I need help! 

First problem: 88nm to JFK where I will be above MLW (loaded her up with 54 tonnes of fuel). I guess I'll do a hold to burn off fuel. 

Second problem, JFK METAR:

Wind calm. Visibility 1.5sm. light rain. mist. Clouds broken 400ft, broken 4700ft, overcast 9000ft. Temperature 8°C, dew point 8°C. Altimeter 30.02inHg.

So, icing conditions, eng anti ice on, ignition continuous. Looking at ILS 4R chart, I think min visibility is 1/2 sm, if I interpret it correctly. I'm considering doing a CATII autoland - but HOW? What value to enter for MDA in APPR page? I guess both AP switches on. Anything else? Don’t have time to RTFM… 

Any quick advice is most appreciated! @Fiorentoni, @Farlis?

Edited March 6, 20242 yr by Cpt_Piett

11 minutes ago, Cpt_Piett said:

I need help! 

First problem: 88nm to JFK where I will be above MLW (loaded her up with 54 tonnes of fuel). I guess I'll do a hold to burn off fuel. 

Second problem, JFK METAR:

Wind calm. Visibility 1.5sm. light rain. mist. Clouds broken 400ft, broken 4700ft, overcast 9000ft. Temperature 8°C, dew point 8°C. Altimeter 30.02inHg.

Looking at ILS 4R, I think min visibility is 1/2 sm, if I interpret it correctly. I'm considering doing a CATII autoland - but HOW? Can't remember how I did it in A310 (I guess the procedure in the A300 is the same). 

Any quick advice is most appreciated! @Fiorentoni, @Farlis?

Not too familiar with US visiblity rules, but I think yes, you should be doing a CAT 2, according to a quick look on the ILS Cat I chart for 04L (I guess "RVR 40 or 3/4" means at least 3/4 SM, correct? Not sure what RVR 40 is supposed to mean, can't be 40 feet). But there seems to be no CAT 2 approach for 04L, so you have to switch to 04R.
Then you set the radio altitude (112 feet in this case) with the DH button on the glareshield. Then you can do an autoland (which needs both APs on) or disconnect at the minimum altitude of 112 feet RA and fly onto the runway (or go around). That should be it.

EDIT: Just saw you figured it out yourself that you have to use 04R, I missed that, sorry.
EDIT: As for the MTOW, depends on how much above MLW you'll be. A couple of KGs won't do no harm. 10 tons would 😄

Edited March 6, 20242 yr by Fiorentoni

I’m planning a touch ‘n go then re-route to KBOS. Could probably continue to Honolulu if I wanted to, lol. I’ll take 13R which is longer. Currently at GW 142 tonnes, MLW 140.

6 minutes ago, Fiorentoni said:

I guess "RVR 40 or 3/4" means at least 3/4 SM, correct? Not sure what RVR 40 is supposed to mean, can't be 40 feet

3/4 SM is my interpretation as well. Not sure about RVR.

8 minutes ago, Fiorentoni said:

Then you set the radio altitude (112 feet in this case) with the DH button on the glareshield. Then you can do an autoland (which needs both APs on) or disconnect at the minimum altitude of 112 feet RA and fly onto the runway (or go around). That should be it.

Excellent, I’ll give it a go once I’m at or below MLW. AT off before touchdown? 

3 minutes ago, Cpt_Piett said:

I’m planning a touch ‘n go then re-route to KBOS. Could probably continue to Honolulu if I wanted to, lol. I’ll take 13R which is longer. Currently at GW 142 tonnes, MLW 140.

3/4 SM is my interpretation as well. Not sure about RVR.

Excellent, I’ll give it a go once I’m at or below MLW. AT off before touchdown? 

No leave it on. You won't have time to manage the thrust manually if you disconnect at 100 feet.

17 minutes ago, Cpt_Piett said:

3/4 SM is my interpretation as well. Not sure about RVR.

RVR is expressed in hundreds of feet, so that's a required 4000' RVR. RVR is only expressed below 6000', so if the vis is 1.5sm, that's over 6000 feet.

21 hours ago, Treetops45 said:

Nope

Have uninstalled/reinstalled & still get, [now 11%], max fuel.

In the EFB Settings, "Realistic Fueling", have tried Yes & No, with no change to the situation. What should that be, Y or N?

Inimanager shows the change log for 1.0.9, but where can I check if that is the version in MSFS??

T45

 

"Realistic Fueling" = NO, - works beautiful for me, i can fuel my plane on the runway with running engines with no problem.

