GranDaddyPurp wrote on Mar 7^th, 2011 at 3:22pm:


I am not familiar with FS Flight Planner or simroutes.com but I imagine they have an option to save any flight plans created and you can probably specify where to save them. The plan should be saved to C:\Users\your id\Documents\Flight Simulator X Files. Once the plan is saved in the Flight Simulator X Files folder you should be able to get the plan into the FMC per the instructions in the tutorial.

Michael Cubine

GranDaddyPurp wrote on Mar 7^th, 2011 at 3:22pm:


Hi CrisOMG,

After create a new flight plan using the FS Flight Planner, did you try to follow the next steps?:

1) Open FMC;
2) Press RTE;
3) Press [L3] REQUEST<SEND;
4) Press [R6] FLTSIM FPLS

All pre-saved flight plans will be showed. So, use PREV PAGE or NEXT PAGE to find your FP.

Hope this help,

Pinatubo.

After having done some extra maths it seems that it is possible.

At the descent the speed wil be restricted from 220 to 170 knots.
Say ~200 knots in that leg from 12.000 ft to 2780 ft is a descent from ~9000 ft.

The distance is 16 nm --> 200/16 x 60 min=4.8 min ~5 minutes.
So 9000 /5 =1800 ft v/s  

Then a v/s from 1800-2000 ft would be enough.....

[/quote]Hi.

It is possible that you have encountered a small, but known, bug in the CDU. Using you picture with the CDU as a reference, I would:
1) Select the LSK L3 (CF25R) and paste it in LSK L2 (where ANT is).
2) DO NOT press EXEC, but press LSK L6 where you will see ERASE.
Doing this will, set all the altitudes to where they are much more reasonable.

Mark [/quote]

Mark

That's really a slick way of solving that problem and getting a T/D. Maybe on 15-20% of my flights I would not get a T/D. Right now I am flying from KJFK to KDEN. The plan originally dumped me on the ILS couese for 35R at FL360 at 300 KIAS. I got rid of that issue in 30 seconds using the above method. I used to get a T/D by by deleting 1-4 of the last waypoints and executing, then adding them back in and executing again. Maybe it worked maybe it didn't. Maybe I only needed to get rid of two and add a new waypoint. Or maybe I had done it in the wrong sequence. It could take half of the flight just trying to ger a T/D out of the FMC. I have used your method foir times now and it works great.

Michael Cubine

When you created the flight plan in FSC9, did you save it with SID and STAR? I never do this with complex aircraft such as the CS757/767. I use the FMC to add the SID, STAR and TRANS to the flight plan.

FSC9 puts the TRANS like this on - [(INTC)], which is then added with the FMC as (INTC) so you are doubling up on the SID, STAR and TRANS.

If I do you route. I only add waypoints LARAS and WOODY. The rest of the flight plan is filled with SID LEKOF1F and STAR WOOD4A and TRANS ANT the thing to be aware of is that ANT is a part of the STAR and the TRANS and so is doubled, but not needed to be deleted.

Hope you can follow and understand that.

Mark

On a flight this short why even enter plans generated by whatever planner is used? Let's say the flight is from EHAM 18C to EBBR 27R. On the the DEP/ARR page select DEP for EHAM. On the next page EHAM departures select 18C as the runway and LARAS1X as the SID. Back to the DEP/ARR page select ARR for EBBR. On the next page for EBBR arrivals select ILS 27R, select ANT as the tansition and WOODY4A as the STAR. Execute and go to the legs page and get rid of the disco between LARAS and WOODY and execute. The whole flight is nothing more than a SID and STAR connected together.

Michael Cubine

Libretto wrote on May 11^th, 2011 at 7:02pm:


Libretto

Do you recall what runway at EHAM you departed on and what type of approach you were flying to 25R at EBBR?


Thank you
Michael Cubine

Today I made a flightplan with FSC without adding a procedure.

So I thought that when adding a Star and Rw ILS +Trans I would look fine.
I did not choose a Star.
Flight EHAM rw 18C to EBBR rw 25R.
Unfortunately it did not work out as I thought it would.
Again those weird arrival waypoint mess.

This only leaves the FMC that is making this waypoint soup...