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Contents
BEFORE WE START ____________________________________________________________________ 3
W arni ng ________________________________________________________________ 3
W ri ti ng St yl e ____________________________________________________________ 3
T ut ori al O bj ect iv es _______________________________________________________ 4
W hat you need ___________________________________________________________ 4
Ver si on s & Up dat e s_______________________________________________________ 4
Ref erenc e s _____________________________________________________________ 4
FLIGHT PREPARATION _________________________________________________________________ 5
ERJ Conf i gurat i on ________________________________________________________ 6
Pr e-F l i ght Bri ef i ng ________________________________________________________ 7
Our Flight Plan _____________________________________________________________________ 7
SID Procedures ___________________________________________________________________ 10
STAR Procedures _________________________________________________________________ 12
Passengers, Freight and Fuel ________________________________________________________ 14
ALL ABOARD!________________________________________________________________________ 15
F li ght Sim ul at or Star t up __________________________________________________ 15
I nsp ect i on and coc k pi t i nst al l at i on__________________________________________ 16
I nst rum ent Pr e sent at i on __________________________________________________ 19
F MS Pr ogram mi ng _______________________________________________________ 20
Speed setu p ____________________________________________________________ 28
Engi ne St art ____________________________________________________________ 29
T axi __________________________________________________________________ 32
T akeof f ________________________________________________________________ 35
Cl im b _________________________________________________________________ 38
Crui se _________________________________________________________________ 40
Using the FMS while cruising_________________________________________________________ 41
System check_____________________________________________________________________ 42
De scent _______________________________________________________________ 45
Appr oac h ______________________________________________________________ 50
Landi ng _______________________________________________________________ 52
Sy st em s shut d o wn _______________________________________________________ 54
Schedule 1: FMS advanced features ______________________________________________________ 55
A> Sav e a fli ght pl an ____________________________________________________ 55
B> Modif y a sav ed f li ght pl an ______________________________________________ 57
C> Addi ng waypoi nt s ____________________________________________________ 58
D> ST AR pr ocedur e cr e at i on ______________________________________________ 60
E> HO LD proc edure _____________________________________________________ 65
Glossary_____________________________________________________________________________ 67
BEFORE WE START
Warning
!
FOR FLIGHT SIMULATION ONLY
This tutorial cannot be used in the real life and is solely reserved to fly using
Microsoft Flight Simulator.
This tutorial is Freeware and can be freely distributed provided no changes are made to it. This tutorial was
originally written in French and was later translated into English. You may find some language errors so
please do not hesitate to tell me if things need to be corrected. For any questions contact the author:
airboomerang@noos.fr.
If you like my work, just let me know and drop me a few lines!
Writing Style
This symbol is used when action is required from your side eg close the doors.
This symbol is used when you have to monitor something - eg check the remaining fuel.
These numbers indicate a procedure that must be followed in the same order as stated.
You will see this sign when you are given a technical explanation about the plane.
Watch out for this sign, something important is going to be stated there.
The aural assistant Betty is now talking to you: her message will appear as follows: AURAL
UNIT OK.
PFD
Words and abbreviations that are blue, bold and underlined are explained at the end of this
tutorial in the glossary.
Paragraphs with yellow shading means that indications are given not directly related to the simulator, a
natural conversation between you and me for example.
You will generally find a screenshot illustrating a written instruction. The screenshots are always displayed
after the instructions unless for screenshots containing a sequence of procedure ( ) where the
screenshot comes first immediately followed by explanations.
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Tutorial Objectives
This tutorial is targeted to flightsim users who are already familiar with MS Flight Simulator 9 and know the
basic commands such as how to retract the flaps or arm the speed brakes.
It's been designed in a way that you will not need to refer to any external documentation to complete your
flight. Not all commands and switches are described in this tutorial though and you may find it useful to read
extra documentation quoted in the reference section just below.
