wojouk

I do agree, but in the end its up to them if they decide to act on it. From a programming point of view, I can't see, why it would make any different to be able to program the route in the air or on the ground (at last in terms of nav data) ... I mean, your position is known whether you are on the ground or flying through the air. For the moment, the only way this works is if you enter RTE1/RTE2 FROM/TO - don't even have to Active it ... But yes :-) ... Its almost as if there is a piece of code in the simulator saying: if(in the air) -> can't do ... :-)

I did end up asking PMDG support about this, but the response I got was pretty much 'why would you' ... Of course I would not, unless my 777 was fitted with snow studs and I was taking off from Terra Nova Bay in Antarctica that has no ICAO - compass nav then ? ... :-) ... Time to let this one go....

Thank you, So there is no way - once you are in the air, you can't program your route or destination or even direct point. ... hmm.. Paul Wojo.

Perhaps I am used to NGX, but I was wondering why I can't program the FMC waypoints if I take off without a flight plan. If you take off with no DEP/ARR set, you can't program the route anymore - you get the invalid operation message. If you try something like DIRECT->[some way point or airport], you can't do that either. If you go to Route -> divert to, it shows all the airport around you, but selecting one of the airport and clicking on divert now does not work either. So, once you are in the air, it seems that if you did not enter some sort of route into FMC, there's nothing you can do. Lets assume you had a situation where you had to reboot the flight computer during the flight, what then ? you can't enter your route or waypoints anymore? It seemed to have worked fine on NGX, but not on 777 (p3d 2.5) ... Is there a way ? has anyone managed to do that succesfully ? Thanks.

Perhaps I am used to NGX, but I was wondering why I can't program the FMC waypoints if I take off without a flight plan. If you take off with no DEP/ARR set, you can't program the route anymore - you get the invalid operation message. If you try something like DIRECT->[some way point or airport], you can't do that either. If you go to Route -> divert to, it shows all the airport around you, but selecting one of the airport and clicking on divert now does not work either. So, once you are in the air, it seems that if you did not enter some sort of route into FMC, there's nothing you can do. Lets assume you had a situation where you had to reboot the flight computer during the flight, what then ? you can't enter your route or waypoints anymore? It seemed to have worked fine on NGX, but not on 777 (p3d 2.5) ... Is there a way ? has anyone managed to do that succesfully ? Thanks.