Hi

What I would like to know is this:

When you enter all the parameters in the FMC of the Level D 767, after take off will the FMC take over and land the plane at the destination runway? So you don't have to be watching the plane all the time?

 

stelios

Not quite that automated, some pilot intervention will be required.

Like what Jay? Does it automatically descent to entry to intercept the ILS of the runway?

 

stelios

Nope, you must manually control altitude contraints and change AP modes once you get close to intercept. This is common to all Boeing's. Might I suggest some reading or viewing on the subject.

 

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=LDS+767+tutorial&oq=LDS+767+tutorial&gs_l=youtube.3...1602.6444.0.7194.18.17.0.1.1.0.83.732.17.17.0...0.0...1ac.1.Usz4NVszIIQ

Thanks Jay for the link. but I thought that when you built a flight plan with FSBuild it will also calculate when the aircraft will start descending for the destination airport. otherwise how do I know when to start descending, say from 30000 ' to intercept the ILS. to land. If the default FSX flight plan does that, why it can not be done with FSBuild and FMC?

 

stelios

I think we're talking apples and oranges here. I haven't used fsbuild in a very long while and never blindly import a FP into the FMC and probably haven't even looked at an FSX flight plan. I much prefer to enter it all manually anyhow, even on a long flight it's still pretty quick but if you do, it's your reponsibility as the pile-it to confirm that what is entered is correct. Garbage in - Garbage out applies here. If your flight plan has calulated TOD and those altitude constraints are entered in the FMC, the plane will tell you when it's time to descend but you must tell it to. If your flight plan does not have altitude constraints, you're going to need to reference the approach charts. Figure roughly 10,000' every 30 miles at 2000fpm, or there abouts. Someone else I'm sure would be much more knowledgable about fsbuild specifics than I.