Thread: Approach Timing
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Old September 8th 04, 07:18 PM
Michael
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Greg Esres wrote
Do you use the throttle to increase/decrease power to match the
ground speed to the approach speed table so the time is correct to the
MAP?

I find this concept astonishing. Surely very, very few CFII's are
teaching this? I have run into one or two.


It will be more popular. Watch and see.

This method is used by the flight control software of the Airbus A-320
series of aircraft. I **** you not. Straight from the lips of an
A-320 captain. The autothrottles adjust to a given groundspeed on
approach. Groundspeed, not airspeed. No, I don't know why either -
but he insists that it's true.

Once more aiplanes adopt this approach, I am willing to bet it will
become the norm at the big flight schools - especially as IFR GPS
becomes standard. And once the big flight schools start teaching
it...

Michael