hi

 

i have a little question.

i have a problem with creating new waypoint with new name for my etops entry and exit points. i ve put the cordinates in the legs page without any ptoblems but i want to change their name as ''entry'' and ''exit''.

 

for that i ve put them on fix then gone to the navdata/ident and ive put ''entry'' as ident then it gave me a cordinate and i ve tried to change it with the one from entry point of my flight plan but it didnt work.

 

i now that putting them in fix doesnt serve anything, ive also tried without entring them on legs.

 

thanks

 

 

huh?

 

Those Entry and Exit waypoints were already in the database?

Never heard of them.

 

Anyway, on the 777s I am familiar with you can not create a waypoint and give it a name like on the 737.

Nor can you change any waypoints coordinates in the FMC.

 

Also those points should not be on the legs page anyway (in real life) because in real life you would be using ADS/CPDLC which reports all points in the legs page to ATC.

And ATC does not want a report from everybodies ETOPS entry/exit/equal time points.

 

I suggest entering the coordinates on route 2 or putting the time you estimate to get there in the fix page.

Check out this guide for ETOPS planning:

http://forum.aerosoft.com/index.php?/topic/73453-pfpx-etops-pmdg777-a-short-guide-p1/

 

And this one for how to correctly implement it in the cockpit:

http://forum.aerosoft.com/index.php?/topic/73486-pfpx-etops-pmdg777-part-2-flightdeck/

 

Cheers,

huh?

 

Those Entry and Exit waypoints were already in the database?

Never heard of them.

 

Anyway, on the 777s I am familiar with you can not create a waypoint and give it a name like on the 737.

Nor can you change any waypoints coordinates in the FMC.

 

Also those points should not be on the legs page anyway (in real life) because in real life you would be using ADS/CPDLC which reports all points in the legs page to ATC.

And ATC does not want a report from everybodies ETOPS entry/exit/equal time points.

 

I suggest entering the coordinates on route 2 or putting the time you estimate to get there in the fix page.

Check out this guide for ETOPS planning:

http://forum.aerosoft.com/index.php?/topic/73453-pfpx-etops-pmdg777-a-short-guide-p1/

 

And this one for how to correctly implement it in the cockpit:

http://forum.aerosoft.com/index.php?/topic/73486-pfpx-etops-pmdg777-part-2-flightdeck/

 

Cheers,

thanks for the answers

 

i ve made a long search to better understand. and i ve seen that the thing i have to see on the nd is the the crtical point(when i have a single etops airport)that i ve entered in the fmc as fix wich is based on the worst of the 3 senarios on my flight plan wich gives me requaired and estimated fuel, time and the distance between that point and the alternate based on the predicted weather in pfpx (active sky in my case). same thing for the ETP (equal time point) when you have multiple etops alternates.

 

which gives me this.

 

 

so the only question remains is changing the name of the waypoint like in the 737.

i have discoused this in an other topic that i ve opened for the 737. nobody said that the real t7 doesnt have it, inclding rynan (http://forum.avsim.net/topic/393628-custom-waypoints-on-the-fmc/)

 

 

here is what i exactly mean;