How do i transistion from a level flight in to a vnav? When i fly in mountain areas i dont want a shallow approach because that way i have to avoid the mountains.
Is there a way to program the vnav over the top of the mountain and from that point a steep approach on the airfield?
When programming a vnav i enter the runway heigt and from tod it starts decending gradualy to runway height.
I want to program the tod further and plan a steep aporoach.
And what is most way to add a waypoint in the route inflight via the fms. I want to add and waypoint to enter a holding loose altitude.
Thanks. Still learning every day
For adding a waypoint you just click on the lat/long you want on the EFB map and it gives you the option to ADD to your route. (otherwise you will need to look up actual waypoints in the flight planner)
Put the AP in heading mode and then send to avionics, validate and then make sure to click go “direct to” your next waypoint from your previous route or if the lat/long was your waypoint then direct to that otherwise. Don’t use NAV mode at this point it will try to take you back to your take off airport. Once “direct to” is established to next waypoint you can put NAV back on.
VNAV, I will let more experienced pilots advise you.
great video. Where can i get a explaination what the different symbols in de flightplan means? i see and captial F and H after some waypoints.
Is the a way i can check what this means?
In short: No.
If you are flying VFR in mountainous areas, you generally do not use VNAV. You descend manually because the VNAV mode cannot take into account the terrain profile, which can change significantly within a few hundred meters.
Nevertheless, you could in principle set the descent angle steeper than -3° in the avionics of the PC-12 by modifying an altitude constraint for a waypoint, but in reality nobody does this in mountain flying.
So how do you plan an ifr approach in a valley between 2 mountains?
I mean these symbols. You have the F and a H? Are there anymore in the pc12 mdf?
That should all be handled in that runway’s specific IFR approach procedure(s). What airport and runway are you attempting to land at? Is it an RNAV, VOR, ILS approach? I can see if there are approach plates and what they call for. Depending on terrain there’s a chance that airport only offers a basic instrument approach with circle to land minima, for example.
Review the IFR charts to see what the proper approach is. Depending on terrain there may not be an instrument approach that gets you near the airport without having to be in visual conditions and manually flying it in.
Assuming you have charts of the area with appropriate elevation markings, you could try to program a handflown approach, but that’s pretty risky.
If there’s a chart for for your destination airfield, then all things considered, the charted approaches are the safest ones to use. Then it’s a matter of selecting that in the FMS and activating it at the right moment.
If there are no approaches, then you’ll need to handfly. IRL, the Epic 2 is supposed to be able to perform Visual Approaches coupled to the Autopilot just like the Garmin, but Working Title didn’t implement this. So handflying is the best method. If you wish to remain coupled to AP, pick a Bottom of Descent Point on the map, add it to the flight plan and enforce some altitude restrictions on it. That should generate a ToD assuming you did this far enough for the FMS to calculate it can safely make that descent using a standard 3 degree slope.
Then if that BoD point is far enough, you can follow up by dialing in a Visual Approach that will drop you off at the 3NM final, after which you must descend manually. No VNAV.
F means that the corresponding waypoint is a fly-over waypoint, H means that the waypoint is a holding fix.
There is also at least a P, which means that there is a procedure turn at this waypoint.
I have not noticed any other letters so far.
these are quite good but he speaks very fast.
video 5 he explains the H
“steep aporoach” - there is an option in menu for center-lower MFD : “STEEP APPROACH” - ON/OFF. Unfortunatelly doesn’t work (so far) in MSFS2024 / U2. This function is for steeper GS than usual 3% (f.e. in the mountains).
