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Where do you get the information from? A MFD? I've never flown glass.
 
Okay.....next question.

How do you get rid of an STD?
 
Hate to be "that guy," but the VDP will always be published on the chart. If no VDP is published, a PDP (Planned Descent Point) is what you calculate in leau of a VDP.

They work exactly the same, with the following distinction:

VDP = published
PDP = calculated by pilot

If no VDP is published, I always calculate a PDP: Just a good habit to get into.
 
Hate to be "that guy," but the VDP will always be published on the chart. If no VDP is published, a PDP (Planned Descent Point) is what you calculate in leau of a VDP.

They work exactly the same, with the following distinction:

VDP = published
PDP = calculated by pilot

If no VDP is published, I always calculate a PDP: Just a good habit to get into.

Not true. A VDP will only be published if there is an obstacle or the TERPster wanted to put one on the chart. He doesn't have to. The current push from the FAA is that VDP will be published, but there are still plenty of charts without them.

A technique I was taugh in USAF UPT in the 90's.

"Gus wears a HAT"

Gus = GS

HAT / GS = distance from runway. Sometimes use 3.0 or some other number.

If I repeated some one, sorry.
 
I think you're misreading his post. What he's saying is that the VDP will be published if calculated by the FAA. VDP's are published and PDP's are calculated by the pilot. He's clarifying the fact that pilots tend to use the terms interchangeably.

Clearly, we don't see VDP's appearing on every NP plate, so therefore we can assume that if a VDP exists, it will be published.

I think that is what the poster was refering to, not that a VDP is published on every NP plate.
 

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