How to program ANY FMC in LESS THAN A FEW MINUTES | Real Airline Pilot
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Tools and addons used in this video:
Streamlabs Studio
Nvidia Shadowplay
My system specs:
Intel i9-9900k@5,2GHz
RTX3080Ti
32GB RAM
Windows 10 Pro
My hardware:
Thrustmaster Boeing Yoke
Honeycomb Bravo Throttle
Thrustmaster HOTAS Warthog
Thrustmaster Pendular Pedals
On the Boeing you can follow the FMC prompts to know to what page should you go next, on the Airbus I use the acronym DIFSRIP (Data, Init page A, Flight plan, Secondary flight plan (enter the EOSID), RadNav, Init page B and finally, Performance)
Imagine the passengers finding out you use an acronym that ends with RIP…
@@fasticalol 😂
you've been producing a ton of videos lately dude! clearly very passionate about this stuff. I appreciate them very much
I appreciate that! Thank you so much Jimmy!
Thanks for demystifying the facts that all aircraft are subject to the same world with the same gravity and atmosphere, and therefore the same restrictions on the most economic speeds and cruise levels. I am sure that many will find this useful.
This was a very good introduction to how the menu systems operate in FMC. I think there will be some time until I hook up anything FMC worthy in FS2020 and let go of the comforts of Garmin, but it's on the list.
Thank you! Once you get your head around general FMS logic it is actually quite easy. If you already know general RNAV theory from the Garmins it shouldn't be as much of a leap anymore. Give it a try, perhabs on the freeware flybywire Airbus A320neo or the horizon sim 787. Both are excellent freeware planes featuring pretty good FMS representations.
Thank you very much for this. I’ve just purchased the 737-800 and have only ever used the flight planning tool in-game. This basic tutorial helped me get used to inputting data manually. I’ll be watching more of your videos to help me understand the 737.
This reminded of the one time I got to visit the cockpit and the pilots let me type in the route information. I thought it was the coolest thing to get to touch some buttons in the cockpit of an airliner. I feel bad for kids flying now. Back in the 90's, making a drawing for the pilots was like printing your own 50/50 ticket for a cockpit visit.
Excellent, thank you. The FMC has always looked confusing aka the sat nav from hell!
The common workflow is reassuring.
I'm excited to program one flightplan on every airliner!
Why do some FMCs calculate V1, VR, V2 and others want the pilot to input that data?
They all have the variables necessary to calculate takeoff speeds
They all need the pilot to put some data in, what you see in the Boeing FMC is some very simplified reference data only. We must still crosscheck it against the OPT and the OPT numbers will take precedence over the FMC numbers. More often than not the OPT will give us different numbers than the FMC.
Thank you for your videos sir. they're brilliant. i start line training soon and would be great to see you do a video on departure alternate planning and destination alternates and how you work through the decision making process and why. Keep up the great content!
I see Simbox is making a lot of waves on youtube at the moment as a remote display / controller for FMC programming on phones, tablets etc. Supports the major airbus, pmdg products...
I wonder if its useful for teaching as a "standalone"... Have a pc running MSFS on a local network somewhere and you can just focus on physically running through programming with students? hmmm
I feel i am in an academic lecture. Thanks captain
Regarding the maddog, i thought when entering the block fuel, you typically enter it as 7.0/N instead of 7.0/A. The “N” denotes normal operations, whereas the “A” refers to an alternative fuel flow schedule. I believe you only use the alternate fuel schedule when you want to burn a portion of wing tanks before the center tank, reducing the chance of ice formation due to cold soaked fuel. I think most airlines use the “N” fuel schedule…….but don’t quote me on that 🫣🤔
True that, N would be the norm.
That was great. Thank you.
Clear as mud. I can't tell if your mouse cursor is hovering over a key or pressing it - you don't say what you did.
Another super video
Thank you. Very educational and informative.
We need some help with the Garmin systems as well. Feels wrong that i can setup a 737 and A320 in minutes but i cant set the Garmin in a Cessna 😅
Great stuff as always! That program in back of the OFP that shows weather and the flight plan, is that simbrief? Thank you for these much needed tutorials and knowledge.
