I'm a developer on the X-Plane flight simulator software and a flight instructor in real life. I show X-Plane 11 aircraft like I would show them to my flight students
I know this video is relatively older but it really helped me on understanding the differences between setting up between en route vs approach rnav! Thank you for the time making this video!!!
@Philipp Ringler, You sir, need to make more videos. Although I just found this one today, I must say that it has been one of the best youtube sessions for a long time. Thanks for sharing all this and for making everything so clear ^_^
All of these G100 videos all go into great detail, on a great longass list of feature/functions, but not one that I can find shows how to simply use the flight director to set a heading/alt and have the autopilot follow your input.
Use the heading knob to set a heading, then press the AP button to activate the auto pilot and the HDG button to turn on heading mode. Your airplane should turn in the set direction and follow it. Then press the ALT button to keep your airplane at the current altitude, set a new altitude with the altitude knob, press the VS button to activate vertical speed mode, and lastly press the nose up or nose down button a couple of times to ascend or descent. Your plane will climb or descent to the set altitude and auto disengage VS mode at the set altitude. Note that you are in charge of the throttle at all times - the G1000 has no auto throttle capabilities. So for all horizontal maneuvers make sure to adjust your throttle setting.
Philipp, hats off and my sincere regards to you. I'm using X-Plane 11 b3, and the G1000 VNAV works perfectly in it. Everything seems to work just as in this video now. As the Cirrus Visionjet is my favourite small airplane in X-Plane 11, adding the VNAV capability makes it even more enjoyable! Excellent job!
i had de ch pedals plugged....thats why did t had it..thanks a lot...not easy to taxi thought.. but its better than mouse and yoke...thanks a lot and that vnav video awesome....great job
Many thanks for putting together this informative video. The G1000 offers plenty in the way of information, getting to understand it can be daunting, I need more time.
I am a Master CFII&ME Emeritus that has been training pilots for many years. Recently I started "flying" X-Plane 11 and am totally impressed with the realism and true earth graphics. My book "Teaching Confidence in the Clouds" gets five stars on Amazon and provides valuable information on using flight simulators in training. The book might be of interest to you and your audience. After watching a number of your TH-cam videos I am really impressed with your knowledge and teaching technique. It has helped me understand more how X-Plane files are stored and used....thanks!
A greatly appreciated vid I do enjoy the vision jet on the sim of course it has got alot more to do now. All the best the new year has to you all! Sincerely Jon Spencer
No offense, but... Starting at 56:24 Phillip talks about VR a bit, and as an instructor I have to agree. I have tried to make VR work for instrument training and it is a bit frustrating. I find there are too many "twisting" misfires. Buttons and switches work fine, but at this point twisting freq and twisting thru the alphabet, so to speak, with controllers is a pain. If you are serious RW pilot and desire IFR skills I would take a look at the Air Manager touchscreen/knobster concept. In combination with Pilotedge ATC. Not affiliated. Good Luck.
I'm so glad someone pointed out these videos to me! please do more. Regarding the G1000 that I use in the C172 in 11.10, where are all the extra pages that are available on the GNS530? Like the airport frequencies? am I just missing them, or are they not available?
Coming from the map view, turn the outer knob of the FMS selector to the right once. There you get the airport information page, with the runways, frequencies, the airport layout, etc... Turn it right once more and you got the NRST pages, showing you the nearest airports, ndbs, vors and waypoints, along with their frequencies, surroundings, etc..
Thanks, Philipp. I knew I was missing something....looking forward to when the manual is available. Please do more videos, they are extremely informative. If they were edited down for time and cleaned up, you could charge for them. Thanks again, John
Is it possible to do demo of setting up flight using vnav without all the additional information which is great to know, for a person such as I new to x plane 11 and garmin 1000, just the minimum info to do this to get the routine set and later time include additional info, also storing flight plans and reloading them step by step no extra info, thanks
Iam watching many times to understand this complex G1000, thank you for your time !! a lil confuse to make this vpath to work. iam using the da60 diamond.
It's packed full of features. Takes time to learn properly. And that's after you've learned to VFR fly your plane first. Took me almost 2 years to learn the Garmin 1000 and RNAV and all that, once I did, oh yeah baby! The beauty of it is, if you just want to let the GPS fly you direct, you can do that very easily, or load up some flight plans and let it fly you there in more style. Later you can learn ILS and RNAV approaches and such.
Hi Philipp! I cannot understand a thing you say at about 20:00. Here you say that in order to make the plane starting the descent you need to "twist the altitude selector". Ok but what you mean by "twist"? when you go on it with your mouse I do not see any action or change in the knob nor in the set altitude (stil 12000). What action did you exactly do there? Is that why probably I cannot make VNAV work in xplane11, because I do not do that little operation?
One bonus question, there is no way we can change the time format from LCL to UTC time, isn't it? Found it hard to convert this time convention if I want to fly cross country..
Thank you Philipp. My sincere thanks to Mark Fletcher (th-cam.com/video/5PxVwYYeSg8/w-d-xo.html) for plugging you in his video and putting me onto this video and your channel.
