Things like ignore a waypoint, or to jump to a different one, you can do all that in flight.Ĩ. Basically anything you do there is telling the plane what you want it to do. This will now be telling the plane that this is the flight to execute when the A/P is activated.Ĭlose the Route Manager, you probably wont need it again the rest of your flight unless you need to change something along the way. To remove any "dumb turns" from your trip just find the waypoint in your Route Manager, highlight it with one click and then select "Remove" and its gone, you'll that on your map.ħ) Once your trip is smooth and laid out, you can now press "Activate" in your Route Manager. Make sure you pull up the map to make sure it plotted a "reasonable" route for you without a lot of silly diversions, it has a tendency to do that at times. wait a few seconds and your route with waypoints will be plotted for you from take-off to landing. Non-autoland very seldom happen anymore unless there was a failure somewhere I the system.Ħ) Runway selected now? All you have to do is press the "Route" button at the lower left of the Flight Manager window. And its pretty much what all the pros in the big jets do for real. If you prefer to "handfly your landings don't worry about all that but the first time you pulloff a successful autoland you'll probably never hand land again. You'll need to put in the frequencies later so memorize or write down the frequency of the runway you plan on landing on, (that will eventually be what gets you on the ILS for an autoland approach and glidescope.
this is the only place the info with runway lengths and frequencies come up. DO NOT under any circumstances select to go there, (FG will transfer you to that airport as a new starting point), you just want to hit return so the airport's info comes up. Not sure which runway to use for that airport for arrivals (for realism if you like) you can either look it up online based on ICAO arrival runways or if you're operating off-line an easier option is to go to the "GoTo Airport" dropdown and enter the airport youre going to. It'll go faster, but it doesn't rally make a huge difference in flight time but WILL burn fuel faster, (something to be aware of if you're doing a long haul, 12+ hours or so).ĥ) Once you have speed and altitude entered select the runway if a default one hasn't already come up for your destination airport.
The most efficient speed at cruise altitude for fuel consumption distance as well as power burn/stress on the plane and engines. Which all I mentioned is what the 777 shows and does anyways, so don't feel alarmed, you're seeing what a real 777 pilot sees in fight. At that point usually over 25,000 feet the system switches to mach indicated anyways. Keep in mind the typical cruise to set is 320-340kts for the 777 at 30,000+ feet which with altitude vs groundspeed variances will actually equal 480-500knots so don't worry about some other threads that complain about a speed discrepancy that's physics, it shows on the heading indicator while in flight your true airspeed and indicated airspeed and ground speed.
Just start with the 300ER and you'll see about as close to how the real Plane is supposed to and does work, (minus a couple things, but that doesn't matter for your question.).ġ) Open the route manager before you do anything else with the Autopilot, the Route manager will be the basis of your entire trip and that base needs to be established for the airplane to know what to do, anything else before that may "confuse it" and you might get some silly repercussions, (an FG 777 thing not the real 777), the order typically doesn't make a difference but ive had flawless flights 1000% of the time going to the flight director first.Ģ) Select your airport (if not already showing based on where you're plane is sitting)ģ) Select your destination ICAO (in the departure space below)Ĥ) Go ahead and select the altitude and speed in knots that you will be flying in their respective spots. Hopefully if you are using the 777 its the 777-300ER, because every other non-300ER version has a few little bugs in them when it comes to the systems and you have to "massage" them and figure out what give and takes you have to do to get them to work well. Maybe my response is a little late but.That video shows a roundabout way to do it.
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Zjump wrote in Wed 12:49 pm:Could someone show me how to use the Route Manager?