Hey man, nice video and I just wanted to add a few things 1. Speed brakes are not armed for T/O, they come up automatically passing 85 kts or they are deployed by the PF or PM when doing an RTO. 2. Before pressing the TO/GA switches you need to stabilised the thrust (set a bit of thrust making sure all the engines are spooled up) 3. You set up the automatic landing correctly. But MSFS seems to be lacking the feature. At 1500 feet you should have the mode "LAND 3" enabled with "ROLLOUT" and "FLARE" armed In the case of your video, you needed to take control of the aircraft and do a manual landing since there was no autoland enabled. Your aircraft did not flare that's why the landing was so hard! Great video anyway and I'm so impressed with people learning how to fly the 747 in MSFS :)
Nice video. Air Force pilot here, FYI 16,000 is not a flight level. FLs begin at 18,000. And V2 is not the standard climb speed, that is the airspeed required to continue a safe climb at the minimum climb gradient in the event of an engine failure.
Thanks so much for this! Gave me confidence to give it another go. I setup a flight from KIAH to KSFO. Many legs, each with their own airspeed/FL. Sweet! Took off, clicked LNAV and VNAV, and she flew up to FL420! I learned that I need to stay below fl390 to prevent big bertha from swaying left and right. Then, after watching the amazing scenery (Grand Canyon, Area 51 (where the aircraft 'mysteriously' lost all control for about 5 seconds, almost inverting...I think I was shot at!), Yosemite), she blew right past the waypoint with the 250/FL260 settings. :-( And then past the next one, with 250/8000 settings. :-( So, for some reason, the AP didn't follow the FMC. I disengaged / engaged the AP, didn't help. I did create the flight plan in the "home" screen before loading up the aircraft; could that be the issue? Also, MSFS is updated to the latest, and I'm using the Salty 747 mod.
I've had to play around with it but both Boeings work pretty damn good for me in auto pilot and auto land. I always use loc approach idk why. I am especially glad you showed how to demand more engine power in the thrust limit page. And people need to remember these modes aren't just point and click. You have to manage them even though they're automatic. It takes time to balance it, and it takes time for it to calculate what it's gonna do. Like flc not being immediate, patience people. Patience.
OMG the best video for a newbie 747 pilot like myself... Jesus this vid deserves a LOT more likes. Subscribed to channel. Well done mate, your videos are so engaging and entertaining its bloody fantastic, keep up the good job.
WOW! That was the most informative video I ever seen with autopilot. The LNAV, The VNAV things that I didn’t know about. Make me want to try it maybe I won’t end crashing. You explained everything so well. I will have to check out your other videos. I will LIKE this for sure
Set up Flight Plan to Seoul in FMC, check. Set up ILS approach, check. Set up Autopilot as you did in Xplane and other Sims; Set Altitude, Vertical speed, IAS, initial climb heading, all check. Take to the skies and ready yourself to arm the autopilot. Switch autopilot to on and switch autothrottle to on. Looking good so far. Switch LNAV to on and enjoy the perfectly preplanned ride. LET'S GO TO THE NORTH POLE!!! I have no idea why it does that, I am forced to fly by constantly adjusting the current heading. I can see my magenta flight plan on the instruments, All the steps in the flight plan can even be easily configured automatically from the main menu but still as soon as I switch on the LNAV it just flies of to whatever direction. If I change the view to "outside", I can see a GPS route that's trying to be followed by the system that isn't configured at all in the plan as far as I know of.. You don't have to select a source in the 747 for the autopilot as you did for example in a Cessna with the Garmin NAV mode, right? Switching the NAV source to GPS and it follows all the lines in the preplanned flight plan. Is there something like that in the 747 I am missing? I thought the "source" LNAV uses comes straight from the flight plan in the FMC and all it's GPS stations you type in. I am so confused.. Am I missing something, is this a bug where it's trying to fly a GPS route from a previous flight? Sigh...
Loved the video, helped me a lot, now it all comes to practice and repetition, I bought a 777 which is supposed to have the same AP than the 747 I’ll be on my way to try it rn 🙏🏻 My only stress still is the heading knob, I can’t press heading select, :/
Great video. One question (to anyone who knows) - what's the THR button below the autothrottle switch? Seems like a different speed mode. How is it used? Thanks!
