pssst - if you want to change the fields at the top of the navigation display, here's how - jonbeckett.substack.com/p/how-to-show-dtg-distance-to-go-and
Brilliant - as always. And superbly presented - no fluff, just all the essential details and a voice I could listen to all day. Talk to the BBC, you could make a fortune!
A few quick tips for you and others learning this. 1. There’s a nice “collapse airways” choice available at any time (not just while editing airways) while using the MENU button. It tidies up your flight plan by just showing “Airway - Airway Name.Exit Waypoint” instead of all those intermediate waypoints. You can use the MENU button again to expand the airway any time you like. 2. To turn the “inner FMS knob”, you can just place your cursor over the end of the knob rather than hunting for that little curved arrow, it works the same but is much easier to select. 3. That same knob tip also applies to any of the RANGE knobs, or Autopilot knobs, or any knobs, just use the end of the knob, it’s much easier especially when looking from a regular upright cockpit position. Though sometimes for knobs without an inner/outer knob, the curved arrow is just as easy.
My problem was with airways . I did not know how to enter it into the flight plan, but after your explanation, I understood and tried it and it worked.
Great video as always. My day job is truck driving so I put your videos on, turn off the screen and listen to you, so please continue chatting away and describing what you are doing in great detail and I can listen when driving up the M1 😂
Jonathan, awesome tutorial - thanks for taking the time to do it. I';ve only started to play around with the G1000 after buying the P2012 so this sort of video really does help. Very much appreciated............... Graeme
Aside from being super helpful, it was slightly freaky to find this video programming the same start and endpoints as I was trying to. :p Any chance you could make a video doing the same in the touchscreen Garmin type screens in aircraft like the King Air 350? The UI is completely different and I can't find anywhere to load airways.
Thanks again Jonathan... 👍🏻 Just one question if I may... I noticed that once the plan is complete it displays the waypoint altitudes - but I'm also aware that for VNAV purposes they're the wrong colour - white instead of teal. Besides going through each waypoint and manually editing the altitude - is there a switch or a setting that validates all the levels together? Thank you! 😊
In the notes of the video, I wrote "I only go as far as programming the lateral routing" - VNAV is another subject for another day :) It's worth noting that the altitudes are often wrong.
Where can you find the total nm remaining to the end of the route? It’s tedious to add up all the legs and I don’t see an option in settings to give me a DTG for the flight plan, only one for the distance to the next waypoint. Am I missing something?
It's REALLY well hidden. 1. Look at the navigation display. 2. Click the FPL button (which shows the flight plan) 3. Roll the outer FMS knob (which pops up a dialog at the bottom right) 4. Roll the outer FMS knob one click LEFT (which shows the Aux page group) 5. Roll the inner knob to select "System Setup" (which will make the system setup screen appear behind the dialog) 6. Press the FMS knob in, to make the cursor appear on the system setup page 7. Roll the outer FMS knob to move the cursor to the top right group of fields - "MFD Data Bar Fields" 8. Change "ETE" to "DTG" 9. Buy me a coffee :) :)
Wish i had the means of getting little NavMap. Id love to do a proper pre plan before embarking on a flight. At the moment I'm just setting Departures and Arrivals from taxi on the Flight Plan then having to make changes to my Flight Plan when ATC tells me to take "x" approach or arrival and just programming what ATC tells me. Im more than likely doing most things wrong but ive managed to go from Birmingham to Toulouse, France over 3 flights kind od just winging it 😂 but i am missing the Immersion that your entire preplanned routes consist.
@@jonbeckett thanks for the comment! My issue is not having a working PC to run NavMap on, so I'm playing off of Xbox Series S. Does sim brief work on Andriod?
Do you do lessons on Discord? Also, is there a way to save a flight plan I've spent a lot of time putting into the G1000? I see there's a "memory card" there!
Brilliant video as usual. But that's something I don't really understand. I have watched several of your clips and you always enter the ILS in the flight plan. But still, as a pilot you have to do something in the air when you start the approach to activate the ILS. When and how does this happen? Yes, I'm a noob but I'm still learning :)
I tend to fly the ILS by hand most of the time - there are a few basic things to keep in mind: 1. Tune the NAV radio to the appropriate ILS frequency 2. Set the HSI to use LOC or VOR mode - not FMS or GPS (varies from aircraft to aircraft) 3. Turn the course to match the runway direction (if on a rotary HSI, and if it lets you) - just to help with orientation. If you're using autopilot and want the plane to fly down the glideslope, get the plane in roughly the right place (for a 3 degree glideslope more than 8 miles out, flying runway direction, level, lined up, at 2500ft AGL) - then activate approach mode on the autopilot BEFORE you cross through the glideslope.
I understand but still not. I lost myself relatively quickly. But why do you have to set the ILS/NAV freq when the MCDU has already received this data from the flight plan in the world map. In my world it should be enough to activate aprc when you start approaching, maybe not that simple. Maybe you have a beginner's guide on this? It feels like overkill to always have to look at the approach chart when the data is already available.@@jonbeckett
Hoi Jonathan I have a problem, the waypoints like PEDIG on the Little NavMap are not named, only when I am on the waypoint can I see this information! Is this a wrong setting?
