Thread: I give up, after many, many years!
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Old May 19th 08, 05:54 AM posted to rec.aviation.piloting,rec.aviation.student
Dave Doe
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Default I give up, after many, many years!
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Dave Doe writes:

IIRC, they could have used the GPS for airspeed (IIRC, the airspeed
indicator partly worked (they got an airspeed active out of it!) - and
probably thought it was correct - during flight it was all over the
place IIRC. And the radar altimeter would have been working just fine.
Several navs would have been good, VOR, DME, ILS etc. Shaker of course
too!

The GPS would only give ground speed, not airspeed, but that would be better
than nothing. The RA would only be useful below 2500 feet AGL. But the other
stuff would be working.

The other poster got it right methinks, pretty sure it was a 757.

re your reply...
* ground speed would be just fine, even in a 30kt wind aloft - compared
to an airspeed indicator going all over the place.
* they'd just taken off, so the radar altimeter's going to provide some
very useful info.


Anyone remember some more details?

Aeroperu had a problem with this.

As the other poster mentioned, he thought it was 'down south' too -
should be a database entry for it somewhere.

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Duncan