Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020
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First Autoland yesterday in the 737 flight from Alicante to Sal - Cape Verde. It went very well apart from I didn't take into consideration the high cross wind which made it interesting ....
Does the real thing take crosswinds into consideration or is it always on the rudder pedals with Autoland even if the plane is equipped to rollout ?
Does the real thing take crosswinds into consideration or is it always on the rudder pedals with Autoland even if the plane is equipped to rollout ?
El stovey said:
Narcisus said:
First Autoland yesterday in the 737 flight from Alicante to Sal - Cape Verde. It went very well apart from I didn't take into consideration the high cross wind which made it interesting ....
Does the real thing take crosswinds into consideration or is it always on the rudder pedals with Autoland even if the plane is equipped to rollout ?
I’m real life during an Autoland, the 737 rudder is controlled by the autopilot but there’s crosswind limits, think it’s 25kts in the newer 737s Does the real thing take crosswinds into consideration or is it always on the rudder pedals with Autoland even if the plane is equipped to rollout ?
If you started putting in your own ruder inputs you’d likely disconnect the autopilot which wouldn’t be optimal (or legal) in low visibility near the ground as you’d then me flying manually below minimas so you’d have to go around unless you were visual.
Have to say I did a much better job than I expected.
Excellent thanks 
Yes that looks very familiar now. I'll print it out and have it handy tonight. I have a feeling with PMDG there is an option somewhere to select if that particular hull has the option for rollout or not.
Have a question about the Packs / Bleed Air but better do some work first !
Yes that looks very familiar now. I'll print it out and have it handy tonight. I have a feeling with PMDG there is an option somewhere to select if that particular hull has the option for rollout or not.Have a question about the Packs / Bleed Air but better do some work first !
Edited by Narcisus on Monday 17th October 09:53
El stovey said:
Narcisus said:
Excellent thanks Yes that looks very familiar know. I'll print it out and have it handy tonight. I have a feeling with PMDG there is an option somewhere to select if that particular hull has the option for rollout or not.
Have a question about the Packs / Bleed Air but better do some work first !
I’m happy to help but this is an excellent resource if you’re looking for more info also. Yes that looks very familiar know. I'll print it out and have it handy tonight. I have a feeling with PMDG there is an option somewhere to select if that particular hull has the option for rollout or not.Have a question about the Packs / Bleed Air but better do some work first !
http://www.b737.org.uk/
kowalski655 said:
That does look handy, and coupled with El Stoveys advice, I definitely need to get to know how to fly stuff properly, once everything is installed on my new PC
I got the PMDG 737-600 just for that, mostly because it was cheap! I also have the 737-200 for XP11, but I reckon that's a completely different kettle of fish!
I love the 600 something about it also had a soft spot for the 747-SP. It's amazing how easy it is to get into the 737 get it up and running FMC configured and complete a flight.I got the PMDG 737-600 just for that, mostly because it was cheap! I also have the 737-200 for XP11, but I reckon that's a completely different kettle of fish!
I watched a few YouTube videos and off I went.
Then you start properly looking into things and understand why the guys who do it for real take years. We had a family friend who flew 767's for Britannia and had thousands of hours but said you never every stopped learning.
I can now knock a flight plan up on SimBrief ( in the most basic of ways ) with SIDS and STARS and use Little Nav Map to track my progress on a 2nd screen.
With help from people like ES above, websites and YouTube I can now start to polish how I do things because a lot of the stuff I only have enough of an understanding to get me by.
I'm now very much enjoying the sim after my very rocky beta days and have pretty much abandoned P3D sadly.
Not tried it with head tracking yet or VR which is probably more suited to the Mach Loop in a Lightning than airliners.
BobSaunders said:
Any recommendations on books / learning guides? I think i've kinda unpicked what you have done above.
Hey Bob I would just watch others on youtube some guys have done tutorial flight just mirror what they do a few times then change the destinations soon pick it up. The only thing I've read so far is what ES posted above !I devoted all yesterday to FS and did the flight I will be doing in Jan East Mids to Tenerife South did it all properly with correct flight numbers in real time in the PMDG 737-800.
1 Hour turn around in the Canaries then back to Blighty
Very relaxing just sitting watching the iPad while in the cruise.
1 Hour turn around in the Canaries then back to Blighty
Very relaxing just sitting watching the iPad while in the cruise.
surveyor said:
Narcisus said:
Anyone know of any payware East Mids Airports in the works ?
Freebie https://flightsim.to/file/10313/nottingham-east-mi...
FourWheelDrift said:
Narcisus said:
surveyor said:
Report back! I've been using FSLTL recently, but be interested in the competition.
Going to be Saturday b4 I get a chance to test :-(Did a test flight from EGNX to EGPH today in the 737-800 using Fs2Crew for first time it was great not to have to do it all myself for a change !
kowalski655 said:
Having looked at FS2Crew, does that make the flight a lot better?
Better ? I suppose it’s more realistic as you would not normally fly a 737 single crew. I think when you are at a stage where’re you are comfortable operating by yourself it’s a great add on.I’ll use it a lot but I’ll still fly single crew as well as I like to press all the buttons !
Looks like many creators are not happy with Flightsim.to and attempting to pull their creations from the site.....
The guy who has developed the superb Global AI Ship Traffic has posted on AVSIM that Flightsim.to have refused to remove them.
He says it will no longer be updated and to download from other sources he has linked to.
The guy who has developed the superb Global AI Ship Traffic has posted on AVSIM that Flightsim.to have refused to remove them.
He says it will no longer be updated and to download from other sources he has linked to.
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