The main aim of this tutorial is to take you to a pleasant flight crossing France and enjoying this great
airplane made by FeelThere. Please bear in mind that I am NOT a real pilot and therefore the procedures
that are explained here may not be always very realistic, it's all about a game after all isn't it? And games
mean pleasure and good times! Do not hesitate to pause the simulator from time to time especially the first
time you follow this tutorial. If you find any mistakes, plese report them to me: airboomerang@noos.fr
I hope you will enjoy this flight!
References
Feelthere official documentation
www.feelthere.com
http://fsim.com.br/project-erj/panel.html
www.speedbirdonline.co.uk/regjet.html
Feelthere forums
www.iemit.com/forum/
http://fliteprep.de/erj145/
http://rfinder.asalink.net/free
French AIP
www.sia.aviation-civile.gouv.fr
http://laurent.lequantho.free.fr/LFRB/
http://perso.wanadoo.fr/moustache/
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FLIGHT PREPARATION
Flight Scenario
Your mission, should you accept it:
Fly part of Perpignan local rugby team and staff to Brest in western France crossing the whole country.
Your aircraft today:
A brand new Embraer Regional Jet (ERJ) model 145.
Your airline:
Air Boomerang, a young regional airline that operates chartered flights and regular destinations with regional
jets - Embraer, Fokker 100.
Your copilot :
David your devoted mate that will ensure all communications and radio operations during the flight.
The flight :
We will start our briefing at Perpignan airport, then move out to the aircraft to inspect it and will finally board
and start our flight.
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ERJ Configuration
Click on Start / Programs / Feelthere / ERJ configuration
Change the options as illustrated below these are my suggestions not compulsory according to your
preferences. However, all references to weights in this tutorial will be in Kilos so it may be best to switch on
this option.
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Pre-Flight Briefing
Our Flight Plan
RouteFinder
Route generator for PC flight simulation use - NOT FOR REAL WORLD NAVIGATION
(C)2005 ASA srl - Italy
Computed route from RIVESALTES (LFMP, LF) to GUIPAVAS (LFRB, LF):
16 fixes, 476.1 nautical miles
LFMP (0.0nm) -> MORIL (30.1nm) -UP84-> MONIX (55.7nm) -UP84-> TOU (88.6nm) -UN727-> AGN
(111.3nm) -UN863-> SECHE (147.7nm) -UN863-> VELIN (183.7nm) -UN863-> CNA (229.0nm) -UN863->
ADILU (264.6nm) -UN863-> MANAK (271.4nm) -UN863-> TIRAV (301.1nm) -UN863-> NTS (336.1nm) UM616-> TERPO (353.2nm) -UM616-> KORER (383.9nm) -UM616-> ARE (442.8nm) -STAR-> LFRB
(476.1nm)
Details:
ID
FREQ
LFMP
TRK
DIST
Coords
Name/Remarks
N4244'25.59" E00252'14.40"
RIVESALTES
MORIL
313
30
N4303'57.00" E00221'01.00"
MORIL
MONIX
312
26
N4320'11.00" E00153'49.00"
MONIX
TOU
117.7
312
33
N4340'51.00" E00118'35.30"
TOULOUSE
AGN
114.8
307
23
N4353'16.90" E00052'22.30"
AGEN
SECHE
339
36
N4426'19.00" E00030'55.00"
SECHE
VELIN
339
36
N4458'48.00" E00009'20.00"
VELIN
338
45
N4539'34.40" W00018'41.90"
COGNAC
ADILU
326
36
N4607'27.00" W00050'22.00"
ADILU
MANAK
325
N4612'48.00" W00056'31.00"
MANAK
TIRAV
325
30
N4635'56.00" W00123'27.00"
TIRAV
349
35
N4709'39.10" W00136'46.70"
NANTES
TERPO
316
17
N4720'56.00" W00155'44.00"
TERPO
KORER
316
31
N4741'06.00" W00230'03.00"
KORER
317
59
N4819'57.50" W00336'08.90"
MONTS D ARREE
288
33
N4826'52.48" W00425'06.74"
GUIPAVAS
CNA
NTS
ARE
LFRB
114.65
115.5
112.5
LFMP MORIL UP84 TOU UN727 AGN UN863 NTS UM616 ARE STAR LFRB
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2. From Cognac CNA to Monts d'Arre ARE in Brittany just before entering the city of Brest area.
