First, you’ll notice that an LPV approach chart will not show LP minima, just LNAV/VNAV and LNAV in most cases. This is not like an ILS that can be downgraded to a localizer approach on the fly. Likewise, an LP approach cannot downgrade to an LNAV approach. If you are flying an L...
From ~400' all the way to the destination runway (and optional "autoland"), the navigation is almost all taken care of by the automation. And, for me, speaking as a virtual simmer, everything, here, worked, perfectly, including e.g. the VNAV operation that was flawless (the start of...
Continued VFR Into IMC: to help reduce fatal accidents, a safety hazard that has been with general aviation since the beginning needs some fresh approaches A high-altitude, destination airport can result in CFIT on a moonless night flight. Bad VNAV This flight was setting up to be a classic...