Just a note from a real pilot to Simmers. You don't always need to use full flap. Flaps main function aside from slowing the plane is to increase the steepness of an approach and to lower the stall speed. So on a long runway, you'd rarely use more than one stage of flap, but on a short runway, you'd use full flap. This is Small simple and complex GA Planes I'm talking about. Commercial aircraft have their own set of rules.
I always use 20 degrees (don’t want a stall spin) unless I’m dealing with a crazy crosswind (Florida pilot) but yeah I always see the simulator pilots using full flaps.
UPDATE: Since this video was posted (showing the NXi way back on version 0.1.0), the procedure for arming VNAV changed slightly. You must first change your selected altitude first, THEN press the VNV button to enable VNAV. At 13:04 in this video, I was able to do it the opposite way, but that is no longer the case. I explain this change here in the NXi 0.6.0 video: th-cam.com/video/Zh8VjCeTsm8/w-d-xo.html
When you initially set up VNAV, the altitudes are shown in white on the flight plan view. In the original G1000, those white altitudes need to be switched from white to large blue font for the VNAV to use them. If the altitudes are left in white, that indicates that it is an informational only atitude. Everything else looked good.
Great Tutorial, and this has helped me so much to understand not just how RNAV works, but how to make a succesful approach, and to understand the approach charts. I have actually bookmarked this video for future reference.
This is an EXCELLENT tutorial. I love the way that you explain every acronym and don't quickly make adjustments that you don't explain (many other FS TH-camrs are guilty of that). You give exactly the level of detail that I want. But even a Persian carpet must contain a fault, to signal that it does not attempt to attain perfection, which can only exist in the mind of God, and in this case the fault is that you consistently mispronounce CUTSA as CUSTA. You have a subscriber for life, or at least until I lose interest in flight simming.
Agreed this felt like being with a really good flight/simulator instructor. I really learned a lot. However, the mispronunciation isn’t going to get you a flight violation lol. The descending below 2000’ and landing without a clearance will 😂. Thank You for the G1000 Nxi Gen Fam!
Kip on the Ground: Kip, this is an excellent video by you. I commend you on your very clear instructions, slow speech just right so we can follow and understand as we are being taught. You are very precise and methodical with no nonsense mentality which is the quality of a true teacher. I see so many videos of those who are too rapid in all they do and leads to a lot of waisted time and effort on their part. You cover all the important steps to help and assist the student to become successful. I definitely liked, subscribed and hit the bell. Thank you so much. Greatly appreciated.
Yeah cool, I've always wanted to know this since Flight Simulator 2004. I will practice this in the coming weeks. I'll have to watch the video a few times to really understand it,But thank you very much.
@6:23 - WAAS signal goes from WAAS geostationary satellites to G1000 GPS/WAAS antenna. it’s not necessary to place any equipment at airports to broadcast WAAS signal. KTEX Instrument Approach Procedures do not have LPV and LNAV/VNAV because they do not provide lower minima in comparison to published LP MDA category. (Probably because of the terrain around the airport). Even if you have precise vertical guidance from WAAS you still need to use LP MDA minima.
This one is the first video I watch from your channel, and I must say I’m glad to have found such as plain, clear and detailed explanation I was looking for. I think I’m gonna search for more interesting content and, eventually, I’ll be subscribing to your channel soon. So far so good! Thank you!
Kip awesome awesome video I know how to do ILS approaches but I never played around with Rnav too much and I just installed the NXI GPS so I'm trying to get familiarized with that. Very detailed video, thanks so much.
Very good tutorial! I know I'll refer to this video again. I saw the GPS available for download but wasn't sure about it. This video makes me feel more confident so I will get it. Thanks for the tutorial. Very thorough and concise!
I think it's pretty amazing for what's essentially a beta release. Knowing that the NXi will become the future default G1000 in the sim (without having to install it via the marketplace) makes me want to watch it every step of the way.
I didnt know you could reply using the keyboard numbers without opening the ATC window. Also I didnt know the white bar on the Airspeed strip in the PFD meant full flap range. I suspected tho
Hi, thanx for this amazing video. it helped me a lot on how the g1000 works. I do still have a smal issue when i set my altitude in a C172 it does not use exact numbers like 1000 or 2500 ft, i think it always uses the altitude it is at at the airport and puts the ALT input on top if it. so i will have my alt set at 1092ft per example, but i want it to be 1000ft. the only way to work around this is hit the alt hold button when i cross the 1000 ft marker. . i hope this makes sense ? do you have any idea what im doing wrong?
Thank you for giving us this very useful clip. I spent a few hours trying to follow your route with the exact same equipment today, with G1000 Nxi at the latest version (currently V0.50). At first, pressing the VNV button didn't activate the VPTH. First, I needed to lower the selected altitude (2000ft in this case) to enable the VNV button. Just a tip for others who might experience the same problem.
I know this is a few months old now, but this was a great tutorial! One question: when you tried to arm APR, you couldn't. I didn't quite understand why. And you never tried again later.