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SID Procedures
We will take off runway 33 as usual in Perpignan.
We will then follow the north ORBIL SID then we will aim at heading 311 of PPG VOR to reach MORIL
intersection.
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STAR Procedures
Coming close to our arrival in Brest, we will follow ARE3B STAR from ARE VOR that will take us to BODIL
intersection.
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476 nm
Cruise ALT
FL360
E.T.E.
1 h 30
Weight
TOTAL
Empty weight
12 399
Passengers
X 80
45
MAX
3600
Cargo
600
Staff
300
ZFW
16 899
17 900
TOTAL
MAX
Fuel
min.
A taxi
10
x 1100 kg/h
183
B - ETE
90
x 1100 kg/h
1 659
C - ALT
x 1100 kg/h
D - reserves
30
E extra
x 1100 kg/h
550
x 1100 kg/h
200
Total fuel
2 592
5 170
19 491
22 000
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ALL ABOARD!
Flight Simulator Startup
Start MS Flight Simulator and create the following flight:
Aircraft: ERJ145 from FeelThere - cockpit 2D.
Airport: Perpignan Rivesaltes Gate/Door G2
Weather: default weather
Date & time: date does not matter but set your time to 8:30am local time.
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Open the passenger door by pressing Shift + E on the keyboard as well as the cargo door SHIFT + E +
2 - luggage are on their way!
Systems Ignition
Make sure the parking brake is set.
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You will notice some switches on the upper panel are lit. This Embraer use the Black Panel
Logic, therefore every light will have to go off before we start.
Monitor for complete startup of the APU: indication must be 100% on the EICAS as illustrated below:
Switch on the anti-ice by clicking of these two buttons light must go off.
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Turn the air conditioning ON by clicking on all lit buttons 4 of them light must go off.
No Smoking and Seat Belt signs must be ON.
Switch on the navigation lights.
Your upper panel should now look like this:
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You may have noticed that the time indicated on our clock is GMT. Its best to switch the clock to our
local time.
Click on Clock Mode Switch as shown below to display the local time:
Instrument Presentation
Lets start identifying the main part of our instrument panels. Try to remember their abbreviations, as they will
be referred to very frequently throughout this tutorial.
PFD - Primary Flight Display - on which you can find the EADI Electronic Altitude Direction
Indication on top and the EHSI Electronic Horizontal Situation Indicator at the bottom.
MFD - Multi Function Display
RMU - Radio Management Unit
EICAS - Engine Indication and Crew Alerting System
DCP : Display Control Panel
FGC - Flight Guidance Control on which you can find the FD flight director the AP Auto
Pilot
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FMS Programming
We now need to set our flight plan on our FMS. We plan to takeoff at 9:00am, which means we have
something like 30 minutes to complete our flight preparation.
1R
1L
2R
2L
3R
3L
4R
4L
scratchpad
Function Keys
Keyboard
In this tutorial, the 4 keys on the left will be referred to as 1L, 2L, 3L and 4L. The 4 keys on the right will be
referred as to 1R, 2R, 3R and 4R..
The scratchpad is where letters and figures will be displayed when we type something of the FMS.
In case of typing mistakes, press CLR key at the bottom. The DEL key enables to delete a whole line such
as a navigation point we will use this later on.
CAUTION : The following pages heavily use screenshots. Each screenshot shows the result of the
written instructions stated just before.
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Press 2R DEST
Press 4L DEPARTURE
Press 2R LOAD
Press 3R 33 (runway)
Press 4R FLT PLAN
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Press 4R - ACTIVATE
Press 3L
Press
then
type
the
point UN727.AGN
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next
Press NAV
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Press 4L - ACTIVATE
Press 1L - ARE3B
Click on PREV and NEXT to check the different pages to see if everything is ok.
Lets have a look at our flight plan on the map of the MFD.
