Every flight simmer looking like 👁️👄👁️ "I've been doing it wrong"

I'm an aircraft mechanic and was recently called up to the flt deck of a 737-800 because the pilots were having problems with a blanked out milage figure on an alt route. We did a Boeing reset (powered off A/C), which sometimes works, only to have the same issue repeat. Finally, the FO realized that they had put in the wrong airport code that was 5000nm in the wrong direction. Once corrected, everything worked correctly. So these videos help me understand something usually only pilots mess with. It's appreciated.

@timduggan1461

2 ай бұрын

Great response. Minor story.....before GPS DC-10s used a similar gyro system. This story begins in Sydney, Australia. Short? The First Officer inputed 'NORTH' Latitude, instead of South. This was before GPS was common. Suffice to say? This DC -10 nav systems were corrupt The Captain, rather than dumping fuel and returning to Sydney Just flew the Flight Plan headings, reported position to ATC, AND made it to Hawai'i....

better than any pmdg 737 tutorial

@MentourPilot

6 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

@MichaelBrodie68

6 жыл бұрын

Agreed - best directions I've seen

@danmcbride6258

5 жыл бұрын

Michael Brodie great detail and instruction

@Kwamesamson1

3 жыл бұрын

I tell you!

@alejordann2fly411

2 жыл бұрын

Totally agree

It is obviously the best FMC set up video in KZread, Thanks Captain !

@useruiy

5 жыл бұрын

Cem Murat Tulukcu are you pilot which you could understand?

At our airline, we can load and execute anything independently during the preflight. Either the First or Captain can do anything they want to the box, but only up until we do an independent verification of data (it's becoming the norm that the pilot flying the leg sets the box up while the non flying pilot does the walk around, that way the flying pilot is more engaged to any weird or strange issues with the flight). If we are on an over water route, where non-radar will be involved, we both first check the route independently, and then we check the route together one more time. One pilot reads the route and the other checks it against the actual clearance. At that time the box becomes " locked", and it takes both pilots to be in agreement before any further action is executed for the duration of the flight. Including any changes to FMC, altitude, course, heading, etc. Additionally, our 737 boxes uplink almost everything automatically through the ACARS, and many aircraft are rapidly being retrofitted with the ability to upload clearance changes from ATC through CPDLC. I'm not a huge fan of how the CPDLC handles things though, for example, we are required to "accept and load" any CPDLC change from the departure facility into our box, but these CPDLC clearances will not automatically load any runway or departures, so any work you have already done on the route gets wiped out anyway, and you end up reloading all of that again manually, which opens things up to mistakes... As for performance, we send off a request in ACARS for a specific runway, intersection, weight, altimeter setting, etc. And a few minutes later we receive both an ACARS printout of takeoff performance data, and also a FMC prompt to load this data into our box. We accept the data into the FMC, then check it against the ACARS printout before execution. Then, we read and compare all that data one last final time on a checklist before we blast off. We do have the ability to override this data for gusty winds, tailwinds, and any reason we desire a maximum power takeoff. If anything changes, we have to re-accomplish any portion of this whole process that is associated with the change. For example, a different runway dictates a SID change, route change, and performance change, so most of that has to be all re-accomplished and rechecked. In the US, it is common for ATC to constantly change the departure runways to balance out traffic on the field, and this causes a major PITA as we are trying to taxi on busy airports and not screw that up at the same time. Sometimes it just gets too overwhelming so we just stop the aircraft somewhere and get our bearings again.... I love that European airports usually give you a departure runway as a part of your clearance, so you can reduce the changes while taxi. Thanks for an awesome video. Definitely some things different, but basically the same.... That was a hard video to clearly make so people would understand what you were doing. Well done.

I'm new to aviation, and watched about 4 hours fmc tutorials for x-plane 11, but this 16 minutes were the most useful of it. thank you!

I have the PMDG 737 on the Microsoft Flight Simulator and I'm shocked on how their replica is accurate. It works exactly as you have showed us in this video. Really cool stuff. Thank you for sharing that.

@trip5003

Жыл бұрын

Same here . Mentour tells it straight and very easy to follow . Best real Pilot Channel out there period

Hands down the most helpful and clearest-explained FMC tutorial I've seen so far (and I've seen a few)!

I’ve been thing to understand the FMC for weeks now. After this video it all makes sense. Good tutorial from someone who knows what he’s talking about. Thank you captain!

Your videos are such a pleasure. When I watch your posts, my day somehow gets a little more fantastic! Safe travels, Captain.- Gordon

Took a class about it today, this video helped me clear many doubts. Thanks!

Interesting to watch! I fly the A320 family so have a different box with different buttons, but the setup isn't really that different...same info, different order, but all very logical! Great videos, hope you're also doing fantastic! :-)

Just as you told me you would do this video. Was looking forward to it. Very inspirational how you do this work alongside your full time job.

Thank you for all your awesome videos Mentour Pilot!

Very much enjoying your professionalism in figuring out the NG.

Well I wasn't expecting this to pop up when searching for pmdg fmc tutorial! Helped me a lot for the 737 and 747 fmc!

