I toggled back and forth between standard and the othersetting on the PFD to see if it changed anything so that's not it but yeah, I have been kindof hacking my way through the learning process. The manual, like I mentioned is the actual boeing manual with side notes on what is not simulated or different than the real 777 (and there are not many). High quality graphics and I thing 95% accurate to the real thing. It is the 777 by Ramzzess & Philipp for x-plane. That is why I have resorted to this forum. I've been going through the manual and videos I can find on youtube but no luck yet. There are some basic tutorials I have found and I have watched several on how to setup the MCP and VNAV but they work for them of course and not for me (yet) there must be some little thing I am missing. Who is the author of the 777 you have? Did it come with an instruction manual or tutorial flight? That's not why it isn't descending, but it leads me to believe that you have to go through the manual and/or tutorial flights. Another thing I've noticed in several of your screen shots is that your altimeter is not properly set to standard (yellow "29.92" on PFD). Plan mode is to be used for stepping through your flight plan to make sure the waypoints are entered correctly. It's difficult to tell what is going on, as you have the navigation display in Plan mode instead of Map mode. I suggest you do the tutorial flights or read the manual section on VNAV. But I am guessing that your 777 came with a detailed manual and possibly a tutorial flight or two. I am not familiar with the particular version of the 777 you have, since I don't have X-Plane. When you set a lower altitude in the MCP altitude window, it should start to descend, but to either a) the first fixed altitude of a later waypoint (in larger than normal numbers) or the altitude you have set in the MCP altitude window, whichever is higher. At that point the FMC is expecting a lower altitude to begin the descent phase. The FMC should show the "reset MCP" message, which it is showing in your screen shot. In the cruise phase, you should see a Top of Descent (TOD or T/D) point (on the navigation screen and in the "progress" window of the FMC), which marks the beginning of the Descent phase. If the FMC is showing a cruise altitude of 30,000 ft, and the MCP altitude is set to 40,000, the plane should climb until 30,000 and then level off. In the first part of your question, you are talking about climb. We need to distinguish between climb, cruise and descent. In the beginning of my flight if I set the manual altitude to 40,000 feet and the FMC is set to 30,000 feet for a particular leg will it climb to 30,000 or will my manual setting override that and the plane will climb to 40,000? In other words does the FMC ONLY descend and ONLY if your current altitude is in range? Exceeds 1600W and 400KB weight limit (yours 1.33MB). Should't the plane be descending to 14,149 feet? I thought the MCP/FMS was supposed to descend for me? I am in the final approach and I am supposed to be descending. my autopilot setting is 30000 feet and the plane is holding at 30,000. Right now my current leg is MZB and the altitude in the MCP is 14,000 feet. It should not go below the altitude set in the MCP altitude window, no matter what altitude is set in the FMC.īut if one of my waypoints in my route has an altitude set of say 20,000 and I set my autopilot to 30,000 shouldn't it only climb to 20,000 while it is on that waypoint? When you get it right, you will see the engines spool up to max climb power and the leftmost entry on the PFD change from speed to thrust, I believe. To climb further, you need to increase the altitude and possibly do something else, such as click on the center of the altitude setting dial. Your altitude is set at 20,000, and the aircraft is holding at that altitude, so it is behaving normally. This is so that if ATC restricts you to a certain altitude, the aircraft won't go above that altitude. In a climb, the aircraft should never climb above the altitude set in the MCP (autopilot) altitude window, no matter what altitude the FMC is set for at the next waypoint. I don't have the X-Plane version of the 777, but I'm familiar with several others. The only way I can get the plane to climb or defend to the right altitude is to manually set it on the altitude control of the autopilot. I am having some issues learning how to get the VNAV to work with the FMC and the flight director/autopilot.Įverything is working perfectly except it is not auto controlling the vertical altitude even though I can see all of the flight levels in the FMC.
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