- Point 2 "Start MSFS, set-up the flight by loading the full SB flight plan". Do you actually load the flight plan into MSFS? I never do that.
That's me being lazy - you only need to set the departure airport and initial location, usually a gate.
(I've noticed in the documentation for the FBW A32nx that it specifically says don't set a destination otherwise you won't be able to load the FMC)
- Point 1.c For a while I used to do that too but I stopped doing this because I often got "waypoint to far out" either from arrival or departure.
But looking at your slides I noticed something I didn't pay attention to before, namely "SIDs active STARs active" being selected.
I didn't do that so I'm assuming by doing this, PF3 would not check the distance from the last waypoint to the airport when using SID or STAR?
So when trying out the flight again I did load the Nonproc FP into PF3 and selected SIDs active and STARs active.
Yes, you need to set SIDs and STARs active so that PF3 knows that you are using a SID and STAR and it won't vector you on departure or arrival.
I think that one of the reasons that you are having difficulties is that you need to follow the STAR with an Approach to the relevant runway.
If you look at the chart I provided for the WODY4B STAR you will see that it only takes you as far as KERKY; you then need to select an appropriate Approach for your chosen runway - I also provided a chart for the ILS Z Rwy 25L approach, which shows the path to be taken from KERKY to GIKNU via BRUNO (BUN). This is what I had programmed into the 737 FMC for the test flight that I documented - I had to select ILS Z 25L, transition KERKY.
Regarding the 'runway in use' for the destination airport, you can always use hotkey '2' when connected to Center/Control ATC to request the ATIS for your destination - I usually do this before I start to descend, the majority of the time this will be correct (but it can change).
Then in Little Navmap it is probably easiest to work back from the runway via the approach to find the correct STAR for your arrival.
In the case of EBBR 25L there is a choice of 2 approaches, ILS-Y 25L and ILS-Z 25L; if you expand them you will see that each has one or more 'transitions', but ILS-Y 25L comes in from the wrong direction, so you need to choose ILS-Z 25L. You then have a choice of a transition via either KERKY or ANT. You will see that all of the STARs say 'STAR All', so are not restricted to a particular runway; the 2 named WODYxx use an initial fix at WOODY. WODY4B is via KERKY, WODY8A is via ANT - so you just need to choose a STAR and a transition that match.
(This example is specific to EBBR 25L, but a similar principle should work for most other destinations)
Hope this helps,
Martin
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