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Hello everyone and welcome to this first episode on how to fly the 77 Next Generation uh uh aircraft so first a disclaimer I’m not a re pilot I’m just a flight Enthusiast so um just as you know that um so yeah today we are going to
Look into how to make a flight plan and um how to uh read the operational flight plan as well so you can understand what you are going to look at and so on so we’re going to use him brief for this uh a very recommended uh website to use for
Flight planning so we should just jump right into it so first we need to find a flight we want to fly I have found one here with the Norwegian from also to cagen uh it is already live um but uh that shouldn’t be a problem for our
Flight planning so this is just going to be for the flight planning so we are going to fly from also to cab again this is going to be Norwegian that’s the L code is Del 9 932 departing 0630 UTC so when you’re making flight plans it is really important that you know
Um it is using UTC and and for that if you are in the INF 24 and you don’t know uh if you have local time local airport time or UTC you can see you can go to the um settings icon MK and then local airport time if that is enabled
You’re going to get the local airport time and if that is disabled you’re going to get the UTC and UTC is what you use for flight planning so when we know the aircraft we want to fly the route and flight number uh we don’t still don’t know the call
Sign so if you go up here and you can search uh the airline code Delta Y and the flight number 9032 and then here you go Delta 932 that’s going to be Nordic uh n32 so then you get your call sign uh down there so that’s important to know
That the flight number and call sign is two different things the call sign could be way different than the actual flight number but mostly the flight number and the call sign is going to be the same so when we know where we’re going where we want fly uh we can go into s
Brief and hit new flight so the first thing we want to begin with is the flight info so airine here that’s going to be the airine cold we just looked at so that’s going to be Delta Yankee flight number that’s going to be our flight number that’s going to be
932 depart airport H if you use your I normally use ik KO codes so for also that’s going to be econom golf M and GM uh but if you don’t know you can go up on this icon up here search for an airport and you can type in your airport
Uh in this case that’s going to be all slow and then you can see you get also G Moon Norway GM you can just select that and that is going to automatically select uh the io code for that airport going to fly to C again so Echo kilo
Charlie Hotel so up here we have the weather icon so here we can look at the current weather in alsoo as we get the current mear we get a little bit simp simplified up here with also the airport elevation here at 682 ft you get it
Tough so here you can look at what the weather could be throughout the day so if you want to fly more sectors in and out of slow this could be hand to see if it is going to be any sort of uh wind changes or uh rain or snow or things like
That down here we have the nms NM to airmanship here we going to get information about close taxiways um vrs or ises that maybe are out of service and new things like here we have a new fuel provider at alsoo as well and uh if you need to increase the
Minimums because of uh crane activity or things like like that so this is going to be a things that is not going to be as standard but it is going to be there for a short period of time if it is standard at airport you’re going to get that into in your
Charts so then we can go to our departure time that’s going to be c630 UTC 0630 and you can apply so 16 of December uh 063 and the alternate airport here that’s Cur Auto you can select anything you want um but normally leave it just at
Auto so here we have aircraft info so we have the aircraft type here we have all the different aircraft that uh s have provided and uh you can select whatever you want here and but here you have your um variant or airf frame so here we have
All the different air frames because the aircraft that is here is probably not going to be the same as what you have in the simulator uh about the passeng capacity and things like that so here I have air frame that’s called Norwegian and that is 7800 with 184 passengers and that is
What dpmg aircraft uh uh have in the maximum passengers that the PMG aircraft allows so I’m going to select that if you want any sort of profiles like that you can search on flight. and uh gener on the internet I think uh your aircraft and Sim brief profile for example this
Pmdg 77800 Sim brief profile and then you should get a simp profile for that aircraft Cruise profile you can just leave it as it is cost index uh that’s uh something you could leave a total Norwegian normally uses nine so I set that inside the profile so that’s going
To be automatically selected every time I select this aircraft the same profile also you can just leave that that uh uh as it is so fuel Factor what this is is that if you if you use for example the aircraft type or a profile and you see
That the fuel burn is different you can add or H subtract fuel from the flight plan according to what the aircraft Burns so if aircraft burns more then your flight plan uh says that you should expect you can add uh add fuel here this is in percentage you can add a 15%
Increase in fuel because aircraft Burns 15% more and um but yeah but generally I don’t use this at all and U if you don’t have any problem with fuel you should just leave this at zero so here we got the atal sign we looked at that that’s going to be a Nordic 9
32 so registration here you can leave this we don’t need to fill in this uh but um we going to fly with Sierra Echo with pop a uniform so like I said you don’t need to touch this at all but um you can if you want fin number and Sila code uh I
Normally just leave this at this uh Sila code you can get that inside your your aircraft on your part or you can probably find it somewhere on the on the web but um yeah like I said normally just touch this at all so down here uh we have the ofp