B1
B2
B3 B4 B5 B6
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Press
Press
Press
Press
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Click on Aircraft / Weight and fuel menu of Flight Simulator and choose Modify weight. Change the
values to get to a total weight of 4500 as illustrated below:
We also previously calculated that we needed 2,592 kilos of fuel for this flight.
Change the quantity of fuel so that you reach these figures. In this example, I modified both tanks @
51% of their total capacity which gives a total weight of 2,638 kilos. It is slightly more that we wanted but its
better to have more than less!
Check that the gross weight does not exceed the Max Takeoff Weight:
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Press 4R TAKEOFF
Press
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Speed setup
On the MFD, press B2 MFD then press B2 - SPD. Here is what you get:
Use the reference speed table below to calculate our speed. Today our weight is 19.5 tons:
WEIGHT
(tons)
14
14,5
15
15,5
16
16,5
17
17,5
18
18,5
19
19,5
20
20,5
21
21,5
22
V1
VR
113
113
113
113
114
116
119
122
124
127
129
132
134
137
139
141
143
122
122
121
121
121
123
126
128
130
132
134
136
138
140
142
144
146
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V2
VFS
128
127
126
126
125
127
129
131
133
135
137
138
140
142
144
146
148
142
145
147
150
152
154
156
158
160
163
165
167
169
171
173
175
177
Engine Start
All passengers have now boarded cant you hear them singing?
Close all doors using Shift + E for main door and SHIFT + E + 2 for cargo.
We have now our clearance to start off the engines. As there are no pushing back facilities at Perpignan
Airport, we can start immediately.
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Turn the Red Beacon on to warn the ground staff that we are about to start the engines.
Press the APU BLEED button that should lit- you should also hear the APU engine starting.
Check the Ignition Settings knobs that must be on AUTO.
Turn the left fuel pump knob to the ON position.
Right-click on engine n2 protective cover to open it and move the knob to the START position. Rightclick again to move the protective cover back to the knob.
Close the overhead panel and cut the alarm by clicking on the yellow button.
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Check the EICAS, on which one single indication should remain - ENG NO
TO DATA (Engine No Takeoff Data) which means we will now have to set the
FADEC for takeoff.
Open again the overhead panel.
Press once Take off Data Store button to select takeoff mode.
Check for a little triangle next to T/O MODE on the MFD which means the
line is now selected.
Turn this knob so as to change the desired mode. In our case we will keep it default - T/O-1.
Press again Take off Data Store button to select the outside temperature.
Turn the knob either left or right to change the selected temperature. Today outside temperature is
15C.
Press Take off Data Store button once again to select REF A-ICE.
Turn the knob to either activate or deactivate this mode. We will leave it to OFF.
Press Take off Data Store one last time to complete the FADEC setting.
All EICAS indications referring to the engines should now appear in blue. ENG NO TO DATA should
also disappear from the EICAS.
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Taxi
We have just received our clearance for taxi.
Take a look at the PFD : ROL TO is now displayed in green and the magenta horizontal bar goes up
to 15 as illustrated below:
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TAXI
We are now heading to runway 33.
On the DCP, click on FMS button to select it as our navigation source. Turn also the two knobs to the
FMS position.
Take a look at the EHSI on the PFD. Information is now displayed in magenta, which acknowledges
that our FMS has been selected as our navigation source. The first waypoint is displayed MORIL- as well
as its distance - 30 nautical miles. The ground speed is also displayed - 14 KTS in this example.
Lower the flaps to 9 position and check their position on the EICAS
Raise the TRIM until the green arrow gets to the green zone as displayed below.
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!
Betty might tell you something else, if so please review what you missed.
TAKE OFF - TRIM!
On the FGC, rotate the altitude selection wheel to select 5,000 feet
(Right clicking on the wheel will change the altitude faster)
1R
2R
3L
4L
3R
4R
5L
6L
5R
6R
Engage the parking brake once aligned on the runway to prevent the plane from moving while we
make the final preparation for takeoff.
.
END OF TAXI
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Takeoff
We are now on runway 33 ready for takeoff
Switch on the Landing lights and the STROBE and switch off the Taxi lights.
Open the FADEC window
Press the T/O button to select takeoff thrust.
