Great video Kyle!  You must have great night vision. About halfway through the video you turned down the brightness of your displays to a level I can't image seeing.  Do you drive at night without your lights on

 

Steve Aull

AMAZING video  ///    Thanks Kyle.

 

Please forgive a complete 777 noob,  so one question.

 

At the end, when you did the shutdown, and finally turned off the battery,  why was the cockpit still lit  ?         What did I miss ??

 

Which raises the question  -- how does the pilot see to get in and out of the plane, at night, when everything is switched off  ?

 

Lighting, that is independent of the battery  switch, ? and if so, how is that controlled ?

No, battery remains in circuit for some time after you press the switch. And you would almost never see a crew operating aircraft from cold and dark to cold and dark. Usually, aircraft is already powered up when crew arrives.

Great video Kyle! You must have great night vision. About halfway through the video you turned down the brightness of your displays to a level I can't image seeing. Do you drive at night without your lights on

 

Steve Aull

Haha - I do. It's a blessing and a curse. It's good that my night vision is really good, but it also means that I'm wearing sunglasses even when it's not super bright outside in the day because my eyes are super sensitive to light. It also means that I have crazy red eye in pictures indoors (then again that could just be my lack of a soul...haha.)

 

I'll leave it up in future videos so you all can see. I do that in the real plane too, if my other pilot friend needs it.

Hey Kyle,

you have said yesterday (in the YouTube comments) that we can expect another video.

I dont want to rush, but i really like your video and i'm looking forward to the next one.

 

Regards,

Marcel

No, battery remains in circuit for some time after you press the switch. And you would almost never see a crew operating aircraft from cold and dark to cold and dark. Usually, aircraft is already powered up when crew arrives.

 

OK, let me re-phrase my question.

 

If the plane is "dark", someone has to turn on the 1st light ?

 

How is this done,  what sort of lighting is 1st turned on,  and where is that switch  etc.

 

Does the 1st person on the plane, have to use a Flashlight and find their way to the cockpit ?? 

 

Is any  such light, on a timer,  so it turns off,  if left on for too long, so not to flatten the battery.  ?

 

Are there lights that always go on when cabin Doors are opened ?  (ie  like a car  ?)

 

 

While is probably more a real world question,  than a FSX simulation question  --  I am just Curious, and  I would guess there are some here that have the answers ...

 

Kyle

 

Excellent video which was and will be helpfull once the T7 is released. It is almost like a tutorial.

 

At 1:05:03 climbing thru 13500 ft you reset the altimeter from 30.16 to STD saying you were above transition level. What's going on? I thought it was 18000 ft in the U.S. and transition level was associated with descent and transition altitude with climb.

 

Thank you

Michael Cubine

 

 

but when you arm the doors do you have to do them one by one on the pax version or is there a button to arm/disarm them all at once

 

If its anything like the MD11 it should arm all the doors. 

 

Great video Kyle. Lots of work into showing off features.  The heading hold while setting a future course is great to see and I use alot in the MD11. 

 

BTW your voice would probably be referred to as a radio voice. Ever get that?  Some mentioned to me but then again some mention its so low that they cant understand me. So you should do more videos because it  was perfectly audible. 

Is this going to be better than the CS 777?

Without question.

Kyle

 

Excellent video which was and will be helpfull once the T7 is released. It is almost like a tutorial.

 

At 1:05:03 climbing thru 13500 ft you reset the altimeter from 30.16 to STD saying you were above transition level. What's going on? I thought it was 18000 ft in the U.S. and transition level was associated with descent and transition altitude with climb.

 

Thank you

Michael Cubine

I think he said because he was climbing above the transistion level.

 

Alot of companies operating procedures dictate that as soon as they are cleared to a flight level the pilots should select the standard pressure setting.

 

 

Does the 1st person on the plane, have to use a Flashlight and find their way to the cockpit ?? 

 

During the night they do but aircraft maintenance are the ones who usually power up the plane.

Awesome video, thanks! I'm already learning things I didn't know about the 777. I do have a couple questions though.

 

1. When you arm the Emergency Lights, does closing the guard not move the switch to the Arm position like it does in the NG? I've now seen you and another tester specifically move the switch before closing the guard.

 

2. You showed the option of "Resettable Siren". Maybe I'm being dense, but what on earth does that mean? (around 1:11:15 in the video)

At Kyle, do you fly out of College Park? I live around there.

 

 

Alot of companies operating procedures dictate that as soon as they are cleared to a flight level the pilots should select the standard pressure setting.

 

Craig

 

So there are a lot of planes flying in the same airspace with different altimeter settings which depends upon how high they have been cleared to fly and what their company policy is. I thought it was more cut and dried that that.

 

Thanks

Michael Cubine