I keep getting a yellow advisory on the PFD "Landing Altitude". I don't know what this means, as unlike the 737, there seems to be no way of setting the cruise level altitude or the landing altitude, although there is a knob on the overhead labeled "landing" which doesn't seem to do anything.

Some advice requested please.    Tonym

Have you inserted a proper route with origin and destination? The message should disapear when you have an active route in the FMC.

I was also curious about this. In my case, for example, these days I'm only flying circuits in my local airport for testing purposes. Therefore, I do not enter a flightplan in the FMC (although I could just enter one with departure / arrival airport being the same). Now, what happens is that after noticing this yellow indication, I went on the airplane's electronic checklist and saw this:

 

"> LANDING ALTITUDE <

 

Condition: One of these occurs:

- The FMC does not supply a landing altitude

-The landing altitude selector is pulled

 

( ) LDG ALT selector......PULL ON, set manually"

 

In that case I tried pulling the landing altitude selector and manually setting the landing altitude as-per my local airport's elevation, and selected (checkmarked) the "( ) LDG ALT selector......PULL ON, set manually" option in the ECL, but I still see the yellow LANDING ALTITUDE indication in the EICAS. Only case in which this one disappears is by entering an actual flight plan in the FMC. Is something missing? Is there any way to get this indication disappear without needing to enter a flightplan on the FMC? Sorry for the ignorance but I haven't figured this one out. Thanks!

 

 

Some advice requested please.

 

The indication appears when the aircraft doesn't know what the landing elevation is. This is automatically calculated for you when you select a destination airport on the RTE page.

 

As mentioned above, if you're not going to enter a flight plan on the RTE page, you can set it manually.

 

 

Is something missing? Is there any way to get this indication disappear without needing to enter a flightplan on the FMC? Sorry for the ignorance but I haven't figured this one out. Thanks!

 

The aircraft is alerting you to the fact that it cannot figure out the landing altitude by itself. The only way it would be able to do so is if you set a destination field on the RTE pages. So, since it can't do what it's supposed to do, the message remains. The fact that it cannot determine the landing alt has not changed, even when you've manually set the alt. Complete the non-normal checklist for it and move on. You may press CNCL if you'd like to clear the EICAS message.

 

Worth noting that, even though you've handled a failure, the failure is still present.

Oh I understand now, thanks!