Beginners guide to programming the FMC in the PMDG Boeing 737-700 in Microsoft Flight Simulator 

Jon, you are without doubt head and shoulders above others for msfs. Not only for your explanations but the fact that you leave glitches and mistakes in which helps us normal mortals immensely. Keep it up and thanks 👍

Thank you for this! I love to fly airliners and always just made the routes and such on the default MSFS World Map screen. Learning how to use the FMC, teaching us how to use Little NAVMAP, and actually dialing things in really adds to the immersion of the Sim. Now I have been using this guide to do a Rough FMC flight plan on the MSFS default aircraft! Thank you again so much for enrichening everyone's MSFS experience!

For me it's by far the best guide to programming the FMC. Thank you very much.

Actually one of the best tutorials I have seen regarding setting up basic FMC!

You are the only one who explained this perfectly for me. Everyone else is so confusing. Very easy to understand!!!!

Finally i found an video been looking for, for over a month in understanding the F plan box in loading

Wonderful Job at explaining the FMC!!! I NOW think I'm starting to understand.

I can’t tell you how many times I tried to understand the fmc and just gave up. Then watching this video along with your cold and dark video on pmdg 737 and I was able to set everything up properly and fly a full flight gate to gate. It’s amazing how seamless the flight is compared to setting up a flight in the world map and flying a stock a320. Thank you!!

Only been flying the H145 the last 2 years and now just bought the PMDG . Lot's to learn . Your vids are extremly helpfull and easy to follow along . Thankyou

As others have stated, super helpful. I've been leery of commercial jets for awhile but your videos and instruction broke that barrier for me. Between the 737, the 146 and future craft I'll definitely be looking to your channel for helpful tips. The way you explain things along with the 'why' really do it for me rather than someone just blazing thru a chklist.

Thank you so much Johnatan. I have just started learning the PMDG 737-800 and yours are by far the best tutorials I have been able to find. Keep up the excellent work.

Spot on. Just be aware that when reading out runway designators say the numbers individually e.g. 22, say two, two, for 18, say one, eight.

Wow! What a great tutorial Jonathan! You make it much easier to do by explaining everything in simple terms. THANK YOU! Definitely going to step-by-step mine in now.

I can’t thank you enough for this, I love being able to learn how to do this for new planes !

SIir you helped me more than anyone else

You the best pedagogical , you explain it well.sorry there was a mistake in the sentence...;

That was so intuitive, thank you very much for your time explaining the FMC in a good level of detail :)

Hi Jonathan, just dropping line to say I really appreciate your guides and effort you have put into making them. I have been following your 146, MadDog and now the 737 guides and find them invaluable as it can be daunting to work through the PDF manuals/procedures from scratch but your guides are great for watching and following as I Implement them into my own Aircraft setups. Keep up the good work buddy

Thank you for this. I am also new into flight simulator and am really excited to get a more realistic experiance. This was the first video that I have seen of yours, and I’m really happy it just popped into my feed. I am now a subscriber 🎉

What I very much appreciate of you is that with everything you do, unlike other tutorials, you explain the logic/reasoning behind it, which really helps me understand what I will be doing.

Please continue to help us noobs. I appreciate it. Now I can almost fly the 737. I always have problems attaining correct speed with AT during my climb and cruise

I've only had like a half hour with this thing and this video because I'm actually busy in simulator training for the real thing. And I find this thing dizzying. Not because I don't get it. But because I'm actually surprised how accurately it all seems to work so far. IRL we have the ability to auto load the route and the takeoff performance data is more complicated than what you see here. But as far as routes, menus, holding, it's all spot on. What will really break my head is if you can do things like abeam points, build points a distance from a fix along your route, or place points via place bearing distance. Those are things that are technically not necessary for a sim, but would be incredible if they're there. Now what we really need are the weather radar and RNAV(RNP) approaches.

I've had issues with the IRS and you have helped me. Thank you sir. My dream is to become a pilot and i want to learn as much as i can!

Thank you, I did not know the ZFW was auto calculated, and defo makes getting to the sky's a lot quicker. Sorted out my TOC and TODs.

I see 9.99k subscribers, I hit "Subscribe." Great video man! Thank you.

Thank you sir for this fantastic videos! You covered several things in this video that were assumed in other videos, for example connecting the ground power cart before enabling the ground power switch.

