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OK, I'll just use IAP as I did. I flew it last night using IAP and flew the whole STAR to the FAF. Thanks.

The New RNAV STAR KKILR into KMSP uses a right downwind for 12R and left downwind for 12L. I'm wondering if using NOTAMS you can force the right downwind instead of left which is what RC would do? When I fly this later, I'll be using an IAP since from the last point DOLEE on the STAR I'll go direct to ZESTY then to the FAF. But if not using IAP, I would be curious to know if it's possible to do this. Thanks.

OK, I got the new key and everything is fine now. Thanks everyone.

I don't have a response from John yet. It's only been a few hours but hopefully he'll respond. The automated system does work, but I couldn't get the key since it said my email was not in the database. So I sent JD my new email and hopefully I'll get the key, thanks.

Yup I have a new email now. I'll try his private email, thanks.

Thanks, hopefully Ron or Ray will reply. I remember the automated service used to work better before. Hopefully I'll get the key.

I need a new key and the automated service said that it doesn't have my email in the database. So I emailed my new email to [email protected]. I'm waiting for a response and haven't gotten any yet. Can you please see if I should get it soon? I got a new computer so I need a new key. Thank you.

You're welcome. Glad I could help.

Try Plan-G. SimBrief won't do what you want. It will give you real world flight plans which is good if you want that, and I use it. With Plan-G, you can zoom into the destination runway, (most of the time it is there) and right click on it and then click on and enable QDM. It will give you a red line and you just drag it wherever you want. Then there's a certain place you go too in Plan-G and I forget, but in one of the menus there is something I think called Information and that will give you the heading and distance where the red line is. So you can drag it about 15 NM out for jets, and about 10NM for the smaller prop planes. You then just click create waypoint. It will come up with a box for you to enter a name for the waypoint you created. There are three places for you to enter them but just enter the same thing in all three. You then have your final approach waypoint. If you are approaching downwind to the runway, you can then from that waypoint hover over it, and do the same thing again as I wrote above, and go out about maybe 5 miles base for the Jets and maybe 3-4 miles base for the prop planes. Then create that waypoint. Then for downwind, just create a parallel line to the runway (it helps if you have the runway heading like the ILS heading in hand) and just estimate where to start the downwind leg. Probably just a little past the airport would be good. Then create the waypoint, and then you have downwind. Your done! You just add these waypoints in Plan-G. The manual will tell you how. It's easy, trust me. Your flight plan will automatically include these waypoints for you to follow. You just follow your own altitudes of course but the horizontal route is done. For base entries, you do about the same thing, but you stop creating the waypoints on the base leg and the route will automatically take you to base. For straight ins or near straight ins, all you really have to do is just create the final waypoint and the flight plan will take you right in. I recommend to follow the 3 and 1 rule for descent. If you have a downwind entry, be about 7 thousand feet on downwind descending to about 4 thousand on base, then 2 thousand for the intercept to the ILS. The three and one rule is you take your altitude say 30,000 feet or FL300 and multiply by 3. So, it would be 30 times 3 which =90. I would always add about 10 miles to it which would be 100 of course and then start your decent. You can follow the 3 and 1 rule for the whole decent. Anyway I hope this has helped you to do what you want and I do this too. I use this when I use SIDS (Standard Instrument Departure) and STARS (Standard Terminal Arrival Route) and since most of these procedures at least in the US require vectors, I can create my own waypoints to follow after the STAR and on vectored SIDS. It works pretty well.

Yea! I always noticed that too. It always bugged me. If Microsoft was still developing flight sim they probably could improve on this.

Anyone read this yet?

Does anyone know if the VNAV in this FMC really works. I know the speed works, but do you know if the altitudes will automatically set in the FSX autopilot if they are set in the FMC? Thanks.

I'll try that, thanks.

I was flying then all of a sudden in mid flight, FSX said it encountered an error and exited out. I tried to do a reinstall, but when I went to uninstall it, the setup for the uninstall did not load up. I also tried inserting the FSX disc 1 but I got error 1628 failed to complete installation. Does anyone have any ideas of what to do? Thank you.

Well..... now there's two problems. I tried uninstalling FSX so I could do a clean install but FSX wouldn't even uninstall. I deleted all the files of FSX and then tried uninstalling it in the control panel. I ran the uninstall and then the uninstall page wouldn't come up so I couldn't uninstall it. I also tried to insert the FSX disc 1 and then error 1628 came up before the Install screen came up. So... I don't know what to do. Hopefully someone knows what may be going on and to fix this. Thanks in advance.