If you are referring to the aggressive banking in AP Heading/Nav mode, yes the free/stock SF50, overbanks back and forth too much. There is a free addon that adds a few tweeks to SF50 and calms down flap ballooning for sure. If you are serious pilot I recommend Aerobask phenom 300 with G1000. This is a great aircraft for IFR G1000 training, all Stars, Sids etc. Cat 1 RNP single pilot certified. Not affiliated. Good Luck
Hi, thanks for the clear video! I have a question though: at 20:05 you say “of course you have to twist the Altitude button to start the descent” Why is this ‘of course’? Why does the AP not start descending when the VNAV is activated?
Vnav will only descent to the selected altitude (obeying restrictions on the way) but never below. This is so you never descent below your atc cleared altitude. Atc will clear you to descent to an altitude, you set that as the limit with the altitude bug. The autopilot will descent along the computed path, it will never cross the boundary you set to comply with atc. That’s why you need to set the altitude bug to tell the system how far atc has cleared you.
OK, this was very helpful, but can you please explain the bit at 20:12 or so, it speaks volumes about why I find GA planes so infuriating, you have the altitude set lower, you have hit the vnv button, and STILL you say you have to "jiggle" the altitude button or something?
If anyone comes across this post regarding a problem with the cursor, I can tell you what I've found out:... A lot of people, through numerous forums, all say the problem with the cursor is because of the correct version not being out yet. That may have been the case at one point, but not anymore. After going through so much trial-and-error testing, I found that the cursor has no problem designating altitudes in VNAV.... *Unless you are in the "Approach" mode.* After loading my flight plan, I select the approach I want and enter it. Then I bring up the flight plan in order to "designate" my altitudes for the ILS....and like I said before, I have no problem with altitudes that are NOT in the Approach field. But when I move my cursor to highlight and designate the altitudes in "approach," the cursor just moves down the left side, going past all the altitudes. If this is not a bug, then why would the programmers update it this way? That would be one of the dumbest moves I've ever seen regarding updates for games. And just in case some people think I'm lying, then watch this.....> www.dropbox.com/s/e7j9vurr3bjsof1/X-plane.mp4?dl=0
That makes no sense, trying to fly RNAV+VNAV, to suddenly drop to ILS don't you think? Or what's the reason behind? I see many people had no idea and combining those two approaches for no reason, yes i am aware of WAAS/GPS/LPV/V lateral guidance into ILS, if you dont have ATC its great. APP/R mode is just for capturing glideslope of an active ILS - you cannot designate your ILS glideslope as far as i know.
@@ivobrick7401 Actually, I've been doing a lot of reading. This might be of some use to others. In the actual manual, after reading and reading, I came across this statement, *"Altitude constraint values associated with the Final Approach Fix (FAF) and waypoints beyond the FAF cannot be designated for vertical guidance. These altitude values are always displayed as white text, as in Figure 5-129. Vertical guidance from the FAF and on to the Missed Approach Point (MAP) is given using the SBAS GPS altitude source, therefore, the displayed altitude values are for reference only."* So looks like it is not possible.
Awesom! I'm planning for going to X-plane from P3D. Reason is the G1000 from Flight1 in the Mustang. I have a cockpit and am waiting for the new F1 G1000. What I saw here is "Heaven of G1000" in simulation. Thanks a lot for this! Though questions: Is the color of the aircraft in the map changeable? This magenta is not clear to see. G1000 Trainer has it white. In the FPL the active leg is just a magenta arrow. I know of the magenta connection from WP to the active WP. Is this new in Garmin? Otherwise I enjoy very much all your videos. Learning a lot!!!! Peter
OK,.. STUPID question: How did you get the BLACK CROSSHAIRS onscreen during the close approach? ..after watching a bit further... Is the flight in "MOUSE" control mode? Nā mahalo and aloha nui! :) 🤙
I think I filmed this on my Macbook without a joystick. It's been a while, I might even have recorded this in a hotel room? So yeah, the cross-hairs is for the mouse control.
I am unable to get the cursor to highlight the altitude ? I tried using the fms knob but it only highlights the waypoint. What am I doing wrong? is there a setting somewhere?
You aren't doing anything wrong. This feature was announced to arrive in 11.20b1, which isn't out yet. What you see in the video isn't a publicly available version of X-Plane.
For a VOR approach, you have to decide whether to fly it green needles (VOR) or magenta (GPS overlay). Under EASA rules, only green needles are allowed, so you will not get a glidepath from the GPS. Under FAA rules, you can substitute the GPS to make it essentially a GPS overlay approach. In this case, you stay with the magenta needle and you will get a LNAV+V advisory glidepath. This glidepath is there to help you make a smooth descsent, but it does not guarantee obstacle clearance. It is advisory only, so you are still on the hook to make sure you comply with all crossing altitude restrictions. I have explained this in my video series about VOR approaches earlier this year: th-cam.com/video/fWSwyy8S7y0/w-d-xo.html (green needles) th-cam.com/video/jitVZ0r_JJY/w-d-xo.html (magenta)
@@XPlanePhil OK, Phillip, I understand. Yes I've seen your 4 VOR videos. Greats as well. Any case really interesting thing about how to make our flights more and more accurate. Thanks a lot for give "top level" explanations and Merry Christmas.
