Some basic help needed

[Vespa]

First of all my apologize if the following requests are quite silly...but flying a big aircraft is totally new for me.

In the efforts to learn to fly the IXEG beauty I'm following Jan videos and reading manuals, but there are some discrepancies that I don't understand ( and I'm just at the first video tutorial  )

Here you are the situation:

I'm at Amburg airport, rwy 23; 

compared to the B737 in the first video tutorial I get a negative altitude, CDU displays 0 values. Additional, in the engine panel there are a couple of figures missing compared to Jan's video.

Could anyone pls explain to me what I'm missing?

Thanks a lot for your patience and help ... but IXEG's plane is such a beauty that I cann't miss to try to learn flying it 

 

 

Edited May 1, 2016 by Vespa

[Ubbi]

Ok. First one is very easy. Your Altimeter ist set to 1013/29.92 Air-pressure. You have to turn in the real (sealevel) Airpressure according to the real Weather at Hamburg to set the altitude right. As long as you are on the ground, it is very easy. The elevation of EDDH (Hamburg) is 53 ft. So you have to turn the black BARO knob until the altimeter reads 53 ft.

Now you also know the outside air-pressure by reading the to baro setting numbers. (if you are in the air you have to ask ATC about the pressure setting or listen to the ATIS of a airport nearby)

The second is a lot more to do. You need to fill some informations into the FMC so it can calculate some informations for the rout and also takeoffpower and so on. (thats why the N1 numbers at your second picture are missing).

The FMC needs to know the weight of the airplane (without fuel but with passengers and other loading). It is called the "zero fuel weight" -> ZFW. You can see the numbers in the ground-service-menu and have to put it into the FMC where ZFW is written. Now the FMC will write the GW itself.

Now you can put in a number at RESERVES. This is how many fuel you want to keep minimum at the end of the route (to go to the alternate or something). CRZ ALT means the crusing altitude you want to fly at. And then you can switch to the N1 Limit and leave all as it is. Now you should get the missing numbers...

Philip

Edited May 1, 2016 by Ubbi

[Tchou]

Not sure if you struggle to set an altimeter,

that the ixeg 737 is the easiest way for you to start. 

[Vespa]

Thanks a lot guys for the invaluable help...

[Litjan]

Actually, #2 is our fault - when I did the videos, we still had a little inaccuracy going - the numbers over the engine instruments are only shown, if you are setting your N1 limit "manually" (pull out the grey knobs on the bottom of the EIS to get that going)... so in normal operation, you shouldn´t see any numbers there.

Jan

 

[Vespa]

Ah! Thanks Jan...Now I know why I was getting crazy even if my PERF INIT page was filled and N1 limit wasn't there