Can someone kindly tell me how to enter the points shown below in an FMC route please? I thought I new, but keep getting invalid entry errors.many thanks

Perhaps this will help you http://forum.avsim.net/topic/347242-making-waypoints-tutorial/page__fromsearch__1

That's what I'm using James. Printed that when Fred posted it. Guess I'll have to post EXACTLY what I'm doing, so someone can show me where I'm going wrong.Thanks though.

Although not exactly sure if that would be a valid way to do it, a quick and dirty setup gives me the following:

• Set up route to LOWI
• Set up visual into runway 08 (26) and enter some arbitrary runway extension like 5.0NM, that'll give you the runway on the ND
• Set up LEGS as follows:
  • KTI
  • OEJ247/20.4 (*)
  • OEJ247/17.4
  • OEJ247/14.4
  • OEJ247/11.4
  • OEJ247/6.5
  • AB
  • and for the MAP I'd at least add RTT at this point

  [*]Add constraints as appropriate:

  • KTI 11500 (just entering '115' will do of course)
  • OEJ01 11500 (115)
  • OEJ02 10500 (105)
  • OEJ03 9000 (90)
  • OEJ04 7500 (75)
  • OEJ05 5000 (50)
  • AB 5000 (50)

  [*]Select RW08 (RW26) and place on top of RX08 (RX26), at this point I actually don't recommend to clear the disco, as you'll get a weird connection to the runway and it's a visual segment at the end anyway[*]Execute changes[*]Go to HOLD page, select RTT and set inbound course 228°, execute

(*) You could or could not enter this point. Methinks it's actually not 100% accurate to do it. The FMC gives me a track of 106° from KTI to that very point D20.4, actually you're supposed to leave KTI on 104° (mainly because it's the area of the intercepting turn). If you were to do it presise (but then not have a fixed point there on the ND), you'd leave KTI on a 104° track manually (HDG SEL or the like) until intercepting the LOC. Then you'd just continue along the other waypoints.Also, for obvious reasons you can't set up the MHA restriction for RTT on the legs page, but as I said, just quick'n'dirty here...Hope this makes any sense to you or anyone else.

Many thanks Etienne for such a detailed and helpfull response. I am extremely gratefull. For some reason, this aspect of FMC navigation continues to give me grief, so your info will be be most helpful.You are a great contributor to the whole of the Avsim forum network with such posts

Thanks for your words, glad to be of help. If you need anything, just shoot away your questions and I'm sure someone will chime in!

I find as well that you have to line select the waypoint that you want to make extensions for and not just type the waypoint manually.

Ehm good catch. While I didn't pay much attention to that very detail, it could very well be true. Will check again soon, or better after SP1, as I'm now quite a bit tired of the CTDs as well.