Lauramks2

It is easy to forget and a timer is great. If it is only a few hundred pounds, I point my left finger to the ceiling, resting on my elbow until I put the button back.

Should disconnecting the Autopilot also disengage the ATS? I had a landing yesterday where I pulled the throttles back but the ATS kept trying to keep Vref+5. After that, at DH I disconnected ATS then the AP so I would have control of the aircraft. What do you think is going on here?

Working on Nav to Nav transfer. I have flown this 4 times in the last few days. Only once did I get the blue ghost needles. From TOAK to Silex it won't descend to 3700? Captured ILS and it flew way left of course? Auto Throttle keeps popping out of SPEED mode on final. Would love to have someone review the flight and let me know. I have conquered pilot and co in the correct FMS/LOC modes but even with that it didn't transfer. Thanks in advance for the help. KOXR to KBUR.mp4

Problem solved. Pilotedge got my transponder yesterday and I made it all the way to Castle. Thanks so much.

Thank you so much. I searched discord but I can see I have more to learn. I copied and pasted the file and will let you know how it goes.

Took off from Van Nuys today with the transponder in TA/RA per the checklist. After TO, ATC (pilotedge) could not see my transponder. I thought I had it in the wrong setting so switched to ALT ON. Still cannot read. Tried all the other modes. No go. If I hit Ident, he could momentarily see it but after that, no readings. Tried all the settings but he could never see me. I had finally mastered the flight to Castle AFB with VNAV up and down. Even got Nav to Nav transfer on my practice flight. I was ready for my first flight on using the 650 on pilotedge. Sadly, vectors back to a visual landing and Van Nuys. Boo Hoo. I have searched the internet and I don't see this issue anywhere, even in this forum. What did I get wrong?

thanks, it worked :-)

can you send another discord invite? Apparently mine timed out.

PILS: Awesome. thanks a ton for the videos. One thing that caught my eye to start with is how you set up your MFD's/PFD's. Apparently I have to be in the ROSE presentation to see the dashed lines of the upcoming switch to the ILS course and green needles? I have yet to see them even though I saw them on other videos. I may have solved one mystery. I have set mine up so that I am in PPOS. I like how you set up the copilot MFD for a bigger presentation to include the airspace. I am working to find the combinations I like and getting them into the memory locations so I can quickly set up what I need. I am still working to learn the ATS and the VNAV systems. I have been using Garmin G1000 on a Phenom 300 and that seemed intuitive and easy to follow and change. Collins is by far more capable and sophisticated and with that comes a steep learning curve. Watching the videos is instructive and I will try and record my flight and see if I can duplicate it. Thanks for all the help. Laura :-)

Sometimes I have to laugh! I had lost the ATS and the only way to reset that I knew about was to disconnect the FD, push TOGA and get it back. Operator error. This is the first aircraft (real or sim) that had a TOGA button for me to play with. The fun for me is playing with all these new toys and trying to figure out what they do. I am finding more good documentation which is shortening my learning curve. :-) Thanks for the help. It is valuable.

I have a discord account but only have worked with the PilotEdge folks. I will find the HotStart group and connect. Reviewing your reply, I am guessing one or more of those happened. I set up a plan from KVNY to KBUR so that I could practice multiple approaches. My goal was to fly the ILS to BUR then go missed approach down to VTU and hold. I would then open up the LEGS and go DIR to TOAKS for the next approach. On the way to TOAKS I would click on APPR and expect to fly the approach again. My guess is that since I am inside the 31 mile NAV to NAV, that it doesn't recognize I am doing the approach again? The issues you point out may be something I am doing inadvertently. I have been recording my approaches to watch in detail what I am doing. This was really helpful to know. I found today that if I add in the APPR to my flight plan and then delete the discontinuity by copying the IAF point above the discontinuity, it seems to forget that the following points are part of an approach and treats it like an extended flight plan. Is that a known issue? On my approach to KOXR (ILS) today, I noticed that it wouldn't auto tune the ILS freq. Once I put it in preselect, it caught up and started the approach. Lots to watch out for coming in to an airport. :-)