Layout we have some different airliner layouts like uh uh LIF Delta Air front and so on and uh that’s basically how the their flight plan I laid out so if you want if you normally want just want to fly km for example you can select km and they’re going to get their
Operational fly Prime layout the region is not there so we’re just going to leave it at the Leo and that is the default one so that’s what most people are using airx cycle here we can select an older airx cycle if you know that your
Simulator is not up to date so we can get the correct uh correct navigation data for what your simulator have but if you have up to date as can see here on the green I have a green light here uh so I am up to dat
In the simulator so I can just leave this at uh what it is units kilogram or pounds use kilograms flat map this is basically how your flight map is going to be uh inside your flight operation Flight Plan you have detailed route only simple or none and we have
This at detailed taxi in taxi out and in so this is basically going to be in minutes and how and what you can expect on Taxi out and taxi in I normally leave this at uh what it this but if I know I’m going to D aircraft I probably add
Another 20 minutes because this is going to add taxi Fuel and you don’t want to depart with less than you need to get down to your destination so if you know that you could expect a delay you can add the add um uh your taxi time here remember it is
In in minutes you can also do that on your taxi in uh so like I said I normally just use it when I know I go to di ice I add another 20 minutes because the engines are running and we need di ice at the runway so it is going to
Increase our time on the ground flat rules this going to be IFI you have VFR you have IFR to VFR or VFR to IFR so if for dep part out of an airport like all slow and you want to fly uh somewhere and fly IFR to that
Place and then you’re going to S change or to VFR uh or visual flight rules and then fly visually down to the airport then you would select this but in uh in um when you’re flying airliners you prob just normally use this IFR unless you do a visual approach so uh we
Want to leave this at IFR so type of flight this is a scheduled flight you have non- scheduled general aviation military or training you actually don’t need to touch this at all and I just leave this at as it is alternate counts so here you basically can say how many
Alternate you want So currently it is one you can set all the way up to four as can see here on the map here we get now four different airports that we can divert to and this could depend on the WEA conditions at the different you can also select
None um but normally I just have one uh just in case so here uh optional entries so schedule block time can just leave this at is so departure Runway if you know that for example in Oslo if it is winter operations they normally use Runway Z
One left for departures and z0 one right for Landings so here you can select what Runner you want uh so simply select select un run automatically but it might not be correct in what they actually do in real life or what they have on Watson
For example if you fly on online uh with ATC Network so you can change that here as well arrival Runway I know that in com they never use two to right for Landings they just use two to left course to to right is going to be for uh
Departures so then you can changee that there so you get the what you want Al altitude that is going we can set that at Auto and so calculate a uh your cruising altitude and you can just leave it as it is um you can select something you want but simply is uh
Going to do it for you so no worries there passengers you can also select that at Auto or leave that at Auto you can select whatever you want here uh you can type in whatever you want but uh said normally use this at Auto Freight uh so Freight that is basically going to
Be extra cargo because if you select your passengers seem if you going to uh calculate baggage for all your passengers uh so you’re going you’re going to get cargo out of that but if you know that you want to fly with some extra cargo because you have some extra
Cargo capacity inside of aircraft you can go here and um you can basically type in something but normally it is none and U that is uh what I normally leave it at payload this is going to be in Auto and that is going to calculate with the passengers
Uh so yeah and Z fuel weight also in Al that is basically the weight of the aircraft without the fuel on board we have some fuel planning down here we have the contingency fuel that is basically some extra fuel uh normally around 15 minutes you have on board your
Resource fuel you can also leave that at Auto that is going to be what you need to have on in the aircraft and you land in V new land so normally that’s going to be a 5,000 KGS is so that means you need to be on the ground or land the
Aircraft before you reach 1,000 kogs otherwise you need to call a fuel Mayday taxi fuel you have the taxi milit here so it is going to calculate it but if you want some extra or change it you can do it here block fuel that is going
To be uh what you actually want to have on board aircraft that is going to be with everything uh contingency fin reserves alternate fuel trip fuel everything on arrival fuel going to be what you have when you arrive and minimum equipment list fuel so if you
Know that you have something in on the aircraft that is not working properly uh but you’re still able you’re still legally able to fly uh you can uh and you know that you probably need some extra fuel for that then you can select that here ATC fuel if you have any ATC
Delays you can add another here weather fuel if you have better situation at the airport you can add some extra hair and uh extra fuel if you want some make extra you can add here and uh tankering some extra as well so it is a lot of extra fuel but normally I just
Actually not touch this uh fuel planning at all text entries pilot ID captain name dispatcher name that’s going to be on random and you have some uh remarks there that you could type in if you know something is special is going to happen for example bad weather that is that if
