auto land.
PhilosopherPilot
Well-Known Member
No auto-land for us. We shoot the CAT III as a hand flown approach because of the HUD. Apparently we had a choice, autoland or dual HUD, and we chose the latter.
The brakes are nice as a backup, but I don't use them much unless the runway is wet or short.
A
Adler
Guest
Yea I guess it has a FPA too, put the runway in the middle of the windshield and keep it there.
e6bflyer
Well-Known Member
Flew with a captain who did all his climbs and descents in CWS. He also didn't use the autothrottles in the NG. I am not kidding. When we had a check airman getting a ride flying with us on the jumpseat he begrudgingly used VNAV and autothrottles so that he wouldn't get any crap for it. I will give him credit though, he was really good at using just CWS.
Baronman
Well-Known Member
Where u working now?
ZapBrannigan
If it ain’t a Boeing, I’m not going. No choice.
I've heard that was how it was done in the 200s. Change management is hard.
jtrain609
Antisocial Monster
California Pacific.
Baronman
Well-Known Member
No kidding...Didn't know this...I see the photo, congrats on your xjt departure.
He's probably on a gluten-free diet but doesn't have gluten sensitivity or Celiac.
Seggy
Well-Known Member
But you have 8 hour airport reserve periods!