I have been practising what they are doing on this video. It's very absorbing but, does anyone know how to create those range rings shown please? Are they fix points?

The range rings are an option in the FMC. Part of the TCAS i believe.

 

AND the green rings are range rings around a VOR. You can set up range rings and radials on the "FIX" page of the FMC.

 

Sorry, I responded before I watched the video.....Jumped the gun for some reason.....

Yes I know that but how do you set the distances please?

Yes I know that but how do you set the distances please?

if your talking about the range rings its the knob in the efis control panel where you see the ranges from 5 to 640 its called the tfc knob switch, to get the rings displayed you need to click the middle button first. If your talking about the vor fix rings etc you can set the distances in the fix pages in the fmc

Hi Pete,

 

It's the dotted white rings on the nav display I need. Sorry I should have explained that before.

I have been practising what they are doing on this video. It's very absorbing but, does anyone know how to create those range rings shown please? Are they fix points?

 

Dave

 

If I understand you correctly, I would go to the FIX page in the FMC and enter the airport ICAO code and then enter the runway heading and reciprocal followed by a / and the distance you want entered. Say you entered KTPA. 007/20, 187/20 this would give you a ring at 20 miles from the airport. If you wanted a ring at 40 miles you would enter KTPA, 007/40, 187/40 on the next fix page. One thing you need to remember is this is a line drawn thru the center of the airport rather than the runway but it is close enough for government work.

 

Michael Cubine

Thank you Micheal :Idea:

That vid should be "how not to do circuits" ! Terrible Speed control, altitude control, situation awareness etc. it seems very common in fsx vids that rudder control is so poor too. Many landings way off centre line etc.

hmmm yeah man, awful video.

That vid should be "how not to do circuits" ! Terrible Speed control, altitude control, situation awareness etc. it seems very common in fsx vids that rudder control is so poor too. Many landings way off centre line etc.

I never criticise things I am not better at myself.

 

Perhaps you should post your perfect handling in your video, just to back up your boast eh?

hmmm yeah man, awful video.

The video was shot with ''severe'' winds, maximum shear strength, visibility 10 miles.

 

Show me now how you could do it in a video eh?

The video was shot with ''severe'' winds, maximum shear strength, visibility 10 miles.

 

Show me now how you could do it in a video eh?

 

Sure,

 

The speed vectoring was poor, as said above,

A video titled "Flying lessons" showing such a turn to final, with a low speed (you know the rule for vref in windy conditions...right??) with 4 reds, and no go around...very bad flying. If you don't agree with that then I can't do anything about it.

 

I don't need to post any video's of how it's done, but at least this pilot should rename his video, or else people without as much experience as us will think it's the right way, exactly as the OP has been doing.

 

And it's hardly a boast. If you don't think you can do any better then fair enough.

 

If the weather conditions are so "extreme" that anything better is impossible, then why even try it, divert to somewhere with better weather.

If I understand you correctly, I would go to the FIX page in the FMC and enter the airport ICAO code and then enter the runway heading and reciprocal followed by a / and the distance you want entered. Say you entered KTPA. 007/20, 187/20 this would give you a ring at 20 miles from the airport. If you wanted a ring at 40 miles you would enter KTPA, 007/40, 187/40 on the next fix page. One thing you need to remember is this is a line drawn thru the center of the airport rather than the runway but it is close enough for government work.

 

There is, in fact, a better way to build this particular mousetrap. Not everyone knows that the LEGS waypoint designating the runway can be used to create a fix on the FIX page, from which distance rings and bearings can subsequently be drawn in the usual way. Here's how to do it:

1. From the DEP/ARR page, select the approach you'd like to fly. Let's use KSFO ILS28R in this example.
    
   
2. Go to the LEGS page and find the runway waypoint, in this case named "RW28R".
    
   
3. Click the left LSK next to that waypoint to downselect it onto the scratchpad.
    
   
4. Go to the FIX page and push the 1L LSK to upselect the RW28R fix. You'll now see the radial and distance from the runway threshold.
    
   
5. To add range rings, enter the desired distance preceded by a slash, for example /4 or /10, and press one of the available left LSKs (2L, 3L or 4L). A dashed distance ring now appears, just as shown in the OP's video.
   

Hope this helps.

 

 

Thank you Petja :-)