Philipp - I am having difficulty with the VNAV. When I enter in a target altitude in the flight plan, the autopilot does not descend at the rate that I specify in the Current VNAV profile. For instance, if I am at 10000 and I need to get to 8000, and I specify a FPA of -3.5 or about -1000 FPM, the autopilot does not descend at that rate. It will descend, but it will not ever match the rate that I specified. VPATH ALTV is armed, and the correct magenta terget altitude is displayed, but the VS will never descend at the rate I specified. The magenta chevron is on -1000 FPS, but my autopilot is doing anywhere from -350 to -700 FPS. So I will miss a lot of target altitudes on STAR flight paths, for instance.
When you are working with students, do you have them work in X-plane as a supplement to what you teach them in ground school and in the airplane? If so, can you share some of the things you have them do? would be a nice topic for a video ;-)
It really varies from person to person. No two students are created equal. Some people take to using the simulator easily, and there is real positive transfer of learning. I've met others who can fly real airplanes but struggle keeping the simulator right side up. With those I found using the sim as a pure panel trainer helps, so setting visibility to 0 and eliminating all non-instrument cues. There are a lot of things that can be done in the simulator much easier and safer than in the real plane. Especially training instrument failures. I have compiled a list of tasks, some of which are perfect for the simulator, others aren't. I've written about it here: forums.x-plane.org/index.php?/forums/topic/159237-ifr-student-looking-to-use-xplane11-to-supplement-training/&tab=comments#comment-1497237
@@XPlanePhil Thanks for the link! I'll add that writeup to my "Ringler Training Syllabus". :-). the challenge for me, when i get in the real airplane, is dragging my eyes off the instruments after so much time on the simulators.
Hi thanks for this video , Wanted to clarify on the point said in 20:05 . You say that the altitude selector must be twisted else the aircraft wont descend as per vpath schedule . However I have had instances of aircraft descend without twisting the altitude selector or sometimes the vpath is armed , tod is established yet the aircraft wont descend . what is the issue ? where am i going wrong ?
Same here. I do everything correctly. Duck the selected altitude. Make sure VNV is armed within 5 minutes. Designate the alt in FPL. Check for Magenta alt in pfd. Double check FPA and that the descent angle is less than 2000fpm, based on speed. Sometimes it fails to capture and I use V-Direct function softkey. It might have to do with a fresh load of Arrival. In other words, You can load a fresh flight plan, but I would only save the waypoints, Departure and dest, not the Arrival and sids, approaches etc. Not completely sure. Still an intermittent failure to capture. BTW should not have to twist ALT select button to capture.
You need to be using X-Plane 11.20 for this - either opt in to the public beta or wait a little bit for the release candidate to be pushed to everybody.
And here am I on 11.26r2 seven months later wondering whether I'm doing something wrong, because the cursor *still* won't move over to the small white altitude number?
@Tom Lewis Of course this works. However, not all altitudes can be designated. Special rules apply in the approach portion of the flight plan. Please refer to the manual of the real world G1000 for more information, as X-Plane uses the same rules.
Within the approach portion, no matter if it's RNAV, ILS, or whatever, you cannot designate the final approach fix altitude or anything beyond, and anything beyond the initial approach fix is always auto-designated. That's exactly how it works on the real thing. Manual designation you usually only have to do in the enroute flight plan, especially in the STAR.
Thanks for sharing, how did pop out the PFD in X Plane? do I have to program in the computer assigned some control?. I have tried by just right clicking the PFD, its not working.
To get the popup window, simply click on the screen in the 3d cockpit. Once you have the 2d-popup you can click the upper right corner of the window. When you hover over the top right corner, an icon with two squares appears. Click that. Then you get a native window that you can move to a second monitor, for example.
Philipp, for some reason I fail to enter the VNAV glidepath most of the time. The situation in my cockpit (am also using the Cirrus Visionjet) is exactly as seen 20:14 in your video. VNAV is armed, all the indicators are exactly as in your video, descent path is calculated. When the VNAV timer reaches zero - the plane just doesn't want to descent. Errors in VNAV code, or on my part? VNAV helps in this situation still, as I just then choose my vertical speed the same as VNAV calculated. But this is a bit irritating still.
And yes, my altitude is set to lower than the current one, so that's not the reason. I actually don't get the "of course you have to twist the altidute knob to really descent" in your video, but tried also that, didn't help. My autopilot indicators remain "ALT 20000ft VPTH", and the plane doesn't descend.
You are probably hitting the timeout. The g1000 has a timeout on vnav engagement that prevents cases where the pilot armed the vnv minutes ago and might have forgotten about it, only to be surprised by an unexpected descend. I don't remember the actual time in seconds, but you can look it up in a real Garmin manual.
At one point you say the autopilot is placed into VNAV mode by using the VNV button on the center console of Visionjet. But later on 31:36, I noticed you engaged the VNAV with the VNV button on G1000. This is confusing...
Thanks for videos Philipp, I must be missing something, because I cannot get the cursor to go to the ALT column. When I activate the cursor and click on the large FMS ring he cursor simply goes from waypoint to waypoint. I'm running 10.11r1( but this also happened using 10.10 final) on an iMac. I do see the blue and white text in the ALT column when I load a procedure. Do you have any Ideas on what might be going on? Thanks.
You're not doing anything wrong, you simply don't have the right X-Plane version yet. My code hasn't been merged for release yet, so you'll need to wait another week or so for the next beta to be published.
