Originally Posted by
1337pilot
I love how the FAA says it's ok that we can fly approaches for which we don't have the proper nav databases for. We're gonna look dumber than when we can't take a good short cut for weather avoidance re-route because the planes don't have life jackets.
I mean we couldn't even fly the ATL RNAV departures correctly when all people had to do was hit nav mode and make sure they put in the right runway. If these are going to involve more than tuning the frequency, getting an altitude, and an intercept heading, then intercepting the final, we wont be doing them long. Also, I find it funny the memo mentioned the DTW/CLE metroplex. Last I checked, CLE is dead with no sign of ever being revived again.
Do you know what the required NAV database is for an ILS? As the poster immediately below alluded to... I'm somewhat skeptical that you do. Guess you're going to have to learn to fly an ILS like in the old days.
I had a slightly different methodology from Talkturkey, but was very similar. It does require thinking through your procedure though. Put in the regular ILSZ from the database and then replace all the fixes with the Y fixes and altitudes. As long as you replace all the fixes with the correct Y fixes in the right order, you will have the same display on your nav display as if it was loaded from the database and the bearing will be correctly offset. Either method has an almost identical result, it is simply a different approach selected from the database.