@@jonbeckett Thank you for the reply! I thought I could make a flight schedule on my laptop and save it there for XPlane on my other computer, therefore I couldn't load the database! But why on the G1000 is the flight direction down instead of up?
An “efficiency” suggestion, after watching your vid again. 1. Enter your Airports and Runways 2. Enter the GIRL3X.GIRLI SID 3. Enter the SILVA.SILV1C STAR (you can also enter an approach here or not, depending on what you desire) 4. Go below GIRLI and enter the P18 airway to POL (POL is now a menu selection rather than a manual waypoint entry.) 3. Go below POL and enter the M605 airway to SILVA (SILVA is now a menu selection rather than a manual waypoint entry.) (note that the P18 airway entries will automatically edit themselves to go from POL to FINMA and not add a duplicate SILVA, since SILVA is already in the flight plan from the SILV1C STAR. And the route WILL properly connect from FINMA to SILVA This sets up your entire plan without having to also manually enter GIRLI and SILVA as enroute waypoints. The thing about airways is they do all the work for you, if you let them. Happy flying!
pssst - if you want to change the fields at the top of the navigation display, here's how - jonbeckett.substack.com/p/how-to-show-dtg-distance-to-go-and
Please keep making these 'beginner focused' videos! Very helpful to people like me 👍
Count me in
Brilliant - as always. And superbly presented - no fluff, just all the essential details and a voice I could listen to all day. Talk to the BBC, you could make a fortune!
A few quick tips for you and others learning this.
1. There’s a nice “collapse airways” choice available at any time (not just while editing airways) while using the MENU button. It tidies up your flight plan by just showing “Airway - Airway Name.Exit Waypoint” instead of all those intermediate waypoints. You can use the MENU button again to expand the airway any time you like.
2. To turn the “inner FMS knob”, you can just place your cursor over the end of the knob rather than hunting for that little curved arrow, it works the same but is much easier to select.
3. That same knob tip also applies to any of the RANGE knobs, or Autopilot knobs, or any knobs, just use the end of the knob, it’s much easier especially when looking from a regular upright cockpit position. Though sometimes for knobs without an inner/outer knob, the curved arrow is just as easy.
My problem was with airways . I did not know how to enter it into the flight plan, but after your explanation, I understood and tried it and it worked.
As always very informative and most helpful JB! It's no wonder I can't wait for your next videos! Thanks again!
Thanks!
Thank you! :)
Thank-you Jonathan. I have no excuses now 😀
Great video as always. My day job is truck driving so I put your videos on, turn off the screen and listen to you, so please continue chatting away and describing what you are doing in great detail and I can listen when driving up the M1 😂
Thanks for the upload as always Jonathan
Jonathan, awesome tutorial - thanks for taking the time to do it. I';ve only started to play around with the G1000 after buying the P2012 so this sort of video really does help. Very much appreciated............... Graeme
Love the DA 62. Nice job!
Hello Jon ! Another good video, learned heaps…thank you !
👍🏽Awesome G1000 series. Thanks!
Thank you! :)
Great step by step video! Much appreciated.
EXCELLENT video!
Very helpful 👍
Thank you!
Great presentation. Thanks
We never had to bother with this in the old TIGER MOTH.
But then you wouldn't have been flying SIDs and STARs in a tiger moth :)
Excellent as always 👍
Aside from being super helpful, it was slightly freaky to find this video programming the same start and endpoints as I was trying to. :p Any chance you could make a video doing the same in the touchscreen Garmin type screens in aircraft like the King Air 350? The UI is completely different and I can't find anywhere to load airways.
Great, thank you!
I’m going to try programming in my Cessna Caravan G1000NXi, instead of using the World Map. 😎
Great tutorial. Does the G1000 check for discontinuity in the route?
No,just out of Biggin Hill up to the Thames and around back to Biggin.
We did it just for fun.
Miss those days back in the sixties and seventies.
great video as always. I have a question. Is there any way to to a flight plan with just GPS cordinates? on the g1000 ?
No. Not yet.
you can do it by making the gps user defined waypoints
Thanks again Jonathan... 👍🏻
Just one question if I may...
I noticed that once the plan is complete it displays the waypoint altitudes - but I'm also aware that for VNAV purposes they're the wrong colour - white instead of teal.
Besides going through each waypoint and manually editing the altitude - is there a switch or a setting that validates all the levels together?
Thank you! 😊
In the notes of the video, I wrote "I only go as far as programming the lateral routing" - VNAV is another subject for another day :) It's worth noting that the altitudes are often wrong.
@@jonbeckett Aah ok - thank you! 😊
What is that panel you are using at 3.44 in the video to adjust the sound level? It looks interesting.
OBS - it's the program I use to record videos.