Check on the EICAS the little T blue sign that will limit maximum thrust to avoid engine damage while
takeoff.
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Lets take advantage of the low traffic on this airport to take our time to understand how the FGC - Flight
Guidance Control works on this aircraft. You can pause the simulator if you like.
!
Our FGC is quite different from the other jets and we must make sure that we fully
understand its logic if we dont want to crash or make our passengers sick.
First thing to do is to choose one of the two Autopilot by pressing the CPL (Coupling) button. Being
seated on the left side as the captain of this aircraft, choose the left autopilot. Check for the green arrow
pointing to your direction to the left. Also take a look at the PFD where the green arrow between ROL and
TO points out to your direction.
Second thing to do is to check that the Flight Director (FD) is on. You cannot use the autopilot
without using the FD. Check that the green light on FD1 is on.
Third, align the heading bug HDG onto our current heading, which in this case is 330 by pressing the
centre of the heading selection wheel.
!
Always monitor the result of your action on the PFD after activating a command on
the FGC to double-check your action.
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Also check the display of the PFD. Active modes are displayed in green. Armed modes appear in white.
In this example, lateral active mode is ROL, which is good for takeoff. Active vertical mode is TO for takeoff.
No lateral mode is armed for the moment whereas ASEL is our vertical armed mode. ASEL stands for
Altitude selection, which means that our aircraft will reach the selected altitude of 5,000 feet.
ROL
lateral active mode
Pilot in command
TO
vertical active mode
ASEL
armed vertical mode
TAKEOFF!
Move the throttle to full thrust and maintain the aircraft aligned onto the runway.
When reaching VR speed, rotate by gently pulling the joystick. Monitor your PFD and try to maintain the
magenta bar aligned as illustrated below:
ROTATE!
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Climb
Push the AP button of the FGC along with HDG FLC to make those modes active.
!
Leave the joystick alone!
If you fly using a joystick, do not touch it after engaging the autopilot because it
remains active and could alter the automatic heading and vertical speed of the
flight computer.
The aircraft should now fly by herself heading to 330 and climb to the selected altitude of 5,000 feet.
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Increase our selected altitude to 10,000 feet by rotating the ASEL knob.
At around 7,000 feet, the FMS should capture our programmed route. LNAV mode should become
active and displayed in green on the PFD while HDG light on the button goes off on the FGC.
Increase the selected altitude to 36,000 feet using the ASEL knob.
Passing 10,000 feet, switch off the landing lights as well as the seat belt sign.
Et voil! We have now completed the biggest part of our work. The FGC is now dealing with navigation and
our work will be to monitor our instruments to check that everything goes fine.
You will hear 3 buzz when reaching ASEL less 1,000 feet, i.e. 35,000 feet in our case. This is to warn us
that we are about to reach our cruising altitude. It has taken 20 minutes so far for our aircraft to reach our
cruising altitude.
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Cruise
When reaching cruising altitude, make sure the aircraft levels off at 36,000 feet and that vertical speed
green arrow points to 0. ALT mode is now the active vertical mode:
Engine thrust will reduce automatically. Depending on winds, speed will carry on increasing and we must
continuously check it as there are no auto throttles on this aircraft.
!
No auto-throttles
Always adjust thrust to avoid over speeding. The SPD mode on the FGC panel
does not maintain airspeed while cruising.
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PROG and FPL buttons are the only ones of the FMS that we will use during cruising. Do not hesitate to
press them every time you want to know where we are. It is a good thing to leave the FMS window open
while cruising so as not to miss our TOD.
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System check
Lets take advantage of this time to review the different systems of our aircraft. We will monitor all this using
the PFD and MFD.
Press EHSI full /arc mode button of the DCP to change the display of the EHSI on the PFD. The next
button to its right (Ground speed / time to go) enables to toggle display between ground speed (GSPD) and
the estimated time (ET) needed to reach our next waypoint.
B2
B3
B4 B5 B6
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!
WATCH OUT FOR THE FUEL BUTTON
Do not press again B4 FUEL while on the fuel page. Pressing B4 again would
refuel the tanks to 100%. This is obviously not very realistic and is not something
we want.
