Re: Pokhara VNPK procedures?

"..from the sounds of it I assume you're flying it in a flight simulator. It's probably a very pretty flight."

Yes, it is beautiful - full Ortho4XP terrain, zl17. I worked in that region (Eastern Nepal) for several months, so it's quite nostalgic, too!

Re: Pokhara VNPK procedures?

Thanks for the links and comments. I haven't actually flown into a hillside on my practice takeoffs - it is quite 'do-able' (though a lot harder to avoid hazardous terrain, I found, than any other VFR route in Nepal I have set up in the past: I sometimes clear terrain by less than 100' or so, which ...

Re: Pokhara VNPK procedures?

Hi.. Yes, that's right, as I say in my post. But there must be a standard 'procedure' (with a small 'p', as it were) that airlines use when they leave VNPK - in other words, the 'usual' headings flown to get over the peaks. If you just follow your eye, you get into trouble with ridges around the cor...

Pokhara VNPK procedures?

A bit of a shot in the dark, but wondering if anyone can link me to information showing departure procedures for VNPK (current airport, not the new one coming online soon), 04/22. Taking off (this is an X-Plane question, I should add!) in a single/turbo prop (so with relatively limited climb power) ...

Re: "THR CLB" v. "THR LVR"?

Make sure you say the Flex number too.
"MAN FLEX fifty-seven, SRS, (runway,) autothrust blue".
Once in the climb phase, "Thrust climb, climb, autothrust."

Re: "THR CLB" v. "THR LVR"?

"The flashing indication is "LVR CLB", (not CLB LVR)"

Indeed! As I say, my question stemmed from imagining LVR CLB to be a detent rather than an instruction. All good! Thanks.

Re: "THR CLB" v. "THR LVR"?

OK, thanks. So CLB LVR is not a 'thrust mode' then, as is CLB THR (if I have understood you correctly), it's just an indication to move the levers down from FLEX or TOGA. My procedure has always been OK, but I was assuming CLB LVR to be a detent (though that didn't make much sense to me - hence the ...

"THR CLB" v. "THR LVR"?

Could someone kindly explain the difference between these (particularly in respect of how an Airbus performs differently in either one, rather than what they 'mean', in theory. THR LVR is clearly a 'lower' detent). Googling hasn't really helped me with this... Also, after taking off in FLEX mode, sh...

Re: Any real-world ERJ pilots able to help?

Thank you. That's helpful.

Any real-world ERJ pilots able to help?

Would appreciate an answer to this question: at what altitude during a climb (or descent) does an ERJ (say 145) automatically switch from IAS to MACH mode (or vice versa) - and what is the default Mach value when that happens?

Thanks!

Re: Question re. B737 & TOGA

Starlionblue - thanks, but you are talking about an Airbus of course: I was really asking about Boeings (no FLEX option there!). I think I was aware of the various options, but wondered if using TOGA had become pretty much standard. I note that "On the 737NG I fly it's 100% always TOGA", e...

Question re. B737 & TOGA

Just wanted to ask (particularly of any real-world pilots who may read this), in the B737 (-700/800/900-NG) how standard a procedure is it to engage TOGA during the takeoff roll? Do many airlines/pilots set N1 with the throttles - i.e. 40% to stable, then c.90%) or is TOGA now the pretty much usual ...

Re: Yak-40

Yes, that sounds fair, in theory at least: in practice, I am not sure how to implement any of that in the X-Plane a/c (I am trying to use the Garmin 430), but that wasn't the point of my post of course! Thanks again for the input.

Re: Yak-40

I found some more information. I suspect this is a Google translation from the Russian.. not 100% sure what a 'plank' is (mode?). Will have to look at this a bit more closely to see how/if it is implemented: Switcher Route (up) / Landing (down). In route mode system works only with VOR and VOR/DME n...

Re: Yak-40

Thanks, that is very possible now I come to think of it. Impossible that it can be any kind of 'APPR' mode in this a/c.

Yak-40

A bit of a long shot, but I wonder if anyone knows about this a/c. Obviously (?) I am not flying the real thing (just as well perhaps) but there is a highly detailed rendition in X-Plane which seems to reproduce just about everything that the actual aircraft would present to the pilots. I am new to ...