Great tutorial, you talk fast so I had to watch it a few times :-) 31:16 My struggle with VNAV is that I don't understand if it ONLY reacts to the pre programmed altitudes in the flight plan? Often the flight plan have me on 30,000ft and then the next way point is perhaps 2700ft and there might not be enough distance to have a graceful decent so I ask traffic control for a lower altitude so I can start to desend much earlier. If I in that process press VNAV, it will INCREASE my altitude to the 30,000 ft that is in the flight plan. Is this correctly understood? Also, is it possible to EDIT the altitudes on the waypoints so I can avoid the abrupt altitudes described above? If I could edit, I could actually give VNAV the chance to take me down more gracefully over a distance, or is it another way of doing it ?
@@arturtrenkler5726 Did you set it up as a high altitude IFR flight plan in the flight setup of main menu? I also commented in another post above but roughly 90% of the time I will find a discontinuity row in the legs button of FMC and those rows need to be deleted or your flight plan wont really work right.
Yea mine bounces like crazy. Same thing on the 787 and the A320. Autoland just is crap on the sim. My question on these Boeing planes if land do you always need to kill AT? I would think autoland would retard the throttle but I guess not?
@@ReefAndReptileAutomation As far as I understand, you do need to kill auto-thrust. It is going to try to keep it at the approach speed, I think, and you want it idle anyway.
@@jpm1211 I will check all that. I can also try a very small dead zone on my joystick and throttle in case there is a bit of noise (I have a cheap one)
@@ReefAndReptileAutomation In the actual airplane the autothrottle stays on the entire time. The autopilot will reduce the thrust to idle at 35 feet above the ground. If the autopilot is configured correctly, then once the aircraft is fully configured for landing (full flaps, gear down) then you literally don't have to touch anything until you want to exit the runway after you've landed. I'm getting the sense that the "autoland" that is happening in this video is really an autoland. There are three indications on the FMA that would be shown in a real autoland. IDLE, FLARE, and ROLLOUT.
Great video. I tried to do what you did in the video. I couldn't find the TO/GA button. I hovered my mouse around those area of the throttle. None showed up as TO/GA. How can I find TO/GA button? Thanks.
at 787 too vnav not works also suddenly autotrottle not works and moment later it works again and atc not works well say that you must decent to 3500ft to make it easyer to drill yourself into a mounthen. flight rjoo to rjcc ruined and didnt finished it anymore. this game not finished. but at this time its normal that games come on the market when its unfinished
Great video! Last time I flew the 747 the fuel consumption was very high, and I ran out halfway my flight (although I thought the res would be reserve fuel). Close to the ground my batteries also died and I plummeted down :-(
Search for Salty-747 on Github for the 747 improvement mod. I still have it in my download folder and haven't tried it yet in the sim, but from the listed things it does is fixing the fuel consumption of this plane.
The HED SEL cannot be switched off. I‘m on a long haul right now. My Lnav and Vnav is activated but the plane is just following the HED SEL and not the actual route…. please i need help😅
Is there a way to apply an autopilot to altitude and not to navigation? I want it to control vertical speed during the approach and I want to be in charge of direction.
when using the autopilot, just unclick the LNAV. That will give you control of lateral movement. But if you have turned the localizer on it overrides the autopilot with regards to lateral movement. The approach mode handles the VNAV when in close. So if you don't switch from localizer to approach it should line you up horizontally. And then disengage the autopilot and select the altitude the normal way.
Yes, you set the altitude you want to descend to (or 100 feet if you want to go all the way), then by pressing the VS button (vertical speed) that will disengage VNAV and let you se the descent rate on the VS dial. Just remember VS will disengage once you reach the altitude you have set (or wont engage at all if already at or below the current altitude setting) and the autopilot will revert back to altitude hold.
Thanks, wonderful tutorial I learned a lot. Thanks for the heading hold/select tip. An ah haa moment. Could you do a short one on how to change VOR Arrival to an alternate in the B747b
regardless of the flight plan set in msfs menu, if you input the waypoints into the fmc legs page and turn on flight director and AP, the plane should turn as such unless you have pressed in heading select.
The reason why I watch this video is, every time I tried to do an ILS approach, I always get an unrecoverable nose dive during the final approach, just around 30 seconds after GS capture. Any idea what happened there?
I cannot get the 3 autopilots to engage.. I capture the GS just fine. And the display show rollout and flare.. but it does not autoland. What am I missing?
I try to do the same but for some reason the aircraft does not decend even though i enter the new altidude given by ATC (i don't have it on hold). Also, when do you hit the approach button to start landing? When i hit it it starts doing cyrcles between the two last waypoints.
Followed what you did exactly and ended up with a flight that was unable to control altitude using VNAV, just kept ascending and descending around 8000ff rather than going to FL240 as the FMC showed and the AP unit showed. Aircraft also insisted in using full rudder whilst on autopilot, banking to compensate and hold heading. This simulator is far too buggy. I miss FSX, glad I only tried this one for £1.99. Definitely not worth the £50 odd, especially considering I’ve had to sit through 2 30GB updates now...
