Author: rolfe_tessem
Subject: ILS VTF questions...
Posted: 26 Jan 2015 at 8:41am
Subject: ILS VTF questions...
Posted: 26 Jan 2015 at 8:41am
 MysticCobra wrote:
I may be missing the point of your question, but from purely an FMS interface perspective, why can't you just pull up the flight plan, touch the screen right before FLEIG, add MUJIK as a new waypoint in the plan, fill in the waypoint details to cross MUJIK at 3000, and go direct to that waypoint? Like so:  |
That was exactly the point of my question, and I'm delighted that it is so easy to edit in the FMS to insert a previously erased waypoint on the fly.
However, that's not how the clearance usually goes. Normally I'm told to expect vectors for the sequence, then, depending on traffic, vectored onto the localizer outside MUJIK, then given a crossing restriction at MUJIK while inbound on the localizer. Of course, once you activate vectors to final, MUJIK is erased.
This happened with the Garmin 530 as well, and my question is whether the 540 offers any better means of coping with this kind of situation.