just asked in their forum where to find the "flight plan sharing between tablet/aircraft", maybe I just do something wrong?

EDIT again, found this one:

that would be nice. Downloading is till a bit old school for flight plan sharing and you need to scroll through the lists of plans via RTE but at least I do not need to lauch simbrief downloader manually. anyway, COULD be that this worked. When I hit RTE and saw the usual wall of plans I honestly started the simbrief downloader right away as I did not expect that the EFB does the job for me. will check/test next flight once I landed at EDXW

Edited October 30, 20232 yr by DAD

3 minutes ago, DAD said:

just asked in their forum where to find the "flight plan sharing between tablet/aircraft", maybe I just do something wrong?

Yes, user error.

Once you've requested your simbrief plan into the UFT and organised your charts etc you can move to the FMC..

1.) Enter your IRS data as normal.

2.) Go to RTE page and in the scratch pad add your route, eg: EGLLEIDW and drop into LSK 2 (CO ROUTE). The ORIGIN and DEST airports will populate.

3.) Press ACTIVATE

Job done. No need to request anything from anywhere else.

In reality, many airlines don't use FMC stored company routes (COROUTE) anymore but uplink the filed flight plan via ACARS, which is done via the FLT PLN REQUEST prompt in the FMC. It would be cool if PMDG changed this now that the tablet is out and loaded the appropriate route file that has been downloaded by the UFT automatically when selecting FLT PLN REQUEST instead of the user still selecting the file in a 'fake' menu in between. That would be entirely realistic.

Edited October 30, 20232 yr by threegreen

15 minutes ago, threegreen said:

loaded the appropriate route file that has been downloaded by the UFT automatically

That's exactly what happens. You just add your destination airport code in the scratchpad and hit activate. What could be simpler than that?

2 minutes ago, El Diablito said:

That's exactly what happens. You just add your destination airport code in the scratchpad and hit activate. What could be simpler than that?

affirmative. works fine. for the waypoints. are the fuel/weight data also imported?

18 minutes ago, El Diablito said:

That's exactly what happens. You just add your destination airport code in the scratchpad and hit activate. What could be simpler than that?

I don't think they're complaining about the process, just speaking on the aspect of realism. Usually you retrieve your route from ACARs not CO ROUTEs. the end result is the same though.

19 minutes ago, DAD said:

are the fuel/weight data also imported?

No, they're separate to the flight plan/route so for all intents and purposes you're getting a mixture of real world and sim world, in other words we still need to do a small amount of manual input 🙂

7 minutes ago, Lucky38i said:

Usually you retrieve your route from ACARs not CO ROUTEs.

It's a bit of a moot point though, as you said the result is the same.

8 minutes ago, El Diablito said:

No, they're separate to the flight plan/route so for all intents and purposes you're getting a mixture of real world and sim world, in other words we still need to do a small amount of manual input 🙂

So pressing FLT PLN REQUEST immediately goes to "ROUTE UPLINK LOADING" without any user selection of the route file?

As for the PERF INIT page, does it load the correct values (Cruise level, CI, etc.) from simbrief when pressing PERF INIT REQUEST? So far it would just load more or less random values.

Same for the takeoff pages. In reality, you would (mostly) also uplink the Vspeeds and flap setting, etc. via ACARS. Since the UFT can calculate takeoff performance it would be cool if that could be uplinked into the FMC as well (even if the data in reality doesn't come from an EFB, but for sim purposes the EFB could act like an ACARS server). Does it do this?

7 hours ago, brucewtb said:

Yes this is my initial assessment as well.  I didn't find the P3D PMDG tablet particularly helpful as it was actually much quicker and simpler to just use the FMC.  Now it is early days but it seems I may go the same way in MSFS2020 - it looks very pretty but only if you have Navigraph charts and in any case I prefer to have utilities that do this sort of pre flight stuff on my second monitor.  But as I said this is an initial impression I may change my mind over time.

Bruce

The only thing that EFB does that my Avliasoft EFB doesn't do, is performance calculations, and I have always been able to do that just using the FMC without any issues. I will probably use it for a day or so, and then turn it off. 

Did they finally added a possibility to enter/import enroute winds?

6 minutes ago, G-YMML1 said:

Did they finally added a possibility to enter/import enroute winds?

This is possible with direct download of files from simbrief via simbrief downloader. Maybe this was also implemented via the tablet now. 

2 hours ago, DAD said:

just giving it a try, too. and yes, the EFB loaded the flight plan. but it does not show up in the FMC. is that by design? So I still need the simbrief downloader and then select the route/plan through the FMC? 

 

2 hours ago, Fiorentoni said:

I can‘t believe this. What happens if you click request on the RTE page?

For route loading, pmdg's efb just replaces the work of SimBrief Downloader. In the same way, it downloads the flight plan to a folder. It is different from the automatic loading of flight plans by fbw and fenix, which does not download any flight plan on the computer.

For route loading, pmdg's efb just replaces the work of SimBrief Downloader. In the same way, it downloads the flight plan to a folder. It is different from the automatic loading of flight plans by fbw and fenix, which does not download any flight plan on the computer.

Edited October 30, 20232 yr by ljk811
repeated

 

8 minutes ago, ljk811 said:

 

For route loading, pmdg's efb just replaces the work of SimBrief Downloader. In the same way, it downloads the flight plan to a folder. It is different from the automatic loading of flight plans by fbw and fenix, which does not download any flight plan on the computer.

It is just what you call replace, it is even more work.

Now you have to load it in the EFB first, and then load it in the FMC.