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"Casey Wilson" N2310D @ gmail.com wrote in message
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Yah, I meant the anti-Windows horde with their blatherings.

And what do you know...you were exactly right.

Darrell,

Many airliners use FMS (Flight Management System) and no movement is
allowed
while the system is "initializing".
[zap]

Thanks! Very interesting.

Hilton

On Mon, 6 Jun 2005 10:13:33 -0700, "Darrell S"
wrote:


Many airliners use FMS (Flight Management System) and no movement is allowed
while the system is "initializing". They might not have noticed that

I thought it was the IRU or INS that required no movement? If the
position is fed to the FMS from a GPS receiver there's no problem with
movement per-se, it just takes a little longer to finish acquisition.

And it usually would be difficult not to notice the system hadn't
finished aligning - are these things part-glass? I don't know of a
glass system that doesn't X or blank out at least the AI and nav
display whenever the system doesn't have alignment. Don't they also
have a caution "IRU x ALIGN" message on the EICAS?