MSFS | Cessna 172 | Garmin G1000 | VNAV Tutorial | Full Flight With RNAV 

Thanks!

Glad you enjoyed! Thanks for watching!

Glad you enjoyed it! Thanks for watching!

Great!! It helps so much to plan a descent. Thanks for watching!

Thanks for watching!!

That is a nice yoke!!

@@sprocketsimulations thank you for the comprehensive and informative video👍🤙🛫✈️🛬

That’s more fun though!! Especially in a great aircraft!

Good point!

And safe

Glad it helped! Yes, you caught up correctly. Once you miss your point you need to descend a little quicker to get down. I haven't done it in a while but once you recalculate it you should be able to turn back on VNAV and it will lock on again. Think of it like a slope and you just need to be under/behind it to have it "grab" it.

Generally no. In some airliners will be able to follow SID constraints but piston aircraft that are slower will not. The reason is for safety. If something was set wrong or the constraints call for a steep climb it could potentially stall less powerful aircraft. For climbing the best way is to use FLC mode and set your speed for the climb that way as you climb and performance decreases the aircraft would only ever be able to level off if it didn’t have enough power at your FLC speed.

Technically, I think it would work. I have not tried it though. IRL I think this would be a safety issue to protect yourself from continuing a descent if something went on with the AP or if the constraints were incorrect. Try it out and let me know! Thanks for watching!

it works in the Fenix 😂

No need to be in the air. Are you using the same charts as in the video or others? Usually if there is no altitude assignments on the arrival then you will not have anything populate. If you give me your route I can see if I can replicate it to see if I spot an issue. Hard to know without more details or seeing your flow. Quick summary would be: Enter in departure and arrival airports Add any enroute waypoints Load and arrival or/and an approach Look at the arrival/approach in the Garmin to see your altitudes that match the chart you planned your flight from. Take off and fly like in the video. Remember vnav is only for descending. To access/climb use either VS or preferably FLC for the specific aircraft you are in.

Mine is a completely different route. Mine is from WSSL/21 - USR01 (Custom) (2000ft) - USR02 (Custom) (2000ft)- RNAV 02R - WSSS/02R Of course, I keyed in this data how you would in the Garmin 1000 and altitude in brackets are the "restrictions" I set Also, I now realise what happened. I need to be at the waypoint or be within range of the decent waypoint before the altitude restriction goes lower for the magenta altitude (target altitude) to show. It seems everything was done correctly all along

Most likely the altitude assignments for that approach are above where you are cruising. The world map does all sorts of stupid things when loading procedures. This is because you are not able to select transitions. IRL, typically, you would file just your way points/route with out any procedures as ATC will be the one to give you those. Unfortunately ATC is dumb as well and still might tell you to climb if you’re below the approach procedure. There is a lot to get into with airspace/altitude restrictions though so low IFR flights are tricky. For the best chance of success I would plan your flight without an approach in the world map. Make sure to put your desired altitude in. (If it’s too low ATC will still make you climb higher). Once you’re in the cockpit look through your Garmin to make sure it all looks correct. You can also load in the approach you THINK Atc will give you or wait until they do. If you see any weirdness in the flight plan like MANSEQ way points, that is Manual Sequence and usually means that you would be flying between those way points with either instructions or by what is written on the specific approach. You can just delete the way point and it will connect. I would always check through the approach chart to see if it has any unique notes. Hope that helps.

I think you nailed it. I often fly local to my area, which is sometimes Dulles, BWI, New York, etc, but I take off at tiny airports. I'm probably flying below the initial approach altitudes!!!! Dang. I am going to see whether this will help. I'm going to be finishing my ground course I bought, using sheppard air questions too, then doing the IFR, and then finally I'll hook up with an instructor and join the local flying club. They want $100/mo plus rental (wet) at $125. So to offset the ongoing $100 flying member cost I want to be way ahead on my learning/tests. I know the all-in cost, and I'm prepared, but I also don't want to go into this ill-prepared too. Thanks for your time, and have an amazing day!!!@@sprocketsimulations

Yes absolutely possible. Before landing you would have your heading mode set to the runway heading and your altitude to the go around level. If you need to initiate a go around you would go to full throttle and retract flaps accordingly. Turning autopilot back on will fly you out on runway heading and to desired altitude. Each airport has their own procedures but essentially just fly back to to the start of the approach and go back to Approach mode on your autopilot and it will capture just as before.

I almost never use the world map. Doesn’t force you at all. If you select an airport, or parking spot and then press fly you are good to go. No flight plan needed at all in the world map.

@@sprocketsimulations Thanks.

I’m not sure I quite follow, before reaching DAXET make sure to have the altitude constraint at or above. If you want set your altitude to 2100ft before the TOD and then click VNAV while your still at 6000ft. Make sure to enable VNAV on your autopilot before the TOD. It will not start to descend until then and also take you all the way to the approach. You then will just hit the Approach button when established on the localizer and it will capture the GS to take you down to the runway. Make sure your CDI is on GPS.

Remember to always have your altitude preset on your auto pilot at or below when using vnav. When entering the approach you need to swap from NAV to approach mode to have it follow the glide path to the runway. Make sure if it is an ILS to have this tuned and your garmin showing vloc. If you have a RNAV approach use GPS mode on the garmin. Checkout SkyVector for charts.

@@sprocketsimulations Awesome! Thank you so much! Great video, very informative and detailed. I eventually got it to work like you said the ALT Select indicator was the issue. I had also been trying to do a custom approach and botched it. After rewatching your video, I was able to solve these issues myself (including the approach issue) - the sign of a great teacher. Thank you!

Yes terrain is disabled, this is pre the default aircraft getting the NXi and was only available through the marketplace for free. I believe WU11 brought the NXi to all default aircraft so some things might be a little different but not by much.

No your planning will be even more important as you would most likely be predicting what the active runway is going to be before you even take off. They would probably give you vectors but it would be to a point on the approach to cut it shorter and help them maintain traffic. So again the planning is important because you would just hit the direct to button to the way point that they tell you. If they give you RNAV vs ILS they are very similar and it takes really on two clicks and a spin of the knob to swap it. You can usually find this out ahead of time as well by listening to their ATIS. The more you have in the garmin the faster and easier your approach is going to be and let you stay focused. Truth is that you wouldn’t be flying this entire approach in something like this slow Cessna. Depending on airspace and weather you would either have clearance from a controller who has already given you directions and altitudes or if it is uncontrolled and good weather you would just contact the tower when you are maybe 10 miles out and they would just tell you to join at a certain leg such as downwind or base. If the weather is bad you might have to follow this entire approach and if it is a busy airport. If there are airliners lining up to go in and out the controllers are using SIDs and STARS as well as approaches for multiple runways. Flying a little plane like this into there is going to be a nightmare. For everyone.

Some flight plans will do this if you are selecting a STAR (arrival) or SID (departure) that doesn't match your direction of travel. Also, some are just messy due to airline arrival procedures. I would recommend trying to keep them as simple as possible with a couple way points and loading only an approach for smaller aircraft.

@@sprocketsimulations I got it, there's bugs with this sim but I'm figuring out ways around it, but I really like the cj4 and not really having any issues

Does that with me too. You need to put altitude in the FP and set the VNAV profile like he said (8:30) and set a minimum ALT using the ALT selector he showed us.

@@theman1860 I got it now 👍

@@theman1860 However vnav is broken in the king air twin

I don’t fly the King Air often but will definitely check that out.

@@sprocketsimulations I'm on series x and alot of buggy stuff going on, at least for me there is, but when its not buggy I'm having a great time with it