Author: Gring
Subject: Direct-To Function
Posted: 31 Aug 2015 at 8:13am
Subject: Direct-To Function
Posted: 31 Aug 2015 at 8:13am
 teeth6 wrote:Can someone tell me the best way to handle this situation. I was on V162 between 2 waypoints. ATC gave me a 30 degree right vector for about 5 minutes. They then gave me a left turn with a heading to fly and asked me to re-intercept V162. Since I was already past the previous waypoint and had not reached the next one, the "activate leg" feature was not available. They did not want me to fly direct to the next point so I couldn't do a "direct to". The only way I could see to do it was to first do a "direct to" my previous waypoint which brought up the "activate leg" LSK and then I activated the leg to the next waypoint. Is there a more elegant way to do this? |
Without being there, it is hard to fully know what you were seeing, however, I believe your active leg was still previous waypont, next waypoint, and that never changed. You couldn't activate that leg simply because it was already the active leg. Since you deviated right of course, you were just that, right of course and your CDI would show that as well as the GPS. To get back on your active leg, you would simply fly to the left, on your assigned heading until the CDI centered. There isn't anything else to do. Orest is right that there was a "Fly vectors" feature that would have given you GPS navigation back on track, but that is only available in R9 and was removed from IFD540 prior to certification.
If you have a Flight Director / Autopilot, I would simply have put it in HDG mode, set my pointer to the assigned heading. I would have then armed the NAV mode or GPSS mode and either hand flown or let the autopilot fly you back on course.
Hope this helps.