Hi,

 

I recently purchased this aircraft after years being on the fence about it, knowing it was a product missing some features and that it was no longer being developed.  One thing I knew about was the lack of winds aloft import, even though this is a pretty critical feature for a long haul aircraft.

 

I actually spent the time to manually enter the winds aloft (at 4 flight levels) for one of my flights, but I'm not sure I saw any difference in the landing fuel prediction. Can anyone confirm that manually entering winds aloft works?

 

Thanks,

Daniel 

@Daniel Baker, before teenagers start questioning your judgement about buying a CS product, I've read that not all real-world B767s came with the automated feature of importing winds aloft. One RW B767 pilot said he remembers entering winds aloft info on the FMC for every flight. I'm not certain that the winds aloft info one enters is taken into account by the CS FMC, but I can say that I've seen the TOD change after manually enter winds aloft info. I typically limit my info to cruising flight level. BTW, I've enjoyed flying the CS B767 over the years. It is not as good as the Level-D B767 was for FSX and before, but it's a reasonable simulation. 

Regards,

David

Thanks for your reply @David Vega  I think the TOD changing indicates that it is recalculating, so thanks for that. Since you have experience with the aircraft can I ask you how you've handled step climbs in the FMC?  I put XXXS on the relevant waypoint but it doesn't change the altitude on the waypoints after that for me.  It accepts the modification but does nothing with it. In other words I see:

WAYP1     .80/27000

WAYP2     .80/390S

WAYP3     .80/27000

WAYP4     .80/27000

Probably something I'm messing up elsewhere?

p.s. I agree with you - not as good as my old Level-D, but enjoyable nonetheless. I also agree with the teenagers and my judgement, lol - I figured at the price of a very nice bottle of wine this would at least do less damage to my liver.

I'm sorry, but I typically do not do step climbs in my style of flying. But, I see the CS B767 manual, on page 65, says "VNAV commands the step climbs if the MCP altitude and the FMC CRZ ALT are set to the new altitude."  Of course this doesn't guarantee that the simulation does what the manual says. 

Yeah, saw that too. One thing that I think of now was I imported the flight plan (and from a P3D flight plan, designed in PFPX) which could lock in the flight level.  I'll try the whole thing manually and see what I get.

 

Appreciate you taking the time to answer.

 

Daniel