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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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!
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
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?
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.
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 ?
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.
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 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😅
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.
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...
@@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.
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?
Same thing, why he set altitude to 3000. He prepared for missed approach procedure. If he fails to land, he will only have to activate it. You don't want to dial numbers in a hurry so close to the ground in high traffic area
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.
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
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.