Nothing native to MSFS that works while flying then, hmm?
Where can you find the total nm remaining to the end of the route? It’s tedious to add up all the legs and I don’t see an option in settings to give me a DTG for the flight plan, only one for the distance to the next waypoint. Am I missing something?
It's REALLY well hidden.
1. Look at the navigation display.
2. Click the FPL button (which shows the flight plan)
3. Roll the outer FMS knob (which pops up a dialog at the bottom right)
4. Roll the outer FMS knob one click LEFT (which shows the Aux page group)
5. Roll the inner knob to select "System Setup" (which will make the system setup screen appear behind the dialog)
6. Press the FMS knob in, to make the cursor appear on the system setup page
7. Roll the outer FMS knob to move the cursor to the top right group of fields - "MFD Data Bar Fields"
8. Change "ETE" to "DTG"
9. Buy me a coffee :)
:)
Thanks! Coffee coming up! That’s also for your excellent Vulcan Nav tutorial.
Wish i had the means of getting little NavMap.
Id love to do a proper pre plan before embarking on a flight.
At the moment I'm just setting Departures and Arrivals from taxi on the Flight Plan then having to make changes to my Flight Plan when ATC tells me to take "x" approach or arrival and just programming what ATC tells me.
Im more than likely doing most things wrong but ive managed to go from Birmingham to Toulouse, France over 3 flights kind od just winging it 😂 but i am missing the Immersion that your entire preplanned routes consist.
Use Simbrief! It will actually teach you a lot more than just using LittleNavMap - because it will work the route out for you.
@@jonbeckett thanks for the comment!
My issue is not having a working PC to run NavMap on, so I'm playing off of Xbox Series S.
Does sim brief work on Andriod?
@@cluelessgod97 Simbrief is browser based.
@@jonbeckett cheers Jon. Much appreciated.
Between your videos and Simbrief, should help me learn a lot. 🫡
@@jonbeckett okay, Simbrief is amazing! Definitely very helpful and surprisingly user friendly!
Thanks again dude
Do you do lessons on Discord? Also, is there a way to save a flight plan I've spent a lot of time putting into the G1000? I see there's a "memory card" there!
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Brilliant video as usual. But that's something I don't really understand. I have watched several of your clips and you always enter the ILS in the flight plan. But still, as a pilot you have to do something in the air when you start the approach to activate the ILS. When and how does this happen? Yes, I'm a noob but I'm still learning :)
I tend to fly the ILS by hand most of the time - there are a few basic things to keep in mind:
1. Tune the NAV radio to the appropriate ILS frequency
2. Set the HSI to use LOC or VOR mode - not FMS or GPS (varies from aircraft to aircraft)
3. Turn the course to match the runway direction (if on a rotary HSI, and if it lets you) - just to help with orientation.
If you're using autopilot and want the plane to fly down the glideslope, get the plane in roughly the right place (for a 3 degree glideslope more than 8 miles out, flying runway direction, level, lined up, at 2500ft AGL) - then activate approach mode on the autopilot BEFORE you cross through the glideslope.
I understand but still not. I lost myself relatively quickly. But why do you have to set the ILS/NAV freq when the MCDU has already received this data from the flight plan in the world map. In my world it should be enough to activate aprc when you start approaching, maybe not that simple. Maybe you have a beginner's guide on this? It feels like overkill to always have to look at the approach chart when the data is already available.@@jonbeckett
@@TonyMontana-lh2zc the world map might have it, but that doesn't mean the GPS unit, the NAV radio, or the HSI has it :)
Hoi Jonathan
I have a problem, the waypoints like PEDIG on the Little NavMap are not named, only when I am on the waypoint can I see this information!
Is this a wrong setting?
Sounds like you need to load the database from the simulator into LittleNavMap - it's in the menus - "Load Database"
@@jonbeckett
Thank you for the reply!
I thought I could make a flight schedule on my laptop and save it there for XPlane on my other computer, therefore I couldn't load the database!
But why on the G1000 is the flight direction down instead of up?
JB flight school for sim pilots thanks
An “efficiency” suggestion, after watching your vid again.
1. Enter your Airports and Runways
2. Enter the GIRL3X.GIRLI SID
3. Enter the SILVA.SILV1C STAR (you can also enter an approach here or not, depending on what you desire)
4. Go below GIRLI and enter the P18 airway to POL (POL is now a menu selection rather than a manual waypoint entry.)
3. Go below POL and enter the M605 airway to SILVA (SILVA is now a menu selection rather than a manual waypoint entry.)
(note that the P18 airway entries will automatically edit themselves to go from POL to FINMA and not add a duplicate SILVA, since SILVA is already in the flight plan from the SILV1C STAR. And the route WILL properly connect from FINMA to SILVA
This sets up your entire plan without having to also manually enter GIRLI and SILVA as enroute waypoints. The thing about airways is they do all the work for you, if you let them.
Happy flying!
Yep - I guess the reason I often put the route in first is because I'm used to airliners, where you do the route first.