I'm pretty sure manual designation is not in 11.10 yet. Note that I'm flying X-Plane as I'm working on it right now, and not all code changes get picked to the next release immediately.
As far as I know, Aerobask are using their own glass cockpit and have not equipped their planes with the X-Plane G1000, other than the Diamond DA62. So this is really a question you should ask them.
It is now 2021 July. And yes Aerobask Phenom 300 uses X-1000 and adds it's own callouts and other nice features. The Phenom 300 is a great aircraft. Far superior to SF50, altho Sf50 works pretty good for demo in this video and it is free. Be sure to use free plugin fix for SF50. In P300 I can use all Stars and Sids with this single-pilot certified, Cat 1 RNP certified aircraft. The VLJ's like Vision Jet sometimes have problems with high speed restrictions at altitude on STARS. For example @250 KIAS at FL280 is a bit of a stretch for single turboprops and single engine jets. VLJ's.
philipp help me how can i set that cross to fly the plane my joystick got damaged and with joystik and yoke is so difficult to land, can you tell me wich option its that called, in fsx is mouseyoke how you made that + appear just in the glareshield
Luis Felipe Urbaneja unplug your joystick and every other hardware that could dub as a joystick such as a gamepad. When xplane has no control hardware it will display the box for the mouse
@@XPlanePhil phillip question is there avnav for sids..._? if yes where can we look for it, you say in your video vnav is not for clinb, but im flying a sid and select altitudes and the magenta triangle appears, thanks
@@falopio67 there is no vnav for climb, because the G1000 does not know the climb performance. If you designate an altitude and you get the triangle that means you are already above the designated altitude and you get the advise to descend to it. Vnav function is not used during climb or cruise with the real G1000
Hello Phillip, Great work on the new G1000! Forgive me, and I suspect the answer will be NO, but . . . Will there be any way to adapt the new G1000 for use in X-Plane 10? Thanks much.
When you pressed the CLR button at 12:30, the reference altitude changes to "at 17000" instead of "at or below 17000" like it has been before. Is this intended behaviour? If so, what is the reason for this?
You don't. I have yet to encounter an aircraft in real life that had the KR87 remote receiver for the G1000. You don't need it. The G1000 is TSO-C129a, so you can substitute the BRG pointer for ADF, as long as the station is in the database. Even for training we don't need it, ADF was removed from the PTS/ACS this year, so we don’t even teach it anymore.
im still working on getting my vision to do it. my next idea is that I was using an approach, not arrival even though the altitudes are still there. I cannot scroll to the white altitudes to turn them blue. but on the last 2 legs of the approach, it said LNAV+V, still was too high compared to the GPS glideslope.
Approach VNAV is different - only the first altitude before the FAF is auto-designated. The rest is left to the approach vertical guidance, LNAV+V in your case or any of the higher accuracy guidances you get with WAAS. This I explained in the approach video or you can refer to the Pilots Guide or Cockpit Reference Guide of the real thing.
I know this video is relatively older but it really helped me on understanding the differences between setting up between en route vs approach rnav! Thank you for the time making this video!!!
@Philipp Ringler, You sir, need to make more videos. Although I just found this one today, I must say that it has been one of the best youtube sessions for a long time. Thanks for sharing all this and for making everything so clear ^_^
From a retired ATPL: E-X-C-E-L-L-E-N-T video Sir! I learned a lot!
All of these G100 videos all go into great detail, on a great longass list of feature/functions, but not one that I can find shows how to simply use the flight director to set a heading/alt and have the autopilot follow your input.
Use the heading knob to set a heading, then press the AP button to activate the auto pilot and the HDG button to turn on heading mode. Your airplane should turn in the set direction and follow it.
Then press the ALT button to keep your airplane at the current altitude, set a new altitude with the altitude knob, press the VS button to activate vertical speed mode, and lastly press the nose up or nose down button a couple of times to ascend or descent. Your plane will climb or descent to the set altitude and auto disengage VS mode at the set altitude.
Note that you are in charge of the throttle at all times - the G1000 has no auto throttle capabilities. So for all horizontal maneuvers make sure to adjust your throttle setting.
Philipp, hats off and my sincere regards to you. I'm using X-Plane 11 b3, and the G1000 VNAV works perfectly in it. Everything seems to work just as in this video now. As the Cirrus Visionjet is my favourite small airplane in X-Plane 11, adding the VNAV capability makes it even more enjoyable! Excellent job!
did you update XPlane? I can't get this VNAV functionality to work..
Yes, like I wrote, am using b3.
i had de ch pedals plugged....thats why did t had it..thanks a lot...not easy to taxi thought.. but its better than mouse and yoke...thanks a lot and that vnav video awesome....great job
Many thanks for putting together this informative video. The G1000 offers plenty in the way of information, getting to understand it can be daunting, I need more time.
Thank you Philipp for this great video. You have helped me understand all about VNAV. Cheers
Instructive with a nice touch of humour. Great video!
I am a Master CFII&ME Emeritus that has been training pilots for many years. Recently I started "flying" X-Plane 11 and am totally impressed with the realism and true earth graphics. My book "Teaching Confidence in the Clouds" gets five stars on Amazon and provides valuable information on using flight simulators in training. The book might be of interest to you and your audience. After watching a number of your TH-cam videos I am really impressed with your knowledge and teaching technique. It has helped me understand more how X-Plane files are stored and used....thanks!