FYO This is unrealistic automation. Automatic landings is never attempted without LAND 3 or LAND 2 annunciation at 1500 feet RA on the PFD and FLARE and ROLLOUTE modes are missing on the PFD which should be armed during the approach. The hard landing is because the aircraft did never FLARE! During automatic landing the FLARE mode is activated between 40 and 60 feet RA. and ROLLOUT at 5 ft. RA. Autothrottle is never disconnected during autolaland but manual thrust is possible. The autothrottle should command thrust to IDLE at 25 ft. RA. I think there are a lot of missing features in the sim still, unfortunately.
After several weeks of GA flight this tutorial motivated me to pluck up the courage to fly this monstrosity. I'm tripping over one issue when playing about with the Compass Rose dial, when set to PLN if I interact with the LEGS menu the map focuses on waypoints, is there a way to re-center the map on my current location, aside from switching back to MAP mode? There's also a reproduceable CTD when loading a save game and pressing LEGS when PLN is selected or vice-versa which is really annoying.
The easy way is to set up the flight as High Altitude IFR and your flight plan will already be loaded into the FMC when you start the flight. What I find however is many times the FMC will have a discontinuity, so before you do anything else check the legs and page through it. If any rows say discontinuity just use the delete function and click that row to remove it from the flight plan. Note if you started cold and dark you will need to align the INS as part of the startup procedure. I use online flight planners to plan for fuel and payload as well so I can correctly set up the Init Ref page, and then do correct Performance, Departure, and Arrival setup in FMC as well. I only do the IFR flight plan in pre flight because its rather tedious to type all the waypoints in FMC legs. Usually by the time I have done the FMC setup I am only about 1 minute remaining for INS alignment, just in time to fire up APU, disconnect jetway, and then once INS is aligned request pushback and your off. Pretty much the moment your airborne engage autopilot, auto throttle, VNAV and LNAV. Use heading select (if you did not program a departure in flight plan) to get over to the flight plan path guidance marker and LNAV should lock once you intersect the flight path. From there aside from altitude direction for ATC the plane will fly itself all the way to your arrival airport runway approach. From here the "easy" landing is to set your altitude to 100 feet once you hit cruise, then ignore ATCs descent instructions. When you reach Decel and TD markers on your flight plan VNAV should fly you all the way down the approach. As needed add flaps, engage APP mode, drop gear and it will autoland as this video shows.
@@jettlethedragonpeeltheoran8915 I think there are PDF instructions somewhere in MSFS but its so much easier to just watch a youtube tutorial. The shortcut that will pretty take you all the way with FMC in B747 is first do the Init page, then check legs for discontinuities (and delete them), then use FMC/COMM button and performance menu and it will step you through the next pages (takeoff and approach plates).
So do LNAV and VNAV affect the plane even when the autopilot is off?? I thought AP has to be on for them to actually work. And why does he have all 3 APs activated at the end during the approach, but not before?
Yes AP has to be on for vnav and lnav (but not for basic autothrottle bug and speed hold). In Approach mode all 3 autopilots automatically activate as a failsafe in case one system gets unstable air data or some other fault. Its complicated but as long as the 3 systems generally agree they average their control inputs. I am not sure if Approach mode will continue if one system goes offline (I suspect it does not) but as a failsafe it would alert the pilot and if the system detects too much aberration between the systems it will disengage with lots of cautions and warnings.
although I literally followed your instructions for setting up and taking off the jumbo 747, after taking it off, it made turns around itself non-stop. (msfs Xbox/series/s) not in the pc.the defold aircraft boeing 747. where am i wrong? Thengs for the toutorial
@@sdb87149 you need to set up ILS and all the route properly. Its easiest to do it on the set up screen. Choose your arrival and departure. Then a drop down appears on the left. Select low level or high level airways. Then look at the extra drop downs underneath your arrival and destination. Use these to set up ILS and stuff. Once youve dine this and clicked FLY everything you need will be in the aircrafts FMS and it should all work properly. At least thats what i do and it works for me.
I am completely new to Flight Simulators and this video especially helped me a ton but I am having an issue. Since I am new I can't tell if it's my error or just MSFS being buggy. I plug everything in, I press approach and the plane does nothing. I get no updates from ATC and I end up just flying directly over my destination. What am I missing?
