American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting 2007 (abstract); at <http://adsabs.harvard.edu/ abs/2007AGU
FMGC 13A0934S>.
SCTV led in the advertisement spots given for
FMGC, followed by Trans TV and RCTI.
In this case pilots were given an air traffic control (ATC) clearance for an ILS approach to runway "24 L" together with a number of altitude constraints for various way-points of the arrival that were not in the
FMGC database.
This amendment adds a requirement to either modify the existing onboard replaceable modules of the flight management guidance computers (
FMGC)to incorporate software changes, or to replace the
FMGC's with new improved ones - which would terminate the requirements for the AFM revision.
It showed an outgoing rsh connection from paris to
fmgc.mit.edu, which is a standalone non-UNIX gateway.
A single flight management and guidance computer (
FMGC) failure leads to a loss of redundancy, as input from either MCDU is now sent to the one remaining operational computer, and any entry on one MCDU is transferred to both MCDUs.