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In my opinion this topic can be very helpful to improve ourselves with reading the others writings.Please close this topic if there is a similar topic.

During take-off I take thrust levers to 50 percent and I use TOGA at the mcp.

After take-off I engage A/P at 400,pull up the flaps with watching speed and close landing light after takeoff.

At 10000 I close runway turnoffs.

Before 30 nm from top of descent I use my descent page in ECL to prepare.

I turn-on the runway turnoffs at 10000.

I use 15 flaps at 10nm from runway and 20 flaps and gear at 7nm from runway.

I disengage A/P at 600AGL leave the auto throttle on.

I disengage auto throttle at 50AGL and flare.

I use reverse thrust until 50 knots and leave the runway with closing strobe and landing lights.

 

 

Efe

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Hi Efe . . . yes, we can all bring a different style to the cockpit. The manuals have some good diagrams showing various recommended procedures, especially for landing, whether it's an ILS or visual approach.

On take-off, I will often hand-fly to above 10,000 feet just for practice, much as real-world crews do. And besides, this plane is so nice to fly. Landing lights go off at 10,000 feet. 

For the the approach, I'll set flaps 5 before intercepting the localizer. I'll usually maintain 180kts to the marker. When the glideslope is alive, the gear go down and flaps to 20. Then when I intercept, the glideslope, flaps to 25 and eventually to 30. Depending on the weather, I'll often hand-fly the approach or leave it to the autopilot. Watching an autoland is fun. I marvel at how PMDG have captured the sophistication of the autopilot.

Though it's not recommended procedure, flying an approach without autothrottle can be a challenge. Good practice for the day when the autothrottle conks out.

 

Bruce

 

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Hi Efe . . . yes, we can all bring a different style to the cockpit. The manuals have some good diagrams showing various recommended procedures, especially for landing, whether it's an ILS or visual approach.

On take-off, I will often hand-fly to above 10,000 feet just for practice, much as real-world crews do. And besides, this plane is so nice to fly. Landing lights go off at 10,000 feet. 

For the the approach, I'll set flaps 5 before intercepting the localizer. I'll usually maintain 180kts to the marker. When the glideslope is alive, the gear go down and flaps to 20. Then when I intercept, the glideslope, flaps to 25 and eventually to 30. Depending on the weather, I'll often hand-fly the approach or leave it to the autopilot. Watching an autoland is fun. I marvel at how PMDG have captured the sophistication of the autopilot.

Though it's not recommended procedure, flying an approach without autothrottle can be a challenge. Good practice for the day when the autothrottle conks out.

 

Bruce

Hi Bruce..I think you do a very hard thing with hand-flying to FL100.It sounds very impossible to me.Looks like you are a very talented pilot and also I would thank you for first reply to my topic.

 

Efe(Please forgive me if I made a mistake in my sentences.)

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Hi Efe . . ha-ha. I wish I was such a good pilot. The 777 is actually very stable and forgiving. The important thing is to learn how to use the trim. Keep the plane trimmed properly and she will fly herself.

If you are flying with a joystick, be sure to map your trim buttons to the joystick. Then use the trim -- nose up or nose down -- to remove the pressure you have to use on the stick to keep the nose where you want it, whether it's a climbm descent or flying straight and level.

Without trim, you are always fighting the plane and likely experiencing big pitch changes.

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Keep the plane trimmed properly and she will fly herself.

 

 

Exactly!

 

and for approaches, i always do manuals. never understood auto landing 'pleasure'.

 

The 777 is easy to handle thanks to the Fly By Wire technology


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Hi Bruce..I use the saitek's yoke.It's a bit sticky to use but I love it also I have trim buttons on it.The real problem about hand flying is not trim.It is patience I think. :lol:

 

Efe

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Hand flying up to FL10 or so isn't that hard.  Maybe if you act like you have to ride on the magenta line like a train on tracks then yeah.  But even the AP doesn't keep on the line 100%

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Hand flying up to FL10 or so isn't that hard. Maybe if you act like you have to ride on the magenta line like a train on tracks then yeah. But even the AP doesn't keep on the line 100%

For me its more fun to be involved with the flying its kinda boring to click on the AP right after gear retraction. Lights off at 10,000 feet and logo lights off at transition altitude (18,000). Seat belt signs on or off around FL300 and no electronics at 10,000.

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15 miles out: Nosedive from cruise to where I vaguely think the airport is (don't tell me, FSX ATC said it's at my 12 o'clock!), speed brakes on max, no flaps and no gear (because I'm a badass and don't need them), until I'm about 500ft off the ground pushing 300 knots.

10 miles out: I'm now pushing 300 knots at 500ft, so in the interest of passenger comfort I usually turn off the engines, they make too much noise anyway. Speed brakes at max, call for flaps to be added by my imbecile FO who, for some reason keeps screaming in terror. He's an idiot, this one. Doesn't see a true aviator if it smacked him in the face, which I did (multiple times). It's part of my personal SOP to have a glove (or fish) on my person at all times, so that my delicate aviators hands don't suffer trauma from handing out multiple slaps.

