Wow. Many news from the last 24 hours! 

Tim
No hard feelings . Of course it was not your intention. My first name is Flavio (as on sig) but people on my VA call me Schmid.

It would be great if you could replicate my steps and see if my reports also happens to you.

In a way I have been 'spoiled' by a developer whose add-ons get very near perfection. But my 'bug detector' is not so critical so I fly also not so perfect add-ons and I can live with their problems while they do not compromise my flight.

Unfortunately up to now I do not have a reliable 752.

About VNAV? Well, when I learned how to explore all features of a CDU I experienced new horizons on flying. Using VNAV, checking the aircraft progress, letting CDU to set ideal T/C, program a step climb or even a hold is really a must.

If someone uses only for LNAV, all you have is an ugly GPS. 


Jim:
Thank you for your kind words. I learn a lot on forums and have improved my little knowledge on simming thanks to other pilots help more than official support many times.
Don't worry about your age. I began simming with FS3.0 (installed with a 5 1/4" floopy disk) and learned about FMC usage no more than two years ago. And believe me, it is not so hard to learn as it looks like. And I don't think I'm a dinosaur just because my first rig was a XT. 

FSXHD:
I have reinstalled the aircraft. No changes. Could you please post your route / SID / STAR / FL? Maybe I can try the same procedures and see if I things go fine for me.

Cheers

Schmid

jim jones wrote on Jun 9^th, 2009 at 5:48pm:


Keep us posted here on your progress. �I'm not quite your age, but I have more gray in moustache than not. �This is really a great hobby for those uf us with much life experience behind us. �It is not taxing physically (once you get your computer carried into your house) but is very mentally stimulating. �There's not only learning new things, but then flight planning.

I have been known to go to absurd lengths, like finding the baggage allowance for the carrier whose livery I am flying, and adding that to the cargo for each of my 150 lb passengers. �(Where does the average passenger weigh 150 lbs? �Maybe it is a diet comprised solely of rabbit meat � �I've read that airlines have had to increase avg. wt. because people are getting fatter, and they are none too happy about it.)

The actual flying part throws so much at your brain sometimes, it really gives it a workout.

I can fly a 757 anywhere from a very short London-Manchester route to across the Atlantic. �I don't know of a single other airplane that is used is so many roles in real life. �Maybe the Airbus A319.

You are very smart to pick one airplane and really explore it.  I tend to get excited and buy several, and never really settle on one long enough to master it.  the 757 is probably the first one I have liked enough to "be faithful to."  But I'm looking forward to the 727, too.  That is going to be a handful, because with no FMC, my brain is going to have to be the computer.

I am glad some people have found my ramblings helpful. �I put a lot of time in them, and it is nice to get feedback.

Hi Tim,

Encouraged by your post, I have successfully programmed and flown a HOLD. Needed to add a few steps to your procedure to get it to work for me and had to read up a bit in the manual. But that builds confidence in your help and the manual.

I tend to create simple stuff to test so as not to waste too much time in a sophisticated flight to test a new feature.

I departed from your suggestion a bit just to see what would happen, specifically to NOT use the SPD button in the hold. The leg where the HOLD was inserted had a descent and a slower speed (240). So in the HOLD I experienced both a slow down and an altitude descent. The HOLD was long enough for the alt and speed to achieve the leg goals.

While programming the HOLD it was interesting to watch the HOLD diagram change size with different values of HOLD time to see the distance extent of the loop expand and contract.

One thing I wish the FMC would do would be a reset, to be able to start over if some data was messed up. Now I'm resetting the flight which requires having to redo the intertial stuff. Also I wish there was and undo. Do you know of a trick to reset the FMC without having to reset the flight?

I'll not get even close to your desire to produce such detailed flights. Sorry to admit the shallower depths of my interest. But meantime the experience is fun and I will slowly try new FMC features.

Jim

Attn: Flavio Schmid.

Could you have given me a more obscure airport?   

I can't find charts, so I'll be doing something else to try out VNAV.

Tim

Hi FSXHD

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Thank you very much. I'll do it tomorrow and report back.

Regards

Schmid

Yeah PANC I remembered, but you KNOW I'm talking about the obscure ex-Soviet bomber base in Kamchatka �

So yeah, would appreciate the charts �

As for CG, by the "counting ticks on the airplane diagram on the FSX fuel/payload page" method, I get a different CG.  When I program that one into the FMC, I do get a different trim setting.  So I was going to check that out, but ran into the APU failure / engine start bug.

I printed out the 99 page FMC manual and am studying it.  I have learned quite a bit already.  If you study it, it may or may not help out with some of the issues.

You are not going to get an approach that takes you all the way to the runway with many airports.  You are going to get dumped somewhere near and expect ATC to tell you what to do.  KMIA seems to be this way.  Same for SIDs.  There are some that give you radials to intercept and the like, right from the runway, and others that say "here's a fix.  Pay attention and we'll tell you how to get there."

I read some things that seem to suggest to me that making changes after VNAV descent has begun can change your speeds.  Still studying that.

I've noticed that I can download a procedure from AirNav and then not find it in the procedures database.  I agree that is not a CS issue.  I don't think Navigraph claims to be 100% complete on procedures.  Depending on what you are looking for, aren't there other people who do more for certain areas?

There are very few people I have been able to discuss this stuff with, Schmid.  Whether we agree on the utlimate worth of this airplane to each, at least it is really nice to work together with someone who is giving it an honest chance.  Elsewhere I have found people have pretty much made up their minds before they make their first post.  I am beginning to wonder if some of them actually even own it 

Right now, I am still willing to give CS the benefit of the doubt based on what I've seen and what I know I don't know    Reading the manual is essential though, actually studying it.

Heck, I did the Viru Viru approach to Runway 13R at Santa Cruz, Columbia. It is pretty complicated, involving a high cross over the airport and a loop back around to descend for the ILS.  No problem (although at that time I bailed on the autolanding becuase I hadn't done any yet).

But anyway, thanks for being able to work on this with a good will.  I haven't had time to do the flying I've wanted to.  There are so many things I am trying to nail down.  I got the freight package and had to spend some time playing with the loaders