Best explanation of the 737 FMC ever ,thank you !!!

Thanks so much! They make it impossible to learn about the cockpit after 911. Your videos makes one feel they they too can one day be an ATP 😊!

Hi Mentour. Just wanted to say we use to program like this, and a year ago we started using company routes. It is the best thing ever. Reduces a lot the amount of work into programming the FMC.

@avamendez1272

7 жыл бұрын

Davito P takes less than nine minutes for the setup. it's good to stay in practice😊

one of the best videos on KZread I've ever watched

this was so helpful as you actually showed where to find everything on the flight plans! Thank you

OMG I just Left on two of your videos about learning fmc and I found it the next day.. you are a great teacher as I wanna learn from you, thank you so much mentour polite......

Thank you, a perfect tutorial. Glad to see such video from a real 737 captain this time, very well done! :)

@hotmemes7482

7 жыл бұрын

OMG HI

This helped a lot for my PMDG 737 setup! Thanks!

This is awesome, exactly what I was looking for. Thanks!

Thank you for this, Mentour. Very, very helpful.

fantastic - thanks for all your work Mentour!

Totally awesome great set up great showing how and the flight plan to..route too.wow ..Thank you so so much for everything that you do...I do greatly appreciate it too..

I like the how you don't execute until you do the route check as a crew. I'm going to suggest my company to incorporate it into our SOP's.

@Pies.

3 жыл бұрын

oo

@CraZy291

Жыл бұрын

How did it go?

@marktwain3531

11 ай бұрын

Bro, why the pilot looking at a tutorial on how to use the FMC?

@MeatServoPilot

11 ай бұрын

​@@marktwain3531Lots of reasons. It's a life long career of learning. Lots of different techniques. Being involved in the aviation community. You name it.

@marktwain3531

11 ай бұрын

@@MeatServoPilot Yes, I said it jokingly. 💀

Thank you very much. I will try this on PMDG 777. I've always had trouble setting STAR and ILS, now I know how to do this properly!

Much better than 5 min video - will have to watch Mentour app video.

Oh yea! Now when I get X-Plane 11 ill be able to work the FMC. Thanks Mentour, VERY informative video as always!

@nicholaspazzani4584

7 жыл бұрын

Yes actually I have but about a week ago my phone broke so I haven't been able to use the app recently. But so far the app has been wonderful, really have been enjoying it.

@snowgolem6099

6 жыл бұрын

You can not get X-plane 11 on mobile. Only X-plane 10.

Now I know what ZFW is lol. Love the 737 family. Thank you for the videos Captain

Amazing video! You make a very professional tutorial for us. Great job.

great clear video on setting up FMC

Another Excellent and Informative video Thank You!

Hi Capt. Thank you so much for this FMC tutorial.

Very informative video, I knew the FMC did a lot, but had no idea how many functions it controls

Excellent and informative video. Thanks, Captain.

@MentourPilot

6 жыл бұрын

YOU for supporting the channel. Great to see that people are appreciating the content.

this shows how accurate the pmdg 737 is wow you can learn evrything on fsx

@MonishJohnson

7 жыл бұрын

Electrip so which is more realistic?

@ilovechieftains

7 жыл бұрын

I know PMDG did a great job setting up their FMC, it is super realistic!!!

@littleferrhis

6 жыл бұрын

The pudgy is about 96% as close to the real thing according to Boeing.

@rahulmaurya3886

6 жыл бұрын

ABSOLUTELY MATE I WAS SHOCKED AFTER SEEING THIS VIDEO THAT HOW ACCURATE IS PMDG

@turbofanct6679

6 жыл бұрын

Electrip You are right!

Amazing what goes into getting the aircraft ready, thanks

Thank you very much...found your videos very useful. clear and precise. cheers.

That was wonderful. Thank you, Captain.

Now i have a complete and realistic input of the fmc into pmdg 737-800NG thanks ^^

A beautiful video Cap. Loved it!!!!

Great video, great teaching, thanks!

Excellent tutorial for PMDG 737-700 in FS2020 !

Simply splendid!

@MentourPilot

6 жыл бұрын

Thank you! I'm glad you liked it!

You are one hell of a teacher. Best tutorial on here. I’ve learned a lot from you.

Well explained. I hope that I can try it in real life very soon.

Very nice amazing 🤩..i LOVE HOW🥰 PATIENT you here like teaching to children ❤️

This video is very helpful. I like it.

What graphics card are you using?

@nathanaelmalm5641

4 жыл бұрын

He flew to Area 51 and stole their best PC

@youcefdz5598

4 жыл бұрын

@@nathanaelmalm5641 fake because us military uses windows xp and x plane 11 runs on windows 7 and above

@AviationMahin

Жыл бұрын

Using reality

Thanks so much for your videos

Thank you really much you helped me alot❤

Dear Mentour, what was the outcome of inputting the departur airport on the POS INIT page, if you then selected the GPS coordinates? If you do that last step you can enter any airfield and it will actually change nothing... From my point, the advantage of selecting the airport is that this can give you the possibility to enter the GATE and receive its coordinates... if they exist in the database. When I was learining to fly B737 in Denver United Training Center - they had such FMCs and we normally put the ICAO 4-letter code and then selected the gate to get the precise coordinates. But that was on 737CL. And since that times I have never seen FMCs with gates stored in their DB.

