Boeing 777-200 Tutorial/KSFO-KLAX

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Welcome to the Vaerospace Advanced Flightgear tutorial pages

Learn to Fly the 777-200ER like a Pro !

Your first City to City Flight...!

Note: It is necessary to have the scenery for Los Angeles Installed(It does not come with the standard package and ***MUST*** be downloaded. Download Link(105 MB), Extract the Package into your Scenery Folder


We begin with flight planning. The first thing we have to plan is which standard departure route we need to fly and which standard high altitude route we are going to follow(Thats in real life!!!). For now we need to get up and level at 300-320 knots around 15,000-20,000 ft and follow the VOR (and VORTAC) beacons as specified in this tutorial.

[Thanx to Boeing for this modern miracle http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_777 all you need to know here]



What You need to Know

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The FAA instrument manual(8 MB) Very Informative Manual, Must Read for better Understanding!

The Automatic Direction Finder uses a transmitter and aerial on the ground , an NDB (Non Directional Beacon )that allows the ADF instrument to point to the aerial that is tuned at a specified frequency . So..no matter what direction you are travelling in ...the needle points to the station . The RMI (a VOR beacon is used )is similar but has more information...it points to a selected direction 0-360 to the beacon you which once the needle is pointing at twelve o' clock or straight forward toward your selected VOR ( vor = Vhf {very high frequency) Omnidirectional Range-finder )you can press F12 and enter your current heading plus or minus 180 , in the course box on the nav 1 line , it should read 280 by default change that to the heading you are on when the needle is nicly pointing forward ie 12 bells this willset OBS line on the right screen (Radio Magnetic Indicator or RMI for short) ...try this on the long legs of this trip , you need to do this ! All of these instruments are combined in the left screen of the 777-200ER

Note headings work in 360 degrees ...0/360 is always north 90 east.. 180 South... and 270 west so adding 180 degrees to your salinas heading which sould be 140 will give a RADIAL of 320 no matter wheather you add or subtract ...in the radio comms dialog enter the heading plus or minus 180 deg. for your RADIAL

Messing with george the Ap (Autopilot)

We are doing this to set the OBS LIne or... CDI ( Course Deviation Indicator ) line Correctly ...press F11 and enter your HEADING appox 140 in the heading bug section' to get the purple dotted line to it's correct position prees Ok


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Otherwise just fly as you did and learn as much as possible you should be GROOVY for your landing at KLAX ...RULE ONE AT VAEROSPACE   Don't Panick !

Salinas nav1 117.3

Pick a runway at KSFO (San Francisco intnl.) ...such as 28 R .get off the ground and turn on heading of 150 degrees ...now set nav1 to Salinas(117.3) DME about 65 naughts away and steer the 777 toward the needle ( if the needle deviates from the 12'o clockposition you steer toward or into the needle ,it will begin to move back toward 12'0 clock ...doing this frequently is called bird dogging (or bracketing) and should be avoided

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Paso Robales 114.3

Oki-doki...set nav 2 (be sure to switch both nav toggle switches on on the panel and set nav 2 to 114.3 ...when you are approx 20 -30 dme away from salinas steer onto the nav 2 needle to 12'o clock ie pointing straight ahead and set nav 1 to our next beacon ...make sure you remember which needle is for nav1 and which is for nav 2 ...nav two is the "skinny one" :)

San Marcus 114.9

This shows the san Marcus and Oxnard VOR sites

Using the same strategy to avoid to much bird dogging ((chasing the needle)

turn onto the nav1 needle 20 DME from paso robales and maintain your chosen flight level ...do not exceed 25 000 ft (you're a beginner /Flight Level 25 )

...once onroute to San Marcus immediatly switch nav 2 to Oxnard and use the same procedure

Oxnard 108.7 Coming Down

30 Dme from oxnard bring the aircraft down gently (no more than 150 ft per min) to 8000 ft and level out at 285 knts..do not use speedbrakes


Now do a visual check ..as you come into the bay area over the water Klax is close stay 4-5 DME out to sea ..and descend to 2500 ft

Your first all instrument approach to KLAX

This is the Air chart showing The airport

Your first all instrument approach will be to runway 24 Left. ILS loc set nav 1 to 111.7 set nav 2 to KLAX VOR 113.6

set nav one to the localiser for runway 24 L (that the leftmost runway visable from out at sea maintaining your heading untill the needle is at 10 o' clock (ie pointing left ) now turn the aircraft into the needle so it point forward or upright again... you should be on a heading of approx. 249 (magnetic) degrees you need to be on this heading as it is the EXACT direction of the runway (263 true)...

... at the bottom of the left flightscreen (primus 1000 efis) there are white markers and another white indicator will appear , if this indicator is in the centre of the marks , there are two sets ...one for heading into runway and the other(verical white ticks on the right of the left screen) for pitch or "glideslope" these scales and thier markers should always be "Dead Center" if they are you are bang on line for your runway...

only good planning will make this so ....

Head for 24 L and land as usual 
Thanx to Doc and flight instructor Tc betka for his invaluble comments !
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