A greatly appreciated vid I do enjoy the vision jet on the sim of course it has got alot more to do now. All the best the new year has to you all!
Sincerely Jon Spencer
I can't stop staring at that xPad magnet. Native VR is so close I can smell it.
No offense, but... Starting at 56:24 Phillip talks about VR a bit, and as an instructor I have to agree. I have tried to make VR work for instrument training and it is a bit frustrating. I find there are too many "twisting" misfires. Buttons and switches work fine, but at this point twisting freq and twisting thru the alphabet, so to speak, with controllers is a pain. If you are serious RW pilot and desire IFR skills I would take a look at the Air Manager touchscreen/knobster concept. In combination with Pilotedge ATC. Not affiliated. Good Luck.
An exceptional video. Your videos are the best explanation on YT! Thanks. Please do more :-).
I should go to the same spot, and think about getting my PPL. I think I will be inspired
Great video!!!! I'll have to review this many times.
I printed out your manual and it is great. With your videos and the manual, I'm having great success and really enjoying my sim.
Excellent Video. Thanks
In VR we can fly with Oculus virtual desktop feature for handling g1000 knobs.
Good information for study level.great job.
Excellent video, thanks for sharing.
Perfect video. Thank you
I'm so glad someone pointed out these videos to me! please do more. Regarding the G1000 that I use in the C172 in 11.10, where are all the extra pages that are available on the GNS530? Like the airport frequencies? am I just missing them, or are they not available?
Coming from the map view, turn the outer knob of the FMS selector to the right once. There you get the airport information page, with the runways, frequencies, the airport layout, etc... Turn it right once more and you got the NRST pages, showing you the nearest airports, ndbs, vors and waypoints, along with their frequencies, surroundings, etc..
Thanks, Philipp. I knew I was missing something....looking forward to when the manual is available. Please do more videos, they are extremely informative. If they were edited down for time and cleaned up, you could charge for them. Thanks again, John
Is it possible to do demo of setting up flight using vnav without all the additional information which is great to know, for a person such as I new to x plane 11 and garmin 1000, just the minimum info to do this to get the routine set and later time include additional info, also storing flight plans and reloading them step by step no extra info, thanks
Iam watching many times to understand this complex G1000, thank you for your time !! a lil confuse to make this vpath to work. iam using the da60 diamond.
It's packed full of features. Takes time to learn properly. And that's after you've learned to VFR fly your plane first. Took me almost 2 years to learn the Garmin 1000 and RNAV and all that, once I did, oh yeah baby! The beauty of it is, if you just want to let the GPS fly you direct, you can do that very easily, or load up some flight plans and let it fly you there in more
style. Later you can learn ILS and RNAV approaches and such.
I learned alot....thankyou
Ok. To get vpath working, you have to designated only one in blue, in your Approach waypoint list. That’s te trick.
"WTF?" 59:38 =DDD A dime for every time I've also said WTFFF!! trying to work out the autopilot and approaches on xplane =DDDD
Hi Philipp! I cannot understand a thing you say at about 20:00. Here you say that in order to make the plane starting the descent you need to "twist the altitude selector". Ok but what you mean by "twist"? when you go on it with your mouse I do not see any action or change in the knob nor in the set altitude (stil 12000). What action did you exactly do there? Is that why probably I cannot make VNAV work in xplane11, because I do not do that little operation?
He means to turn the Altitude knob to the disired altitude you want to descend to
Thank you very much!!!!
One bonus question, there is no way we can change the time format from LCL to UTC time, isn't it? Found it hard to convert this time convention if I want to fly cross country..
Excellent. Thanks. How does one get the cursor on the windscreen?
Thanks so much
Thank you Philipp. My sincere thanks to Mark Fletcher (th-cam.com/video/5PxVwYYeSg8/w-d-xo.html) for plugging you in his video and putting me onto this video and your channel.
Is the hunting for the heading selection how it suppose to be? Seems a bit over to me
That depends entirely on how the aircraft author has dialed in the autopilot constants
If you are referring to the aggressive banking in AP Heading/Nav mode, yes the free/stock SF50, overbanks back and forth too much. There is a free addon that adds a few tweeks to SF50 and calms down flap ballooning for sure. If you are serious pilot I recommend Aerobask phenom 300 with G1000. This is a great aircraft for IFR G1000 training, all Stars, Sids etc. Cat 1 RNP single pilot certified. Not affiliated. Good Luck
Would like to use aeronautical map coordinates as waypoints in G1000 flying the Cirrus SF50. Possible?
Hi, thanks for the clear video! I have a question though: at 20:05 you say “of course you have to twist the Altitude button to start the descent”
Why is this ‘of course’? Why does the AP not start descending when the VNAV is activated?
Vnav will only descent to the selected altitude (obeying restrictions on the way) but never below. This is so you never descent below your atc cleared altitude. Atc will clear you to descent to an altitude, you set that as the limit with the altitude bug. The autopilot will descent along the computed path, it will never cross the boundary you set to comply with atc. That’s why you need to set the altitude bug to tell the system how far atc has cleared you.
