I have to say…
that was purr…fect 
Idle 3 minutes after landing sounds very airline SOP. Airlines like SWA here use thrust all the time after landing and taxiing to the gate.
I do wonder about the tablet. Loads of other aircraft seem to have been able to implement tablets fairly readily (not that I have the first idea about how that’s done). I wonder why PMDG seem to be having these issues, unless their tablet is going to be something really out of the ordinary.
EDIT - just to clarify, I’m not really missing the tablet as I can do everything I need to via the FMC at the moment. Having said that, when it does come, I’ll probably wonder how I ever got by withoutn it.
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Here’s Mr. Randazzo himself explaining:
It’s right from the Boeing FCOM.
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What lefty said. Plus the crucial point is “at or near idle”. Regarding taxi: thrust >than 40% during ground operations should be avoided (which counts as near idle-ish). Of course you do need sometimes more than idle thrust to taxi (for example after holding short of a runway)- not only in the US^^.
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This one also an example i dont know what to do. Do i set 233/L or 053/L in de FMS when i want to enter the hold?
Depends on where we’re flying and how busy the airspace is. In some places like in Germany, they like to descend airplanes flying into Germany rather early so we’d descend maybe 40nm before our VNAV TOD. Some people keep it in VNAV PTH in a 1000fpm descend and some people descend in V/S-500. Sometimes ATC are ok with this and some other times they’ll ask us to give them a higher rate of descent.
It’s also very common in other places to be given “descend when ready” clearances. In that case we just dial the cleared level in the MCP and leave it in VNAV.
Other times we’d start descending early for energy management purposes. For example we may decide to start descending some 5 or 10nm early in LVL CHG (As triggering VNAV SPD is not longer possible with the new COMMON VNAV software) and we will parallel the descent path to stay a bit lower in case we get that shortcut we’ve been asking for from the two previous controllers.
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Of course. Usually the first officer will start the timer when cleaning up after landing. I usually call “3 minutes” during taxi to remind the captains that single engine taxi is available. I try not to do that in places where single engine taxi isn’t recommended (places with upslope or busy airports where stopping to give way is a possibility).
In places where the after landing taxi is too short to allow for a 3 minute cooldown we wouldn’t keep the engines running on the stand to meet the 3 minute time mark. The 3 minute cooling is a recommendation that we follow when it is reasonable to do so. It usually is.
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In the sim, Burbank is a fun American example of this. If you land on 08, the second half of the runway runs parallel to the terminal just a couple hundred feet to the right. If you land on 15, same thing, but on the left. You could stretch the taxi by parking at the stands on the other wing, but if you’re trying to replicate airline ops and use the same stands, it might not be possible.
I am very very worried about getting no cargo version this time 
Is it true that the -900 will be a passenger plane only, or is a cargo version available?
According to Emi’s stream, no cargo variant as there are none IRL. but correct me if im wrong about either.
If it helps, im sure there will be fictional cargo liveries created.
No cargo version and no BBJ3, as I understand it. That means -900 and -900ER. This is also in line with RSR’s post that the price will fall in between that of the -600 and -700/800 models. I’m going to guess about $55 but we’ll see. I still don’t plan to buy it immediately, but maybe in a few weeks.
Welcome back dude! It’s been a while.
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In this case 233/L because it is the inbound course (INBD CRS), that is, the course towards the holding fix.
That’s what I’m saying. We would NOT keep the engines running on the stand just to meet the 3 minute mark. The 1 minute mark is almost never an issue. Remember you need to wait for the APU to start (when it’s working).
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I have been using the Flight Log pages generated by Sim Brief in my flight plan to fill out waypoint information as I reach them…time, fuel remaining, and fuel burned.
Is filling this out something that real world pilots do during a flight? Or is it somehow automated now?
We still do it, at least once every 60 minutes.
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Cool, thanks. Say you’re flying a SID/STAR – are you filling out for each waypoint even if they are close to each other? Or is that overkill…
First point we fill out is top of climb and then only at crucial points, but at least every 60 min. Crucial points are for example the last waypoint over mainland before flying over water for a longer portion. So in a 3 hour flight we have 5 or 6 checks maybe. Probably differs for each airline.
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