Press B2 MFD
Press B2 SPDS to see the Speed page then B3 JSTK to move from waypoint to waypoint on the
flight plan map (see page 26).
B4 - NAV APT and B5 DATA are used to filter the level of information
displayed on the map. In this example, every information available is
displayed: we can see information about our flight plan (DATA) in magenta,
surrounding airports (APT) in blue and navigation aids (NAV) in green.
B6 MAINT is inop.
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Press B1 - RTN
Press B6 - PLAN to display our flight plan oriented to the north. Press B6 again to get back to the initial
flight plan display.
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Descent
On the FMS, press PROG then NEXT to move to page 2. Top Of Descent (TOD) will start in 22nm or 3
minutes : wed better hurry!
Click on FPL button of the FMS and make a note of the various altitudes to reach as we will progress on
our flight plan:
Waypoint
TERPO
KORER
ARE
ARE16
BODIL
Altitude to
reach
36,000
26,800
8,100
3,000
2,000
Distance
59 nm
16 nm
6 nm
Turn the ASEL knob of the FGC to select 26,800 feet. Check the ASEL value in blue on the PFD :
Let's also modify the Decision Height altitude for landing which in Brest is 520 feet. Turn the knob as
illustrated below to set 520.
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Let's setup our reference speed for landing right now. Remember that our FMS had forecast a landing
weight of around 18 tons at the beginning of the flight.
LANDING SPEED TABLE FLAPS 45
Weights
(kilos)
21744
21291
20838
20385
19932
19479
19026
18573
18120
17667
17214
16761
16308
15855
15402
14949
14496
14043
13590
13137
12684
VFS
Vref45
Vga9
Target
VFS
Vref45
175
174
172
170
169
167
165
163
161
159
157
155
154
151
14*
147
145
143
140
138
136
Vga9
136
135
134
132
131
130
128
127
126
124
123
121
120
118
117
115
114
114
114
114
114
Target
166
164
162
161
160
158
156
154
153
151
149
147
145
143
142
140
137
135
133
131
129
140+
140+
140+
140+
140+
140
138
137
136
134
133
131
130
128
127
125
124
124
124
124
124
On the MFD, press B2 - MFD then press B2 - SPD. Type in the reference speeds. You should get this :
Watch out for the FMS indications PROG page 2 as well the MDF so as to not overshoot the TOD!
!
We have now a little problem: the aircraft is not descending fast enough: the little magenta
triangle is far too low. Ideally it should be next to the horizontal white line facing the current
altitude. We now have to increase our vertical speed.
To solve this problem, press VS mode on the FGC and increase the vertical speed by rotating the SPD
button. In this example, the vertical speed is set to 2,600 feet / minute.
Beware! Increasing the vertical speed will also increase the air speed of the aircraft. Reduce thrust if
required to lower speed.
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While descending, we are going to input the ILS frequency for our landing in Brest.
Set altitude to 8,100 feet using the ASEL knob on the FGC.
Passing KORER, we carry on our descent for around 60NM.
Reduce vertical speed using the SPD button to establish 1,800 feet/minute (VS mode on the FGC
should be selected).
We are now approaching 12,000 feet.
Start reducing thrust to achieve 250 KTS at 10,000 feet so that Betty will not shout at us!
Switch the seat belt signal on.
Use the speed brakes if necessary to slow down the aircraft.
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Look for the next waypoint to reach on the FMS which is ARE16. Turn the ASEL knob to 3,000 feet.
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Approach
We have just reached ARE and are now heading to BODIL following ARE3B STAR.
Check the STAR map of Brest on page 13. Make sure to establish 3,000 feet at BODIL which is
approximately 22nm ahead of us.
Passing BODIL, our aircraft makes a left turn to 255 and should align on the runway heading.
Once heading stabilized, push HDG knob on the FGC so as to synchronize HDG with our current
heading.
Press NAV button on the DCP to select VOR-ILS navigation source. Turn the knob to NAV1 position.
