So I have been flying around the world for the http://www.fly-sea.com/challenger/ charity event, trying to do a full 37000km odd journey over 2 and a bit days.

 

After over 30 hours without sleep, I was entering my ETOPS "Equal Time Points" for the Trans-Pacific flight from Osaka/Kansai to San Fransisco, and accidentally made a tutorial about entering Equal Time Points into the Boeing 777-200LR FMS from PFPX! There's also an explanation about how wind predictions effect the ETP calculation. The only thing that was inputted to PFPX was the Aircraft profile (which had a 240 minute ETOPS approval) and a few adjustments of the flight plan on the Japan end (Because I'm a perfectionist and wanted to have no "DCT" cut-throughs without it being part of PACOTS. No data about windspeeds, Aircraft speeds and altitudes etc was manually entered myself.

 

This is both a "How to" video, and a "PFPX is awesome and I'm a fan" video.

 

You can find it at 

(You can also find the rest of the 10 hour flight there too!)

I'm just getting into PFPX and EFB ... good products, but I can't for the life of me find any ILS information from either product??  I still have to use SimPlates to get accurate airport information  including ILS ... am I missing something?

 

Also, TOPCAT (if you get the PFPX bundle) only supports a specific set of aircraft ... sadly I discovered this too late ... nothing for the BAe-145/RJ100.

I'm just getting into PFPX and EFB ... good products, but I can't for the life of me find any ILS information from either product??  I still have to use SimPlates to get accurate airport information  including ILS ... am I missing something?

 

Also, TOPCAT (if you get the PFPX bundle) only supports a specific set of aircraft ... sadly I discovered this too late ... nothing for the BAe-145/RJ100.

 

 

IN EFB if you select arrival on the top tab ,  then select star overview and then select your star.....and then select APPROACH and there you can select what ILS you want and there will be a plate as well.

 

 

IN EFB if you select departure on the top tab when your on the ground and then select SID overview and then select your sid.....Then click approach from the top menu tab and there you can select what ILS you want. Is this what you meant?

 

Yes, that's exactly what I mean, thank you!

Rob recheck my post I edited it to show arrival.

 

edit

 

after you select arrival on the top tab...go to the left side bar and select (ICAO arrival) and there you will find the star.

 

do the same for approach 

 

remember to activate them when you get taken to the last pages

do the same for approach 

 

Yeah, they are somewhat hidden ... but found what I needed.  Now, need to test ... does this actually make the default ATC route me to selected runways/ILS?

 

BUT, still can't find any info in PFPX regarding ILS ... hints?

Hi Rob, When you get within approach distance of the airport you get assigned approach vectors by FSX ATC at which point you can instead choose the approach you prefer, and load it up in the GPS or FMC.As for ILS info, I drop the plan on IF10 and get a full briefing auto generated with all that stuff in the kneeboard.

...perhaps the main problem with AIRACs and FSX is that if your plane is designed to use the AIRAC the radio frequencies, runway directions, Magvar, Navaids, and Airports may not match those in the FSX scenery, bringing up the FSX map won't help. Using AIRAC generated plans and data for non-AIRAC driven avionics means the listed frequencies etc. can be different and prove useless. You need to know both situations and the IF10 expansion handles that, and includes functions like generating routes from the common subset, so that FMC routes are guaranteed to comply with the available scenery, including addon airports.

EFB needs a ATC package to work with

 

Actually, in my perfect world, EFB - ATC - PFPX - TOPCAT will be ONE product integrated seamlessly ... I see a lot of redundant work being done across packages that makes for a less than optimal experience (not to mention setup) ... and PFPX can actually connect via WideFS (something I was told can't be done).  So you have EFB with it's own connection process and PFPX with it's own connection process (BTW, not a good idea to have both connected).

 

I'm running P3DV2, don't dare to bring up the kneeboard because of VAS usage (hopefully that will get fixed soon).

 

Many thanks for the info, appreciate it!

 

Cheers, Rob.

Ha!

 

My life stinks, but my sim runs pretty good!  I have the following opened:

 

FSX

FDS-CDU

ASN

PFPX

Aivlasoft EFB

EFB data server

TrackIR

Radar Contact

SimPlates

 

Plus running in the background is all the carp I don't need like ipod assist, adobe updater, spooler, and a thousand other processes.

 

So for me, I start up ASN, get the wx for my departure airport and set up my plan

Open PFPX and set up my flight; load the TOPCAT module and finish my burn calcs

Open up Aivlasoft and check my gates at dep and arr locations

Open up RC and set up my flight plan

Open up REX TD and inject my textures

Start TrackIR

Start FSX, and this opens OPUS for the dynamic cams

Start up my flight

Start up my CDU

Start RC

Start FS2Crew

Finally, now I can get down to business after this workout.