Originally Posted by
flensr
Unfortunately unlike the bus we don't get the little chirp when the mode changes. I found that useful a few times going in to LAS about 8 yrs ago when brand yellow was having trouble with the nav database and arrivals wouldn't connect up with the approaches properly, so you'd get a vnav disconnect at some point during the arrival or approach. Chirp chirp WTF is it doing NOW? is way better than whoop whoop terrain terrain pull up pull up (also brand yellow into vegas about 8 yrs ago).
Yeah, it was on the old arrival from the SE, right before leveling at 10k', would activate the approach, go to green dot, go to V/S, descend towards 8k' for PRINO, but there was still a restriction at the next fix @ 10k'/250kts. Fun times. Same going into SEA & PHX. (and open descent with pattern altitude set at night in the mountains is not optimal....)