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   XPost: rec.aviation.piloting, alt.aviation.kooks   
   From: AA@AA.AA   
      
   D Ramapriya  wrote in   
   news:efc9979a-39c2-404c-8460-90b9b42134a3@e6g2000prf.googlegroups.com:   
      
   > On Jan 30, 6:11 pm, Bertie the Bunyip  wrote:   
   >> D Ramapriya  wrote   
   >> innews:d6cd3158-6cb0-4ffd-927c-5   
   > 9ca49abda9f@m34g2000hsf.googlegroups.com:   
   >>   
   >>   
   >> >> >> We get cleared to an altitude and have to hold that altitude to   
   >> >> >> avoid running into other airplanes. The autopilot does not just   
   >> >> >> go where it pleases.   
   >>   
   >> >> > My point exactly,   
   >>   
   >> >> No, it wasn't. you said that the AP will ensure that you keep   
   >> >> flying at the programmed altitude throught trim and throttle   
   >> >> changes. It won't.   
   >>   
   >> > So the AP's FD Altitude Controls do what?   
   >>   
   >> The FD and the autopilot are two different things.   
   >>   
   >> Bertie   
   >   
   >   
   > Fair enough but I was talking (loosely, admittedly) of what the AFDS   
   > commands and gets done.   
   >   
      
   Uh, no you weren't   
      
      
   You were talking about what you imagine they do based on what you've   
   read in the latest issue of "Take Off!"   
      
   Get the litle Spitfire finished yet?   
      
   Bertie   
      
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