so... if the FMS thinks its in the wrong position you are using that to set it? I think you should set to GNSS position...one press of R4 and you are done....no scratch pad needed
Solid engineered product by Rockwell Collins. I enjoyed working new products for pilot controls when I was a mechanical engineer at RC years ago. You do a good job showing the basics 👍
VT is flap retraction speed (should you have an engine failure on takeoff), and A/I is asking if you will be using your anti-ice systems for takeoff, as that would drastically reduce the plane's performance.
Piece ‘o’ cake Legs page, take the fix they’ve cleared you to and throw it in the scratch pad, then throw it in the active waypoint (green). For ones that aren’t in your flight plan... just type it in the scratch pad, throw it in the active waypoint.. and confirm on the nav display that it looks right before executing... then fix up the rest of the route either with departure/arrivals or on the legs page. If you’re destination is changing, you have to go into the flight plan page. Change destination, change arrival. You can plan a new flight plan too but just have to remember that you’ll only have your active waypoint and if you go past it you’ll be lost. Sometimes I go into heading mode as I figure it out. Medevac life.. it happens a lot.
He just showed you. It isn’t rocket science. The typical acronym is VIPP *Verify* the database is correct and current. Mostly just looking at the range of dates. They turn yellow if they are out of date (you can see it when he puts the old data base in). *Initialize* the FMS so it knows where it is. This can be from a GPS sensor or you can use last know position, input a position from a gate or map, or use “runway update” when you are on the button of the departure runway. *Plan* Make a flight plan. This guy does it a bit weird. I always do departure and destination, then I do arrivals and departures. Then you have to do less of the “in between” route since some of the fixes will already be there. You also need to go to the Legs page to ensure all of the fixes are there and there aren’t any discontinuities that shouldn’t be there (these are breaks in the flight plan where the dots aren’t “connected”). These are necessary for portions where you are radar vectored to your route or onto an approach but you don’t want them during the cruise portion of your journey. You also need to check for gross errors on a North-up map to ensure your flight plan looks logical and is taking you the right direction. *Performance* Input pax weight, fuel weight, temps, winds, baro, etc to get your V speeds. As far as how to use the basic hardware? It’s copy-paste, basically. If you type anything in it goes to a free text scratchpad at the bottom. It can then be placed in certain fields using the adjacent line select key. You can also use the line select key to copy info to the scratch pad and then paste it to another field. The syntax is a bit more advanced. Kind of like using DOS rather than Windows. He got into it a bit with FL410 vs F410 vs 41000... the FMS is smart and will figure it out. You don’t have to type 29.99 you can type 2999 and it will put in the decimal. More advanced syntax can be used for creating waypoints. Like say centre tells you you have to cross 50 miles away from ABC VOR at 20,000 feet or below. Well, ABC is on your flight plan so you type ABC/-50 in the scratchpad and put it on the legs page above ABC. It’s a new waypoint. Then you type in 20000B in the scratchpad and put it in the magenta Vertical Navigation section to the right of the waypoint information. Now the FMS will set up a top of descent and profile that will meet that criteria.
You did the passenger weight completely wrong. The crew weight is included in the BOW by definition, so with 3 pax you should enter 3 on L2, not 5. Also, if your GOM has a defined approved standard pax weight, you must use that, you can't just arbitrarily change it from 175 to 180. If 180 is your approved standard weight, you need to set the default in the FMS to be the approved value, not 175. If you're using 'actual weight' instead of 'standard weight' for pax, then you need to put in the actual weight, not just your estimate of a default change. Also, you can't just make up a number for baggage weight. If your company is approved for 30-pound standard and 60-pound heavy bags, you would use those values (3 pax x 1 std bag each = 90 lbs). If you want to use actual weights, you have to use actual weight for ALL items. *You cannot mix actual and standard weights.* Other than that, and the vertical video, the rest of the steps are well covered.
OK Master of FMS.... Perhaps this was a demo video, not an actual flight?! Perhaps this was a Part 61 flight, by an owner operator, not a 135? You are making a completely wrong assumption here......
