Originally Posted by
kronan
In this situation, what I have done in the past is flown the RV in Heading/Select, LOC armed to capture the final course, and the FMS cleaned up to the waypoint in front of my airplane. Once LOC captures and I'm on course, I'd arm Profile and wait for the system to capture the VNAV path.
That makes sense and is the way I've always done it (when I wasn't using "dive and drive"). I guess the LOC is the unique scenario since one is using the LOC for lateral and the FMS for vertical - allowing the potential for a pilot to get to the descent point at the FAF without the box sequenced properly.
Originally Posted by
kronan
FMS will show my vertical track error and I can watch it count down to the intercept. If I'm above the path, I have to intervene in some way to make it happen. My technique was to use V/S so I could control the descent rate for minor vertical errors.
Are you saying you would arrive at the FAF and use V/S to follow the FMS vertical track to the MDA rather than just engage PROF?
Originally Posted by
kronan
Slam dunk I'd go for the idle descent & boards or make ATC give me a better vector versus accepting a poor setup
Just to be clear, this is referring to getting where you want to be prior to the FAF? I assume you're saying this idle/boards descent would be in an attempt to recover from a poor vector/descent clearance from ATC?