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Old 03-14-2009 | 04:57 AM
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Originally Posted by KC10 FATboy
Although I would agree with you most of the time, in ICAO with the FMS-800 (I believe KC10s, C5s, and maybe the AWACs use em), you can't use it to hold. The FMS-800 doesn't do triple drift holding and uses variable angle of bank to maintain the holding pattern, which is a no-no in ICAO.

To the original poster ... read this (skip to page 13)

http://www.afsc.af.mil/shared/media/...071016-135.pdf

-Fatty
Excellent article; thanks.
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