I just read an article that it offers a vertical path with temperature compensation which sounds like LNAV/VNAV but it could also mean that because it is GPS derived it automatically compensates for temperature effect, it’s not very clear. You can’t fly RNP-AR with it is what I got from it. Maybe all other type of approaches can be flown by it and it automatically uses the correct guidance?
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I think I found it, LPV on Airbus is called SLS (SBAS LS) and it should just show LOC and G/S as below, maybe it’s outdated though?
That does look at least very similar to the display i saw when i had accidentally selected FLS in the airline options of the Fenix and was expecting to see the more traditional RNAV symbology. The aircraft had also been nagging me to activate LS, even though I had never needed to do so for an RNAV approach.
I’ll try it again and see if one of those 3-letter abbreviations appear in the bottom right of the display, as i don’t recall seeing them. I might then even leave FLS activated, as it does appear to have a friendly way to indicate the approach.
That answers my initial question perfectly thanks.
Is SLS more akin to an ILS CAT1 approach than it is to an RNAV approach then? I’m not certain that the Fenix has this implemented by the way. Not yet at least.
That is essentially what LPV is, Localizer Performance with Vertical guidance. There are even CAT I LPVs nowadays so I guess you could look at it as a GPS derived ILS. It still is a RNP approach of course (not RNAV that’s an old term) because it is GPS derived and not reliant on ground based navaids.
Thanks, I’ll pin that under learned something today. I guess the next question is does any of the avionics actually simulate SBAS versus Baro VNAV correctly? Is that even selectable in a Garmin? IIRC the LNAV+V was a WAAS feature in the straight 1000. Then again I may be thinking of an older and now outdated s/w version.
To be honest, every pilot I know lives at a rather high financial level (because real flying is not cheap) and with that goes the attitude (in most societies) that they are indeed “better than average”.
That may be your experience and I cannot comment on that, but to apply that to every pilot in the world is prejudicing. It is the same as saying every doctor, lawyer, or even college graduate has “attitudes.” We are human beings just like you and we have worked hard to get where we are in life. Not all of us come from affluent families and many have had to borrow our way into flight training. I left college with about $50,000 USD in student loans which were just my flight training loans. I had academic scholarships for the cost of tuition, room, and board. (BTW I earned those scholarships by working hard.)
For most of us becoming a pilot is a passion, not a weekend hobby. We sacrificed, worked, and studied hard, and while others were getting drunk and parting we were studying FARs. While others enjoyed holidays and weekends we were beating up the pattern in a Cessna. We sweat to death in the summer and froze in the winter as small trainer airplanes don’t have air conditioning and the heater was a joke. Becoming a pilot is no easy task.
I would encourage you to treat pilots with the same respect and dignity that you would like to have in your profession. If you walk around expecting to find jerks, then everyone you meet will be a jerk.
Not so where I come from, I didn’t had any money myself, got a big fat loan from the bank as most people and with crisis after crisis it’s a struggle, then there is some money on the bank, next crisis it’s all gone, then the cycle starts all over, at least until the money is paid back. The times of enormous salaries for not much work and an elite status are over, its a job just as any other job. Its only worth the money, hard work, sweat and tears when it’s your passion. Its not just a job, it is a way of life in a way, you don’t just pass your exams and you are done studying, you need to keep studying your whole career, stay current and up to date with changes, show every 6 months you are still worth carrying your license, every year have a medical check, etc.
You just confirmed his point. He suggested pilots might feel superior and you responded with a long winded reply exhorting the value of hard work, commitment and steadfast dedication to a higher goal, contrasted to the profligate ways of the non pilots, drinking their money away in idle sloth.
Its inspiring to hear you got to where you are today through sheer work, study and sacrifice, that you sweated and toiled in the summer and froze in the winter and that your labour was difficult and no easy task.
I humbly agree and can only state as I did before we are humans. It is sometimes hard to aspire to higher ideals when in the muck. So I apologize for making it sound like I was saying all other college majors were getting drunk. I related to the numerous times I had to decline a drink due to studying or all my money was tied up in flight training. A very poor example and I am sorry that it came across as brash.
However, I do not apologize for pointing out that becoming a pilot is hard work. We should have pride in accomplishing difficult tasks.
Well that was for sure a classy response, so I apologise too if I sounded a bit rude. I totally get your second point, and agree, I would be proud of myself too if i undertook and completed a PPL.
