I align the IRS. Then go into the fmc.

Try going to fmc before you touch the IRS. Do the last postion routine in the FMC in the pos init page and then try to align the IRS.

doing last position in the fmc before touching the IRS did the trick for me, thanks for the help!

i have trouble in which every time i put a value in the ZFW, i get invalid entry. Please help me

i just try a number in that range right now, it still didn't work

767-300 Base Pack with the 1.4 update

just click on the line select key (LSK) under the discontinuity, to put the next waypoint in the scratch pad. then click on the LSK next to the discon, and click activate. The discon should now be gone.
Works fine here...

Hello Ian,

you can update your database with a payware AIRIC cyle from
Navigraph.

Here is the link: http://www.navigraph.com/www/default.asp


Greetings,

Roman

Hi Folks! Just checking to see if anyone has experienced this before I submit a report via the proper channels.

Anyway: I upgraded from 1.2 directly to 1.4. Since this upgrade I've noticed that when I now program a route of moderate length (Boston to Heathrow KBOS-EGLL for example) when I enter the CRZ ALT as FL300 I get an Insufficient Fuel alert on the FMC. I can select a lower altitude and the FMC seems happy with that.

Note that this did not happen prior to the 1.2-to-1.4 upgrade, so I don't think this is related to the existing KB article that states the fix was in 1.3, though this may have been an unexpected result of that fix.

If I insist on flying FL300 depsite the FMC's fuel warning, I get to Heathrow just fine, and with the expected fuel burn and quantity remaining (i.e Plenty of fuel left). "Seems like" (as I'm not a programmer" that the FMC is using some incorrect variable to calculate fuel needed, but the rest of the sim is using the usual one.

I can give much more detailed info here, or if nobody's seen this I'll send it to CS through the normal channels. Thanks!

http://www.captainsim.org/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1220997876 is good tutorial for inputting STARs. The problem is that by just using FS we don't get sufficient information on charts for arrival/departure. I use Navigraph. They have software that you can install on your pc for free and as a tryout they give you six free points worth three airports to try out. If you like it, you can then buy other airports. Its very reasonably priced and worth it when you want to do accurate SIDs/STARs.
You can also use FSx canned ATC to help you out if you don't want to spend any more money on anything. Basically, just create a FS flight plan using IFR VOR to VOR or hight altitude airways option in FSX and then import that into your FMC. Take off using ATC assigned runway and as soon as you engage AP and LNAV/VNAV, your plane should follow the route. When you are about 70 to 80 miles from destination, ATC will assign you landing runway. Using world map, find out the ILS frequency of the assigned runway and tune you aircraft to that. When you are given final approach parameters and heading, follow those and engage localizer and approach and you will capture glideslope for perfect landing.

Hi all,

I have tried several airports now but you can test this with the KMSO RNAV-y approach to Missoula. The FMC and Nav display do not populate waypoint data when you select an RNAV approach from the dep/arrival page.

Anybody else had any luck?

This actually the first complex aircraft ive used I did get the FMC right once but later on it just climbs to cruise and then never programs a decent, I use routefindert for the routes Anybody know what im doing wrong?

Hi
You need to tell the FMC when to decend in the VNAV 1/3 Decend now
And lower the MCP altitude
ED

Once you get good at FMC etc try VATSIM . . . talk to real ATC people far more enjoyable

Vienna1210 wrote on Feb 26^th, 2010 at 6:04pm:

I believe you enter them like this:

N54W030 �N54W040 �N53W050

Read page 17 of the cs767_manual5.pdf  "PART V � Flight Management System" on how you enter those kinds of Waypoints.

Hope this helps.

Mark

Ok...I think I found out what I was doing wrong. I am pretty sure this had something to do with the weight of the AC. I lowered the fuel Quantity and I didnt get the problem. Will give it a shot again tonight at a higher altitude and post the results.

Chris

Hi.

I recommend you go to the 757 forum and check out the Bob Markey's Captain Sim 757 Tutorial Videos and aussie's 757-200 FMC Tutorial. The 767 and 757 Cockpits are very similar and the FMC's are the same and work the same.

Hope this helps.