Re: Any real-world a320 pilots here, please (climb out advice)?

Right.. thanks again - a bit belatedly - for the replies. Will post back a screenshot when I can, but meanwhile, my changed TO procedures (as above) have reduced this issue.

Re: Questions re. VNAV to 737 pilot please :-)

Thanks again for the continuing comments. The 'Zibo' 738 is an ongoing project (updated every couple of weeks!).. it is quite something on the whole, and it is freeware! Some of the payware I have installed into X-Plane is equally amazing - the Toliss a319 or the FF767 for instance. I think such air...

Re: Questions re. VNAV to 737 pilot please :-)

In the scenario you described above, level at 7000', and cleared to a higher altitude, we would set and confirm the new altitude in the MCP altitude window, and press the ALT INV button once. In X-Plane, I use ALT INTV (and later the SPD INTV) in descent and it works just fine: doing that to climb ...

Re: Questions re. VNAV to 737 pilot please :-)

Also, we never "ascend".

I know - but I teach English: one should always avoid using the same word twice in close proximity: sounds ugly. Hence 'climb', and 'ascend'...

Re: Questions re. VNAV to 737 pilot please :-)

Thanks for the comments. So if you are cleared to, say, 7000' after takeoff and end up levelling off at that altitude before ATC clears you to ascend, which of the various options for the further climb do you most often employ?

Questions re. VNAV to 737 pilot please :-)

Hi. If you fly the 737-800 (in particular) real world, I'd be grateful for some information to help me in my X-Plane flights! The 'Zibo' model there is supposed to be pretty accurate in the way it behaves, so... Situation: having levelled off at say, 7000' and you're flying at 250kts, you are given ...

Re: PTU in Airbus?

Thanks. Well, it is audible on the a319, but don't recall a flight on the a321 to be able to say... surely must be there too, the three a/c being so similar? Other than a319/320.321, doubtless absent (why is that though? what is the difference in the PTU system to account for that?). By the way: the...

PTU in Airbus?

I must have flown hundreds of times in an a319/320/321 in my life (used to fly up to 40 times a year for work) and always enjoyed (is that the word?) the famous barking sound as the PTU engaged and the second engine started up. I wanted to ask though whether a similar sound is heard in other Airbus ...

Re: Any real-world a320 pilots here, please (climb out advice)?

Well that time it went to V/S... maybe a one-off.. can only conclude there's an error in the programming if it continues to do the same of course.

Re: Any real-world a320 pilots here, please (climb out advice)?

After a quick test, this seems much better. I do not engage the A/P now until after I move to THR CLB. Seems stable. I just have to remember to set managed mode before the dialed-in altitude is reached, or the AP switches to V/S and keeps climbing...

Re: Any real-world a320 pilots here, please (climb out advice)?

Right, thanks. I kind of asked the question wrongly, I meant when do you push the ALT knob to engage managed mode (rather than CLB mode). You answered that really anyway. I think that that tallies with what happens.. (I get SPEED indicated on the PFD until I go to managed mode). As I say, I need to ...

Re: Any real-world a320 pilots here, please (climb out advice)?

One other thing... at what stage do you pilots push the ALT knob in order to engage CLB mode?

Re: Any real-world a320 pilots here, please (climb out advice)?

Thank you very much for the replies - very useful. Sorry for my (Boeing-oriented?) terminology, BTW!! I need to look at the replies further when I am flying the X-Plane a320. As you may be aware, the level of system realism/interaction in some of the X-Plane payware aircraft is phenomenal (or so it ...

Any real-world a320 pilots here, please (climb out advice)?

If so, I guess, very sadly, you currently have a lot more free time to browse forums like this one. Hope any commercial pilots coming here will all be back in their cockpits when the current crisis eases. Anyway, I fly the a320 in X-Plane only, but we like to have it as realistic as possible! May I ...

Re: Twin Otter - prop lever usage?

Thanks, but it's probably a bit more detailed than I need right now

Re: Twin Otter - prop lever usage?