Usually how its done in the real world you ARM the LOC and wait until capturing the localize and THEN you ARM the APP mode and wait to capture the glideslope and when glideslope is captured you set the missed approach altitude in the Altitude window.
This is the only training video that Ryanair pilots get.
Haha
Lmafo
😂 I haven’t ever actually had a bad experience with them ever but the jokes are still hilarious
Correct! And it is for the wrong aircraft…😢
I have only flown with them once… and that was a bad experience.
😂. He could have started from uploading data to fmc but he skipped it 😢
You're extremely good at explaining it. I used to fly the 737-800 in FSX and that was a tad different, so I was very much confused with the 74.
This is probably the most enjoyable and yet informative flight sim tutorial I have ever seen
Definately !!!😅
Finally a simple video that a non pilot person can understand! Sub💪
bro following this video while flying at the same time has made so much sense. thank you for this video
Hey man, nice video and I just wanted to add a few things
1. Speed brakes are not armed for T/O, they come up automatically passing 85 kts or they are deployed by the PF or PM when doing an RTO.
2. Before pressing the TO/GA switches you need to stabilised the thrust (set a bit of thrust making sure all the engines are spooled up)
3. You set up the automatic landing correctly. But MSFS seems to be lacking the feature. At 1500 feet you should have the mode "LAND 3" enabled with "ROLLOUT" and "FLARE" armed
In the case of your video, you needed to take control of the aircraft and do a manual landing since there was no autoland enabled. Your aircraft did not flare that's why the landing was so hard!
Great video anyway and I'm so impressed with people learning how to fly the 747 in MSFS :)
Very useful video, 30 minutes ago I was still an idiot, now I’m the first officer of the mighty 747.
lol
Nice video. Air Force pilot here, FYI 16,000 is not a flight level. FLs begin at 18,000. And V2 is not the standard climb speed, that is the airspeed required to continue a safe climb at the minimum climb gradient in the event of an engine failure.
only in america
THis has got to be the best 747 instruction on utube
Thanks so much for this! Gave me confidence to give it another go. I setup a flight from KIAH to KSFO. Many legs, each with their own airspeed/FL. Sweet! Took off, clicked LNAV and VNAV, and she flew up to FL420! I learned that I need to stay below fl390 to prevent big bertha from swaying left and right. Then, after watching the amazing scenery (Grand Canyon, Area 51 (where the aircraft 'mysteriously' lost all control for about 5 seconds, almost inverting...I think I was shot at!), Yosemite), she blew right past the waypoint with the 250/FL260 settings. :-( And then past the next one, with 250/8000 settings. :-( So, for some reason, the AP didn't follow the FMC. I disengaged / engaged the AP, didn't help. I did create the flight plan in the "home" screen before loading up the aircraft; could that be the issue? Also, MSFS is updated to the latest, and I'm using the Salty 747 mod.
Nicely packaged video. Thanks for the speed trap warning for that side road, too. Made me laugh out loud in reality.
Good job! There are 1000 tutorials on the NEO but we want to fly the 747 :)
Yeah the neo gets way too much attention, personally I don’t like it. I fly the 747 and 787
I've had to play around with it but both Boeings work pretty damn good for me in auto pilot and auto land. I always use loc approach idk why. I am especially glad you showed how to demand more engine power in the thrust limit page. And people need to remember these modes aren't just point and click. You have to manage them even though they're automatic. It takes time to balance it, and it takes time for it to calculate what it's gonna do. Like flc not being immediate, patience people. Patience.
OMG the best video for a newbie 747 pilot like myself... Jesus this vid deserves a LOT more likes. Subscribed to channel.
Well done mate, your videos are so engaging and entertaining its bloody fantastic, keep up the good job.
WOW! That was the most informative video I ever seen with autopilot. The LNAV, The VNAV things that I didn’t know about. Make me want to try it maybe I won’t end crashing. You explained everything so well. I will have to check out your other videos. I will LIKE this for sure
Excellent video, I've been awaiting this one!
Me as well.
I really enjoy watching your video and the way you recite. Thanks for the video 👍
This was extremely helpful, it's incredible what autopilot can do in modern aircraft.
Thanks!
Nice to see Bradley being given some attention. Love that road to the museum too😂
Amazing video. This is the most comprehensive and fun to watch 474 tutorial. Thank you!
What a fun tutorial and informative. Your humor is awesome :) ** My back... uugh* haha..
I might need to watch this need this one a few time.
I find this one a lot more difficult than the A320 in FS2020.
Definitely is
Thank you for this fast, informative and entertaining tutorial!! Never seen anything like this before! 😂 🙏👍🎯🍀
This guy says "slap" a lot. I like it
Thank You. This is exactly what I was looking for last night. KLAX to KLAS.