I found this vid from a link shared on the WT NXi Discord - Excellent tutorial! And you did a great job explaining the difference between VNAV and GP and when one transitions to the other.
This was good, though you kinda skipped over the main differences between LPV/LP and LNAV, which is that the lateral guidance on an LPV gets "more sensitive" as you get closer to the runway, where as LNAV does not. Whether that's important info or not, in the sim, probably doesn't matter because with the way the sim is set up with all these modern avionics, you can't really "choose" to fly LNAV, where as in older aircraft you are typically much more relegated to LNAV. Its a shame to see the vertical path of so many GPS approaches still broken (which is why you were super low) the PAPI should line up with the approach assuming both are the same angle (typically 3 degrees). It looks like the GPS path is intercepting the very leading end of the runway, which isn't how it is supposed to be. The papi was saying you were high, was because you were, you landed like 2000 feet beyond the touchdown zone. The touchdown zone is the 2 fat white bars painted on the runway, parallel to where the PAPI's are (aka "the captains bars"). In a C208, not a big deal on a big runway though.
Kip does it again! Excellent video. You are very articulate and your love of aviation is evident. One thing though... I could never get my RNAV to work. The diamond never showed up. I can't figure out how to activate the approach or do you have to activate it? It's greyed out. Also, I was using Little Navmap and/or Navigraph to make my flight plan. So it currently only works if you make the flight plan inside the world map only? Thanks.
Thank you! You can program your flight plan manually in the NXi, but it can be a little buggy right now (I've had menus get stuck open). I also couldn't request IFR clearance from ATC once I programmed the flight plan either, so because of those things I used the World Map for this video -- it seems to work consistently right now. If Little Navmap or Navigraph allow you to export the flight plan (PLN file), you can load that file into the MSFS World Map by clicking "More" at the bottom of the world map, then "Load File", and choose the PLN file to load your custom flight plan. Which approach are you flying specifically? Does it have vertical guidance (LPV or LNAV/VNAV?). If it's an LP or LNAV approach, it will not have vertical guidance.
@@KipOnTheGround Thanks for the response, Kip. I can't remember off hand what kind of RNAV approach I randomly picked but I will fly the same one you used in this video later today and see what happens. Yes, my imported flight plans are PLN files so that wasn't the problem. Oh, I love that VNAV. You did a nice explanation of that. I didn't know how to use it yesterday. I use in the CJ4 working class mod model and it's a lot of fun. I like finding a approach with a lot of restrictions and watch the CJ4 VNAV work. I just control the throttle like you did with the Caravan. Very fun. Thanks again.
@@GumperVanLier During the approach phase of the flight, you can look at the HSI on the PFD to see which type of RNAV approach is in use. To the right of the magenta "GPS" label it'll show LPV, LP, L/VNAV, LNAV, etc. LP and LNAV do not provide vertical guidance.
Sorry to bother you again, Kit, but it didn't work. The VNAV worked which was neat. Funny, I had no altitude for Fosan like you did (3600) but mine started at Hedgi at 3000 and then 2000. It worked though but the RNAV diamond never appeared despite clicking the APPR button. Funny, the diamond appeared once I landed on the runway! I'm at a loss here. I may have to go back to the regular G1000 which I really don't want to do.
Great video on the new G1000. Just what I needed! Thanks for your clear and detailed descriptions and instructions. Can't wait to use this new knowledge!
I have watched is three or four times in the last few months. It has proved incredibly helpful for me because I knew nothing about RNAV approaches or how to fly them. This is among the most useful videos I have encountered. Excellent work!
General Options / Accessibility / Pilot Interaction System. There is an option to change from the new mode ("lock") to the old mode ("legacy"). So if you hate the new way, you can switch back to legacy. Under that option, there are several options for the tooltips. I turned both the "INSTANT" tooltip options to "OFF". I personally like the new way, since the click-drag interaction lets you make large changes easily. The only thing to get used to is the mechanic of holding left mouse button, then right clicking to press a button in (applies to buttons like the Heading dial or FMS knob).
What would cause APR mode to not engage? VNAV seems to be working fine as I start my descent and then I start hearing these continuous beeps which I assume are for the glide slope but APR mode doesn't come on and my plane just continues to fly over the runway at 3,000 feet (the minimum in the flight plan) and never go down farther.
Your video is the first decent RNAV approach using MSFS 2020 I've seen on TH-cam. Major props to you, Kip. My favorite part starts at 22:05 LPV approach, where you press the APR button to get the VPTH GP indication, capturing the glide path, thank you for explaining this.
"Going to update the altimeter by hitting B" Well that's cheating, lol. I know, getting an altimeter setting from ATIS or AWOS is not the focus of this video. Great Job!
Haha. There are actually bad bugs with live weather right now where the temperatures change randomly while flying, so I’ve been doing this a lot lately since it’s buggy (rather than trying to get the latest ATIS multiple times during the approach -- if it's even accurate right now).
But to be fair, I really don't check the weather as often as I should. When flying on PilotEdge in the past, I definitely did this as it was max-realism mode :-) Same goes for setting the missed approach procedure altitude as another comment pointed out. Lots of practice to be done!