Mark

Sorry for not pointing yours out Tim, but I couldn't find it. It was because I was looking for it in this forum, and not the 757 forum, for it.

Mark

Thanks you guys I will give that a shot and let you guys know how that goes I Really apreciate the help!

When you see that. Copy the next waypoint and Paste it into the line with the empty boxes. Do that with all you --ROUTE DISCONTINUITY - entries. See FLIGHT MANUAL Part V � Flight Management System p57 for details.

Mark

still is not going away even if I put a intersection or a VOR I wonder why?? this is what it says

DISCONTINUITY (Then [][][][][])
"Discontinuity is corrected when applicable waypoint is entered in boxes"

ROUTE DISCONTINUITY
Line title separates route segments when there is a discontinuity

my flight plan that im trying to do is this

KPHX - KLAX
BXK2
BXK
J4
TNP
SEAVU2
should I just enter all the depature waypoints manually and just do a arrival? I cant seam to do a departure and arival loaded without the discontinuity. 

ill try that tomorrow when i get up i went star-trans-runway ex bxk2-bxk trans -runway 25L i figured out how to eliminate the then with 5 boxes had to read carefully but ill try the plan tomorrow.

I didn't use a SID or TRANS for departure. I flew direct to BXK. I did this because I haven't reinstalled FS Commander yet, so I was unsure of which SID would be the best to use.

I'll try it again, on this time I'll use RNWY 26 BXK2 with PKE TRANS and let you know how I go.

Mark

Japsican wrote on Aug 23^rd, 2010 at 1:04am:


If it's a part of the STAR/TRANS altitudes, then the A/P should be close to the altitude or even holding it by the time it gets there. If it's in the middle of the route, then I think you are flying above that maximum altitude for that part of the route (I've never seen in the middle of a route). So if it's in the middle of the TRANS, you must set your altitude on the to that altitude or lower before (about 10-20nm) you reach the T/D. I usually set my altitude to about 4000' and let the A/P hold the TRANS altitudes when it gets there.

To be honest, I almost never fly IFR, because the FSX ATC doesn't quite do the job right in my opinion. I fly VFR 99% of the time with the big jets.

Mark

Quote:
Yes there is. You need to create the plan using FS Flight Planner, and your first problem will occur here because the Nav Data is outdated and there are no SIDs and STARs. Then load it into the FMC AND the flight, then you ready to do an IFR flight. To find out more onloading the MSFS flight plan into the FMC read page 37 of the FLIGHT MANUAL Part V � Flight Management System.

About the descent. Are you setting a lower altitude on the MCP before T/D? Is there a T/D showing on you flight plan?

Quote:
It should switch to the correct frequency and heading by about 7-10nm, sometimes even further out, from the ILS runway. You can go into the NAV RAD section of the FMC (FLIGHT MANUAL Part V � Flight Management System p45) and copy and paste the ILS - MLS and this will force them into your ILS Control Panel.

Hope this helps

Mark

Quote:

Yes, otherwise you'll get RESET MCP ALT in the CDU scratchpad.

Quote:

1) Make sure VNAV is activated.
2) Set MCP altitude to G/S capture alt or to a longer constraint (e.g. when 7000ft is displayed right to a waypoint on LEGS page more than one line in a row or whether if it is in larger, bold-like font). If unsure, just set it to G/S intercept alt.

Hi guys... On 3 Sephtember I have the New York Real Traffic Event on IVAO, And I need to fly with 767. I know hot to use it.. but I never try a long with this aircraft.

How can I insert Step Climb in CDU?

Tanks for answe

AABoeing wrote on Aug 29^th, 2010 at 4:07pm:




I fly at initial level of 320, but when I go to the LEGS page, I can see only 320, not the others level like 340 or 360...
and I have insert 2000 in step size...

I put for final level 320 and not else...

I do somthing wrong?

Or i can see steps in legs only when in flight?

Hi Alberto.

If you want to increase your altitude (step climb) during a flight, the first thing you need to do is set the �STEP SIZE (ICAO is the default setting which is 4000 feet) on the PERF INIT page of the FMC. You can change it to 2000 feet if you like.

