Salty
Touchdown! Greaser!
Ok, I flew 3 approaches yesterday and they did everything exactly like I expected.
Tried again today and not once did it work right. I set up for an IAF with a procedure turn and it showed up in the fms right, the next leg was the hold, it annunciated parallel entry, then as soon as I hit the waypoint it turned the wrong way and started to turn to the next waypoint in the approach, skipping the hold. The “delete hold” button was still there until I crossed the waypoint and I never pushed it. In all three scenarios it took me outside the protected space and I couldn’t get it to do anything “safe” so had to cancel and hand fly it ignoring the gps track. In one case it actually was still showing the correct track but the stec was turning the other direction.
also, the stec wouldn’t capture the glide slope on any of these approaches either, and manually selecting approach mode did nothing.
the only difference between yesterday and today is that there were scattered clouds right at the altitude the approaches start, so twice I was above the clouds maybe 500 feet above the approach altitude, and once I was a few hundred feet below.
what the heck did I do wrong today?
Tried again today and not once did it work right. I set up for an IAF with a procedure turn and it showed up in the fms right, the next leg was the hold, it annunciated parallel entry, then as soon as I hit the waypoint it turned the wrong way and started to turn to the next waypoint in the approach, skipping the hold. The “delete hold” button was still there until I crossed the waypoint and I never pushed it. In all three scenarios it took me outside the protected space and I couldn’t get it to do anything “safe” so had to cancel and hand fly it ignoring the gps track. In one case it actually was still showing the correct track but the stec was turning the other direction.
also, the stec wouldn’t capture the glide slope on any of these approaches either, and manually selecting approach mode did nothing.
the only difference between yesterday and today is that there were scattered clouds right at the altitude the approaches start, so twice I was above the clouds maybe 500 feet above the approach altitude, and once I was a few hundred feet below.
what the heck did I do wrong today?