USA: Wide Area Augmentation System (WAAS) Japan: Michibiki Satellite Augmentation System (MSAS) India: GPS-aided GEO-Augmented Navigation (GAGAN) China: BeiDou SBAS (BDSBAS) (in development) South Korea: Korea Augmentation Satellite System (KASS) (in development) Russia: System for Differential Corrections and Monitoring (SDCM) (in development) ASECNA: SBAS for Africa and Indian Ocean (A-SBAS) (in development) Australia and New Zealand: Southern Positioning Augmentation Network (SouthPAN) (in development)
I'll be getting back into Flight sim but it's quite daunting - I'll fly airliners or prop planes but don't have much direction and unsure about how to use the systems. This is a brilliantly articulated video that is straight forward to follow, and it's made me very excited to jump back in when I can. Even short distances near my home city are now possible!
Kip you are an excellent instructor. Following you on this LPV flight plan is a very pleasant and well informed educational journey. I am a very rusty IFR rated pilot trying to get myself back to proficiency level and following your teaching method is simply confidence building and providing me a feeling that, thanks to you, I will get back to proficiency. You just can’ t buy that feeling. Thank you for your time and energy.
Kip on the Ground: Today is 1-12-2022. After learning from your videos, I have made a couple of successful ILS flights using the G1000NXI in the Cessna 172. Runways Locator intercepted ok and also the Glideslope at the FAFs also captured successfully. Your videos have really helped. Will try flying this same course with VNAV. have not used VNAV yet. Two questions; 1. When you enable VNAV (At cruise altitude I assume.), do you also click NAV MODE on for this? 2. Do you key in the runway frequency for this RNAV approach? Apparently LOC 1 was not applicable for this RNAV GPS approrach. Thank you KIP so much. I do experience ATC wrong information at times, like landing at another airport while ATC continually gives me the takeoff airport instructions like, remain in the pattern when that is not even applicable.
Well, that excellent tutorial has earned you another subscriber. I am a little conflicted as I love flying the Milviz PC-6 and have also been trying to get to grips with the NXi but sadly these two don't (yet?) play nice together. It's incredible how far flight simming has come in the last ten years or so.
Another beginner question, why you haven't change CDI from GPS to LOC1 when in approach mode? I thought if you want to use ILS it's necessary to catch NAV1 radio frequency from airport and use LOC1 mode.
The start of the video(the nerdy stuff) is absolutely what I needed. As a non-pilot work on installing real life cockpit suite, I have a hard time understanding those LPV, LNAV, VNAV, RNAV when demonstrating the system capability. One question remains, since it cannot be simulated in the sim, how to determine which approach performance that you will have and on which stage of the flight that you will know it. Will the ATC tell you that it is LNAV only today ? The G500 TXi system I played around with, on the GTN 750Xi has the predict RAIM capability, which you can input your destination and estimated arrival time, and it will have some output that I have not looked into further. Might try it on my Garmin Trainer later.
I'm trying to replicate this to practice and test RNAV. However, when I set this up and bring up the flight plan menu, I don't see any speeds in the Active VNV Profile window. Additionally, how do you deal with the conflict between the VNV doing its thing as soon as you hit the TOD and ATC telling you you're not at the correct altitude? For example, they still wanted me at 12,000ft even up to ROZZE. Maybe I wait for them to give me the go ahead before I click the VNV button?
Oct, 31st' 2021. VNAV not working anymore on any plane! The plane won't follow the VNAV path, you need to do all by yourself using VS mode. Kick me when this crap will be fixed please!
So, if I am in a WAAS SBAS, with RNAV GPS to RNP standards, I can perform an LPV, LNAV or VNAV, depending on the STAR as shown in the TAP. Clear? Just kidding - good video.
Another excellent video. I think I got the VNAV thing now. Going over the dedicated panel in the flight plan was very useful. Do you have video where you cover the phases of flight? What it really means when CDI says "TERM", what other possible values there are and how the Garmin has information on type of approach if you set it up (and inspect/edit it) from within the cockpit instead of the magic of having the flight plan be automatically generated.
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You made a comment on the PAPI lights for this RNAV approach. PAPI lights give inaccurate indications below a certain altitude. Rely on altitude, rate of descent and visual clues. However, this is for real life. Whether PAPI indications in the SIM are modeled in the same way is unknown.
Well now i get it ! mother of god... no one has been this detailed in the ILS landing so far. So FD (flight Director) is that needed always ? did you engage that ? Also I wonder why you need to ADD the NAV COMM info if you have the Approach loaded and "Activated".
Sometimes I like to free fly and DIRECT TO a close airport and set up an RNAV approach. Is it true that VNAV doesn't control altitudes in this situation or is there a glitch in the G1000 NXI software?
Ran through this turtorial twice. Everything works as expected, but when once the glideslope is intercepted and the aircraft starts to descend the throttle stops responding appears to be stuck at 16% with speed at 65kts. With the aircraft going lower than the expected 3 degrees I had to disable the AP 3.5 NM out and hand fly it in. Fighting the engine all the way, which comes back to life within half a mile and is erratic. Anyone have the same issue? I thought the AP did not control the throttle on the Cessna 208.
