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That can be said for all transport category autopilots.
Has happened to me once on the ATR, airplane pitched up quite abruptly as soon as the GS came alive and started climbing for it. Had I not noticed it and disc. the autopilot, it would have easily brought out the stick shaker. It was trimming quickly right before I disconnected it.
Happened once on the CRJ-200 as well. Weird as heck and I didn't understand why it would just randomly do that. Both times into ATL.
not true, the 737 autopilot will most definitely capture the GS before being in VOR/LOC. although in this case I don't think it matters, as you pointed out.
Anybody verify that this is a real alert, and not some snarky, in poor taste attempt at humor?
From section 6.4 page 17 of the CAL 737 flight manual:
"Glideslope capture is inhibited prior to localizer capture."
I'm sure your book says that. SWAs says something along the lines of "if you think that GS capture will occur prior to VORLOC capture, consider arming VORLOC instead of APP."
and, I've seen it happen. There are a lot of 737s out there and there are differences. Shoot, my squadron in the navy had 3, all delivered within a year of each other, and one would capture the GS first while the other two would not.