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Originally Posted by tgrayson  From the Instrument Flying Handbook:
A valuable service provided by the automated radar equipment at terminal radar facilities is the Minimum Safe Altitude Warnings (MSAW). This equipment predicts your aircraft’s position in 2 minutes based on present path of flight — the controller will issue a safety alert if the projected path will encounter terrain or an obstruction. An unusually rapid descent rate on a nonprecision approach can trigger such an alert. |
Thats great! I get low altitude alerts quite a bit when doing non precision approaches (of course im always at the published MDA when this happens). It kinda freaks the students out cause I had no way of explaining what was going on!
Id just tell 'em "ATC dont know sheet!" lol. [sarcasm]