Was the minimum at 480 only to have the visual indicator on your altimeter? Or does it have some function involving disconnect of AP, missed approach, go-around flight plan?
Sorry for sounded like such a dumbas but is RNAV the same thing as LPV, I always see these different options for different airports, but never know what the best approach is for gps guidence and which ones have approach autopilot. Also sometimes, ATC tells me to maintain a heading that is a couple degrees off my gps line, should I listen to air traffic control or continue letting autopilot navigation do its thing?
Hi Kip. Another great video. Thanks. I just picked the game up again for the first time in months and noticed the update to the G1000. How come when I select an approach phase now that it dosnt connet to the rest of my flight plan. I like doing the flight plan from the plane rather than the main menu (if that makes any sense to you?) From a basic user😅👌
This is very helpful for me. How can you zoom in at 26:11. Which key must I use? (I am most of the time struggling with the signs on the ground where to roll)
14:10 When you are selecting your alt bug to 2000, while having the autopilot altitude hold active, wouldn't that automatically start your descent to 2000 ? Is the system smart enough to know that you are not descending until the TOD point hence it ignores the altitude bug changes ?
Kip I don't know what's going on unless it's just the King Air but I was trying to do an r nav approach LPV and it would not work and I don't know why the nav pulled will not work neither maybe something I'm doing wrong
I’ve followed these steps but the active vnv profile isn’t auto filling for me and so the vnv navigation will not activate when I click the button it just turns back off. Anyone have any ideas as to why this might be?
Is there anyway to adjust the purple 3600 altitude, when I create a flp its locked in at 8100 feet no matter where I fly from and it doesn't match the vav log at all
I love this because i was interested in how to do this in flight sim, but also because i work at KMHT irl😂 so im constantly flying in and out of there in game
very good - I jump in the cockpit now and try to repeat this .wish me luck and thanks for this video - keep on sharing these - great help for newbies like me - cheers again
How do aircraft not crash into each other while all following these same precise gps fixes? Do you normally have to wait for clearance to hit that initial approach fix or something? If so, what do you do if you have to wait?
Very nicely done tutorial and really enjoyed the entire video. Hope you put out some more piloting content as i use youtube alot trying to learn about piloting for msfs2020. Again thumbs up on the video and hope to see more in the future.
Just a note from a real pilot to Simmers. You don't always need to use full flap. Flaps main function aside from slowing the plane is to increase the steepness of an approach and to lower the stall speed. So on a long runway, you'd rarely use more than one stage of flap, but on a short runway, you'd use full flap. This is Small simple and complex GA Planes I'm talking about. Commercial aircraft have their own set of rules.
I use full flaps because I always come in hot af lol. Never fails. When I try to come in at the correct speed I stall because I'm a noob lol.
I always use 20 degrees (don’t want a stall spin) unless I’m dealing with a crazy crosswind (Florida pilot) but yeah I always see the simulator pilots using full flaps.
I go full flaps the whole flight just to challenge myself
@@livingmodern i also go gear down aswell, it’s just for some of us🤷♂️
My cirrus is full flaps for landing, by the book
Kip, Can’t emphasize enough how much I loved they way you have explained Rnav and LPV. A BIG Thank You!
The flight sim community thanks you.
My sentiments exactly.
Me too!
Finally I understand the differences between RNAV/VNAV and ILS. Professional tutorial. Thanks for this!
Thank you Kip. I always learn a lot viewing your tutorials. You are a great teacher.
UPDATE: Since this video was posted (showing the NXi way back on version 0.1.0), the procedure for arming VNAV changed slightly. You must first change your selected altitude first, THEN press the VNV button to enable VNAV. At 13:04 in this video, I was able to do it the opposite way, but that is no longer the case. I explain this change here in the NXi 0.6.0 video: th-cam.com/video/Zh8VjCeTsm8/w-d-xo.html
When you initially set up VNAV, the altitudes are shown in white on the flight plan view. In the original G1000, those white altitudes need to be switched from white to large blue font for the VNAV to use them. If the altitudes are left in white, that indicates that it is an informational only atitude. Everything else looked good.
Great Tutorial, and this has helped me so much to understand not just how RNAV works, but how to make a succesful approach, and to understand the approach charts. I have actually bookmarked this video for future reference.
This is an EXCELLENT tutorial. I love the way that you explain every acronym and don't quickly make adjustments that you don't explain (many other FS TH-camrs are guilty of that). You give exactly the level of detail that I want. But even a Persian carpet must contain a fault, to signal that it does not attempt to attain perfection, which can only exist in the mind of God, and in this case the fault is that you consistently mispronounce CUTSA as CUSTA. You have a subscriber for life, or at least until I lose interest in flight simming.
Thank you, and thanks for the laugh 😂
Agreed this felt like being with a really good flight/simulator instructor. I really learned a lot. However, the mispronunciation isn’t going to get you a flight violation lol. The descending below 2000’ and landing without a clearance will 😂. Thank You for the G1000 Nxi Gen Fam!