Awesome video, sorted out several issues I was having with the 747's A/P, many thanks. Liked & Subscribed too.
Thank you so much, Captain, excellent explained each and every thing ...
Good explanations, fast, direct to the point... GG !
Amazing tutorial my friend, my son and I thank you!
Woohoo! I was on the verge of requesting a video on this because I got so lost in the 747.
Set up Flight Plan to Seoul in FMC, check.
Set up ILS approach, check.
Set up Autopilot as you did in Xplane and other Sims; Set Altitude, Vertical speed, IAS, initial climb heading, all check.
Take to the skies and ready yourself to arm the autopilot.
Switch autopilot to on and switch autothrottle to on.
Looking good so far.
Switch LNAV to on and enjoy the perfectly preplanned ride.
LET'S GO TO THE NORTH POLE!!!
I have no idea why it does that, I am forced to fly by constantly adjusting the current heading. I can see my magenta flight plan on the instruments, All the steps in the flight plan can even be easily configured automatically from the main menu but still as soon as I switch on the LNAV it just flies of to whatever direction.
If I change the view to "outside", I can see a GPS route that's trying to be followed by the system that isn't configured at all in the plan as far as I know of..
You don't have to select a source in the 747 for the autopilot as you did for example in a Cessna with the Garmin NAV mode, right? Switching the NAV source to GPS and it follows all the lines in the preplanned flight plan. Is there something like that in the 747 I am missing? I thought the "source" LNAV uses comes straight from the flight plan in the FMC and all it's GPS stations you type in.
I am so confused.. Am I missing something, is this a bug where it's trying to fly a GPS route from a previous flight?
Sigh...
Loved the video, helped me a lot, now it all comes to practice and repetition, I bought a 777 which is supposed to have the same AP than the 747 I’ll be on my way to try it rn 🙏🏻
My only stress still is the heading knob, I can’t press heading select, :/
Great video man ... well delivered and easy to understand
Thank you very much .... I'm getting there. Will be a project for sure ! But I love it .
That's how you land a 747 on an aircraft carrier, lol.
Nice tutorial, thank you.
Thank You So Much For This Video!
Thanks man this is perfect. Even covered appr on ILS 🙏🏻
Thanks very much, this is exactly what I was looking for.
Great tutorial, thank you.
How do you get the screen to show the runway like that? Min only zooms in to darkness it doesn’t show the runway in detail
Awesome tutorial!
Is there a reason why the FMC does not function in certain cockpit camera views?
Great video. One question (to anyone who knows) - what's the THR button below the autothrottle switch? Seems like a different speed mode. How is it used? Thanks!
Great tutorial, you talk fast so I had to watch it a few times :-)
31:16 My struggle with VNAV is that I don't understand if it ONLY reacts to the pre programmed altitudes in the flight plan? Often the flight plan have me on 30,000ft and then the next way point is perhaps 2700ft and there might not be enough distance to have a graceful decent so I ask traffic control for a lower altitude so I can start to desend much earlier.
If I in that process press VNAV, it will INCREASE my altitude to the 30,000 ft that is in the flight plan.
Is this correctly understood?
Also, is it possible to EDIT the altitudes on the waypoints so I can avoid the abrupt altitudes described above?
If I could edit, I could actually give VNAV the chance to take me down more gracefully over a distance, or is it another way of doing it ?
How was your flight plan (legs screen) automatically loaded? Been googling this for an hour :/
From the main menu click world map you can create a flight plan. There's a lot of videos how to on here.
Look up how to set up a flight plan. Once u set up ur flight plan on the menu then it will automatically pop up on the plane
Did anyone figure this out, still can’t get the plane to load the flight plan data even though i set it up before the flight
@@arturtrenkler5726 Did you set it up as a high altitude IFR flight plan in the flight setup of main menu? I also commented in another post above but roughly 90% of the time I will find a discontinuity row in the legs button of FMC and those rows need to be deleted or your flight plan wont really work right.
Also, let's say we got a call from ATC to go direct to a waypoint, how do we set the direct to bypass the previously planned waypoints on the FMS?
Very good job and very helpful. Thank you!
Looking forward to your take on the Airbus
Thank you for the tutorial!
You make it look easy.
When I try, the think starts bouncing and rocking like a... I can't think of something right now, but it's a lot.
Yea mine bounces like crazy. Same thing on the 787 and the A320. Autoland just is crap on the sim. My question on these Boeing planes if land do you always need to kill AT? I would think autoland would retard the throttle but I guess not?
