OPERATION
AUTOPILOT
NautoPilot 5000 Series
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4002.DOC010102
Edition: September 2014
Special alerts for the NP5500
Note:
If the WPTs are very close together and if a long APPROACH time has been adjusted, it
may happen that the APPROACH alarm of the following WPT appears already during
the current track change manoeuvre:
Indications
Comment/Notes
An alert is displayed at the top bar of the display (see section 6).
Approach NEXT--Waypoint
two pulses
Acknowledge the alert.
App. NEXT--Wpt.
After acknowledgement the short text is
displayed and the LED is no longer
alight.
Extreme case:
Figure 16: Extreme Case Example of a Track Change Manoeuvre
WPT 1
WPT 2
WPT 3
350m
Attention is here to be paid to that the minimum distance between two successive
radii has been defined to be 350 m and that, therefore, with a speed of approx. 20 kn the
shortest approach time time that may occur in this most unfavorable case is still
approx. 70s.