787 Flight Crew Operations Manual
DO NOT USE FOR FLIGHT
Flight Management, Navigation -
FMC Descent and Approach
Copyright © The Boeing Company. See title page for details.
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The RTE LEGS and PROGRESS pages are used to manage the airplane until other
approach guidance becomes active. Other pages which support approaches are:
• ARRIVALS page – to select arrival and approach procedures
• APPROACH REF page – to specify approach flap settings and set the
approach VREF
• HOLD page – to manage holding patterns
Holding is described in this section but it can be used during any phase of flight.
Accessing the arrivals page more than 400 NM from the departure airport or more
than halfway along the active route displays arrivals for the destination airport.
Prior to these points, accessing the arrivals page displays arrivals for the departure
airport.
Arrivals Page
The arrivals page allows selection of a runway, approach, approach transition,
standard terminal arrival route (STAR) or profile descent, and an arrival transition
to the destination airport.The INDEX key accesses the DEP/ARR INDEX and
provides arrival/departure data for any other airport in the navigation database.
Route 1 and route 2 have separate arrival pages.
Airports are using multiple RNAV/ILS approaches to the same runway. ICAO has
developed a naming convention which adds an additional character to the
approach name; Z, Y, X, ... in the approach title following the guidance source.
The primary approach is identified as the “Z” approach; all subsequent procedures
(normally with different missed approach paths) use the alpha characters in
reverse order beginning with Y. This change requires approach names with up to
eight characters to be encoded in the navigation database.
Selecting Options
Selecting a runway, approach, approach transition, STAR/profile descent, or
arrival transition displays <SEL> inboard of the selection and displays MOD in
the page title. The other options within the same category are removed from the
list. When the modification is executed, <SEL> changes to <ACT>. Selecting
another page and returning to ARRIVALS displays all options; the applicable
<SEL> or <ACT> prompts display.
When a STAR is selected followed by selection of an approach or runway and a
transition exists in the navigation database, the transition waypoints with
associated speed/altitude constraints are inserted into the flight plan linking the
STAR to the approach or runway. If more than one transition exists, selection of
the applicable transition is made under TRANS on the left side of the page. Some
STARs serve more than one runway. If a STAR and runway are selected and
subsequently a different runway is selected, and if the STAR is compatible with
the new runway, the transition waypoints are inserted into the flight plan linking
the STAR to the runway.
August 14, 2009
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