Everything you wanted to know about route planning in the PMDG 737-700 FMC but were afraid to ask 

A really really fantastic tutorial Jonathan. Thank you for a calm and clear explanation.

I watch a lot of Sim-related videos and I must say that you are the best. Thorough yet humble. When you don't know something you admit it and this is something I appreciate. Also, a lot of RU-vidrs on their tutorial videos will focus on unimportant items where you are usually focusing on the video subject. Thank you!!

Very nice. I appreciate you explaining some of the details of the FMC. You answered my questions about inserting or deleting waypoints. Plus, I got the bonus of getting a lot more information that I had no idea on. Thank you!

This is so cool, and atthe sametime it shows how antiquated the 737's FMC is..this could be so easy and intuitivein a graphical user interface instead of having to know all these incomprehensible quirks of the FMC..lol. Stilll awesome that it'spossible to simulate this on a home computer in such detail :)

Thanks Jonathan. These are exactly the questions I had. I'm slowly getting to know how to have fun in Navigating. Also thanks for your other video's about Little NavMap. I watched them while I was programming a flight and transferring it (manually) into the FMC. Thanks again for your tutorials ;-)

This was extremely helpful and informative. Thank you for putting this up. Keeping the little mistakes and hiccups in your video and then explaining why they happened is very useful. Thank you so much.

These are awesome tips! For someone like me who is spoiled by GA nav units like the GTN750 its functions like these that have made me intimidated to get into bigger airliners. Thank you!

Appreciate the informative videos. Been helping me alot with the FMC, thanks.

Intersting way to program a flight plan. Usually you do it the other way around, i. e. creating the route first, than adding the SID, the STAR and the Approach. As a side effect this will also avoid many route discontinuities.

This is extremely useful! I shall be watching this many times until I’ve absorbed it into my tiny brain 👍

Many thanks for these tips....Completely different to Airbus and can be frustrating if you don't know. I'll try these out. Glad I found this now i have this aircraft on Xbox. (that's why I'm a bit late here) It's a work of art.

Excellent video, this is very very helpful. Thanks for sharing!

Excellent video! Thanks! I've learned a lot of things in a very short time!

I watching this again! Been flying the fenix but I really miss this aircraft so going to fly this again for a bit 🔥

Great video, thank you👍

thank you for the tutorial. I couldnt find a good tutorial for the fmc until now

I was just hoping that you would include the Little Navmap portion of your planning in your recent stream that didn't have it. The more creating and finalizing/exporting of the fp and moving into the sim the better. Thx so much!!!

Awesome tutorial.

Nice, thank you !!

13:23 what I've noticed with the PMDG 737 (back in the FSX days) is that if the FMC shows you multiple waypoints because somewhere else in the world there is another waypoint called 'RODOL', the FMC will put the nearest one at the top of the page as that's the most obvious choice. Also, when pressing the WPT button to show waypoints on the chart, play around with the zoom. When there's to many waypoints to display at the current zoom level it won't display any.

Excellent 👍 super helpful. Thank you

Another great video

Perfect! I couldn’t for the life of me figure out how to go direct to.

I just watched another video where they told that there's a reason for discontinuity between STAR and APP, that is ATC is supposed to vector you to your approach, so you are not supposed to close that gap, but thank you for showing how to do a "direct to" thingy

Hey Jonathan! Great video as always! Never disappoint. I do have a question, Today I flew Cancun, Mexico to Houston, Texas in the PMDG 737-900. But for some reason, my plane would not bank all the way. Like I would have a different turning leg and my plane would turn a little bit, but I would have to manually turn it. If I had a hard right turn it wouldn’t go all the way. Do you have any idea what to do?

In the PMDG tutorial, they have you program a route and near the arrival there is a leg labelled (VECTOR) instead of route discontinuity. I'm not sure how this happens. Perhaps it is a feature of the approach into KSFO (they have you use BDEGA3 STAR and MLBEC transition). This all makes sense to me because as you get close to the airport ATC is likely to vector you. But in this route and on routes I have made up, there is no (VECTOR), only a route discontinuity. In this video you just close them up. I tend to leave them in and make up some ATC vectors for that part of the route. But I don't really know what would normally happen on a flight, or whether there is a difference in how the FMC treats (VECTOR) vs. route discontinuity. What I do know is that you have given some tools here for programming in a route onto the glide slope -- I could put a waypoint some miles before the runway and specify the intercept heading, for example. Useful stuff!

Excellent and useful video. How can we add vector points also to Fenix A320? The 737 way that you described dont work on the Fenix. Another video like this also for the A320 would be much appreciated. Thanks.

Love youre videos. Qst: is it possible to just use the route planning inside the sim and calculate it on the fmc? For a easy fast flight when you dont have so much time

Could you please make a tutorial on using vnav for both climb & descent? Approaches are also tricky for me.. Im confused on how and when to engage certain systems to land the plane. ILS is okay for me, but I struggle on understanding VOR/DME, & Rnav runways for approaches and landings

Jonathan, can you give a reference point for me to get a look at the map your using for your flight plan?

I like to know, can you also enter coordinates as waypoints?

Nice video. How to save and load route?

Let's learn 737 ! Procedure for 600 model about the same for 700 ?

Is there a program that where you put a way point or whatever into the fmc that will appear on a live map? Sort of how you set a flight plan up in a flight planner and upload it to msfs or the pmdg, but in reverse. I put the waypoint into my fmc then will pop up one by one or I select an approach and the way points of that will pop up on the map but programmed from the pmdg fmc...not the flight plan software?

Is there anyway to load the flightplan from simbrief without having to do a bunch of manual inputs? kinda like on the flybywire A32NX

Hello, Could someone tell me why..... on the FMC keyboard the letters E N S W are surrounded by a white square? What does it mean? Thanks a lot.

What does it mean when a line in the legs page is coloured magenta

This doesn't work Cap when i try to load for a direct final. Any workaround anyone?

I bought the 737-700. If I want the 800, do I need to make a new purchase?

What app are you using for route

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Cap i recently tried the bird and took off. Check the video below. What error is that at takeoff and what did I do wrong? ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-YMCnaPmvp3I.html

Thanks for the good and useful ways to deal with FMC.🛫✈️🛬