Ty Webb
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The 737--unlike the EMB145 if I remember correctly--will capture a glide-slope and start descending even if it doesn't have a LOC capture.
Not the 737-700 . . . . dunno 'bout the rest.
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The 737--unlike the EMB145 if I remember correctly--will capture a glide-slope and start descending even if it doesn't have a LOC capture.
Interesting to hear that any autopilot will capture a G/S "before" it captures a LOC. The Bus will not.
"I don't know. There are plenty of pilots who push APP the minute they are cleared, despite being well outside the FAF. There are numerous airports where the practice will take you below step down fixes and yet pilots do it all the time."
I often push the APP button when a clearance is given, but again, the Bus will not intercept the G/S without the LOC being captured. However it will continue a descent if it is out of managed mode if V/S is selected or Open Descent is selected and the FAF altitude is set no matter how far out you are from the fix.
Who cares what airplane does this or that?
Just hit the "App" button when cleared and if the jet ain't goin' where it's 'sposed too...just fly the damn airplane.
YKMKR
Shouldn't be on autopilot, in icing, in a turboprop anyhow. Correct?
There are air carrier procedures that specify that the APP function is selected at clearance, on the base leg of the approach--not at LOC intercept, if that is what you are implying is "proper" procedure.Redtailer:
I don't know. There are plenty of pilots who push APP the minute they are cleared, despite being well outside the FAF. There are numerous airports where the practice will take you below step down fixes and yet pilots do it all the time.
If there is something about this G/S that makes it unusual enough for Southwest to issue a memo on it, then it is well worth my time to consider.