@@keithhoss4990 and without landing lights ;)
Is it just me but I find I have to view the approach videos several times to take all the details in?
Kip on the Ground: Kip, this is an excellent video by you. I commend you on your very clear instructions, slow speech just right so we can follow and understand as we are being taught. You are very precise and methodical with no nonsense mentality which is the quality of a true teacher. I see so many videos of those who are too rapid in all they do and leads to a lot of waisted time and effort on their part. You cover all the important steps to help and assist the student to become successful. I definitely liked, subscribed and hit the bell. Thank you so much. Greatly appreciated.
Yeah cool, I've always wanted to know this since Flight Simulator 2004. I will practice this in the coming weeks. I'll have to watch the video a few times to really understand it,But thank you very much.
Thank you for posting this excellent educational video. Cheers.
Thanks so much for this this really cleared things up on RNAV and using Vertical guidance .
Thank you Kip. I always learn a lot viewing your tutorials easy to follow Thanks for the effort.
@6:23 - WAAS signal goes from WAAS geostationary satellites to G1000 GPS/WAAS antenna. it’s not necessary to place any equipment at airports to broadcast WAAS signal. KTEX Instrument Approach Procedures do not have LPV and LNAV/VNAV because they do not provide lower minima in comparison to published LP MDA category. (Probably because of the terrain around the airport). Even if you have precise vertical guidance from WAAS you still need to use LP MDA minima.
Thank you clear and to the point. Extremely useful. Jens
Good stuff as ever, no fluff just relevant information.
This one is the first video I watch from your channel, and I must say I’m glad to have found such as plain, clear and detailed explanation I was looking for. I think I’m gonna search for more interesting content and, eventually, I’ll be subscribing to your channel soon. So far so good! Thank you!
Just downloaded the NXI so ty so much for this tutorial!
You rock! Exactly the thoroughness I was looking for. Subscribing.
By far the best video. Definitely helped that you used the plane I use all the time. Thanks man
Kip awesome awesome video I know how to do ILS approaches but I never played around with Rnav too much and I just installed the NXI GPS so I'm trying to get familiarized with that. Very detailed video, thanks so much.
Very good tutorial! I know I'll refer to this video again. I saw the GPS available for download but wasn't sure about it. This video makes me feel more confident so I will get it. Thanks for the tutorial. Very thorough and concise!
I think it's pretty amazing for what's essentially a beta release. Knowing that the NXi will become the future default G1000 in the sim (without having to install it via the marketplace) makes me want to watch it every step of the way.
You legend, hoped that you would do this :D
I didnt know you could reply using the keyboard numbers without opening the ATC window. Also I didnt know the white bar on the Airspeed strip in the PFD meant full flap range. I suspected tho
Great video. I’ve watched it like 10 times. When are departure procedures used? A lot of these tutorials don’t mention it.
Fantastic tutorial, you explained very well, thank you very much.
I really appreciate your tutorials. They are always super explanatory and easy to follow. Thanks for the effort.
Hi, thanx for this amazing video. it helped me a lot on how the g1000 works. I do still have a smal issue when i set my altitude in a C172 it does not use exact numbers like 1000 or 2500 ft, i think it always uses the altitude it is at at the airport and puts the ALT input on top if it. so i will have my alt set at 1092ft per example, but i want it to be 1000ft. the only way to work around this is hit the alt hold button when i cross the 1000 ft marker. . i hope this makes sense ? do you have any idea what im doing wrong?
Thank you for giving us this very useful clip. I spent a few hours trying to follow your route with the exact same equipment today, with G1000 Nxi at the latest version (currently V0.50). At first, pressing the VNV button didn't activate the VPTH. First, I needed to lower the selected altitude (2000ft in this case) to enable the VNV button. Just a tip for others who might experience the same problem.
Yep, this was a change made in version 0.5.0 I believe, so that is the new way :-) Apparently that's how the real NXi works!
Thanx your comment helped me skip the head scratching stage lol.
I know this is a few months old now, but this was a great tutorial! One question: when you tried to arm APR, you couldn't. I didn't quite understand why. And you never tried again later.
I found this vid from a link shared on the WT NXi Discord - Excellent tutorial! And you did a great job explaining the difference between VNAV and GP and when one transitions to the other.
Great video , want to see more of this...
This was good, though you kinda skipped over the main differences between LPV/LP and LNAV, which is that the lateral guidance on an LPV gets "more sensitive" as you get closer to the runway, where as LNAV does not. Whether that's important info or not, in the sim, probably doesn't matter because with the way the sim is set up with all these modern avionics, you can't really "choose" to fly LNAV, where as in older aircraft you are typically much more relegated to LNAV.
Its a shame to see the vertical path of so many GPS approaches still broken (which is why you were super low) the PAPI should line up with the approach assuming both are the same angle (typically 3 degrees). It looks like the GPS path is intercepting the very leading end of the runway, which isn't how it is supposed to be.
