Hi, need some help understanding what Im doing on a new approach. I have a Navigraph subscription and I departed Sacramento to Boise. At the start Simbrief has me landing on 10L at Boise, I had all that entered on my FMC, then the runway was changed to 28R when it was close to the airport...So I changed to 28R on the FMC but the transition ATC wanted me to follow was not available. What is the procedure for this? Do I add the transition as a direct location and fly towards it?

Thanks

Bill

Personnaly i don't fly with ATC for the reason you see like a problem.

Plus i use realtraffic so when i build a fp with simbrief i check on flightradar24 how plane takeoff landing at my two airports.

Maybe you can do it with ATC too.

MSFS ATC uses whatever it seems fit for landing runway and totally disregards anything SimBrief comes up with UNLESS you load the SB-plan into the MSFS planner and manually select the proper procedures: ATC will always follow anything you plan in the MSFS planner. Whenever I feel like using MSFS ATC I skip SimBrief completely and only use the MSFS planner to plan everything including all procedures. I only use SB when I don't use ATC because too often they don't sync well.

Simbrief + msfs atc works for me around 95% of the time. As long as the winds dont change dramatically which will result in a runway switch or Parallel runway (you will then have the option to request the other one) no problem. In the rare event that the destination gives me something else I select it in the mcdu and direct to the most appropriate point in the new star (after a quick review.).

A minute or two of stress but nothing that is going to make me go back to using the built in planner.

Might be worthwhile to plan for a hold on the approach just in case. Have a look at the Navigraph approach charts and find a suitable hold near the transition to ILS.

The actual approach/runway differs from the planned approach/runway all the time in the real-world, so knowing how to change it is definitely beneficial.  Check out this video for some tips (it's pretty old, so more of the described functionality is now available in the FBW mod).

 

I’ve learned lots from 320SimPilot. He seems to be a very experienced RW pilot, but can sometimes be a bit wordy and hasty. Like in this video. I got a slight headache when he got into the secondary flight plan stuff in the X-Plane ToLiss 🤯 If you don’t watch beyond 6:10 you’d probably be okay 👍🏻 

Edited April 17, 20224 yr by Cpt_Piett
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Got inspired after watching the flight plan changes tutorial 🙂 Planned for Glascow -Brussels with an alternate of Charles de Gaulle. Approaching Manchester I had a sudden urge to divert to Birmingham. Using 320Pilot's method was very swift and easy! In the MCDU => F-PLN, choose a waypont, left select, then enter new destination of EGBB. Then check the latest METAR and choose a suitable approach. 

I was surprised that I even could request the new flight plan from MSFS ATC. Next thing was to EXPED a descent from cruise alt of FL390 😬 Just watched 320Pilot's tutorial on expedite too. Got a bit hectic closing in on the airport at FL230 or so at 340 kts entering a 220kts hold - but great fun!