Can someone help me with discontinuities and also it says manual in the flight plan. This is so confusing to me and don’t know what to do. As it breaks up the flight plan to the arrival airport. Anyone else running into this? I don’t know what to do?
A manual waypoint in STARs or approaches means IRL that you can expect vectoring from ATC from that waypoint on. Hence the discontinuity which is the only one you can’t clear out in the MCDU. If you would like to fly to the next waypoint use DIRECT TO in the MCDU.
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I have had luck just doing a CLR on the manual portion above the discontinuity and normally does not affect the flight, and joins the flight plan.
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Sorry, still new at this how do you use the DIRECT TO in the MCDU? And is this done before flight, or mid flight etc?
Thanks,
It does affect the flight as once I hit the manual on the flight plan the aircraft just continues to go straight and there’s a break in the waypoint. So I’m confused on this?
You can clear the disc.
The entry before it should say “Manual” clear that.
Then clear the disc.
Direct to is used in flight.
You press that key on the MCDU, and a list of waypoints in your plan will appear.
Select the one you want. The plane will fly to it and should continue on its own from there.
I forgot to say then CLR the discontinuity after you CLR the Manual. I meant that removing the manual portion of the flight does not seem to affect the navigation, and the plane continues on the path unless its in a weird spot.
Basically you want to make sure when you check the plan, your navigation line is unbroken, and does not do weird turns out of the way etc. Switch the switch to plan, and use the up down arrows on the MCDU to check the entire flight.
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You can clear the MANUAL and F-PLN discontinuity that is part of a STAR/approach. I’ve done it previously.
However, I did ask about this on the FBW Discord channel and the devs told me you should not clear it as it is part of the correct procedure, should you want to fly it correctly.
Once you hit that point the plane will fly in HDG mode. You have a couple options if you aren’t flying on VATSIM.
You could pretend you are getting vectors to line you up with the next waypoint in your flight plan, and once you are happy with your track, use the DIR direct-to button to activate that next waypoint.
Alternately, you could just immediately activate the direct-to and let it fly in NAV mode as before. The one potential problem here is you may not be flying on a heading that easily allows the plane to make turns to get on the approach. I have had this happen to me where the turn angles are too sharp and the plane can’t figure out what to do and abandons the waypoints.