OnCourse Software

kramerdc9 wrote:

Not an expert with the program yet; however, reading the manual has some good suggestions regarding planning flightplan. Especially from Beta Tester's Guide To PFE(pg.125). I was a little confused building a flightplan without sids/stars and asked the question how PFE handles it. And as others have said, it just vectors you to 1st waypoint, follow flightplan to last waypoint then vectors you for ILS. As far as too high, make sure you adjust waypoint altitudes on descent. If you just leave same altitude for whole flight, you will of course be too high. Also, make sure last waypoint is around 4,000ft as per suggestions in manual. This should give you a reasonable approach for ILS.

capsam500 wrote:

is it possible to use PFE and still do a flight without using SIDS and Stars like in the default fsx atc?

i tried disabling sids and stars in the options but i was never told to descend when nearing the airport
i was given directions to the ILS but no descent instructions


any suggestions?

thanks
sam

pschlute wrote:

Sam

can you open the flight in PFE (Select New ADV), click the box to "adjust waypoint altitudes" and then post a screenshot on here. Or post the waypoints and their altitudes starting with the last waypoint at cruise FL.

pschlute wrote:

Sam

can you open the flight in PFE (Select New ADV), click the box to "adjust waypoint altitudes" and then post a screenshot on here. Or post the waypoints and their altitudes starting with the last waypoint at cruise FL.

pschlute wrote:

Yes , that looks fine and should work ok.

A couple of points worth noting however.....

You are telling PFE to keep you at cruise ALT until after MATUG. That is only 89 NM from the airport, so you are going to be a bit tight on getting down and slowing down.

EDDF has 4000 feet as the usual min altitude for glideslope cature so yu might want to change the waypoint RUDUS and the FAF ALT to 4000

Peter

pschlute wrote:

Yes , that looks fine and should work ok.

A couple of points worth noting however.....

You are telling PFE to keep you at cruise ALT until after MATUG. That is only 89 NM from the airport, so you are going to be a bit tight on getting down and slowing down.

EDDF has 4000 feet as the usual min altitude for glideslope cature so yu might want to change the waypoint RUDUS and the FAF ALT to 4000

Peter