FlyJSim 732-First Airliner Purchase-Advice?

[stevekirks]

Just bought the 732 from FlyJSim, any advice while I'm waiting for the download to finish?

Steve

[Nelson L.]

Fantastic plane - it's my first airliner as well. Tips include pre-setting the AP (i.e. heading 255 on MCCRN4) and setting the flight director to HDG/NAV, but leaving the AP disengaged. It'll arm the mode so that when the AP is engaged, it'll automatically go to that mode. Presetting the attitude also helps, especially on initial climb out and descents. Climb thrust is 92N1 (280 knots in the climb via SPD mode), cruise for me is 82 (though you sometimes have to back it down depending on the winds). Keep the yaw damper off at all times, and go find Catstrator's fix for the autogate door locations. Also check out his video on twitch/youtube (the one from LAX), he goes into great detail about the packs system Overall not that hard of an airliner (I can get it up from cold&dark within 5 minutes or so, with another few minutes setting up for the SID. I know people who can do it faster....). Surprisingly, I find /A easier than /L..... Hopefully I didn't ramble to much.


PS - Are 732advs' RVSM capable? Never sure if its /W or /A

PSS - Anyone know how to calculate EPR?

PSSS - I need to think before I submit a post..... Even with tailgate ILS disabled, I still have problems with the plane turning outbound on a LOC. Another problem is that if I turn tailgate ILS off, if winds are light and variable at, for example, John Wayne, and I'm departing the MUSEL7, I prefer using the ISNA RWY 20R LOC in nav 2 for the DME for the turn to h177 (yes, I know it by memory, including the 330 course to SLI, 020 to POM..... *sigh*). If you have even a 1 knot tailwind component, the 20R ILS shuts down, meaning I have to use SLI.... These days keep the ILS' on and use heading mode to intercept.

[stevekirks]

Download done, installed, activated.

Flew a couple of laps of KSNA offline using it straight out of the box, running at the gate when it first comes up. Super easy to fly, almost like it's gliding, takes very little rudder, goes where you put it. Downside: time for a new video card...frames dropped below 20FPS.

Thanks for the advice Nelson!

[Keith Smith]

You generally don't use the rudder in flight with jets. So 'very little rudder' required would be accurate

[stealthbob]

My first Airliner as well, my only real problem was the descent stage...

Normally aircraft drop when you lower throttle and trim down...not so much this one. Well it does but gains great speed...

I am now able to properly get it down but I need to practice my top of descent math.

Also had a ball with shared copilot with my Dad...great platform to share duties for obvious reasons.

[Nelson L.]

Easy TOD - Distance needed to get to the descent point X 3 + 5 (for a buffer). I usually do a standard "desc. now" at 1000fpm via the pitch control, then steepen to 2000fpm at 3 miles from TOD. The buffer is especially useful for things like the CLARR2, where you have to slow to 250 (I just use the pitch mode and deploy speedbrakes at around 15-16000 feet (for CLARR at 13). TOD for CLARR is 73 DME from LAS from MISEN at 24, 75 from FL250. I don't know why you would go to 270 to Vegas from Socal... The math gets annoying on things like the BARET5 into Lindberg or the BASET3 into LAX (especially the BASET... *shudder*). Hopefully that made sense, in case it didn't:

TOD=Distance to Descent Point X 3 + 5

Disclaimer - Not my formula. I'm not that smart...

PS - I usually keep a little throttle to keep the speed up if its something like DAWNA at 12 (DAWNA = unrestricted speed. Don't ask me how I know this off memory...). Also, if anti-ice is required, either keep the engines spooled up a little or turn on the APU and the APU Bleed for the packs. Otherwise the PSI disappears and the pressurization switches to standby. Not sure if that's correct procedure, but it works well for me, as well as it shortens things to do after landing ( flaps up, spoilers down, landing and strobes off, taxi and turnoff on, APU on, pressurization to ground, wx radar off, reset MDA [so that it doesn't go off on T/O if you'll be doing a turnaround]).

[stealthbob]

Excellent post Nelson, helped alot!

Thanks