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Bearing & Distance

 

 

The flight crew may enter an Ident, for which the MCDU will compute a bearing and distance to the aircraft’s present position.

 

 

The Ident may be either:

 

 

A waypoint

 

 

A runway

 

 

An Airport

 

 

A Nav Aid

 

 

The Ident entry may be either :

 

 

An identified nav aid, VOR, Waypoint, NDB

A Latitude and Longitude

A place and a bearing

A place, bearing intersection pair

An offset from a waypoint exiting in the flight plan