Check your Trim bindings maybe? Might be fighting your controller, or if you have something doubled up.
@@ReefAndReptileAutomation As far as I understand, you do need to kill auto-thrust.
It is going to try to keep it at the approach speed, I think, and you want it idle anyway.
@@jpm1211 I will check all that.
I can also try a very small dead zone on my joystick and throttle in case there is a bit of noise (I have a cheap one)
@@ReefAndReptileAutomation In the actual airplane the autothrottle stays on the entire time. The autopilot will reduce the thrust to idle at 35 feet above the ground. If the autopilot is configured correctly, then once the aircraft is fully configured for landing (full flaps, gear down) then you literally don't have to touch anything until you want to exit the runway after you've landed. I'm getting the sense that the "autoland" that is happening in this video is really an autoland. There are three indications on the FMA that would be shown in a real autoland. IDLE, FLARE, and ROLLOUT.
So what is Vnav finally used on this plane? It wont follow my altitudes from my mcdu
Very helpfull Tutorial. TANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!
I wish I could like the video every time I watch it
Great video, explained a lot about FLCH
Amazing Video!
Great video.
I tried to do what you did in the video. I couldn't find the TO/GA button. I hovered my mouse around those area of the throttle. None showed up as TO/GA. How can I find TO/GA button? Thanks.
And I thought my landings were bad. LOL!!!!
Wow, that autolanding is definitely rough in the sim.
Bwahahahahahaaa @ I felt it in my Back...LOL
Excellent Video 😂
I believe that the VNAV currently does not work in vanilla FS2020.
at 787 too vnav not works also suddenly autotrottle not works and moment later it works again and atc not works well say that you must decent to 3500ft to make it easyer to drill yourself into a mounthen. flight rjoo to rjcc ruined and didnt finished it anymore. this game not finished. but at this time its normal that games come on the market when its unfinished
Great video! Last time I flew the 747 the fuel consumption was very high, and I ran out halfway my flight (although I thought the res would be reserve fuel). Close to the ground my batteries also died and I plummeted down :-(
I hope you are talking about the sim 😉
Search for Salty-747 on Github for the 747 improvement mod. I still have it in my download folder and haven't tried it yet in the sim, but from the listed things it does is fixing the fuel consumption of this plane.
@@kerayngamerinos i will do that...
Is it like kind of like Fly by wire, but for 747?
@@JonathanPeel it is, sort of.
The HED SEL cannot be switched off. I‘m on a long haul right now. My Lnav and Vnav is activated but the plane is just following the HED SEL and not the actual route…. please i need help😅
use heading select to intercept your flight plan and LNAV should take it over again automatically
toga switches ? cant find them. My angle in the cockpit in 2020 doesnt allow me to see them or mouse over them
Is there a way to apply an autopilot to altitude and not to navigation? I want it to control vertical speed during the approach and I want to be in charge of direction.
when using the autopilot, just unclick the LNAV. That will give you control of lateral movement. But if you have turned the localizer on it overrides the autopilot with regards to lateral movement. The approach mode handles the VNAV when in close. So if you don't switch from localizer to approach it should line you up horizontally. And then disengage the autopilot and select the altitude the normal way.
Yes, you set the altitude you want to descend to (or 100 feet if you want to go all the way), then by pressing the VS button (vertical speed) that will disengage VNAV and let you se the descent rate on the VS dial. Just remember VS will disengage once you reach the altitude you have set (or wont engage at all if already at or below the current altitude setting) and the autopilot will revert back to altitude hold.
You're an excellent teacher! Thank you!
Evergreen content.
Thanks, wonderful tutorial I learned a lot. Thanks for the heading hold/select tip. An ah haa moment. Could you do a short one on how to change VOR Arrival to an alternate in the B747b
When I turn LNAV and VNAV on it doesn’t turn the plane. It only fixes the speed and vertical speed
Did you make sure to set IFR navigation while you chose your arrivals and destinations?
regardless of the flight plan set in msfs menu, if you input the waypoints into the fmc legs page and turn on flight director and AP, the plane should turn as such unless you have pressed in heading select.
Check your FMC under legs and ensure that you have no "Discontinuity" in any of it.
i'm failing simply to activate VNAV and LNAV it doent blinbk up
same
i was able to activate vnav but not lnav
Very informative. Thanks!
The reason why I watch this video is, every time I tried to do an ILS approach, I always get an unrecoverable nose dive during the final approach, just around 30 seconds after GS capture. Any idea what happened there?