Information is now displayed in green which means we are not using the FMS any longer as our
navigation source
Set the OBS to read 256 - this is our runway heading - by turning the CRS1 knob of the FGC. Check on
the PFD that CRS reads 256 as illustrated above.
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At BG-10 (i.e. at 10nm from BG), reduce speed to 180KTS and lower the flaps to 9
At BG-9, reduce speed to 160KTS and lower the flaps to 18
When the GS is locked, lower the flaps to 22, reduce speed to 160 KTS and lower the gears!
Keep reducing speed to achieve TARGET speed, which is 136 KTS for today.
Lower completely the flaps to 45. Maintain the target speed. Use the AP green bug on the PFD.
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Landing
APPROACHING MINIMUMS
We are now close to our decision height which is 520 feet.
MINIMUMS MINIMUMS
Press AP and YD on the FGC to disengage the autopilot and the yaw damper
AUTOPILOT !
Manually fly the aircraft and maintain it on the glide slope and heading. Slowly reduce the thrust to reach
the target landing speed.
Reduce thrust completely above the tarmac and flare the aircraft.
Upon touching down, move gently the joystick forward to land the forward wheel of the aircraft. Reverse
the thrust by pressing the F2 key of the keyboard. The speed brakes are automatically extended.
Once reaching 80 KTS, cancel reverse thrust and apply the brakes to reach approx. 20 KTS.
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Switch off the landing lights and the STROBE upon leaving the runway.
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Systems shutdown
Switch off the hydraulic pumps on the overhead panel.
Move the thrust levers back to idle and engage the Gust Lock by clicking within the red area as
illustrated below:
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Press 2R - LOAD
Type the name of the flight plan we want to
create, I suggest using the names of the airports,
eg LFPO-LFMP:
Press
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Press 1R - ACTIVATE
Our flight plan is now active.
Lets check now that the flight plan has been saved
properly.
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Press DEL
then 3L-BADAM.
deletedl.
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Press 2R - LOAD
Press
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Press 4L to get back to the waypoint list. Repeat this procedure to add any extra waypoint.
A new file is created every time you add a new waypoint. These small files are stored in the Flight
Simulator 9 / Feelthere / CustomDB folder as illustrated below:
It is best to backup these files into another folder that you will keep in a safe place just in case you encounter
a problem or overwriting of these files.
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FSNavigator
name
FMS
Suggested
name
Location
FMS format to
type in
Fix01
SIJ01
N4242.67 E00304.57
N4242.7E00304.6
Fix02
SIJ02
N4241.50 E00305.86
N4241.5E00305.8
Fix03
SIJ03
N4239.04 E00305.52
N4239E00305.5
Fix04
SIJ04
N4237.57 E00303.88
N4237.6E00303.9
Fix05
SIJ05
N4236.41 E00300.31
N4236.4E00300.3
Fix06
SIJ06
N4239.26 E00256.74
N4239.3E00256.7
Always name your waypoints in a sensible way so that you will find them easily when yo need them. Here I
chose the first 3 letters of the name of SIJAN STAR followed by an order number.
3rd step: STAR procedure construction using the flight plan saving facility.
We are now going to create a new flight plan that will not start and end with an airport name but instead
navaids or waypoints.
Press 1L
for exemple.
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Press 1L
Press 2L
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Press 4R
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Press 1L HOLD
Press
key
Press 4L PATTERN
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Press 4R - ACTIVATE
Press
Press 4L - PATTERN
Press 1L HOLD
Press 2L SIJ01
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Glossary
Abbr.
Definition
Abbr.
Definition
AIP
FPS
AP
Auto Pilot
GS
Glide Slope
APR
Approach
HDG
Heading
APU
ILS
ASEL
Altitude SELection
LOC
Localizer
ATC
OBS
CPL
CouPLing
MFD
DCP
PFD
EADI
RMU
SID
EHSI
SPD
Speed
EICAS
STAR
ETE
TCAS
FADEC
TOC
Top of climb
TOD
Top Of Descent
FD
Flight Director
VS
Vertical Speed
FGC
Yaw Damper
FLC
FMS
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