Thanks Sejon! Glad I was able to help!

That's what these videos are for! May not knowing a lot here but I like to give out information as best I can!

Great! Glad you are learning!

Thank you SMaze for watching!

Noted!

Most airports have default SIDs or STARs for routes. I would recommend looking up real flights at flightaware.com/statistics/ifr-route/

It sure will

15C is your standard OAT. What your engine performance temperature is, that is calculated by a performance calculator.

When you create your plan, scroll down on the plan and you will see it on page 2. You can also scroll down further and see each waypoint and the lat/long etc.

The FMC will automatically calculate all speeds and altitudes at waypoints along the route. You have to add in the speed and altitude constraints sometimes. Other than that, be sure you are executing the LEGS and PERF pages, otherwise it won't calculate.

@@MicahMesser Ahah, not executing those is probably where I have gone wrong, thanks!

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Next tutorial is on the autopilot and ILS. It will be out Wednesday

My advice is to look at XPlane's main map when you start doing TOD, set it for IFR, check that the final approach is bringing you within a few miles direct into the ILS feathers to the runway for your approach, and also, check the approach plate for that runway ahead of time, and this way you'll know what approach alt. to set if the VNAV doesn't work ahead of final, for some reason, you can always manually intervene, and make sure you're at say, 1750 or whatever the approach plate says to be at for the final approach fix. But, the FMC SHOULD make sure you're at the appropriate alt. for final and landing, on its own, as long as you've set it up right, and are still using LNAV.VNAV by then with the AP. What I do is, if I''m coming into KSEA let's say, by maybe 5 miles ahead of final, I hit LOC and let it arm--then, once the plane is turned into final, I set the two course knobs for final runway heading, put down gear at 10 miles or so, and hit that APR button! Then, the PFD should annunicate ILS, LOC, etc., and you should see your ILS engage and VNAV engage to bring you down to minimums. I hope this makes some sense. I find it better to do the LOC first, so you know you're lined up with the runway earlier, and then hit APR once it lines you up, you can give yourself a good 10 miles' headstart this way before hitting the APR button. It should just work and lock the lLS in. But basically the VNAV should work with the FMC as long as the right landing alt. is preprogrammed in when you first set it up for your particular arrival (it should be automatic based on whatever you're using for your current Nav data in the sim for that particular airport and approach). I would try it again, do a test flight, check the landing alt. for that runway, and as you just get near the ILS feather ahead of the runway, on the map view, just hit APR. The AP should just lock it in, and the ILS should just work. Of course you have to make sure your speed, autothrottle still on, and flaps are brought in at the proper times, and make sure your engines are set to continuous, your autobrakes are set for maybe autobrake 2-3, and your speedbrake lever is pulled up and armed. And, your two Nav. radios (set both) are set for the right ILS frequency ahead of time!

@@thiscorrosion900 thanks! For example I flew today from kpns to kmob. I see the runway in front but I'm not sure of where to get the course and heading is that in main map also?

@@Urbexnightcrawler oh, all of that info. should be on the particular approach plate for that runway: say you wanna do Runway 04 at KLGA, whatever, you call up the plate ahead of time, or keep it open when you get close to approach, the plate will have the Course, Nav. radio frequency for the ILS, and the landing alt. numbers from IAF to FAF, and minimums at bottom depending on type of landing. I also use LittleNavMap app. now, it's very useful, since it lets you call up all that info. within the app., and blow up the airport area and maps with ILS Feathers, etc., as you come closer, you can get all that info. within it on various screens. Plus it's a moving map for when you land and taxi. I think a good rule of thumb is, if you're doing a 10 mile final, you want to wait till you're just about at 10, drop gear, then hit the APR button once you're totally centered up for the final. If you hit LOC like 20 miles out, it should work and line you up a bit earlier laterally, that's about it. then you'd wait and hit APR at 10 miles or so.

@@thiscorrosion900 gotcha and the approach plates are in the map of the particular airport, like LaGuardia. And all of my fmc I put waypoints . Always via to the next and so on and my final waypoint I put is the airport. Then I give it arrival and select runway. Gotcha thanks dude

Might be how it is now but I will have to double check.

@@MicahMesser Yeah my mistake. Didn't have the last updates. Works better now. Now I'm trying to understand why sometimes the fmc, during a selected rnav or ils approach make a circle suddenly.

@@Z4ng3tsu67 make sure you have the course on the MCP set to the right course listed on the charts.

Are you putting in your STAR?

Cause you started your plane with engines running

You need to select NAV on both IRS switches

The same way you remove discontinuities, go to the next waypoint after the vector. Select it so that the waypoint appears in the scratch pad. At this point selecting the vector will overwrite it and move the waypoint up.