Originally Posted by
skycowboy
Hey guys, I haven't heard of this before but I was taking an FAA course and it mentioned that airline pilots will back up their GPS/VOR navagation means by "Flying Green Data" which says that its basically a form a dead reckoning in the event of failure of the nav systems... By knowing your heading, altitude and distance to the next fix.
Flying the Green Data? I have never heard of this... You guys do this often? Would somebody elaborate? Is this just an airline version of pilotage and dead reckoning?
Why is it called "Green Data"?
Just means that the non flying pilot is manually tuning in the VOR freqs associated with the V/J airway. the OBS needles are green, magenta when using the FMS for navigation. (in the embraer)