@northstar5934

Жыл бұрын

u can fly your own jet and leave him fly his own one 😂

tack tack, tittade igen !

Great tutorial!! Thanks

I am really proud of you 👍❤️, well explained 👍❤️, I always watch your videos 👍❤️, thank you so much My dream is to become the captain of airbus a 380, and Boeing 787 dream liner 👍❤️

Nice job captain! Thanks

+Mentour Pilot, Great video, even if I knew most of the tasks as a PMDG-simmer ;-) But, if you have time, I would like to see how to handle advanced procedures while flying, e.g. route changes (e.g. how to go back to airport in case of emergency after start), alternative airports or holding.

Greetings from Manchester! Safe flying captain

Thanks so much for this

Very detailed…. Thanks.

Very educative. This I like.

Thank you so much Capt.

Thank you very much, captain !

Now I have a better understanding of why it takes so long after both pilots are onboard, doors shut and the pilots give me the signal to start engines. Thank you for the explanation.

Great video Mentour, gonna chek out the app. But one question, what does 27k "bump" thrust mean? when do you use this? short runways maybe?

thanks a lot for the video.

Apologies if already covered in another video, could you please do a follow up video on other FMC functions you use during flight? For example, HOLD, FIX, APPROACH for Vapp calculation. Thank you for this brilliant video.

Fantastic!

Fantastic!!!

Nice now gonna fly the 737 lying in the backyard thanks skipper

Oo too perplex, not my piece of cake.😂😂 Anyway, thanks captain for the tutorial.

Excellent....

FMC - Flight Management Computer CDU - Control Display Unit FMC has 3 databases: 1. Software options (OP PROGRAM), 2. Model/Engine data base (MEDB) 3. Navigation data base (NDB), All of which are stored on an EEPROM memory card. These databases can all be updated via the data loader. MEDB holds all the performance data for V speeds, min & max speeds in climb, cruise & descent, fuel consumption, altitude capability etc. NDB is comprised of Permanent, Supplemental (SUPP) and Temporary (REF). The Permanent database cannot be modified by crew. There are four types of data: Waypoint, Navaid, Airport and Runway. Runway data is only held in the permanent database.

this is the most comprehensive instructional video of the flight management system on the net. filmed inside a level D simulator: what is that? They are mounted on a platform that can represent the different attitudes experienced in flight. The sounds, alarms and engines are just like the real thing. pilots are able to practice the most complex departures and approaches. It is here where the crew gains invaluable experience setting up CATII and CATIIIA ILS. It's not always smooth going. at the trainer's discretion, emergncies of every type can be thrown at the crew, all in real time and no one brings you closer to action than Mentour. Guys, it's time to invest in what you love. get the Mentour Aviation app and download the content. Precise information direct from a senior captain and TRE (type rating examiner) it doesn't get better than this. love, Ava❤

Ohh shoot i set up my FMC comparatively wrong in my PMDG's 737NGXu hahaha. Thanks for this video capt!

bellissimo. grazie amico

nice video! There's no place for the first alternate airport in the FMC? How is the transition between the regular route and the alternate route performed, from the FMC point of view?

wow that was more helpful

amazing thanks a lot

Great video. One question: why didn't you enter anything for the centre of gravity? Isn't it very important to know what take off trim should be set to?

Thank you so much

Lol, I love how you use the middle finger so casually

So BOSS!

Awesome.

Thanks!

thnxx got the airways route from flight planner

Hi! I think you're doing fantastic job with your videos which I find very helpful! I am a pilot who has recently passed an assessment at Ryanair for an APC programme. I was wondering if you could do a video about instrument scan on B738 which would help me, as a pilot with low instrument experience a lot during my type rating which will begin in 2 months

Thanks a lot

I like your home built cockpit

@theinfiniteflightdeck

3 жыл бұрын

Ah, it’s not a home cockpit. That’s a real-world level-D sim training sim. He’s a TRE (type rating examiner) so has access to that.

Tanks you very much

I’m going to the SWA sims with my friend and I’m going on a study rant to learn as much as I can

How about CG in Take Off Ref Tab ? Just let it empty ?

@CraZy291

4 жыл бұрын

They leave it empty (other airlines do not), since they get the stab trim value from the loadsheet (the Boeing OPT app calculates it also).

@Mentour Pilot I've seen that some pilots are told to set V2 +20 into the speed window on the MCP, however in this case you haven't done it. Is that something that varies by airlines/SOPs or is it a normal thing to do?

excellent thanks. Do you calculate the ISA dev at the descent forecast page manually or is it available in your real life OFP?

really good instructional video.. thanks for sharing.. in the takeoff speeds page, shouldn't you also enter the CG% in order to get the trim setting number? in this case, it should be 5.0% right? (based on what i saw in PERF GW page)

Amazing to watch from a passenger point of view... Thank you... A little less derate on take off though please..