My LNAV never works so I always have to use heading
Check your FMC under legs and ensure that you have no "Discontinuity" in any of it.
I cannot get the 3 autopilots to engage.. I capture the GS just fine. And the display show rollout and flare.. but it does not autoland. What am I missing?
Did you activate Approach mode (APP button) once you intercepted the ILS?
@@larrybremer4930 Thanks, it suddenly started working a while ago. No idea why it did not work before. Yes I used the approach button :D
Mate thanks so much!
great job brother!
Excellent vidéo ! I do not why but when a active LNAV and VNAV my speed decrease to 240KTS even if it should be 310KTs in my FMS. Is this à bug ?
I have this as well. I figured it might have something to do with true airspeed, but honestly that's just a wild guess
@@LunaProtogen it is, if u look on the nav panel, it shows u the real speed no on the indicator
I try to do the same but for some reason the aircraft does not decend even though i enter the new altidude given by ATC (i don't have it on hold). Also, when do you hit the approach button to start landing? When i hit it it starts doing cyrcles between the two last waypoints.
I have the same problem and sometimes it won't reach the selected altitude
Followed what you did exactly and ended up with a flight that was unable to control altitude using VNAV, just kept ascending and descending around 8000ff rather than going to FL240 as the FMC showed and the AP unit showed.
Aircraft also insisted in using full rudder whilst on autopilot, banking to compensate and hold heading.
This simulator is far too buggy. I miss FSX, glad I only tried this one for £1.99. Definitely not worth the £50 odd, especially considering I’ve had to sit through 2 30GB updates now...
thanks for tutorial man You winner more sub from Brazil
How do I press select on xbox? I can only change degrees or increments
Everything works fine but when I get to cruising altitude and go over around 200 knots it says I’m over speeding
Your flaps are most likely still down bring the flaps up and then the overspeed warning will stop.
Make sure to retract the following; flaps, speed brake, landing gear. Hope this helps!
Right...now to try it in the sim...fingers crossed!!
Thank you for the help 👍👍
FYO This is unrealistic automation. Automatic landings is never attempted without LAND 3 or LAND 2 annunciation at 1500 feet RA on the PFD and FLARE and ROLLOUTE modes are missing on the PFD which should be armed during the approach. The hard landing is because the aircraft did never FLARE! During automatic landing the FLARE mode is activated between 40 and 60 feet RA. and ROLLOUT at 5 ft. RA.
Autothrottle is never disconnected during autolaland but manual thrust is possible. The autothrottle should command thrust to IDLE at 25 ft. RA.
I think there are a lot of missing features in the sim still, unfortunately.
There is, especially with the 747. It's not a study level sim, although there are options available for that if you're on PC.
I never have the lack of flare/hard landing issue but I also switch from baro to radar altimeter before landing.
26:50 That's what I'm hoping for. I'm going for frequent flyer miles achievment and hoping this works out.
After several weeks of GA flight this tutorial motivated me to pluck up the courage to fly this monstrosity. I'm tripping over one issue when playing about with the Compass Rose dial, when set to PLN if I interact with the LEGS menu the map focuses on waypoints, is there a way to re-center the map on my current location, aside from switching back to MAP mode?
There's also a reproduceable CTD when loading a save game and pressing LEGS when PLN is selected or vice-versa which is really annoying.
@Cameron Putt Fair enough think I'll leave that alone then for the time being.
Clumsy actually posted a video a few weeks ago explaining how to fix the mouse wheel zoom / turn-a-knob conflict. You might want to look into it.
You are welcome to send me a link to that...
@@JonathanPeel ua-cam.com/video/QLgH23WXj64/v-deo.html
Here we go!
Worthless. a 12 minute video to explain "remap the controls." Gee thanks.
love that vid!! help me out alot :) my question how to you add the speed for each waypoint in fmc??
There's a grey knob that you can turn, there's also a c/o button to change it to knots or mach
Hi there, is there any way to bind boeing "toga" button to a key or controller button in msfs? can't find it under controls settings
Not sure if you have figured it out yet but you can I believe it’s in the auto pilot section. I’m not sure if that’s a pmdg 737 specific bind though
@@specialneedsmolester1957 yeah I’ve found it. It’s called TO GA instead of TOGA and that’s why I wasn’t able to search for it. Thanks !
Reverse thrust on msfs 2020 is default press and hold F2
how do you pre program the FMC on this game? just setting the departure and arrival obviously isn't enough
If you are doing it from scratch it's too much to explain.
