FMC Programming Basics w/ Flight Planning Tutorial Using SimBrief 

Almost 10 years of Sim experience and now is when I learned how to put in routes. Thanks a bunch

you are actually the reason I learned how to fly certain aircrafts and now how to work the fmc I can't thank you enough. Keep it up

Oh god... I finally found someone that made sense. I joined SimBrief thanks to you. You never steer me wrong Osameh. MUCH appreciated!

As a flightsim noob I was waiting for a good tutorial on this topic. Thank you!

Your youtube channel intro has got to be one of the best.

OK ....thanks ....I am getting through next level stages of learning flight simming as you notice....thanks to yours and other tutorials I understand more every day

Best explanation ever ! Clear and concise :) Easy to follow !

I've poured over countless videos on FMC tutorials on RU-vid and this is definitely the best one I've seen to date. Your enthusiasm with your videos is intoxicating and is one of the reasons I've gotten so into flight simulation over the years. Keep up the great work.

Your channel is providing to the point information I look for. Video quality is good in terms of sound and recordings and also in terms of content you provide. Appreciate that really. Question, I understand that the flight dispatch documents provides information about Route\SID\Stars and block fuel values. The gross weight (Payload + ZFW) is provided by ground officials along with trim settings via load sheet, signed at the end by Captain. Would appreciate for correcting me. Regards,

This is very informative. I am learning how to use my JARDesign A320 and this helps a lot!

why did you change thr destination runway from 12R to 12L I couldn't see the reason, TIA

Thankyou so much for actually using the IXEG 737 for this tutorial! I can see now see a mistake that I was making and you explained it very well.Well done!

Thank you so much for this tutorial mate. This is why I subscribed to you.

Thank you. The best tutorial, i've ever seen.

say, hi again. i set up flight plan and set heading to first way point in plane panel. then i ended going west instead of east. should i set heading and course to 0 or what do you suggest?

Where idd jou get that groundthing information from IXEG?

Friend a doubt, when I fly in the x737 and keep the flight (situation) and the other day cargo flight all the settings of the plane are reset, buttons, radios, FMC, nose that can be done in that case

Excellent tutorial. Thank you!

Hi. so when I tried inputting the SIDS and STARS into the FMS, both the SIDS and the STARS that were on simbrief weren't on the FMS. I was flying a 777L from KSAN to KSFO. How do I make them appear? Thanks

Thank you very much! Very thorough tutorial!

Hello, thanks for this video, it's very useful. I have a question, i'm using the default 737 on XP11 and I have a problem programming the FMC. I enter the departure and arrival airport, then i enter the SID and STAR but when I watch the legs, i have route discontinuity like you have in this video. But when i come back to the route, it says direct in the VIA column and i can't enter an airway. I can only fill the "TO" column. Any idea how i change that? Thanks!

where you put your departure like the boxi3e my one on simbreif says karrl (im doing a different flp) so i got to insert karrl but its not there on my departure

Hello and thank you for such a great video! I have a question in regards to your particular FMC. I am using X-Plane 11, and all of the FMC's on each enabled aircraft (that come with the sim) look different then the one you are using, and doesn't include a route menu page nor a page for inputting weight, fuel, etc., which leaves a lot of missing information for the flight. How do I go about inputting this one a simpler FMC? Thank you!

One question on your video, where can i download that ground service chart to add to my Simbrief? Thanks for the video.

Hi, Q8Pilot excellent videos. How do you get your flight plan info to stay in view when programming the info into the FMC. Thanks

if we have to enter the info by hand the why are we having simbreif export and save *.fms files to xplane i thought these were to be loaded into the fms

What is that ground services window you use to get information from?

At each way point, how does the altitude get set in? Do you have to manually enter the altitude and plug it in for each way point? So that during A/P, it will fly to that altitude at the specific way point.

i ended up with one waypoint in red in route finder. what does that mean?

What do you do if have 2 (or more) airways?

Finally a good FMC Explain

How do you get that ground service thing to pop up

thanks great video..

Another great video. Thank you much.