STKP. You can view simbrief flight plans through this program, though it doesn't work for many people
That's SimToolKitPro, which I use to display simbrief, navigraph, VPT, etc.
great video !
excellent video , thanks
Thanks for this video, this is very helpful in understanding how FMC works in general and how to program it. I do have one question, for ILS, would we have to manually enter the ILS freq into NAV1/2, or since the landing runway is programmed into the FMC with ILS approach, it would know the frequency already and we just have to activate approach mode on the AP?
In the 737 there is no auto tune of the ILS, you need to tune them manually.
Very good video! Are you planning on covering the DHC-4?
Thanks! Probably not, it just doens't fit the style of my channel. Sorry.
Question - my ZFW never lets me type in anything lower than 100 - I just get a 'Not Valid' (or something to that effect) error. However, if I type in a Gross Weight it will then calculate a lower zero fuel weight. Any ideas why? I'm using a flight plan that was calculated by simbrief but it just wont let me type in a lower zfw. Plus if I click the ZFW button it will calculate automatically but it's always around 120-130. Any help would be super appreciated
If I’m still loading cargo pax and fuel how do u get the center of gravity to put into the perf calculator for a derate, I wait until I finish loading everything before I do the n1 limit page because I don’t have a proper center of gravity
If you're doing real time loading of the plane and it's still in progress you can not get the numbers out of the FMC yet - you need to wait until it's finished with the boarding.
@@A330Driver roger thanks that's what I assumed
Do you have any a320 descending approaching and landing tutorial?
I don't think so. I want to wait until I'm actually Airbus Typerated before I do Airbus tutorials.
@@Mr.Martini549 thank you 👍🏼
My SimToolKitPro is not working... when i go to the flight plan page and file my flightplan it just shows a grey screen.
Same mess I'm in.
mmh, no such problems here. They have a discord as far as I'm aware. Maybe check there for help.
why can't aircrafts measure the total weight automatically but has to be input by pilot
probably they are made by same manufacturer like honeywell / garmin ? certainly not garmin for airliner
Mostly Honeywell and Thales for airliners.
Back on a good aircraft, nice
Hi 737NG driver, was just wondering, when the 737 releases to Xbox, will all of the fleet release at once in the market place, I understand if your not sure and weather you know if there is a question like this in the forum that robert randazo might be able to answer or not ?
I'm afraid I don't know that, sorry.
@@A330Driver Its all good man 👍
Hey Captain! Thanks for the informative video. I just wanted to ask; I know that you can program the route in a 737 by just entering the airways. Do you use it on your preflights too? Does it have any place in your SOP? And are there any safety concerns on using this method? Thanks!
Waypoints are important in the flightplan for fuel checks etc.
@@EinkOLED sure, there is no doubt about the importance of the waypoints. But I'm asking about route input method in FMC. If you enter two intersecting airways in "VIA" on the route page, FMC automatically adds the intersecting waypoint to the "TO" side on the route page, with all other related waypoints adding to the legs page. I just wonder if SOPs are permitting this method.
Personally I often use the airway only method. But you need to be very careful that it actually picks the correct intersections between the airways. It does happen that sometimes it picks different intersections and you need to spot those errors and correct them manually.
For this reason many colleagues don't use this method.
Which program on screen at left where the data to program FMC came from ?
SimToolKitPro
SimToolKitPro
How to screw with the following flight crew: IRS: OFF. External power: DISCONNECTED. Battery: OFF. Walk down jet bridge with a troll face 😅
Nah, that's our standard we always do ;-)
If you really want to screw them turn the IRS OFF, but switch off the remaining power while the ALIGN light is still illuminated. Chances are good that the next crew will be able to align the IRS, but it's going to drop out and loose alignment when the plane starts moving again, aka when they start pushback ;-)
5 minutes, maybe you meant 50 :)
How are you a pilot
mmh?
Daniel Wauran is a real 737 pilot.