Banned in the State of Tennessee.
Eh, it’s always gotten me close enough. Maybe my standards are too low since it’s the only airliner VNAV I’ve flown but it seems like a lot of the bellyaching is overblown. Definitely better than the VNAV in the Lear. Though it does have its idiosyncrasies like when you put in the altimeter and it STILL has to dive for the path going through 18 and the whole waiting until 15 knots slow to abruptly wake up the auto throttles. The only time I’ve seen it grossly wrong was when a captain got smart on his leg and tried to put in his own ISA deviation based on cruise altitude. That didn’t work well.
Le Bus even tells you when it assumes you’ll at least have 1/2 brakes out during a descent, yet, some people still try to make it work without.
My favorite lesson about speed and flight path control is spending time briefing the OE pilot about the “delicate nature” of arriving from the west, on path, on speed, airport called in sight and vectored dog-leg to final and watching the aircraft parallel the glidepath, ALT * and then “It didn’t capture. IT DIDN’T CAPTURE!”
See... this whole ass time I've been thinking "No, Alaska is a fine old airline with the cool Eskimo on the tail. Captain Beefheart and CC are just two examples and AMG seems cool and American Hero™ and such" but now you come out against American classic automobiles and piston powered warbirds! Now I'm going to have to rethink my entire belief system - something about Alaska is just off. You probably don't even like Wacos.haha this is probably blasphemy, but for as much as I enjoy cars, classic Americana has never done it for me. They just seem bloated, with weird lines that aren't flattering. I can appreciate them for what they are, but I would never buy one. And another blasphemous statement along similar lines......piston engined warbirds don't really excite me either, with perhaps the only exception being the P-51 and maybe the B-29. I guess my real interest began with the jet engine. Much like my real interest in cars doesn't date to much before the early 1970s (and also generally excludes anything ever built in the USA, save a couple sports cars and trucks). Go ahead and roast me, I know its coming
If it makes anyone feel better, I also can only think of maybe single digits of cars built by any manufacturer since 2000 that really interest me. And only American trucks are cool. That is my main exception to the rule above.
See I think you could have written this post in mandarin and it would have made as much senseLe Bus even tells you when it assumes you’ll at least have 1/2 brakes out during a descent, yet, some people still try to make it work without.
My favorite lesson about speed and flight path control is spending time briefing the OE pilot about the “delicate nature” of arriving from the west, on path, on speed, airport called in sight and vectored dog-leg to final and watching the aircraft parallel the glidepath, ALT * and then “It didn’t capture. IT DIDN’T CAPTURE!”
= LAVS’ing and you get to the altitude in the window is as close as I’d translate it. Or, “how automation induced your unstable approach.”
My favorite lesson about speed and flight path control is spending time briefing the OE pilot about the “delicate nature” of arriving from the west, on path, on speed, airport called in sight and vectored dog-leg to final and watching the aircraft parallel the glidepath, ALT * and then “It didn’t capture. IT DIDN’T CAPTURE!”
Le Bus even tells you when it assumes you’ll at least have 1/2 brakes out during a descent, yet, some people still try to make it work without.
My favorite lesson about speed and flight path control is spending time briefing the OE pilot about the “delicate nature” of arriving from the west, on path, on speed, airport called in sight and vectored dog-leg to final and watching the aircraft parallel the glidepath, ALT * and then “It didn’t capture. IT DIDN’T CAPTURE!”
Much of the difficulties I’ve observed people having in the bus, regardless of the level of automation, have come from 1) them not understanding what they asked the jet to do, or 2) them not understanding what the jet is attempting to tell them via the silent scream of the FMA.
Less is more.