Thank you soooo much! I really appreciate your videos

Thank you Q8Pilot, awesome tutorial! I'm left with one question, though. What about speed, where do you put that in? Or does the FMC automatically set the optimal speed, - or did I miss it?

i always use simbrief,just Amazing...great video again

Great video yet again Osamah and very timely as I have just purchased XP11 Boeing 777 package!

Do you then use LNAV and VNAV to fly the route?

Precious informations, thank you!

I am unable to input any information in the fmc. Do you have to download something in order for me to input my way points. thanks

Great video as always. I especially liked the scenery of my home city at the end of the video. :-)

I'm new to this as well, the new version of the FMC that X11 is using doesnt seem to want to work the way you are doing it... It is getting kind of irritating. I have a subscription to Navigraph so everything is updated, but not all of the points or air ways are there. What am I doing wrong? Edit: I see that you are using a payware one. Is there a tutorial that you have where you use a default aircraft?

Thank you.How to draw an extended runway centreline?

awesome tutorial. thanks!

The correct arrival transition is not always showing up in the FMC. What to do then?

Amazing tutorial! May I ask where you got those charts?

How did you enter the fuel at the beginning ?

Well done my friend. This was a well presented video to help people who are unsure or intimidated by flight planning. Btw nice intro! Take care

Good tutorial Osamah. It's been a while since I used FMS. I like Simbrief it's very comprehensive

My FMC doesn't show the same options as yours does. The first problem was it didn't let me copy and paste the coordinates onto the 'scratch pad' (at 12:04). I press route anyway and the next page yours says 'route' where mine says 'save route' and also at the bottom mine says ' perf init'. If I click save route, it beeps at me and nothing else happens. If I click on perf init, it takes me to a page that seems to be all about fuel. I looked through my simbrief flight plan and I can't see any of the units that match the units on the FMC screen (GW/CRZ CG; ZFW; Trip/CRZ ALT; CRZ/WIND; Cost Index; RESERVES). Can you please tell me where I went wrong?

when we put the arrival details in my simbrief doesnt show me any arrival things where yours are. do u know why this could be happening?

Many thanks Osamah, this video helped me a lot.

How to set the settings so I could practice a320 emergency procedures in msfs2020?

looks very hard to do !!! well for someone like my self it is not a big computer guy however I dint clearly understand so you saying that if I have a membership with Navigraph I will not need to enter the flight plan manually? because that is my issue getting around the FMC

Has the "HOLD" page been implemented yet?

I always have a problem with that simbrief route. The Route you are flying contains a SID i dont have in my FMC: BOXI3E BOXIK B416 AMBIK UB416 GOGMA UM677 OBNET M677 VUTEB VUTE3E VUTE3B does not appear in my FMC. Using AIRAC 1903. Only Freeware. Any ideas? Happens on nearly any FP i creat on Simbrief that i have SIDs that i cant select in my FMC

Awsome video needed this tutorial real bad!

Thanks for the video, it's really helpful! I'm a little confused about the transitions, though. At one point you said transition was DESDI, and then you said the transition was REREK. Is DESDI just a way point from the airway to the REREK transition into the STAR?

How do i find cost Index in simbrief??

How to use it like what to turn on after climb

Very good helpful video for many flightsimers

Where you get ground services?

Hello everyone. Im a total newbie to the "flight-sim" world. I understand how I can "program" the fmc like in the video, but how do I "activate" the plan. Do I have to activate the autopilot when im in the air or how does that work? Greetings from Germany

thanks for the video. Could you explain in your next video what this "derate" take off speeds are and how to use them? cheers

Hi! I discovered simBrief for 15 days and I find it super convenient. Thank you for making a video for use with the IXEG B733. Right now I am getting used to the FF A320 Ultimate and it seems that one can directly integrate the flight plan in his MCDU. As I know you have to practice this plane since its release and maybe even before. So my question is: do you have the solution and which one? Thank you and see you soon

Once again an excellent tutorial

Thanks!

