Yeah, that I am doing.
Where do you enter the vector?
You use selected heading to vector yourself around, instead of managed.
So, I basically figure out my own vector that will bring mime to the IFA (NELBI in this example) and put it in as manual heading?
Yeah, you just do what the Approach controller would do. Exactly how you do it depends on which direction you’re coming from, but you basically want to create a big circuit that takes you to a 10NM final.
So, I started the same flight/route again without entering a star or destination ILS runway. When I reaching Munich approach, ATS is giving me the following approach: ILS runway 26L approach via LEBVU. When I enter the destination info on the MCDU, choose ILS RWY 26L (it enters frequency correct on the RAD NAV), I do not enter a star since no star given, but how do I enter the via LEBVU? I get kinda weird course curve directly on runway. Looks weird. How do I do the VIA LEBVU?
LEVBU is a RNAV Transition. That mean you have to look for the RNAV of your runway and can add the STAR. Nevertheless you can fly down an ILS if you want.
In MSFS, ATC will never explicitly give you a STAR, you need to enter the STAR which was included in your Simbrief flight plan (or which you selected in the MSFS flight planner if you’re using that).
Thank you everyone for all the input. It makes more and more sense and my route planning and ingame ATC interaction finally starts to make some kind of sense…
Tonight I was able to do a complete flight from KEWR to KBOS without any issues. Thank you for all the help in this thread. It clarified a lot…
The most flights work alright, but I am still having some problems with routes the have a DCT. For example this route, how do I deal with the DCTs in the route? I understand that FLOSI4 is the approach, but when I get an RWY assigned and I program the ILS runway with FLOSI4 in the Approach in the MCDU, my route is going totally nuts…
KPVD DCT PUT DCT NELIE FLOSI4 KEWR
Only if you are flying routinely in US, Canada, or Europe. Vatsim coverage in Africa would be extremely spotty. Its a volunteer network. There are going to be some areas of the world where there are few to none volunteers for coverage.
not using vatsim…
Your Routing is not the important thing. We need a screenshot of the ND where you can see your nuts route. And a screenshot from the MCDU would be fine too.
I would guess you have discontinuity’s in your FPL.
Yes, it has to do with discontinuities. I used to try fixing it by deleting them. I read up on it and learned I have to leave them in. I am fixing it now by using the Direct Feature on the MCDU to go to the next waypoint after the discontinuity. I found out that FlyByWire has a pretty decent documentation.
But I have another issue. I had to to GoAround yesterday on my flight to KEWR. I basically went in TOGA and aborted my landing. But then had trouble to get the Approach route back on the MCDU again. Approach gave a via. I entered the ILS runway and Via, but didn’t get all the waypoints to the runway. Had to fly the approach manual a lot due to the fact my flight plan was just pointing to the runway.
Whether or not you delete a discontinuity depends on why it is there. Sometimes there’s a disco because a STAR finishes in radar vectors and you want the aircraft to continue on the last track until you’re given vectors, or there maybe a disco in a SID if there’s a condition to meet before flying direct to the next waypoint. The IRL A320s had a disco in one of the Auckland, New Zealand SIDS because it hadn’t been coded correctly, you could only track to the next waypoint after overflying the previous waypoint and passing 10,000’. The SID could have been coded with that in there but for a while it had a disco and you had to manage the condition yourself (it’s fixed now).
So there are times when the disco should stay in the flight plan. But if it’s just between waypoints and your intention is always going to be to fly from one waypoint to the next then you should definitely delete the disco, no reason not to.
In real life you follow the published missed approach pattern and or recieve vectors to renter the final approach. That’s why you FP becomes obsolete.