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Thanks litjan, what I mean by autopilot error is there are three little boxes on pilot view and one light up saying autopilot . I push the button to get rid of the error , but it doesn’t seem to disconnect the autopilot. Inwill try and do a manual descent , and thanks for letting me know, i thought it was my programming the FMC

I have been trying to fly this route cyyz to cyow and each time (3) I climb perfect and then went it gets to TOD it won’t decend and get an autopilot error (red button) . I have the vnav and lnav onand the alt button is on 10000 before TOD.

Thanks , I wasn’t clear sorry . I don’t have trouble making flight plans . I usually do run through the legs which is why I get frustrated but it happens . When I talked about long flights sorry it wasn’t about pausing it was just it’s so long with nothing to do in the cockpit while cruising . It you watch a shoe in Canada cslled W5 it talks about pilots taking snoozes etc . Canada has some of the worst rest to work ratios in the world for pilots

thanks again, I do put the star in the FMC, but everytime I try a vnav descent something goes wrong, one time I forgot to adjust the alt hold button from cruise height, and another couple times the vnav would not change the speeds according to the fmc. Any advice , I want to fly my trip I took a bout 6 weeks ago from Toronto to Liberia , costa Rica. I is a 5 hour flight and was in a nightmare A319( 6'3" and 275lbs and my knees were jammed into the seat). Its about a 5 hour flight. What do you do when doing long flights. I don't want to leave in case the flight goes crazy or miss top of descent.

Thanks, trying tondeacent without vnav. But seemed a lot with v/s changing alt at each waypoint speed etc . For one person with not a lot of time between each waypoint .

having a few questions about speed and altitude, I am trying to land in KLAS on runway 26R, and using the KEPEC6 approach. there are lots of specific heights not far from each other . When I am decending would I put the alt button on the KEPEC at 13000 ft and play with speed then nipzo at 9000 etc. Would I keep changing the Alt hold button for each of these as a new flyer seems like a lot on work for one person. Of if you would just put the glide scope capture alt and hand fly the plane keeping it at those altitudes

Thank you , complicated but does help

Thanks , that’s why I was wondering about the ground speed . Then if I’m trying to descend using vnav will The plane speed up to 280 knots to descend or is this were I disconnect vnav and start using speed v/s etc

I don’t understand . I know about Mach is safer than Ias. But my fmc has cruise sped at .71 mach. On th climb I’m doing 280 but on my cruise at .71 it says the ias is 254 . But I would think mach .71 would be over 300 on the ias. Then when I go into decent it want to go up in speed into 280 as the fmc says this

I am doing my take off with VNAV and LNAV. Take off great climbs 250 to 10000 ft then FMC has itnclimb at 280 till my cruising alt of 32000. Then the fmc says it will cruise at .71 mach. Then my speed drops down to .71 Mach on the panel ad a speed of 254 knots . I looked online and it says itnshould he higher . Is the 254 knots really Mach .71 using ground speed and if so on my descent it wants 280 knots using vnav

Just wondering in general normal cruise speeds in knots . Not ground speed . Over 30k ft or 26 to 30 or 20-25. I think iain said over 26k goes to Mach

Thanks those are really helpful will praxtixe this weekend . One of the things that thru me of was after plane was to descend the first waypoint on the decend has a higher speed than then cruise which I didn’t notice when checking the legs . I don’t think it was Mach but maybe thanks again . Are there any videos you recommend

I have been watching the videos and I use Vnav to climb but on descent I notice that people use V/s and disengage the vnav. I believe I heard Jan say in one of the videos in real plane its unrealable. My question is do you use the same info the FMC gave for waypoints speeds and height. If no how do you decide which speeds . I am a newbie and know under 10000 its 250 or less. but I am guessing 220 to put flaps down but how far out and height. Is there videos that deal with these things. I am sure they do them in the full flights but I sometimes miss things. thanks