Discovery - Majestic DHC-8 Q400 Pro - Pink Needle Blues

 

A happy discovery on Page 127 of Majestic's System Tutorial. Essentially it seamlessly blends an ILS into FMS data to yield an LNAV/VNAV "Pink Needles ILS" approach.

 

Here's the citation:

 

The VNAV function has a special provision in order to enable flying the approaches in a coupled mode. What this means, is that it is possible for the FMS to combine ***all the navigation information available (IRS/GPS, and the ILS inputs), to generate and automatically fly the glide and lateral slope for the approach.***

  

Pretty slick stuff!

 

 

 

 

Best,

 

marshall