It is really bad weather I think simply facts are going to say something around the dispatch remarks but normally don’t touch it at all down here you have your route so here you have some different rout options um that you can fly but normally you just leave this at what s says and
You’re going to get your uh that it is valid with this current airra and how long it is going to be and so on uh you have root finder so down here you can basically probably find a route normally don’t use it at all alternate airports so down here you can change
Um uh how they will find your alternate airports uh so uh maximum distance from your airport or arrival airport minimum uh ceiling on the U um on the clouds and maximum or minimum visibility minimum runway length and so on like I said normally don’t use
This at all eops that is going to be when you are flying Long Haul so I’m not going to cover it here and historical weather uh that’s going to be historical weather and uh debug parameters debug so don’t nothing below uh the rout here don’t touch this at
All uh forgot to go into here uh so here we have called navlog uh so that’s going to be something with the navigation log of your flight plan eops planning it is going to C if you have this enabled the um uh the S if is going to calculate for
Extended uh um I think it’s and now it’s called extended trans Oceanic planning um or operations extended trans uh trans Oceanic operations it is it was called the extended twin operations um that that’s probably what you guys of but I have switched it um and the name I’m not sure if that was
Correct but we can just say extended TN operations uh plan step climbs so if you want to step climb you can have that on if you don’t you can just leave it off since that s r is not going to calculate in the step climbs Runway analysis
That’s going to be analysis of runways uh I have heard that this one only works with the uh Jet Blue layout that’s going to be this one so that is probably why it says off uh I’m not sure if it is correct I haven’t tried out but uh uh it
Is off and um normally don’t use it at all so include Nots uh this is going to be if you want no temps in a flight plan and uh f i no temps that is going to be no temps for air space so we can also have this have
This on you can turn it off if you don’t want but normally leave it at on so there you go that’s going to be our flight plan so when you are finished you are satisfied you can generate flight just going to wait a few seconds and there you go so now you have
A flight plan generated you have your rout here dispatch remarks non ATC flight plan so this is what your ATC or ATC is going to look uh or what they going to see of a flight plan and things like that so if for what SIM or Iva or
On ever or uh ATC Network you go profile Network and here you have all the ATC networks you can go to profile and then you can file your flight plan from there so it’s is going to bring you over to the uh website where you can file your flight Prim for that particular
Network um and you have some Flight Plan downloads so if you want to download the flight plan for different aircraft simulators you can do it here uh for the PM the g77 in Microsoft flight simulator that is not necessary anymore uh everything is going from from the univ
Universal flight tablet so um you don’t need to download anything from here so then we can go view PDF so here we now get our flight plan for today so we can begin at top this is our uh flight uh Norwegian n32 16th of December 23 from oon to cagen
We have 77800 and registration is Si Echo R Pop uniform and it was released at c659 16 of December 23 so that is when it was made ofp1 that’s going to be how many times you have generated the flight so if I get to flight three times it is
Going to say ofp 3 so that’s going to be the third ofp that have made for this flight so ATC call sign that’s going to be n and 32 and we have still the same date and regist 30 and with the CFM 56 7v 26 engines so we have our departure time
Out of alsoo 0630 and our arrival in cing at 0744 so here we have the maximum limits of the aircraft note the maximum Landing rate in d77 800 is actually 663 uh 66360 kg I have set it to just 66 per or so the chances of um us being low or
Overweight is um minimal um so we are just to note that and then you have your estimated so we could expect 66.7 uh or 6678 kg for the take of weight land weight 64468 C Fu 6,848 kg so here we are a cruising uh or cost index that’s going to be nine run
Distance and air distance on the route and average win average I so that’s uh this is basically information you’re going to get into fnc and uh things like that so average fuel uh flow or fuel burn kilogram per hour 2547 so here you have uh your alternate
Airport that is going to be bin brandenberg for us today and flight levels from gon 310 if if you would have got step clamps after this one here it would say a way point and then you flight little behind so that means you’re going to climb up at that um way
Point so here um so yeah dispatch remarks Neil that zero so no remarks or not so we are with a plan fuel so trip fuel to come in again we need the 2,320 kg that’s going to give us a flight of 54 continu fuel of 15 minutes 647 kg and
15 minutes alternate bin so to get to B we need uh got to round it up to 2,000 that’s going to give us uh 44 minutes and final reserves going to round it up to 1.1 that’s a 30 minutes of flight time minimum take of Fu so that we need
To part with Auto with at least 5,940 kg that’s going to give us a flight of 2 hours and 24 minutes so extra fuel if you have selected anything you that’s going to be down here and the flight time equivalent to that amount take a
Fuel like I said that is what you want for departure taxi fuel so 227 kilg on taxi in noow it’s going to give us 20 minutes and block fuel here is what you are going to load into aircraft so normally uh I round it up to the nearest
100 so this is going then going to round it up to 6,000 200 kilg so we have a little bit extra just in case so you can also pick extra fuel if you have it on paper for example you can write it down or if you have a PDF viewer that you can
