Ian Posted June 27, 2016 Report Posted June 27, 2016 (edited) Hi team, How do I change the default FMC TRANS ALT from 5000 to 10000 ? Cheers Ian Edited June 27, 2016 by Ian Quote
mmerelles Posted June 27, 2016 Report Posted June 27, 2016 transition altitude (TA) is 18000 by default! do you mean to change it from 18000 to 5000 instead? it is on the PERF PAGE 1. Press MENU 2. Press LSK1 (FMC) 3. Press LSK6 (INDEX) 4. Press LSK3 (PERF) 5. type 5000 on the sractchpad and press RSK6 to replace This is the step by step, there are several pages on the fmc where you can press INDEX soft key then PERF and get into the PERF page LSK# (Left Soft Key on the screen 1 to 6) RSK# ( Right Soft Key on the screen 1 to 6) hope this helps 1 Quote
Litjan Posted June 27, 2016 Report Posted June 27, 2016 We also have a system in place that will initialize your TA to either 18000 (western hemisphere) or 5000 (eastern hemisphere). Jan 2 Quote
mmerelles Posted June 27, 2016 Report Posted June 27, 2016 29 minutes ago, Litjan said: We also have a system in place that will initialize your TA to either 18000 (western hemisphere) or 5000 (eastern hemisphere). Jan ohh i see now why he see 5000, nice touch Quote
Litjan Posted June 27, 2016 Report Posted June 27, 2016 4 hours ago, mmerelles said: ohh i see now why he see 5000, nice touch Yes, we had to implement that because we have many U.S. users - so we will have both until the US sees the error in their ways... Jan 1 Quote
Ian Posted June 27, 2016 Author Report Posted June 27, 2016 The Transition Altitude for Australia where I hope you have, or plan to have, many customers is 10000. As I live there, I often fly there. So it is an extra item to program in the FMC. Could we please have it as a settable default or even better automatically set depending on departure airport in FMC? Cheers Ian Quote
Litjan Posted June 28, 2016 Report Posted June 28, 2016 11 hours ago, Ian said: The Transition Altitude for Australia where I hope you have, or plan to have, many customers is 10000. As I live there, I often fly there. So it is an extra item to program in the FMC. Could we please have it as a settable default or even better automatically set depending on departure airport in FMC? Cheers Ian As far as I know, there is no data for transition altitude in the data set of airports... But we will look into having this store between sessions like some other values do. Jan Quote
Tchou Posted June 28, 2016 Report Posted June 28, 2016 I seem to recall that FF planes do set the TA automatically in the FMC so there might be some data somewhere (I guess that's in the AIRAC)... Quote
Ian Posted June 28, 2016 Author Report Posted June 28, 2016 (edited) Hi Jan, Navigraph would be pleased to offer such data (Transition Alt and Transition Level ) if IXEG would like to make use of it. Cheers Ian (Navigraph Development Team Member) Edited June 28, 2016 by Ian 5 Quote
Litjan Posted June 28, 2016 Report Posted June 28, 2016 3 hours ago, Ian said: Hi Jan, Navigraph would be pleased to offer such data (Transition Alt and Transition Level ) if IXEG would like to make use of it. Cheers Ian (Navigraph Development Team Member) Hi Ian - thanks for the offer! I will talk to Tom and will get back to you. I personally would love to have that, since the real FMS does it, too. Cheers, Jan Quote
tkyler Posted September 25, 2016 Report Posted September 25, 2016 (edited) we would definitely try and make use of it. IIRC, I think we may set the transition altitude to 5000 east of -48 longitude. This basically puts transition altitude for America at 18k and Europe-> east at 5000. Though I just now see that EGLL is at 18k due to my having the 'demarcation line' at 50d longitude. (I've changed it to -48 for next update) Of course if other standards are needed and encoded in the format, that would be a plus. It would not be difficult to put some kind of lat/lon bounding box around certain areas and set the transition altitude. We'd just need a listing of all the common transition altitudes in the major area...that would probably keep things "nominal" for 99.9% use cases. -tkyler Edited September 25, 2016 by tkyler Quote
daemotron Posted September 25, 2016 Report Posted September 25, 2016 That sounds really great! Btw. I think FF is picking up this information from the Airports.txt file (belongs the GNS430 data set either in default or custom data). The first line per airport seems to encode TA and TL in the second and third last field (but as far as I've seen it's not really complete, and for most only TA (or TL, not sure about the order) is filled)*. * I love nested brackets - kudos to Lisp Quote
Ian Posted April 29, 2017 Author Report Posted April 29, 2017 (edited) Hi Jan, Did you get any further with our suggestion regarding providing transition Alt and Transition Level data . Cheers Ian Edited April 29, 2017 by Ian Quote
Ian Posted June 11, 2017 Author Report Posted June 11, 2017 (edited) Hi Jan, I note this wasn't included in V 1.1 for X-Plane 10. Navigraph would be pleased to assist with transition Alt and Transition Level data for X-Plane 10 or X-Plane 11. Cheers Ian Edited June 11, 2017 by Ian Quote
Litjan Posted June 11, 2017 Report Posted June 11, 2017 Hi Ian, thanks for bringing this up again - we simply did not have the time to investigate with you on how to incorporate this yet. Our lead FMS developer is still busy with another project, so his contribution for 1.1 had to be limited to the bare necessities in fixing the most blatant bugs. We will certainly get in contact regarding this in the future. Cheers, Jan 1 Quote
Andrey Novikov Posted June 15, 2017 Report Posted June 15, 2017 Sorry to ask, but what is the impact of this setting? Quote
shabani Posted June 16, 2017 Report Posted June 16, 2017 I've installed the update 1.1, there are nearly no soft crashes now. One thing I noticed is that the push back "nose left" or "nose right" function is not working only "straight". Anyone else experiencing this too? Quote
Tom Stian Posted June 16, 2017 Report Posted June 16, 2017 4 minutes ago, shabani said: I've installed the update 1.1, there are nearly no soft crashes now. One thing I noticed is that the push back "nose left" or "nose right" function is not working only "straight". Anyone else experiencing this too? The pushback issues is a side effect due to the "ninja fix" for XP11. I personally use http://forums.x-plane.org/index.php?/files/file/19258-ez-pushback/ Quote
mfor Posted June 16, 2017 Report Posted June 16, 2017 On 6/15/2017 at 11:58 AM, Andrey Novikov said: Sorry to ask, but what is the impact of this setting? The altitudes are referred to as flight levels (FL170) above the transition altitude and as feet (17000) below - for example on the LEGS page. I don't think it impacts calculations (like VNAV) - I may be wrong though. Quote
Ian Posted July 14, 2017 Author Report Posted July 14, 2017 Hi Jan, Congrats on 1.2 release. It seems stable and excellent with latest X-Plane V 11.02r2. Would it be possible to have the Default Transition Altitude read from an editable config file? Most of my flights are in Australia where the TA is 10,000 and changing from 5000 is just another item to attend to (and potentially forget) in the FMC. Cheers Ian Quote
Litjan Posted July 14, 2017 Report Posted July 14, 2017 2 minutes ago, Ian said: Hi Jan, Congrats on 1.2 release. It seems stable and excellent with latest X-Plane V 11.02r2. Would it be possible to have the Default Transition Altitude read from an editable config file? Most of my flights are in Australia where the TA is 10,000 and changing from 5000 is just another item to attend to (and potentially forget) in the FMC. Cheers Ian Hi Ian, its on the list for future improvements. Cheers, Jan Quote
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