@@XPlanePhil i see, clear thanks!
OK, this was very helpful, but can you please explain the bit at 20:12 or so, it speaks volumes about why I find GA planes so infuriating, you have the altitude set lower, you have hit the vnv button, and STILL you say you have to "jiggle" the altitude button or something?
If anyone comes across this post regarding a problem with the cursor, I can tell you what I've found out:...
A lot of people, through numerous forums, all say the problem with the cursor is because of the correct version not being out yet. That may have been the case at one point, but not anymore. After going through so much trial-and-error testing, I found that the cursor has no problem designating altitudes in VNAV.... *Unless you are in the "Approach" mode.*
After loading my flight plan, I select the approach I want and enter it. Then I bring up the flight plan in order to "designate" my altitudes for the ILS....and like I said before, I have no problem with altitudes that are NOT in the Approach field. But when I move my cursor to highlight and designate the altitudes in "approach," the cursor just moves down the left side, going past all the altitudes.
If this is not a bug, then why would the programmers update it this way? That would be one of the dumbest moves I've ever seen regarding updates for games.
And just in case some people think I'm lying, then watch this.....> www.dropbox.com/s/e7j9vurr3bjsof1/X-plane.mp4?dl=0
That makes no sense, trying to fly RNAV+VNAV, to suddenly drop to ILS don't you think? Or what's the reason behind? I see many people had no idea and combining those two approaches for no reason, yes i am aware of WAAS/GPS/LPV/V lateral guidance into ILS, if you dont have ATC its great.
APP/R mode is just for capturing glideslope of an active ILS - you cannot designate your ILS glideslope as far as i know.
@@ivobrick7401 Actually, I've been doing a lot of reading. This might be of some use to others. In the actual manual, after reading and reading, I came across this statement, *"Altitude constraint values associated with the Final Approach Fix (FAF) and waypoints beyond the FAF cannot be designated for vertical guidance. These altitude values are always displayed as white text, as in Figure 5-129. Vertical guidance from the FAF and on to the Missed Approach Point (MAP) is given using the SBAS GPS altitude source, therefore, the displayed altitude values are for reference only."*
So looks like it is not possible.
Awesom! I'm planning for going to X-plane from P3D. Reason is the G1000 from Flight1 in the Mustang. I have a cockpit and am waiting for the new F1 G1000. What I saw here is "Heaven of G1000" in simulation. Thanks a lot for this!
Though questions:
Is the color of the aircraft in the map changeable? This magenta is not clear to see. G1000 Trainer has it white.
In the FPL the active leg is just a magenta arrow. I know of the magenta connection from WP to the active WP. Is this new in Garmin?
Otherwise I enjoy very much all your videos. Learning a lot!!!!
Peter
OK,.. STUPID question: How did you get the BLACK CROSSHAIRS onscreen during the close approach?
..after watching a bit further... Is the flight in "MOUSE" control mode?
Nā mahalo and aloha nui! :) 🤙
I think I filmed this on my Macbook without a joystick. It's been a while, I might even have recorded this in a hotel room? So yeah, the cross-hairs is for the mouse control.
I am unable to get the cursor to highlight the altitude ? I tried using the fms knob but it only highlights the waypoint. What am I doing wrong? is there a setting somewhere?
You aren't doing anything wrong. This feature was announced to arrive in 11.20b1, which isn't out yet. What you see in the video isn't a publicly available version of X-Plane.
Hey Phillip awesome work on the G1000. Are there any plans to add the TOD marker on the flightpath or the "1 min to TOD" alert?
The TOD marker is a little white donut on the flight path.
Thanks the the quick reply. Yes it seems to be missing. At least nn the Hot Start TMB 900. Very informative video by the way.
Thanks a lot. Great lesson about g1000. I supposed that can’t work in a vor approach because have not GS path, isn’t? Best for 2021
For a VOR approach, you have to decide whether to fly it green needles (VOR) or magenta (GPS overlay). Under EASA rules, only green needles are allowed, so you will not get a glidepath from the GPS. Under FAA rules, you can substitute the GPS to make it essentially a GPS overlay approach. In this case, you stay with the magenta needle and you will get a LNAV+V advisory glidepath. This glidepath is there to help you make a smooth descsent, but it does not guarantee obstacle clearance. It is advisory only, so you are still on the hook to make sure you comply with all crossing altitude restrictions.
I have explained this in my video series about VOR approaches earlier this year: th-cam.com/video/fWSwyy8S7y0/w-d-xo.html (green needles)
th-cam.com/video/jitVZ0r_JJY/w-d-xo.html (magenta)
@@XPlanePhil OK, Phillip, I understand. Yes I've seen your 4 VOR videos. Greats as well. Any case really interesting thing about how to make our flights more and more accurate. Thanks a lot for give "top level" explanations and Merry Christmas.
You did not change the hold flight from 2600ft white to 2600ft blue so that the AP would pick up that altitude.
Philipp - I am having difficulty with the VNAV. When I enter in a target altitude in the flight plan, the autopilot does not descend at the rate that I specify in the Current VNAV profile.
