March 4, 200422 yr Hello,My question can appear a little stupid but when I program a flight in the 737 FMC with SID STAR (with NavData and FSNAV) without recording it under FS as a IFR Flight plan to have the ATC, I realize that each time I make my descent (firstly in VNAV then starting from 6000 fts in LVL CHG) the plane is too high and the approach and then the landing are missed.How do I
March 6, 200422 yr Dear ThanksMay I suggest flying the tutorial flight in 737ngadvtutorialv2.zip.Pay attention to day 3. This tutorial specifies how to do 'ILS' landings and vertical navigation with 'VNAV' and mentions 'VS' for non-ILS landings. To hit the 3% glideslope, place an altitude restriction at the required distance and altitude. For reference 3% is ~320 at 1 mile. So set up a waypoint at 5 miles and put a 5*320 ft restriction on it.Just set 1 altitude restriction waypoint, this avoids 'UNREACHABLE ALTITUDE' ( or something like that) . Don't put a speed restriction, put the wrong speed and 'VNAV' quits with I can't do that!.Practice many landings with 'VNAV' and 'MANUAL' and 'VS'I found 'VNAV' with a long approach 1 waypoint ~5 miles out set to 1800 feet altitude and no speed restriction was sucessful most of the time if you turn on 'VNAV' right before the last waypoint.Another method while flying not in 'VNAV' mode yet, set altitude to 2000, right before your 1800' waypoint hit the 'VNAV'.All of these methods use the waypoint set at dis*320 method.Fly it with 'VS', set altitude to 1800. At waypoint set 'VS' -1000 adjust 'VS' as required or fly it in.
March 6, 200422 yr >Dear Thanks:-xxrotflmaoThat's the best one yet!Cheers, Mats JohanssonPMDG Flight Test Dept | Asus Z270-A | Intel i5-7600K @ 4.8 GHz OC/H2O | nVidia Geforce GTX 1070 8GB OC/O2|
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