This was so good. Thanks alot

can you make a video on how to enter that info on 777 please

i did the flight plan but there was no departure arrival isnt there thank you! IM just the same as before

You are The Best :)

Not sure you will see this, however I am a mac pro 5,1 user with 6 cores at 3.33, 32gb ram and 8gb vram on my rx580. What I seek is any confirmation you csn give that the jar A330-200 is suitable for mac x-plane 11 ver 11.32 r2. I have read that these jar aircraft are VERY buggy, and in some circumstances the sound crashes xp11 mac machines. You have used these machines (I think) so you can possibly advise if my $60 outlay for a jar a330 is money well spent. The DwA330 is only $38 but is not as complete as the jar a330 ( is this true?).. You help is appreciated.

Great video but I've got a question. How do you make the plane lose all of its power and as I have fsx and don't have ground operations does simbrief tell you all the fuel options and reserved?

Great tutorial, i couldn't find Eclipse 550 NG in simbrief airplane library, and my question is can i choose another airplane which have same spec. like Eclipse ? and which one it will be ?...... Regards

Thank you! Your the first person I have ever found to explain this slowly and clearly. My questions are, do you normally know which runway your are landing on during the flight planning stage? And if not, do you file a flight plan just up to the last way point? Or do you assume a STAR, and change it later in flight if you get a different runway? And if so, how do you delete that old STAR?

Thank you, Captain. Ma ga9ar6.

Hey @Q8pilot. I seem to be struggling to find the star that allows me to line up with the runway. It happened on my Rotate MD11 now it's happened on my 737 zibo. On my sim brief flight plan the star is loaded but on my aircraft it is no where near. any solution's?

OKBK is not accepted, becuz this is AIRAC 1702, and we cannot go back and unlock it in Nov 2017. So I'm not able to follow along, more's the pity.

Wait, you can update your FMC so that it has the current data? How do you do this? I always have out of date FMC information and struggle when I have a SID that is slightly different.

when i type in the route, it says that the STAR or Fix "DESD1B" was not found, idk why , i used the STAR DESD8B instead and it worked

Osamah thanks, great tutorial ... but ...how does the FMC already know these SIDS AND STARS ......or... how do I load up-to -date AIRACS into my flight planning computer.I tried flight planning with SIMBRIEF one day, but got immediately confused since the planes FMC rejected most waypoints as unknown????

Thanks a lot for the good and fast explanation! Now how do you reset the FMC? Sometimes I cannot enter DEL into the scratchpad.

i have beoing 747-8i i have update with navigraph 1704 when i put flighplan form simbrief my atc tell me i,am off crouse if the plan from simbrief call 1406 do that have to show up in the fmc think you for your help

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?

For the star on the dep/arr u picked 12L when it said 12R. Why?

Hello my friend, why did you chose for destination 12L instead of 12R ? Although simbrief gives the route with ending in to 12R. Cheers.

Cool intro

GREAT VIDEO! I did a simbrief from KSEA to Kolm. When I go to my FMC and attempt to enter the co fight plan I get this error message. "This flight plan was saved with a different AIRAC. Currently loaded in X plane is :1708. Please help, what does this message mean (the FMC DOES NOT adopt the simbrief plan. What do I need to do to get my FMC to fly the simbrief plan?? With thanks and appreciation. Joe

Why does it cost money just to update the nav data? i can't program the fmc because there are missing stars

Best fmc tutorial

Can you do this for an fmc and an xbox?

Can I get the intro music???

What I still don't get is how to fill out the perf init page and the init ref page. Does simbrief give u information about that

Which recording program do you use for capturing x-plane ?

can you make this FMC tutorial for default 738 in XP11 ???

hey q8, in your previous video where you showed the cn tower in toronto, I flew there because I wanted to see it in its true glory. But when I got there, it was just an extremely tall and skinny building. I am extremely curious as to why this is. In ny setting I have everything on maximum (like number of world objects etc). Thanks for reading and responding!

Thanks a lot, you've just earned new subscriber! :) But I have got one question... where did you get and how do you plan that "ground services" (starts at 16:50)?

Thanks, helped a lot

i cannot figure out the FMC at all... navigraph and simbrief look like they hate each other. i'm so frustrated from my own flights, im just going to try yours.