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Hello and welcome back to Jack's FSX Videos. Today
I'm going to be doing a tutorial on how to
use the GPS, showing you how to create a flight
plan and how to load in an approach.
Okay so, I've just enlarged the GPS here, so we
can get a good view of it, and I'm not going
to involve the autopilot for this episode.
If you want to know how to link it all together
- the autopilot and the GPS - you can go and
watch my How to Use Autopilot video, which
I'll leave the link in the description if
I remember. So to load in a flight plan, which
is what I'm going to show you first, you need
to click this button here, that says Display
Direct to Waypoint Page, that's the name of
this button. Alright, and then you'll be given
this page, now like I said I'm just going
to be sticking to the basics for this episode,
so I'm not going to take you through all of
this stuff - not that I even know what everything
is here, I know what most of it is, but still
I usually stick with the basics in my flights
on this channel anyway. Right, so you've got
some dials down here. If you just use this
smaller dial - not the bigger one - and go
two times to the right - so the plus (+) side
- okay, and then right here is where you type
in your airport code. Now it needs to be an
ICAO code, not an IATA code. So the difference
is that the IATA code are usually used by
the public really - so for example, if we're
taking London Heathrow for an example, that's
called LHR - London Heathrow - but the ICAO
codes, which are more commonly used by pilots
and airliners and ATC, they use this one,
and the Heathrow one would be EGLL. So when
you type that in, it comes up with what it
is. And it also just here - I might as well
just mention - you've got the nearest airport
one, so if you're looking for the nearest
airport to land at, it will tell you right
there. So EGKK is Gatwick. So if I wanted
to, I could just type in - if I was in the
air for example - EGKK and it will set me
up a flight for Gatwick. But I'm not because
I'm already at Gatwick. So EGLL. And then
you want to hit Enter here - this button here
- three times, so once to highlight it, then
second to highlight the Activate? button - to
say is this the button you want to use? Yes
- to hit Enter. And then there you go, you've
got a small, little pink line there - or purple,
depending on how you see it - and if you zoom
out, there you go, I should be able to see
the entire flight plan. Obviously it's not
very long because they're both in London - well
Gatwick isn't really in London, but it's classed
as a London airport. So it's a short flight
there. And that is pretty much all you need
for setting up a flight plan. You've got your
distance up here, 22nm and your heading is
up there - but you can usually just see that
on the Primary Flight Display. And I think
that's all you'll need, really, for the basics.
So if I just take that out of there, and then
the only thing that I'll just tell you - I
don't know why my yokes do that so don't ask
- but, the only thing you need to do to activate
it if you were in the air, is hit this button
here, ensuring that the Nav/GPS switch is
on GPS, and then you just hit the Nav Hold
switch and then that handles that for you.
But like I said, I'm not really going to get
into that, you can watch my How to Use Autopilot
video if you want to know how to do that.
So back to the GPS, that, like I said, is
all you need. And GPSs pretty much look the
same on every aircraft that you have in FSX,
whether it's default or add-on, if it's got
a GPS, it will almost certainly look like
this. They don't tend to vary very much, some
aircraft don't even have a GPS, so if it does,
it should look like this. So we'll now move
on to setting up an approach. Okay, so I'm
now going to show you how to set-up an approach
on FSX. So we just did the flight plan before
take-off, and then this is what you'd do before
landing to line yourself up with the runway.
So hit Shift+3 again. Now I'm just coming
in from a North approach. Gatwick's just South
of Heathrow up there, obviously because this
map is upside-down. So that's Heathrow there,
that you can just about see, there it is,
okay, and I've got this flight plan that I've
just set up. So, to set-up an approach, go
into the Procedures page - which is this one
here, PROC for Procedures - do you want to
select an approach, question mark; yes you
do, so you hit Enter. Then you'll be given
a list of approaches, okay, so some with have
more than four, some will have like five,
six, seven, eight, some will just have one,
okay, some won't even have any. But it just
varies by airport, so this airport happens
to have four ILSs, one for each of its runways.
And then you can just use the smaller dial
here so select which runway you want to land
at, and which approach. I would just go for
ILS if you're starting off because that's
just what pilots would do in real life and
stuff, so, that's probably the best option
to go for. So I'm going to choose 9L because
it makes sense on the angle that I'm coming
in, so hit Enter with that one, and then you'll
be given a list of approaches here. Now I
only actually know what a handful of these
are and to be honest, I just use Vectors most
of the time, it's just easy and it's straightforward
and definitely if you're a beginner, go for
Vectors because like I said, it's just straightforward
and it's a straight-in approach. So you hit
Enter there, and do you want to Load or activate,
if you want to load it, you just hit Enter,
if you want to Activate it, use the bigger
dial this time, big dial, and it'll then go
down and then you hit Enter. But I'm just
going to do Load for now because is what usually
pilots would do. So hit Enter and then press
the Procedures button twice, and it'll take
you back to the map and then you'd just carry
on your flight to when you'd need to activate
it. So it's got a pink line here, as we've
already seen, which is what the aircraft would
be trying to follow if you've got autopilot
on. And then the white line is what's coming
up, or what isn't active, that the aircraft
will be following. So to activate it, you
want to hit Procedures. So then it will automatically
highlight Activate Vectors-To-Final?, because
it knows you've got an approach loaded in,
so you want to hit Enter for that because
obviously you do. And then there you go, that
goes pink there, just like that. And that's
what you want. And then the aircraft will
then follow that if you've got Nav Hold on.
Again, you can see my How to Use Autopilot
to learn more about that. And if you want
to know how to land with ILS, I've also got
a video on that, link is in the description,
if I remember again. So that's all you need
pretty much for how to set-up an approach
and how to use the GPS in general and set-up
a flight plan. So that's it for this episode.
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