The papi was saying you were high, was because you were, you landed like 2000 feet beyond the touchdown zone. The touchdown zone is the 2 fat white bars painted on the runway, parallel to where the PAPI's are (aka "the captains bars"). In a C208, not a big deal on a big runway though.
Fantastic video as always. Hope the FAA police weren’t too hard on you!
Kip does it again! Excellent video. You are very articulate and your love of aviation is evident. One thing though... I could never get my RNAV to work. The diamond never showed up. I can't figure out how to activate the approach or do you have to activate it? It's greyed out. Also, I was using Little Navmap and/or Navigraph to make my flight plan. So it currently only works if you make the flight plan inside the world map only? Thanks.
Thank you! You can program your flight plan manually in the NXi, but it can be a little buggy right now (I've had menus get stuck open). I also couldn't request IFR clearance from ATC once I programmed the flight plan either, so because of those things I used the World Map for this video -- it seems to work consistently right now. If Little Navmap or Navigraph allow you to export the flight plan (PLN file), you can load that file into the MSFS World Map by clicking "More" at the bottom of the world map, then "Load File", and choose the PLN file to load your custom flight plan.
Which approach are you flying specifically? Does it have vertical guidance (LPV or LNAV/VNAV?). If it's an LP or LNAV approach, it will not have vertical guidance.
@@KipOnTheGround Thanks for the response, Kip. I can't remember off hand what kind of RNAV approach I randomly picked but I will fly the same one you used in this video later today and see what happens. Yes, my imported flight plans are PLN files so that wasn't the problem. Oh, I love that VNAV. You did a nice explanation of that. I didn't know how to use it yesterday. I use in the CJ4 working class mod model and it's a lot of fun. I like finding a approach with a lot of restrictions and watch the CJ4 VNAV work. I just control the throttle like you did with the Caravan. Very fun. Thanks again.
@@GumperVanLier During the approach phase of the flight, you can look at the HSI on the PFD to see which type of RNAV approach is in use. To the right of the magenta "GPS" label it'll show LPV, LP, L/VNAV, LNAV, etc. LP and LNAV do not provide vertical guidance.
@@KipOnTheGround Thank you again. Yes, what a neat feature of the NXi.
Sorry to bother you again, Kit, but it didn't work. The VNAV worked which was neat. Funny, I had no altitude for Fosan like you did (3600) but mine started at Hedgi at 3000 and then 2000. It worked though but the RNAV diamond never appeared despite clicking the APPR button. Funny, the diamond appeared once I landed on the runway! I'm at a loss here. I may have to go back to the regular G1000 which I really don't want to do.
Very good content and perfect explanations! I have learned a lot with this video. Going to practice in VR now👍🏾
Great video on the new G1000. Just what I needed! Thanks for your clear and detailed descriptions and instructions. Can't wait to use this new knowledge!
I have watched is three or four times in the last few months. It has proved incredibly helpful for me because I knew nothing about RNAV approaches or how to fly them. This is among the most useful videos I have encountered. Excellent work!
24:53 "FULL FRAP"... what?... 🤔... 25:03 Ohhhh...
Not to mention CUSTA instead of CUTSA but still learned heaps
Hello,i am new to your channel et quite happy,very well explain,keep up the good work buddy.
This was great! Thank you :) Quick question: how did you turn off the giant tooltips that now appear when hover the mouse over a control?
General Options / Accessibility / Pilot Interaction System. There is an option to change from the new mode ("lock") to the old mode ("legacy"). So if you hate the new way, you can switch back to legacy. Under that option, there are several options for the tooltips. I turned both the "INSTANT" tooltip options to "OFF". I personally like the new way, since the click-drag interaction lets you make large changes easily. The only thing to get used to is the mechanic of holding left mouse button, then right clicking to press a button in (applies to buttons like the Heading dial or FMS knob).
Absolutely perfect explanation once again, thank you very much. Going to try this out right now! :)
Top quality video. Subscribed 😀
To my understanding GLONASS is a satelite network like Galileo in Europe, not something comparable to WAAS.
Very useful. Like the table reference. Now maybe I can do something besides an old school ILS approach. :P
subscribed - super super helpful - learned so much
What would cause APR mode to not engage? VNAV seems to be working fine as I start my descent and then I start hearing these continuous beeps which I assume are for the glide slope but APR mode doesn't come on and my plane just continues to fly over the runway at 3,000 feet (the minimum in the flight plan) and never go down farther.
Your video is the first decent RNAV approach using MSFS 2020 I've seen on TH-cam. Major props to you, Kip. My favorite part starts at 22:05 LPV approach, where you press the APR button to get the VPTH GP indication, capturing the glide path, thank you for explaining this.
Thanks Scott! The NXi is amazing. Can’t wait for all those inop buttons to start lighting up with each update 😆
"Going to update the altimeter by hitting B" Well that's cheating, lol. I know, getting an altimeter setting from ATIS or AWOS is not the focus of this video. Great Job!
Haha. There are actually bad bugs with live weather right now where the temperatures change randomly while flying, so I’ve been doing this a lot lately since it’s buggy (rather than trying to get the latest ATIS multiple times during the approach -- if it's even accurate right now).