Try to do a complete reinstall ( with all the WASM files ) to go the safe way..

cheers 😉

Oh dear. Fiorentonis advice worked perfectly. Just after touchdown I disconnected AP, hit TOGA, and at the same time I also hit one of those STUPID terrain glitches at iniBuilds JFK. Of course the bird bounced massively, and there was no saving her despite TOGA thrust with GW 138. How long has the scenery been out? You'd think they'd fix it by now! 🥵

At 300ft when I was blissfully unaware of the upcoming event. Sigh. 

1 hour ago, mspencer said:

RVR is expressed in hundreds of feet, so that's a required 4000' RVR. RVR is only expressed below 6000', so if the vis is 1.5sm, that's over 6000 feet.

Now en route KBOS, going for ILS 4R CAT II. METAR: Visibility 3sm, Clouds overcast 200ft. 

ILS chart: RA 99', RVR 12 (=1200ft).

3sm = 15840ft, should be fine.

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1 sm = 5280ft

 

Edited March 6, 20242 yr by Cpt_Piett

1 hour ago, Cpt_Piett said:

1 sm = 5280ft

Oh the horrors of imperial measurements. How much easier would aviation be if we all would do it the russian way and use the metric system.

Sure it would feel weird to have decision heights of 60 meters, but at least you wouldn't have to whip out a conversion calculater to know what a statute mile is in feet....

Edited March 6, 20242 yr by Farlis

1 hour ago, mspencer said:

RVR is expressed in hundreds of feet, so that's a required 4000' RVR. RVR is only expressed below 6000', so if the vis is 1.5sm, that's over 6000 feet.

I see, thank you. In Europe RVR is in meters and it's written with the trailing zeroes (e.g. "400m"). So just to confirm: If it says "RVR 40 or 3/4" it means it only has to be one of those, yes? So either 4000 feet RVR (which METARs don't report) *or* 3/4 SM visibility would be enough to fly the approach, correct?

2 minutes ago, Farlis said:

Oh the horrors of imperial measurements. How much easier would aviation be if we all would do it the russian way and use the metric system.

Sur it would feel weird to have decision heights of 60 meters, but at least you wouldn't have to whip out a conversion calculater to know what a statute mile is in feet....

Russia has switched over to feet a couple of years ago. They still use MPH for wind speed, though, for whatever reason... I think only China is left still measuring altitude and distances in meters.

word not allowed, botched the touch 'n go at KBOS, pilot error. Autoland, touchdown, AP disconnect (AT on), TOGA, positive rate, gear up, flaps full=>3, stalled. It seems the AT disconnected somehow...

Now doing a hold with gear down flaps 3 at 3000ft in order to burn 3 tonnes of fuel to get to MLW. If successful with the touch 'n go, I'll head for Honolulu....

Getting a headache calculating between sm and RVR as well as having crashed the bird twice (the one at JFK I'll blame iniBuilds though!)

Edited March 6, 20242 yr by Cpt_Piett

1 hour ago, Cpt_Piett said:

Oh dear. Fiorentonis advice worked perfectly. Just after touchdown I disconnected AP, hit TOGA, and at the same time I also hit one of those STUPID terrain glitches at iniBuilds JFK. Of course the bird bounced massively, and there was no saving her despite TOGA thrust with GW 138. How long has the scenery been out? You'd think they'd fix it by now! 🥵

At 300ft when I was blissfully unaware of the upcoming event. Sigh. 

Yeah I had that too two days ago at KJFK. It's because I turned photogrammetry off and - according to iniBuilds - I'm not allowed to or else there will be huge bumps where the runways intersect...

16 minutes ago, Fiorentoni said:

Yeah I had that too two days ago at KJFK. It's because I turned photogrammetry off and - according to iniBuilds - I'm not allowed to or else there will be huge bumps where the runways intersect...

I had PG on, but got the silly "your bandwidth is not big enough", hence MSFS was kind enough to turn it off for me. Of course I had forgotten the thread I read at iniBuilds forums two days ago...

Edited March 6, 20242 yr by Cpt_Piett

Think I might have figured out the reason behind the catastrophic touch n' go attempt: although I had AT on during the ordeal, pushed TOGA - shortly after gear up the trust goes to RETARD! No idea why - is it a RL A300 feature, or an iniBuilds feature?

Well, en route from Boston to Toronto now, fully loaded, at 16,600ft climbing FL300 and max climb rate seems to be 500fpm at 260kts, 101.3 N1. Estimated TOC in about 180nm...

EDIT: My Lord, word not allowed, I was climbing with gear down  😆

Where's the emoji for stupid?

EDIT: Another complicit reason for my mishandling: I armed the spoilers, which was probably not super-clever considering I was planning a touch 'n go... Don't think they auto-retract upon go-around. 

Edited March 6, 20242 yr by Cpt_Piett