Write it down and then you can add then you’re going to select the total fuel and then then you can just write down the reason why I picked extra fuel you don’t know don’t need it but you could do if you want to final resource plus alternate
This is what you’re going to get insert into FMC um and uh that’s going to be 2,9 983 round that up again so that’s going to be be three tons and trient taxi fuel 2547 and so we can go down here we have our alternate airport expected Runway and
Uh uh track 170 so heading of 1 170 and distance 261 miles connection sry noral miles and then you have your routing to that airport and flight level climb at FL at 310 and time 44 minutes and fuel that you want down there and then we get on to rooting uh
So have root ID and then you have your rooting at for your flight so one right o 6 departure Li six SC and so on here you have departure ATC clearance so if you have in paper or you can write down you can write it yeah right departure clearance here operational
Impacts so here you can see some imp imps on time and fuel burn uh so p means plus and means minus obviously so here if you speed change cost X zero we’re going to uh burn 28 more kilograms and we you change the speed to
Cost next uh 100 or so we’re going to save 28 kg and if we change to 100 we’re going to burn 88 more kgs and we’re going to save uh around 1 minute and then uh down here we have the weights so here we can see your estimated passeng weight so full
Aircraft today 184 passengers the cargo that’s going to be with the bagg baggage so that’s going to be 2.8 tons and your total payload with the passenger and the uh baggage 18.6 tons C fuel weight uh Fuel and you also got the maximum on the side here take over
668 so way below are maximum and Landing weight 645 maximum 66.3 so it is below so here uh you get some um other information from this is the flight log so uh information all information you need for every way point um and so on coordinates uh wind directions and so
On uh we are going to take uh and normally what you’re looking at here is the this Max maximum wind she value here so it is if it is uh at three or below you could um you don’t expect any sort of turbulence throughout the flight but
If it is at three or above you could maybe get some turbulence and it’s going to estimate where you should expect to um encounter it so this this time is going to be at over top of climb so normally what you’re going to look at at the flight log here and
You’re going to look at at your estimated fuel of burn that’s going to be here what you should expect to have on on board aircraft and um actual fuel of burn so that if you have uh if you’re able to write it down you’re going to
Write down what you actually have in the tanks and this is and this here is what you could expect to have burned and you’re going to uh and you also um what you actually have burned so we going to take fuel checks every half hour you can extend it
To every hour but normally fuel checks is going to be every half hour and then you’re going to write down what you have uh here then we get down here to uh win information so this is basically going to be the wins from from um at the different way points at different
Altitudes and you going to can see what the direction is and the wind speed as well so normally just use your use your descend when you are uh setting up your FMC for arrival or if you want to do a step climb we can check if it is actually sufficient to climb
Higher uh depending on the winds so down here we get some uh sigat this is weather reports uh so you can see it is a lot here currently for Polaris and also for Sweden control but here down here uh you have your departure airport so here we going to
Also get your me car meter and the T so what you could expect so for example between, 1400 Sulu and, 1800u you could expect wins from 2 15 gusting 28 knots so also uh uh so to look at the the timing so the first two letters on S the first two
Numbers here that’s going to be the date of the day so it is 16th of December today so 16th and the two last one is going to be the time in UTC that’s going to be 16th of December at 1400 UTC to 16 uh of December to 1800 UTC and here it
Changes to 1700 uh at the 17th of December at at Z at the in the evening or in middle of the night to uh 6:00 in the morning UTC at 17th of December you also get for your uh destination and also for your alternate as
Well and here you get your NS again so here we get a lot more than you get in uh or in Sim when you look at the airport like I said you get basically the same as you get in the airport info in when you generate your flight uh but
If you go further down you’re going to get um also for uh the at or Center controls so it is going to be a lot of uh not times normally I just read through the U the airport notams that’s the most important ones so yeah as you can see it is a lot
Of uh lot of uh pages with just the uh uh with just the uh information about the restrictions and so on so here you get your simple map here uh just a general uh drawing of a rout and here we get your significant weather charts so here you can see
Some uh General weather so this icon here if I remember correctly that’s going to be icing so we could expect that from 180 and below and X is the unknown so if it is a flight if it says 180 here above that means it is going in
Top is going to be at 180 and if it’s for example 1 to Z below that’s going to be between flat 180 and one 120 here is unnown so it is going to be from 1 180 and to the ground and so on so here you also get your wi directions and
Speed and this is at flight Lev 240 and you also get it at different altitudes so Flight 300 here you can see we get a little bit of Tailwind all the way down and flight 34 and here you get your general profile of your entire flight and also the terrain uh drawn uh
Below you with the winds as well yeah that is basically end of uh the flight plan so I hope that you have enjoyed this first tutorial and I hope to see you again on the next tutorial on or on a future uh flight so I hope that
You have enjoyed and hope to see you again on the next one bye-bye
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