The easy way is to set up the flight as High Altitude IFR and your flight plan will already be loaded into the FMC when you start the flight. What I find however is many times the FMC will have a discontinuity, so before you do anything else check the legs and page through it. If any rows say discontinuity just use the delete function and click that row to remove it from the flight plan. Note if you started cold and dark you will need to align the INS as part of the startup procedure. I use online flight planners to plan for fuel and payload as well so I can correctly set up the Init Ref page, and then do correct Performance, Departure, and Arrival setup in FMC as well. I only do the IFR flight plan in pre flight because its rather tedious to type all the waypoints in FMC legs. Usually by the time I have done the FMC setup I am only about 1 minute remaining for INS alignment, just in time to fire up APU, disconnect jetway, and then once INS is aligned request pushback and your off. Pretty much the moment your airborne engage autopilot, auto throttle, VNAV and LNAV. Use heading select (if you did not program a departure in flight plan) to get over to the flight plan path guidance marker and LNAV should lock once you intersect the flight path. From there aside from altitude direction for ATC the plane will fly itself all the way to your arrival airport runway approach. From here the "easy" landing is to set your altitude to 100 feet once you hit cruise, then ignore ATCs descent instructions. When you reach Decel and TD markers on your flight plan VNAV should fly you all the way down the approach. As needed add flaps, engage APP mode, drop gear and it will autoland as this video shows.
@@larrybremer4930 thank you so much! i have yet to try a cold start the way you’re saying so i’m excited to try that now
You have to guess. MSFS has no damn instructions for anything and I can't find a decent tutorial that explains it properly.
@@jettlethedragonpeeltheoran8915 I think there are PDF instructions somewhere in MSFS but its so much easier to just watch a youtube tutorial. The shortcut that will pretty take you all the way with FMC in B747 is first do the Init page, then check legs for discontinuities (and delete them), then use FMC/COMM button and performance menu and it will step you through the next pages (takeoff and approach plates).
So do LNAV and VNAV affect the plane even when the autopilot is off?? I thought AP has to be on for them to actually work.
And why does he have all 3 APs activated at the end during the approach, but not before?
idk bruh
Yes AP has to be on for vnav and lnav (but not for basic autothrottle bug and speed hold). In Approach mode all 3 autopilots automatically activate as a failsafe in case one system gets unstable air data or some other fault. Its complicated but as long as the 3 systems generally agree they average their control inputs. I am not sure if Approach mode will continue if one system goes offline (I suspect it does not) but as a failsafe it would alert the pilot and if the system detects too much aberration between the systems it will disengage with lots of cautions and warnings.
Excellent!!! Thank you
Can the 747 do RNAV approaches?
although I literally followed your instructions for setting up and taking off the jumbo 747, after taking it off, it made turns around itself non-stop. (msfs Xbox/series/s) not in the pc.the defold aircraft boeing 747. where am i wrong?
Thengs for the toutorial
I followed the tutorial and it worked perfectly
I’m very new but sounds like it’s following a holding pattern program
@@sdb87149 you need to set up ILS and all the route properly. Its easiest to do it on the set up screen. Choose your arrival and departure. Then a drop down appears on the left. Select low level or high level airways. Then look at the extra drop downs underneath your arrival and destination. Use these to set up ILS and stuff. Once youve dine this and clicked FLY everything you need will be in the aircrafts FMS and it should all work properly. At least thats what i do and it works for me.
Slow down the verbalizing couple of notches, my brain doesn’t compute quickly when in the learning stage. Thanks you ,
I always change his playback speed to 0.9x and it works great.
For some reason I can't select a heading, it just says N/A, and when I try lnav it violently banks over into a dive
lol should be fixed right now with major update
I am completely new to Flight Simulators and this video especially helped me a ton but I am having an issue. Since I am new I can't tell if it's my error or just MSFS being buggy. I plug everything in, I press approach and the plane does nothing. I get no updates from ATC and I end up just flying directly over my destination. What am I missing?
@biene I have the AI managing it. As for speed, I thought that was managed by the AP. I plan on giving it another go tonight.
@@dag5852 if you are using AI, all your input will be ignored.
@@J4ckGuo I have the AI managing coms, I am flying. Sorry, I should have specified that.
When I press init ref it says approach ref, and I want ti fix my cruising altitude (BTW IM ALREADY IN THE AIR)
How early do you hit the approach mode ??
when in line with the approach
@@HonestTraveller Can you be more specific????????
@@Slow370Z as soon as you see GS ♦️
Usually how its done in the real world you ARM the LOC and wait until capturing the localize and THEN you ARM the APP mode and wait to capture the glideslope and when glideslope is captured you set the missed approach altitude in the Altitude window.