Having done that, during your flight, you need toi keep an eye on the PROG page and it shows the distance to the next STEP CLIMB (only after reaching you initial Cruise altitude). About 20nm before that climb, change the altitude on the MCP to that next height from 32000 to 34000/36000, (the S/C ALT is determined by your STEP CLIMB setting) according to your flight then enter that into the FMC using Left LSK1 on the VNAV Page 2/3 (CRUISE PAGE). Return to PROG and press EXEC when the it informs you to do the step climb NOW. It's quite easy really.

Hope this helps.

Mark

Hi Alberto.

I assume that that's because the McDonald Douglas FMC could do it automatically in real life (and it's really handy). But the "others" 747-400X doesn't do it (a Boeing). Same goes for Captain Sim 757 and 767. Neither does that "other ones" 767! In fact I only ever saw that on the MD11. So perhaps Boeing doesn't have that capability in their FMC.

Mark

Hi Tim.

Yes I have seen the S/C on the display. I just don't zoom in on it, so I keep an eye on the PROG page of the FMC and when it says NOW �for the S/C, I hit the EXEC button so it starts the climb.

Now with the MD11. Lets say I'm doing a flight from YSSY to KLAX. At first the plane is heavy so the optimum flight level is FL310, but as I lose weight I can climb higher so that by the time I'm 400 miles from KLAX my optimum flight level is FL390. I set my cruise altitude to the maximum altitude for the flight, in this case FL390. In the FMC I have told it my flight levels are 310/330/350/370/390 the MD11 climbs to 310 and once it's weight matches the weight for optimum for FL330 it will AUTOMATICALLY start the step climb. I can go to bed on a long distance flight and when I wake up, the MD11 is flying at its optimum altitude for its current weight. �But if I went to bed on a long flight in the 757s, 767s, 747s which have an FMC and you have to TELL the plane when to do the step climb, I would come back to a plane flying at say FL330 when its optimum altitude is FL390. Because I never entered the new altitudes for the Step Climbs. If I had dialed in 39000 on MCP, then it would immediately climb to that altitude, even if the optimum altitude was 31000 (and it would really struggle to reach that altitude).

Mark

I get that message occasionally. I mostly get it if I'm doing a very short hop where I don't want to go above 10,000 feet even though there is time and distance to allow for a climb to a higher altitude before the descent phase of the flight. If that is the case, I simply ignore it. The other times I get it is if I have set the cruise altitude in the FMC and MCP above the MAX altitude. e.g. FMC and MCP altitude set to FL350 whilst the MAX altitude is FL343 (FL350 is above the MAX altitude of FL343 for the weight of the plane).

Hope this helps.

Mark

I've been having some problems recently with the FMS. �It does not have any waypoints in the memory or what ever stores them. I get the error message in the scratch pad telling me the waypoint is not in the data base, to include all airports. �Basically it does not recognize any waypoint, fix or airport i try to insert from the scratch pad........any ideas? thanks in advance!

boeing247 wrote on Apr 14^th, 2011 at 3:24am:


RTFM!

Michael Cubine

Have a look at the diagram here: '767 Captain� FLIGHT MANUAL Part V � Flight Management System (cs767_manual5.pdf), page 31.

I select Right LSK 4 (NUMBER 6 in the diagram) and enter that in Left LSK 5 (NUMBER 7 in the diagram).
After entering the Airport, e.g. YMML, it will show S32^o40.0 E144^o50.0 where as the Left LSK 4 will display S32^o40.0 E144^o50.7, which more closely matches the 767's actual position S32^o40.07 E144^o50.74, according to the display at the top of my screen when I press SHIFT+Z (see my attached image).

Hope this helps.

Mark

DrJ1 wrote on Apr 14^th, 2011 at 2:58pm:

Oops. Sorry mate. My bad.

I obviously missed that the main problem he had, was that the ENTER IRS POSITION message was blocking you from entering anything else. It is just second nature for me to press CLR to get rid of the message, that I forgt that you need to do it.

Mark

Markoz wrote on Apr 14^th, 2011 at 6:31am:

You cheat! 

That is a joke of course. 

Hey all, I know that 4800N 09000W would be entered as 4890N, but how would I enter a track such as 4830N 11000W?  Any ideas?  Thanks in advance

I've googled everywhere trying to find that.  Thanks a million.