Thanks for your tutorials, they are easy to understand the way you explain them. To the point without any unnecessary information. I have just bought a hardware MDU/FMC for the B737 and it adds much more to the flight. What I haven’t been able to find is where on, for example, the simbrief OFP I can find the info that the FMC needs, a video about that would be very useful for many serious flight simmers. Thanks again and keep up the good work!

You the best pedagogical , le explains it well. Thanks

Just purchased this aircraft yesterday. Have a lot to learn after only flying the fenix a320 as my airliner over the past months. The PMDG 837 does seem like a great aircraft though. Got the -800 to use with a fedex livery out of KMEM

Jonathan Beckett, I am obsessed with your videos, so informative! I have been purchasing kit to build a few cockpits, a Cirrus SR22 and a Boeing 737 one, and your guides are teaching me how to fly!

Thank you for this. Previously, I would follow the VFR map while using autopilot. Now I can take it easy.

Thank you alot i guess i will now program fmc myself instead of downloading pre set saves

Thank you for this excellent video.

Thank you this is the best tutorial for the 737-700 FMC that I have seen. Your pace was perfect, I could understand every word. Also explaining the reason for a lot of things was very helpful. A lot of people seem to use Sim Brief for the planning side of things is it something that you would recommend. I really hope you post more tutorials on the 737.

Thank you so much. Detailed yet explained clearly

What a comprehensive FMC. And you did a fantastic job explaining it well.

Thanks, you explained it quite well, I wasnt expecting myself to understand this!

fantastic video, thanks for making this. helped a *ton* !

Fantastic video! Exactly what I needed. Thank you very much.

Excellently explained... thank you, Jonathan!

Little Nav Map has a fuel report (the tab next to flight plan tab). If you load the Aircraft Performance file for the 737 the calculation should be fine. I use the LNM fuel report function a lot for the CRJ and never had any problems.

Thank you very much Very clear and calm explanation.Just what i needed !

Thanks a lot! You are a great instructor!

Fantastic video

Thank you. Excellent as well.👍👍👍

Very helpful thank you

Excellent

Hi Jonathan, just to reiterate what others have said; thanks very much for the excellent, clear, concise tutorials. Liked and subscribed!

Good video thank you. Just a quick note, you are talking about the Navigation Display ND not the PFD.

Very helpful! Thank you!

Great video! First I've come across which explains how the FMC works rather than just give a rapid play-by-play of what buttons get pushed in what order. Very comprehensive tutorial. Do you have one like it to walk us beginners through how to work the autopilot?

Thank you! So helpful. I got a lot of useful information from this. Many hidden features I wasn't aware of so thank you again!

Thanks for this nice video. Regards from Sweden.

Awesome video. Thanks

Really good explanation sir!

Hey thanks, this was very useful information! I have a sim coming up for a selection and I have not flown since March 2020 and I’ve never flown a 73, however there’s similarities with the big Boeings I’ve flown before. I presume the biggest issue might be the scanning, anyway great video! Should there be a snag in the programming there’s always a way of going back to more basic modes, but that requires some effort in knowing the Mode Control Panel of course.

You add about 15 more knots that the V2 speed shows on the FMC and place that total speed in the MCP speed setting.

Thank you Jonathan, this excellent video is by far the most helpful to those of us who are learning the FMC CDU. As someone else here said most videos blast through the setup without taking the time to explain why certain keys are pressed. Could you possibly do an FMC video explaining Winds setup and also Hold and Fix? Thanks again!

Very useful and informative video which has helped me a lot thank you.

Hi Jonathan, I have just subscribed to your brilliant channel. This is a brilliant tutorial that is explained super clear! Time to program my FMC!

Great vid. Very useful for me.

thank you so much for this tutorial it helped me so much. I found one of your MadDog videos last week and subscribed to your channel found it very informative.

Besides the weights are in LBS and not TONS, your video was very good. Congrats

Thank you so much for your tutorial, I’m a newcomer to airline aircraft and found this invaluable. Excellent work

Thanks for this video its very helpfull :)

Fantastic! Wishing you the best and hope this channel grows!

Great tutorial. I'm new to MSFS after using FSX and P3D for longer than I care to admit. This might be a silly question but how do you zoom in on the FMC CDU to be able to program it effectively? I notice you were able to simply zoom in over the top of the FMC which is a lot easier than trying to program it with in the virtual cockpit view.

i am learning so much on this channel, ty!

Excellent tutorial, enjoyed watching. Thank you for sharing your knowledge.

Thanks for this. Very useful.

