so a few things.
Now that i know sim brief also let's you select runways, this means that whenever you load a flight plan that has runway info to your fmc, then your plane knows what runway it's departing and what runway it's going to land, so you don't need to select any runways in the fmc itself.
point 2, about auto throttle. this is unfortunate. does the crj not have an auto throttle feature at all? or aerosoft hasn't implemented it yet. this can be, sort of an issue. for two parts of your flight. first part is for descending. auto throttle communicates with your fmc and adjusts your speed so that you arrive on exact waypoints of your approach in an exact altitude. second is that when you're making your final approach you need the computer to adjust your speed so that you wouldn't go off route and mis the glidescope. more on this in point 4. Basically when you load your flight plan to your plane's computer, it takes over a lot of things and speed is one of them. If it is not automatic, then it maybe tells you what airspeed you should be at on a display somewhere at each stage of the flight.
point 3, top of descent point. you need a sighted help to go to your plane's behavior options. it should be on the right MCDU. but this is not an airbus so it might take a while till you find it. basically you should look for an option that pauses your sim automatically when you go over the top of descent point. this let's you know that this is the exact moment to start your descend.
point 4, discontinuities. and other fmc features for approach.
This is a feature on real airbus features. whenever the pilot, or the airline loads the flight plan onto the plane's computer, which is called company routes), the plane's computer begins to automatically put some points inside your route called flight discontinuities. these points are usually put behind the waypoints after a sid, and leading to your approach in case the ATC tells you other instructions. this means that once you hit these points called discontinuities, your plane is knocked off auto navigation unless you go to the fmc and click on your next waypoint. Anyway this is an airbus and boeing feature maybe crj doesn't have this. the solution for sighted people are to simply click on the discontinuity points and remove them from the route.
takes me to my next point, fmc features. read the crj manual and see if during approach there are certain features that you have to activate. for example, for the airbus A320, you have a button called "approach" whenever you press this button and you have a flight plan loaded, the plane understands that you're approaching and takes over your speed and begins setting you up for an exact ILS capture. Then when you have captured the ILS and are set on the localizzr, you turn on the second autopilot. this second autopilot will take care of the landing. it's basically the real equivalent of autoland feature for airbus systems. It lands the aircraft for you. so check the crj manual for these kind of stuff.
and finally loading your flight plan with scripts.
I need to know some things. does sim brief give you a flight plan file for the crj? and do you know what buttons you have to press on the fmc to be able to write the file name to be loaded onto the computer?
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good thing I can fly other reginal jets at this rank. I should be able to fly the Feelthere ERJ145. I'm not concerned with online flights right now until I get a few of these offline flights under my belt.