But to be fair, I really don't check the weather as often as I should. When flying on PilotEdge in the past, I definitely did this as it was max-realism mode :-) Same goes for setting the missed approach procedure altitude as another comment pointed out. Lots of practice to be done!
Excellent video. Learned a lot. Thank you. Now I can't wait for the WT G3000/5000 to catch up to the 1000.
USA: Wide Area Augmentation System (WAAS)
Japan: Michibiki Satellite Augmentation System (MSAS)
India: GPS-aided GEO-Augmented Navigation (GAGAN)
China: BeiDou SBAS (BDSBAS) (in development)
South Korea: Korea Augmentation Satellite System (KASS) (in development)
Russia: System for Differential Corrections and Monitoring (SDCM) (in development)
ASECNA: SBAS for Africa and Indian Ocean (A-SBAS) (in development)
Australia and New Zealand: Southern Positioning Augmentation Network (SouthPAN) (in development)
I'll be getting back into Flight sim but it's quite daunting - I'll fly airliners or prop planes but don't have much direction and unsure about how to use the systems.
This is a brilliantly articulated video that is straight forward to follow, and it's made me very excited to jump back in when I can. Even short distances near my home city are now possible!
Kip you are an excellent instructor. Following you on this LPV flight plan is a very pleasant and well informed educational journey. I am a very rusty IFR rated pilot trying to get myself back to proficiency level and following your teaching method is simply confidence building and providing me a feeling that, thanks to you, I will get back to proficiency. You just can’ t buy that feeling. Thank you for your time and energy.
Kip on the Ground: Today is 1-12-2022. After learning from your videos, I have made a couple of successful ILS flights using the G1000NXI in the Cessna 172. Runways Locator intercepted ok and also the Glideslope at the FAFs also captured successfully. Your videos have really helped. Will try flying this same course with VNAV. have not used VNAV yet. Two questions; 1. When you enable VNAV (At cruise altitude I assume.), do you also click NAV MODE on for this? 2. Do you key in the runway frequency for this RNAV approach? Apparently LOC 1 was not applicable for this RNAV GPS approrach. Thank you KIP so much. I do experience ATC wrong information at times, like landing at another airport while ATC continually gives me the takeoff airport instructions like, remain in the pattern when that is not even applicable.
Anything bar ILS confuses the crap out of me. You helped alot.
Best description of how to fly RNAV LPV that I've seen.
Well, that excellent tutorial has earned you another subscriber. I am a little conflicted as I love flying the Milviz PC-6 and have also been trying to get to grips with the NXi but sadly these two don't (yet?) play nice together. It's incredible how far flight simming has come in the last ten years or so.
Another beginner question, why you haven't change CDI from GPS to LOC1 when in approach mode? I thought if you want to use ILS it's necessary to catch NAV1 radio frequency from airport and use LOC1 mode.
The start of the video(the nerdy stuff) is absolutely what I needed. As a non-pilot work on installing real life cockpit suite, I have a hard time understanding those LPV, LNAV, VNAV, RNAV when demonstrating the system capability.
One question remains, since it cannot be simulated in the sim, how to determine which approach performance that you will have and on which stage of the flight that you will know it. Will the ATC tell you that it is LNAV only today ? The G500 TXi system I played around with, on the GTN 750Xi has the predict RAIM capability, which you can input your destination and estimated arrival time, and it will have some output that I have not looked into further. Might try it on my Garmin Trainer later.
I'm trying to replicate this to practice and test RNAV. However, when I set this up and bring up the flight plan menu, I don't see any speeds in the Active VNV Profile window.
Additionally, how do you deal with the conflict between the VNV doing its thing as soon as you hit the TOD and ATC telling you you're not at the correct altitude? For example, they still wanted me at 12,000ft even up to ROZZE. Maybe I wait for them to give me the go ahead before I click the VNV button?
Oct, 31st' 2021. VNAV not working anymore on any plane! The plane won't follow the VNAV path, you need to do all by yourself using VS mode.
Kick me when this crap will be fixed please!
So, if I am in a WAAS SBAS, with RNAV GPS to RNP standards, I can perform an LPV, LNAV or VNAV, depending on the STAR as shown in the TAP. Clear? Just kidding - good video.
Another excellent video. I think I got the VNAV thing now. Going over the dedicated panel in the flight plan was very useful.
Do you have video where you cover the phases of flight? What it really means when CDI says "TERM", what other possible values there are and how the Garmin has information on type of approach if you set it up (and inspect/edit it) from within the cockpit instead of the magic of having the flight plan be automatically generated.
Hi, This is Zumo from East Afrika Tanzania, please can you sent to me a picture of a DvD for this Microsoft flight simulator 2020 so I can buy it through Amazon, I can't download it into my PC as we have poor internet, thanks brother.
You made a comment on the PAPI lights for this RNAV approach. PAPI lights give inaccurate indications below a certain altitude. Rely on altitude, rate of descent and visual clues. However, this is for real life. Whether PAPI indications in the SIM are modeled in the same way is unknown.
