Airbus A340 Series, Brochure

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STL 472.502/90 Issue 6
A340 Automatic Flight System - Flight Management
10.27
Navigation and flight planning
Navigation :
• Aircraft position determination.
• Aircraft position referenced to the flight plan.
• Automatic VOR/DME/ILS/ADF selection.
• Automatic guidance along flight plan from takeoff to
approach.
• IRS alignment.
• Ground speed and wind computation.
• Polar navigation.
• Optimum radio and inertial sensor mixing.
• Provision for GPS and MLS.
Flight plan stringing :
• Flight plan definition by company route or city pair.
• Departure and arrival procedures, including associated
speed/altitude/time constraints.
• Standard flight plan revision (offset, DIR TO, holding
pattern, alternate flight plan activation, etc.).
• Additional flight plan revisions linked to long-range
flights (DIR TO mechanization, AWY stringing).
• Secondary flight plan creation, similar to primary flight
plan.
• Definition of five cruising levels on the flight plan.
• Extension of the database capacity.