The reason it has you go to the CLT VOR is that if you lose communication you have a clearance to fly the full ILS approach from the CLT VOR which is one of the IAF. Normally with ATC you would be getting vectors to the final approach coarse well before getting to CLT
Nice video! My tablet does not show the OFP Import button on the bottom left in either one of the two screens you used. Is there a hidden button to bring it up?
You can toggle that on with the software included. I believe it's the "Use PFPX/Simbrief for fuel/route planning and ACARS OFP". It's under "Simulator options"
Very nicely explained. Just to correct you on something T/C OAT is actually the outside air temperature at the top of climb. So you should be entering a value like -50 or whatever it is.
Also the WIND in the center console note pad is wind on the ground. The wind in the FMC is asking for in the PERF the wind at Cruise which you can get from the Simbrief OFP. So both Wind and Temp are at cruise to help define the optimum performance at cruise.
Is there a way to configure it as a default plane? You just launch it and it is ready to fly...like any other does even PMDG?. I'm not interested at all in touching every knob in the cockpit I don't even fly inside the cockpit. If that is not possible then I'm not interested. Thanks
When I tested this, planning your flight using the in-game planner wasn't working, but I remember starting in the runway with the engines running. Flying this from the outside might be a bit hard during takeoff.
From cold and dark like your scenario, when I enter 6000 in the Altitude for Autopilot and click to set, the readout gives me 'ALT', not '=60' as your shows. Am I skipping a step configuring the Autopilot?
That's an option you can toggle in the load manager. In real life it's optional, so you can toggle that on or off for this addon. I like having it on. You have to change this setting for each livery you want, it's called "show armed altitude as flight level".
I think it's around the 8 minutes mark. If I remember correctly I showed how you can import your plan and then after I filled it in manually to show how it's done. I had to fix the route so I ended up deleting a leg.
My OFP straight up refuses to import. I dragged the mdr and ACARS files to the folder and tried uploading it 3 times but it's not changing the flight plan off of whatever default file it's giving me. How do I fix this?
@@Byemoonmen yes, there were 2 folders that I found for the Maddog X and I tried going through both of them. It was coming through the load manager but not the EFB itself.
The load manager uses the routes folder inside your documents. The fmc uses the one inside the community folder. Inside the load manager you have to enagle "use pfpx/simbrief for route..."
You can toggle that on with the software included. I believe it's the "Use PFPX/Simbrief for fuel/route planning and ACARS OFP". It's under "Simulator options"
You can toggle that on with the software included. I believe it's the "Use PFPX/Simbrief for fuel/route planning and ACARS OFP". It's under "Simulator options"
Never did find that routes folder but you helped me understand a lot of things that I didn't know before!
Very useful video! Many thanks to the author!!
Glad it was helpful! You are welcome!
This is amazing thank you.
You're very welcome!
The reason it has you go to the CLT VOR is that if you lose communication you have a clearance to fly the full ILS approach from the CLT VOR which is one of the IAF. Normally with ATC you would be getting vectors to the final approach coarse well before getting to CLT
That's good to know!
@@Byemoonmen I should have also said that I very much enjoyed your video....
I'm happy to hear that!
Helpful and informational comments are always welcome.
Nice video! My tablet does not show the OFP Import button on the bottom left in either one of the two screens you used. Is there a hidden button to bring it up?
You can toggle that on with the software included. I believe it's the "Use PFPX/Simbrief for fuel/route planning and ACARS OFP". It's under "Simulator options"
@@Byemoonmen Thank You! :)
Very nicely explained. Just to correct you on something T/C OAT is actually the outside air temperature at the top of climb. So you should be entering a value like -50 or whatever it is.
Thanks! I guess I should be happy it didn't affect me too much, I've been using it like that since I saw the OAT and assumed it was ground OAT
@@Byemoonmen haha yeah it’s not going to cause you to crash or anything 😂 Just a bit of factual info more than anything.
Also the WIND in the center console note pad is wind on the ground. The wind in the FMC is asking for in the PERF the wind at Cruise which you can get from the Simbrief OFP. So both Wind and Temp are at cruise to help define the optimum performance at cruise.
Is there a way to configure it as a default plane? You just launch it and it is ready to fly...like any other does even PMDG?. I'm not interested at all in touching every knob in the cockpit I don't even fly inside the cockpit. If that is not possible then I'm not interested. Thanks
When I tested this, planning your flight using the in-game planner wasn't working, but I remember starting in the runway with the engines running.
Flying this from the outside might be a bit hard during takeoff.
@@Byemoonmen Ok thanks so I figured it can't be set to fly/work as the defualts, thanks for replying.
From cold and dark like your scenario, when I enter 6000 in the Altitude for Autopilot and click to set, the readout gives me 'ALT', not '=60' as your shows. Am I skipping a step configuring the Autopilot?
That's an option you can toggle in the load manager. In real life it's optional, so you can toggle that on or off for this addon. I like having it on.
You have to change this setting for each livery you want, it's called "show armed altitude as flight level".
Is there a tutorial on how to fly direct, deleting or adding a waypoint into the FMC on the MD 80?
I checked this video and I added the route and deleted a waypoint
@@Byemoonmen thanks. Most have fast forward. Will watch again
I think it's around the 8 minutes mark. If I remember correctly I showed how you can import your plan and then after I filled it in manually to show how it's done. I had to fix the route so I ended up deleting a leg.
My OFP straight up refuses to import. I dragged the mdr and ACARS files to the folder and tried uploading it 3 times but it's not changing the flight plan off of whatever default file it's giving me. How do I fix this?
Are you dragging them to the routes folder inside the maddog folder that's inside your community folder or inside your documents?
@@Byemoonmen yes, there were 2 folders that I found for the Maddog X and I tried going through both of them. It was coming through the load manager but not the EFB itself.
The load manager uses the routes folder inside your documents. The fmc uses the one inside the community folder. Inside the load manager you have to enagle "use pfpx/simbrief for route..."
The "Import OFP" option isnt on my EFB? Any reason why that may be?
You can toggle that on with the software included. I believe it's the "Use PFPX/Simbrief for fuel/route planning and ACARS OFP". It's under "Simulator options"
Re you sure you should drop both files in the aircraft routes file on the community? What about the one on the Documents folder?
That's what I've been doing. The one in the documents folder is used for the flight planner in the Maddog software.
Yes,im not seeing import OFP anywhere on my screen either.
You can toggle that on with the software included. I believe it's the "Use PFPX/Simbrief for fuel/route planning and ACARS OFP". It's under "Simulator options"
Brave and nicely done. Too dear for me unfortunately.
Thank you! It's definitely not cheap, but I have to say I'm having a lot of fun flying it.
It keeps saying "Invalid entry" when I try to put the fuel or ZFW in the PERF INIT page. Any idea why?
How are you trying to typing those values?