September 15, 201312 yr Good day, So i have noticed since the release the FMC has been doing something peculiar with entered LATLON points. The route i am demonstrating is CYYZ to LLBG SEDOG2 YXI MOFAT YWK J583 YDP PRAWN 6200N 05000W 6200N 04000W 6100N 03000W 5800N 02000W PIKIL MOGLO BAKUR UN546 STU UL9 GAVGO UL9 KONAN UL607 KOK UM150 PITES EDISA BIRGI UQ303 NEMEK AKIKA UN132 MAVAR UN130 ESOPO UN130 MES UL609 APLON UL609 LEDRA G18 SOLIN We are going to focus on the latitude and longitude waypoints, So i entered the route on the RTE 1 page from the SID all the way up until PIKIL. Now when i go and line select N62W050 which was entered as N6200.0W05000.0, it displayes in the scratchpad as N62-0.0W05000.0 When i line select N62W040 which was entered as N6200.0W04000.0 it comes up as N62-0.0W040-0.0 Now another strange thing, when i line select N61W030, it comes up as N61-0.0W02960.0 even though i entered it as N6100.0W03000.0. And line selecting N58W020 which was entered as N5800.0W02000.0, it comes up as N5800.0W020-0.0. I have checked the track and distance of each of the waypoints and they match up pretty much perfectly when compared to the flight plan generated by PFPX. Any body have any idea why the waypoints are coming down in the scratchpad with Dashes and why after entering N6100.0W03000.0 it comes up with W02960? Bryan Richards "People depend so much on automation that they forget how to get the automation to work." B.W.
September 15, 201312 yr Author I've checked and i dont remember seeing anything as to why or if it does add DASHES into the waypoints when you line select them to bring them down into the scratchpad, and why when i entered N6100.0W03000.0 and put in the the next line, then line select it again it comes up in the scratch pad as N6100.0W02960.0 Bryan Richards "People depend so much on automation that they forget how to get the automation to work." B.W.
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