May 8, 20206 yr May sound a nooob question, but where exactly is the A/T located? Tried to do a flight this morning, with a Combi version. For starters, my joystick that has been working perfectly on ALL aircraft, complex or plain simple one, only pushes one throttle forward at take-off, and then lo and behold nowhere to input the IAS, unless I am missing it right in front of my eyes. As for looking it up in the Milviz Forum, I will hold my say!🤣 Rick Almeida
May 8, 20206 yr Moderator The ancient B737-200C has no "autothrottle." You actually need to use your aviation skills to manage the thrust power manually. The Sperry 77 autopilot is essentially nothing more than a simple dual-axis autopilot and no more complex than what might be found in a C172... Even the FD is not electrically linked to the Sperry 77. It is (when it works at all!) a pilot advisory indicator to pitch up/down or initiate a turn left or right. Fr. Bill AOPA Member: 07141481 AARP Member: 3209010556 Avsim Board of Directors | Avsim Forums Moderator
May 8, 20206 yr Author Thanks for that Fr Bill. Elucidating. It's just that with a pitch of less than a 1000ft/min selected, the IAS dial was not climbing anything more than 140 kts despite full throttle engaged. I then had to drop the nose to increase IAS when I started getting some klaxon-like warnings. Navigation wise, no problems as I know how to navigate via VORs. Rick Almeida
May 8, 20206 yr 1 hour ago, vc10man said: Thanks for that Fr Bill. Elucidating. It's just that with a pitch of less than a 1000ft/min selected, the IAS dial was not climbing anything more than 140 kts despite full throttle engaged. I then had to drop the nose to increase IAS when I started getting some klaxon-like warnings. Navigation wise, no problems as I know how to navigate via VORs. maybe you were close to MTOW? the -200 is a bit underpowered compared to more modern variants. My MSFS 2020 repaints: Flightsim.to - Profile of HStreet Working on MSFS 2024 versions.
May 8, 20206 yr Author 5 minutes ago, yurei said: maybe you were close to MTOW? the -200 is a bit underpowered compared to more modern variants. Again, thanks for that. But I was using MVAMS to select the Load Factors and deliberately chose low figures. Where do I get the MTOW figures from? Rick Almeida
May 8, 20206 yr 34 minutes ago, vc10man said: Again, thanks for that. But I was using MVAMS to select the Load Factors and deliberately chose low figures. Where do I get the MTOW figures from? Lots of useful info here. Alan Bradbury Check out my youtube flight sim videos: Here
May 8, 20206 yr Author Wow, thanks Alan. Just did my first VOR Navigation for eons and landed at LEPA. Yes, an engrossing version of the 737, I must say. Rick Almeida
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