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JeremyWM
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Post subject: Posted: Mon Sep 14, 2009 1:06 am |
Joined: Fri Sep 11, 2009 5:17 am Posts: 5 Location: San Francisco
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Ok, so I messed up and I'm not really sure how to fix it. I went up in my Twin Otter for my very first flight from Vancouver to Kamloops yesterday. Everything went good, all though I had a hell of time with poor frame rates for some reason that I haven't figured out yet.
Made a good landing despite a 12 knot wind blowing almost directly at my back, parked, and shut-down. When I went back to FSACARS to file a PIREP, I wasn't really sure how to do it, so I went to the website and managed to file there directly. Then I did something a bit silly. I was messing around with learning FSACARS and I ended up filing again! Doh!
So me being the honest person that I am, I was wondering if there is anyway to delete a filed report, because there is currently two in my files and they are both from this same flight.
On another note, I wondering how to go about using a specific route in FSX. The pathetic flight planner built in doesn't give to option to add or subtract waypoints, VOR's, etc.... I was supposed to fly CYVR J486 LYTON YKA, but I couldn't figure out how to set it up. Even on Simroutes, I couldn't find this exact route. The closet route I could find was: CYVR V338 LYTON B10 YKA.
Well that's it for now. Thanks in advanced to all who read my post. I hope it wasn't too long.
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CVA0014
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Post subject: Posted: Mon Sep 14, 2009 1:37 am |
Joined: Fri Feb 27, 2009 1:39 am Posts: 1908 Location: Up here wishing I was down there.
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Welcome aboard Jeremy, I think screwing up flight plans is part of the initiation. Don't worry, management will fix you up.
You can edit your flight path in FS-X, I do it all the time. To add a waypoint, just drag and drop that red line to where you want to go. To delete a waypoint, click it from the list at the right of the panel and then click on Delete Waypoint just under the list.
(I'm assuming you generated the flight plan and then clicked on the EDIT panel where you can see a map, your flight plan route and a whole mess of icons)
Or do you want to add waypoints that are not in FS-X's library?
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JeremyWM
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Post subject: Posted: Mon Sep 14, 2009 3:02 pm |
Joined: Fri Sep 11, 2009 5:17 am Posts: 5 Location: San Francisco
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Here here :thumbsup: That's why I love flying in the Twotter so much! Because I love to actually fly the thing as apposed to just letting an FMC do it all for me. Don't get wrong though. When I'm in the mood for a technical challenge, I'll fire up a 747 or the Md-11 and go through all steps from APU start-up, to calculating proper flaps settings and V-speeds, all the way to take-off. But there's nothing quite as thrilling as parsing approach plates for an obscure NDB frequency, while keeping up with ATC, and all the while trying to keep the plane from drifting off the radial or getting too fast. That's one thing I notice about the Otter. It's almost overpowered! It just about jumps off the runway and during landings you start to realize just how powerful and heavy it really is when your trying to keep the decent speed under control.
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JeremyWM
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Post subject: Posted: Mon Sep 14, 2009 4:18 pm |
Joined: Fri Sep 11, 2009 5:17 am Posts: 5 Location: San Francisco
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When I first got a plane that used an FMC, I thought that my brain might freeze every-time I tried to sit down to learn it. But once i got the feel for it, it's not so bad. The hardest thing to figure out at first is what all of the abbreviations mean; RTE, legs, blah blah blah. RTE is route and legs are each of the portions of the route you're flying between fixes. Then after that it's just getting used to how the interface works. Basically what you type in the key pad goes in at the bottom of each screen in what's called the scratch-pad. The you press one of the buttons abeam the data field that you're editing. For instance, under the the Perf Initialize (performance initialize) menu where you enter the current weights and fuel on-board, you might type 145.1 for your gross take-off weight on the scratch-pad and then press the top left hand button next to where it reads GR WT. Presto FMC. Well maybe it's not that easy :devil: It can be fun though. But I certainly would never give up classic NAV Aid flying! It's just too much fun to come down from flight level into a white-out of fog with only a couple of little dials pointing to a 50-year old radio tower to keep you from pancaking into a mountain side.
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