des4ever

You should plan for the STAR for your arrival gate. Once close to the airport ATC will vector you to a location to fix on the localizer for the approach you'll use. A real life example would be a flight from KSLC to KDEN. Say, for example, your flight plan is LEETZ2 CHE TOMSN4. TOMSN4 is the Northwest gate into Denver. The FMC will display legs inbound on TOMSN4 all the way to FQF and then display "ROUTE DISCONTINUITY" after that. You would fly your flight plan. Say for example that Denver is landing on 16R and this is the runway they'll want you to use. At some point on the arrival, they'll vector you off of the TOMSN4 to a fix to pick up the 16R localizer. For example, aroundTOMSN you may get vectored over to NIWOT. At this point you'd select ILS 16R as the approach. You'd put NIWOT into the first page, first line of the RTE, and you'd be on the ILS 16R all the way in. Basically to sum up, you plan to use the STAR for the direction in which you'll arrive knowing that once there, ATC will vector you to the appropriate route for the runway they want you to use. David Barry

vscimone, on 02 August 2011 - 06:55 PM, said:You are right.. he will be disappointed that his vision was limited, and that the PMDG 737NGX aircraft was beyond anything he was capable of imagining.... Prove it ...

Nice diversion Ryan. How about KLAS to Groom Lake?

Ray and Zach,You'll get that almost every time on FL. I'd say more than 95 out of 100. I work with these guys and they are among the best crews in the world. They have long days and their rest starts when the passenger door opens, so understand that there will be times when they do have to make for the hotel to get their rest. For the most part though, their interest in the customers is always apparent. As a side note, from what I've seen, the PMDG NGX is like sitting in the real cockpit.