For instance, if I am at 10000 and I need to get to 8000, and I specify a FPA of -3.5 or about -1000 FPM, the autopilot does not descend at that rate. It will descend, but it will not ever match the rate that I specified. VPATH ALTV is armed, and the correct magenta terget altitude is displayed, but the VS will never descend at the rate I specified. The magenta chevron is on -1000 FPS, but my autopilot is doing anywhere from -350 to -700 FPS. So I will miss a lot of target altitudes on STAR flight paths, for instance.
Must be a bug, notice this today. It used to work.
This airplane looks like vision sf50 of free model.
When you are working with students, do you have them work in X-plane as a supplement to what you teach them in ground school and in the airplane? If so, can you share some of the things you have them do? would be a nice topic for a video ;-)
It really varies from person to person. No two students are created equal. Some people take to using the simulator easily, and there is real positive transfer of learning. I've met others who can fly real airplanes but struggle keeping the simulator right side up. With those I found using the sim as a pure panel trainer helps, so setting visibility to 0 and eliminating all non-instrument cues. There are a lot of things that can be done in the simulator much easier and safer than in the real plane. Especially training instrument failures. I have compiled a list of tasks, some of which are perfect for the simulator, others aren't. I've written about it here: forums.x-plane.org/index.php?/forums/topic/159237-ifr-student-looking-to-use-xplane11-to-supplement-training/&tab=comments#comment-1497237
@@XPlanePhil Thanks for the link! I'll add that writeup to my "Ringler Training Syllabus". :-). the challenge for me, when i get in the real airplane, is dragging my eyes off the instruments after so much time on the simulators.
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Hi thanks for this video , Wanted to clarify on the point said in 20:05 . You say that the altitude selector must be twisted else the aircraft wont descend as per vpath schedule . However I have had instances of aircraft descend without twisting the altitude selector or sometimes the vpath is armed , tod is established yet the aircraft wont descend . what is the issue ? where am i going wrong ?
Same here. I do everything correctly. Duck the selected altitude. Make sure VNV is armed within 5 minutes. Designate the alt in FPL. Check for Magenta alt in pfd. Double check FPA and that the descent angle is less than 2000fpm, based on speed. Sometimes it fails to capture and I use V-Direct function softkey. It might have to do with a fresh load of Arrival. In other words, You can load a fresh flight plan, but I would only save the waypoints, Departure and dest, not the Arrival and sids, approaches etc. Not completely sure. Still an intermittent failure to capture. BTW should not have to twist ALT select button to capture.
When I try to select the altitudes to either "engage" them or change them, the cursor doesn't move over to them. What am I doing wrong?
You need to be using X-Plane 11.20 for this - either opt in to the public beta or wait a little bit for the release candidate to be pushed to everybody.
Thanks for the reply!
And here am I on 11.26r2 seven months later wondering whether I'm doing something wrong, because the cursor *still* won't move over to the small white altitude number?
@Tom Lewis Of course this works. However, not all altitudes can be designated. Special rules apply in the approach portion of the flight plan. Please refer to the manual of the real world G1000 for more information, as X-Plane uses the same rules.
Within the approach portion, no matter if it's RNAV, ILS, or whatever, you cannot designate the final approach fix altitude or anything beyond, and anything beyond the initial approach fix is always auto-designated. That's exactly how it works on the real thing. Manual designation you usually only have to do in the enroute flight plan, especially in the STAR.
Are there any plans to add a "Go Around" button for the Xplane 1000 control suite in the future?
That's already there - the default command for autopilot TO/GA mode also triggers the missed approach activation in G1000 planes.
Philipp Ringler Oh, good news! Thank you.
Could you design a b-200 with G1000 and GDU1500? will be payment
cheers, for the vid
Thanks for sharing, how did pop out the PFD in X Plane? do I have to program in the computer assigned some control?. I have tried by just right clicking the PFD, its not working.
To get the popup window, simply click on the screen in the 3d cockpit. Once you have the 2d-popup you can click the upper right corner of the window. When you hover over the top right corner, an icon with two squares appears. Click that. Then you get a native window that you can move to a second monitor, for example.
Are you still commenting on this video? I have a question on VNAV for you.
Philipp, for some reason I fail to enter the VNAV glidepath most of the time. The situation in my cockpit (am also using the Cirrus Visionjet) is exactly as seen 20:14 in your video. VNAV is armed, all the indicators are exactly as in your video, descent path is calculated. When the VNAV timer reaches zero - the plane just doesn't want to descent. Errors in VNAV code, or on my part? VNAV helps in this situation still, as I just then choose my vertical speed the same as VNAV calculated. But this is a bit irritating still.
And yes, my altitude is set to lower than the current one, so that's not the reason. I actually don't get the "of course you have to twist the altidute knob to really descent" in your video, but tried also that, didn't help. My autopilot indicators remain "ALT 20000ft VPTH", and the plane doesn't descend.
You are probably hitting the timeout. The g1000 has a timeout on vnav engagement that prevents cases where the pilot armed the vnv minutes ago and might have forgotten about it, only to be surprised by an unexpected descend. I don't remember the actual time in seconds, but you can look it up in a real Garmin manual.
At one point you say the autopilot is placed into VNAV mode by using the VNV button on the center console of Visionjet. But later on 31:36, I noticed you engaged the VNAV with the VNV button on G1000. This is confusing...
Jyrki they both act on the same command, so they do exactly the same.