Well now i get it ! mother of god... no one has been this detailed in the ILS landing so far. So FD (flight Director) is that needed always ? did you engage that ? Also I wonder why you need to ADD the NAV COMM info if you have the Approach loaded and "Activated".
Sometimes I like to free fly and DIRECT TO a close airport and set up an RNAV approach. Is it true that VNAV doesn't control altitudes in this situation or is there a glitch in the G1000 NXI software?
Hello. A huge thanks for sharing your knowledge. Keep it up !! A French Simmer. 👍👍👏👏
Funny to see you flying here in sim! Just flew RNAV 17 missed at KCON and RNAV 27 into KBVY in real life yesterday afternoon.
Ran through this turtorial twice. Everything works as expected, but when once the glideslope is intercepted and the aircraft starts to descend the throttle stops responding appears to be stuck at 16% with speed at 65kts. With the aircraft going lower than the expected 3 degrees I had to disable the AP 3.5 NM out and hand fly it in. Fighting the engine all the way, which comes back to life within half a mile and is erratic. Anyone have the same issue? I thought the AP did not control the throttle on the Cessna 208.
Was the minimum at 480 only to have the visual indicator on your altimeter? Or does it have some function involving disconnect of AP, missed approach, go-around flight plan?
Yo, nice video! How about LNVA/VNAV approaches? I can`t get vertical guidance! Can anyone help?
Awesome tutorial....but...we have a number for you to copy for possible pilot deviation..please advise when ready to copy.. xp
Very Good.
@3:13 - Russia has SDCM - The System for Differential Corrections and Monitoring.
Sorry for sounded like such a dumbas but is RNAV the same thing as LPV, I always see these different options for different airports, but never know what the best approach is for gps guidence and which ones have approach autopilot. Also sometimes, ATC tells me to maintain a heading that is a couple degrees off my gps line, should I listen to air traffic control or continue letting autopilot navigation do its thing?
Amazing explanation, just missing turn off the flight director, it’s a before landing check list step.
Hi Kip. Another great video. Thanks. I just picked the game up again for the first time in months and noticed the update to the G1000. How come when I select an approach phase now that it dosnt connet to the rest of my flight plan. I like doing the flight plan from the plane rather than the main menu (if that makes any sense to you?) From a basic user😅👌
This is very helpful for me. How can you zoom in at 26:11. Which key must I use? (I am most of the time struggling with the signs on the ground where to roll)
I've followed the video, but mu vnab profile isn't loading into the g1000. What could I be doing wrong?
do u know if garmin's autoland and synthetic vision will be implemented in 2024 version
14:10 When you are selecting your alt bug to 2000, while having the autopilot altitude hold active, wouldn't that automatically start your descent to 2000 ? Is the system smart enough to know that you are not descending until the TOD point hence it ignores the altitude bug changes ?
@21:40 by the time we get to the altitude of 480 degrees. That’s my favourite altitude
I want to buy a desktop computer mainly to run my Microsoft flight sim , what is the recommended PC ( specifications) i should look into?
Kip I don't know what's going on unless it's just the King Air but I was trying to do an r nav approach LPV and it would not work and I don't know why the nav pulled will not work neither maybe something I'm doing wrong
Thanks for a good video. I´l come back to it once I find a manual of the G1000 NXi. Bye for now.
I’ve followed these steps but the active vnv profile isn’t auto filling for me and so the vnv navigation will not activate when I click the button it just turns back off. Anyone have any ideas as to why this might be?
Is there anyway to adjust the purple 3600 altitude, when I create a flp its locked in at 8100 feet no matter where I fly from and it doesn't match the vav log at all
When ATC says 3000 set 3000! Do that first then go back to typing 🤦🏼♂️
I love this because i was interested in how to do this in flight sim, but also because i work at KMHT irl😂 so im constantly flying in and out of there in game
That was extremely helpfull and informative! Keep these kind of turorials coming!
Great video. Thankyou
Excellent tutorial. Looks like I don’t need a physical panel. Hard to use control knobs in VR
is there an update for the Snow like clouds in MSFS ? or 3rd party fix ? They are a little distracting . Like snow cones or melting ice.
Kip - is this still working? I can't seem to get it to work properly currently. Previously I was able to do so some of the time.
very good - I jump in the cockpit now and try to repeat this .wish me luck and thanks for this video - keep on sharing these - great help for newbies like me - cheers again
How do aircraft not crash into each other while all following these same precise gps fixes? Do you normally have to wait for clearance to hit that initial approach fix or something? If so, what do you do if you have to wait?
Very nicely done tutorial and really enjoyed the entire video. Hope you put out some more piloting content as i use youtube alot trying to learn about piloting for msfs2020. Again thumbs up on the video and hope to see more in the future.
What kinds of topics do you want to see next?
Thanks for the video! Was waiting for your coverage of the NXI.
RNAV has always been easier for me, but I'm trying to get better at the others so I can comfortably land anywhere.
GPS and VNAV should be magenta in the FMA, hope they fix that soon.