 

5 miles out: I now see the airport, and am trying to figure out the difference between the runway and the taxiways (sometimes I forget my glasses, LOL), my FO has passed out (told you he was an imbecile), I am in complete control of the airplane, now doing around 200 knots, call for gear down to facilitate excess drag (I know my physics, sir!), and contact ATC to ask them why there are so many emergency vehicles rushing around the airport. Forget there's no one to call too, smack my unconscious FO for being unconscious, and put the gear down myself.

1 mile out: Doing about 170 knots, I sit back and spend a minute contemplating the fabulousness of my energy management skills, I wonder why the cabin isn't secure so I call in on the PA. Hear a lot of screaming from the FAs about death and destruction, worried their shrill screams would affect my excellent aviator's judgement I decide to hang up by saying: "See you guys up there in a bit". (I later found out the FAs thought I wasn't in control of the aircraft (blasphemy) and thought 'up there' was referring to heaven. I was talking about the Starbucks in the terminal, but same thing amirite!?)

 

500ft: I am now established on the PAPI, all reds is always a good sign if you want to rustle some airplane spotter jimmies! I do it for the enthusiasts, I am a true aviator in the finest sense. I wiggle my wings (repeated left-right rolls) to tell the emergency crews that I'm all good, for some reason this is not taken well by them. 

 

200ft: I am now in a very crucial phase of my landing procedure, I raise my speed brakes now, so as to dump lift (I'm good like that), we won't be needing it anymore, and no one is worried about a go around, I'm just that good. The aircraft drops down to about 50ft, doing about 150 knots now, optimal landing values (calculated by the best EFB in the world, my aviators brain!) are about 130 knots, so I must make a slight adjustment.

 

50ft: I begin making the slight adjustment, nose up about 15 degrees, nothing too insane, we don't want to scare anyone here. This now brings my speed down to about 130, my excellent piloting skills now dip the nose back down again, we appear to be losing speed very rapidly, by the time it's nose level, we're at 100 knots and I realise we have entered a stall (which is exactly what I wanted, a stall at 50ft is what we line pilots call a VTOL style landing, great for the brake pads!)

 

Touchdown: The airplane settles gently on the mains and nose gear at the same time (again, a testament to my incredible skill) at about -1650 fpm, not too shabby. I didn't set autobrakes or anything, no braking action is required here, the aircraft has come down VTOL style, straight down thanks to the stall (a controlled stall).

Anyway, here at my airline we like to give our passengers VVIP service, so they are allowed to disembark from the aircraft on the runway itself (what other airline, honestly?!) on little yellow slides. I think the slides are a silly option, it's a slightly undignified way of getting off the aircraft, but oh well, I'll never understand the corporate bigwigs. I mean, stairs work just as well and can be reused. They can also float, if made out of wood, like I proposed. Alas, I guess the just WANT to spend money so they don't have to pay my salary of 2 goats and a bag of first class peanuts. Whatever. Anyway, the passengers get to disembark and all get into their own private ambulances! Straight off the tarmac, that's golden customer service if you ask me. They also get a complimentary stay at a 5* resort with electric beds that can move up and down and it's SO posh they don't even have to get up to pee! They just.. Go... It's collected in a bag thing-a-ma-bob. They also have 24 hour service at the push of a button! This resort can apparently magically heal you of your ailments too! Pity it's so darned expensive though. Good of the airline to comp it for them. Anyway, that's just how we do things at my airline, now it's back to being a magnificent lowly line pilot for me! Ta!


Aamir Thacker

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Ha. I pretty much handle it the same way. Although sometimes instead of just diving down from cruise, I'll do a nice long, slow barrel roll. But I'm always careful to maintain 1G (+/-0.1g) to keep my coffee in place while it's resting on the glareshield.

 

If I've already finished my coffee, I'll kill one of the engines while firewalling the remaining engine to help with the full rudder deflection in the direction of the roll. It gives the passengers something to talk about and fight off the boredom after the IFE gets shut off.

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That is an important part of it too, but it's a good thing I can close my hip flask, just in case. Don't want to spill vodka around the cockpit and create an unprofessional work environment now do we?


Aamir Thacker

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I hand fly all my departures and approaches unless I fly on vatsim. Last night was a real challenge because I actually had to do a visual app on vatsim because atc changed at the last minute from ils to visual on a different rnwy

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it's a good thing I can close my hip flask, just in case. Don't want to spill vodka around the cockpit and create an unprofessional work environment now do we?

 

 

Not only that, but you have to make sure you have enough for at least 1 go-around, 30 mins of holding and a diversion to an alternate (if you believe in alternates anyways). Running out before you get to the gate is a serious no-no.

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