OMG! Thank you. I have followed numerous posts and leads trying to get some good documentation. Your link worked and I found so much of what I needed. The note I found on the FD Sync button solved so many issues for me. Thanks. You never know when your input really pays off. This was helpful. :-)

I was flying a flight plan into Burbank CA and had loaded the ILS Z approach. I got near TOAKS and pushed the APPR button to kick into approach mode. In the photo you can see SILEX which is the next point on the approach so I know it was loaded in. I got the white No APPR message on the PFD and the Autopilot kicked off. I have done this twice and it won't sequence to green needles on this approach automatically. I also saw a No Sequence warning along the way as well. It is somewhat challenging because yesterday I flew 3 approaches to KVNY next door. It always sequenced to green needed and flew the ILS. Could it just be this airport? On the approach you can see it doesn't follow the LOC very well. This last photo is just before landing. It went almost full scale deflection then corrected at the last moment toward the runway.

I was flying an ILS into Burbank CA and the autopilot kicked off. I had passed through the final approach course and was going back but the FD wants to go the opposite way. What nav point is driving the FD and is there a way to tell. This seems to happen a lot. I know where I want to go and the FD has a mind of it's own.

Thank you for the note. I started to think the little circle was the slip indicator but then noticed the tiny rectangle does that. Is there any written documents for using the HUD that you know of? The more I use it the better I get but it would cause less trial and error if I could read about it. Laura

What does the big circle, the little circle and the 2350 mean to me?

Any chance you can refer me to where you got the documentation? I am having some challenges understanding the approach modes and this would help a lot. Laura

Solved it myself. As I was working on changing the lights on a night flight, my cursor was near the switches just above them that change the PFD and MFD settings in case one fails. Somehow my mfd setting moved off NORM and I lost the MFD. Putting them back to Norm brought it back. Kind of a sim issue when adjusting knobs with a mouse. What I point at is not always what changes. Lesson learned.

I will if I can duplicate the issue. Like so many maintenance issues, it has to break again before we can fix.

While flying yesterday, the pilot mfd went blank. I used the copilot until we landed and thought it was just a glitch. Started up today and it was still inop. CB's checked and all are in. Tried to find a specific CB and couldn't find it. Behind the copilot are cb's for his side. Looked behind pilot and couldn't find them. Without it I can't see the data to start the engines and run the checklist as the others are not on yet. Started a new plane and now it works. Any idea what may have happened?

This has happened to me as well. Yesterday I was pushing the bleed air buttons and accidently pushed the left tenth stage valve. It was indicating closed but when I pushed it all the valves started working again and I was back to normal. I am guessing it is a glitch. This valve issue seems to happen if I leave the sim for awhile when I am in the middle of the checklist. I saw reference to them locking out during an overheat situation and thought if I turned off the APU for awhile it would fix itself but that was not the solution.

This has happened to me twice now. I have been watching videos on running the flight compartment checklist. In the checklist I performed the bleed air tests and the switches worked fine. After a break and running the engine start checklist, these two valves no longer work. I thought maybe a CB popped but all are in. If I look at the synoptic, nothing moves when I press the switch buttons. I have good AC and DC power. My only recourse is to start with a new cold dark aircraft. I don't think this is a systems issue but more of a glitch in the aircraft. Anyone experience this?

Suddenly the IAS button on my multi-panel is connected to the YD (yaw damper). Originally is connected to the FLC button on the autopilot. Can anyone guide me to the line in the script that sets that value and tell me what it should read? I have been using the mouse on the screen to push that button but it is irritating me now. I use that function regularly and like so many computer issues, who knows what electron flew out of line to get that to happen but it would be great to get it back. Would it be better just to find and load the original script again rather than track down one little error?

Suddenly the FLC button on my multi-panel is connected to the YD (yaw damper). Can anyone guide me to the line in the script that sets that value and tell me what it should read? I have been using the mouse on the screen to push that button but it is irritating me now. I use that function regularly and like so many computer issues, who knows what electron flew out of line to get that to happen but it would be great to get it back. Would it be better just to find and load the original script again rather than track down one little error?

Thanks for the great answer. I am loving the realism supplied in this aircraft. My experience is in the Air Force and there we walk away and let mx do their work. You answer really puts me in charge of this whole flight.