Originally Posted by
forgot to bid
... so which airplane can do a VNAV path, hold speed and make a restriction? I'm thinking the 767 but I never put it through any paces flying the ER.
From the former 76 guys I fly with, the 800 (and 700) are much worse. They hold the path great, but "path is king" and the jet will slow drammatically to hold the path. I fly the VNAV arrivals in LA all the time. Its just a matter of manually adjusting the throttles, even with AT engaged, to keep the speed where you need it. Our VNAV was supposed to get better with the new 700 software. It didn't. In fact, in many ways, its worse. The old software built a geometric descent path that drew lines from VNAV point to VNAV point. The new software dives and drives to make restrictions. Seems to me, its a lot more throttle movements with no value added.