"Sam Spade" wrote in message
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Stan Prevost wrote:


On the 430, VTF doesn't work properly on a
dogleg approach. It sets up for the dogleg intermediate segment rather
than the extended final course.


It seems to me to work correctly. Using your example of KEKX RNAV 23, if
I select VTF, as you say, I get a track line of 270 magnetic to JEXUD.
That would be the correct course to intercept for vectors to "final."

The issue is FAA terminology that is predicated on the ILS case.

It works the way that we pilots would usually prefer that it work, but the
problem is that the 7110.65 used in conjunction with the definitions in the
P/CG, doesn't allow for controllers issuing vectors to an approach other
than to the final approach course as defined in the P/CG, and this results
in some controllers doing it one way and others doing it another way, and
pilots never know (except through local experience) what a controller
intends if s/he says Vectors To Final. The manual should be revised to
allow vectors to an intermediate dogleg segment. Maybe an ASRS report will
get the concern into the system.