Thanks for the answer, I really have to try this again now.
Thanks for videos Philipp, I must be missing something, because I cannot get the cursor to go to the ALT column. When I activate the cursor and click on the large FMS ring he cursor simply goes from waypoint to waypoint. I'm running 10.11r1( but this also happened using 10.10 final) on an iMac. I do see the blue and white text in the ALT column when I load a procedure. Do you have any Ideas on what might be going on? Thanks.
You're not doing anything wrong, you simply don't have the right X-Plane version yet. My code hasn't been merged for release yet, so you'll need to wait another week or so for the next beta to be published.
Oh. Thanks.
Hi Philipp, I have the same problem with X-plane 11. Is that waiting the same code??
The OP is misleading, this was never part of X-Plane 10. This whole thread is talking about X-Plane 11. 11.20 will go beta soon.
Oh, I wish I had read this earlier. I have been driving myself nuts on this!
Ok so you can't designate at/above/below on the G1000? Also 53:19 :-) made my day, lol.
you can designate them, but in doing so, they all become "at" restrictions.
How do I get the cursor to highlight the altitude ? I tried using the fms knob but it only highlights the waypoint.
I'm pretty sure manual designation is not in 11.10 yet. Note that I'm flying X-Plane as I'm working on it right now, and not all code changes get picked to the next release immediately.
Philipp Ringler Thanks for the information. Will manual designation of VNAV altitudes make it into the final release of X-Plane 11.10?
No. 11.10 is final already.
does it work with aerobask's planes, such are eclipse 550 or epic1000 ?
As far as I know, Aerobask are using their own glass cockpit and have not equipped their planes with the X-Plane G1000, other than the Diamond DA62. So this is really a question you should ask them.
It is now 2021 July. And yes Aerobask Phenom 300 uses X-1000 and adds it's own callouts and other nice features. The Phenom 300 is a great aircraft. Far superior to SF50, altho Sf50 works pretty good for demo in this video and it is free. Be sure to use free plugin fix for SF50.
In P300 I can use all Stars and Sids with this single-pilot certified, Cat 1 RNP certified aircraft. The VLJ's like Vision Jet sometimes have problems with high speed restrictions at altitude on STARS. For example @250 KIAS at FL280 is a bit of a stretch for single turboprops and single engine jets. VLJ's.
philipp help me how can i set that cross to fly the plane my joystick got damaged and with joystik and yoke is so difficult to land, can you tell me wich option its that called, in fsx is mouseyoke how you made that + appear just in the glareshield
Luis Felipe Urbaneja unplug your joystick and every other hardware that could dub as a joystick such as a gamepad. When xplane has no control hardware it will display the box for the mouse
@@XPlanePhil phillip question is there avnav for sids..._? if yes where can we look for it, you say in your video vnav is not for clinb, but im flying a sid and select altitudes and the magenta triangle appears, thanks
@@falopio67 there is no vnav for climb, because the G1000 does not know the climb performance. If you designate an altitude and you get the triangle that means you are already above the designated altitude and you get the advise to descend to it. Vnav function is not used during climb or cruise with the real G1000
thanks a lot. clear now
Will this presented VNAV functionality be included in 11.20vr2?
Tony Montana no. VR preview 2 is a VR only release with no flightmodel or systems code.
Alright, I guess I have to wait a little longer to test it out then. Thanks for the reply.
I'm running 11.25r2 and still can't do this. Assuming it's not there yet.
Hello Phillip,
Great work on the new G1000!
Forgive me, and I suspect the answer will be NO, but . . .
Will there be any way to adapt the new G1000 for use in X-Plane 10?
Thanks much.
Absolutely not.
Does this work in climb? I’ve tried it and nothing happens.
As per the real thing, this is only for descend.
When you pressed the CLR button at 12:30, the reference altitude changes to "at 17000" instead of "at or below 17000" like it has been before. Is this intended behaviour? If so, what is the reason for this?
Interesting. It doesn't do that for me now. So I guess I changed that in the last couple days?
Anyone know how I can change the ADF frequency?
You don't. I have yet to encounter an aircraft in real life that had the KR87 remote receiver for the G1000. You don't need it. The G1000 is TSO-C129a, so you can substitute the BRG pointer for ADF, as long as the station is in the database. Even for training we don't need it, ADF was removed from the PTS/ACS this year, so we don’t even teach it anymore.
Hello thanks for the video! I am wondering, if the g1000 has a holding pattern mode? I cant find it inside the menue
It will load all published holdings that are part of procedures. You cannot define your own.
@@XPlanePhil ok thanks, thats what i wanted to know! Keep up the good videos!
does not work. The plane does not descent automatically.
im still working on getting my vision to do it. my next idea is that I was using an approach, not arrival even though the altitudes are still there. I cannot scroll to the white altitudes to turn them blue. but on the last 2 legs of the approach, it said LNAV+V, still was too high compared to the GPS glideslope.
Approach VNAV is different - only the first altitude before the FAF is auto-designated. The rest is left to the approach vertical guidance, LNAV+V in your case or any of the higher accuracy guidances you get with WAAS. This I explained in the approach video or you can refer to the Pilots Guide or Cockpit Reference Guide of the real thing.
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dont blabla so much, come to the point....