Hi great video any idea how to take the description tips off when hovering over a panel or knob etc

Thanks - I have problem with airways in little navmap. Not in database error. I use airways in Skyvector as a supplement to little navmap. Highly recommend Simplates for detailed ILS approaches

very useful

when I depart from the airport, my instruments shut down for some reason. But the rest of the plane is fully functional

This is great. @ the 5:24 mark what is the flight planning tool that you used which showed your route.

🔥✈️ once again killing it

Thank so much for your explanation, it really help me a lot!!

Hi what site do you use for planning your flights? Very clear explanation done ✅

Fantastic! 😁 thanks a lot 🙏😁

is there a next video, like using the AP and following the flight plan?

Thank you

Hi buddy great video have you done one on how to create a flight plan on little navmap. Cheers

Hi, great videos help so much. I am having a small problem with my 737-700 I can get the batteries and gen power up and running but I am only getting the captain's side displays showing I can not get the 1st officer to show or turn on what am I doing wrong?

Terminology is a bit confused in this otherwise excellent tutorial. A STAR is not a "standard approach route." It's a standard arrival route. STAR stands for Standard Terminal Arrival Route, "terminal" being a reference to the destination airport. Ideally a STAR (arrival route) will bring you to initial approach fix (IAF) of your selected ILS or RNAV landing approach. In this video, Mr. Beckett has in fact chosen a STAR, "ULMU2S", which he calls an "arrival," to take the aircraft to the beginning of the final approach. The advantage of picking a STAR, if you can find one that works for you, is that once you choose a STAR, all the waypoints along that arrival route will be entered into the FMC so that you don't have to enter each one manually. It's STARs that prevent a pilot "free for all" upon arrival at destination airports.

Another fantastic video 👍

Greetings... Comprehensive educational video and many benefits... I am facing a problem after take off and on autopilot, lnav & vnaf but after a period of take-off it runs regularly on the navigation line, but after a while I notice that the plane does not travel correctly on the navigation line as it is entered fmc and that it is rotated To the right or left of the navigation points is very slow, i.e. the angle of rotation is very slow, which leads to the plane losing its navigation line..what is the step I missed to do it?

thank you so much

It’s a beautiful but complex aircraft for sure. I don’t always have hours upon hours to fly so I’m not getting this plane. 30 minutes + to just prep the plane? Time I don’t have. Lol I’d love to get this but again, I don’t have the time to master it..

Very good video, thank you so much. I have a little problem this aircraft; When I pick this plane, its not starting cold and dark position. Battery, IR, all other stuffs working and I starting with APU. How Can I start cold and dark position this aircraft?

Similar to the apollo lunar lander or a old HP calculator.

Great instructional video, thanks for posting this. Question 4 you or the group here. I'm new to FMC- I know the basics. I paid for update Navigraph subscription and downloaded recent AIRAC cycle for my Plane in the Sim which is a Wilco 777-200ER. One question is, the new AIRAC cycle show correctly in my FMC CDU screen ok. But when I enter say New York (KJFK airport then try choosing runway 31L or 31R for Departing its not there listed as an option. It only showing 1/1 pages so there isn't another page. Only runways showing for KJFK are RW04L, RW04R, RW13L, RW13R & RW22L) thats it- No runway 31L or 31R for departures. Strange thing is on my FMC if I try seeing what runways are available at KJFK for Arrivals I'm seeing all runways including 31L, 31R. But I noticed its also missing IAPs- they show the runways but do not list ILS or RNAV approaches. Anyone have a clue whats going on or how to fix/remedy this issue? or experienced this themselves?

Does the Boeing have an option similar to the “Direct” button in the Airbus? How do I go about going direct to a given waypoint and bypass those previous to it?

Hi, how do you come up with those tiny labels when you click the mouse on buttons and dials?

Im Having a Little Issue with A Departure im Trying to Set Up What If I Want to Avoid a Certain FIX and Execute another one already on the Flight Plan?

John can you send me a way to obtain the map program that you illustrated on this tube . Tnx

Great video, again. I can actually (almost) fly the PMDG thanks to your tutorials. Could you give me just a hint why my TOD is (starts) always to late? I really have to manually dive to lower the altitude. Thanks in advance Jonathan ;-)

Hey Jonathan Thank you for the tutorial. Can I ask a question? What app you using in navigating the map?

i have a question, I have to enter coordinates into my flight plan and I have no clue how

Training pilots Sir, How l wish I can follow up the Steps like You Do Sir, Hi from Ghana Sir.

I like it but you forgot to put the plane power on and my plane shut of😢.one thing though can you make a video with p3d😊