afcraig2010
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Trim is set only with the electric trim switches and in real life I just put it in the center. In the sim I leave it where it defaults which is forward of center but still in the white band.
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Just to give another airline perspective, my airline flies at 10 degrees pitch below acceleration height. At acceleration height we hold the 10 degrees pitch until the pilot monitoring calls flaps zero, then we accelerate to 240 for a normal climb, …
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I don't normally use the FMS tune but I think that's all it will do-- tune the radio. You still have to set the inbound course, switch from FMS1 to ILS1 (magenta to blue needles). That's the minimum setup to get the ILS info displayed in front of yo…
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Guess my company is cheap haha
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Well see that’s not going to happen because it doesn’t exist in the real plane. Not as nice as the Boeing or Airbus... or probably even Embraer haha.
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You know what I want more than any of that? An updated FMS. The FMS in the Q400 I fly is about 200 versions ahead of the one in the sim. The biggest difference is VNAV. It's absolute garbage in the sim vs what I get in real life. I don't really doub…
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IRL I hand fly up to cruise and I’m starting to hand fly below 10k. I like hand flying as much as I can. Such a fun plane. Harder in the MJC when you have to use the mouse to click things and you don’t have yoke feedback.
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Real world 400 pilot, different airline perspective, we use VNAV all the time for descents until we get vectored off and then go to V/S. You have to dial the alerter down so the VNAV has room to move. If you’re level at 250 and the alerter is at 250…