Google Groups no longer supports new Usenet posts or subscriptions. Historical content remains viewable.
Dismiss

fsx boeing 747 nav handling

120 views
Skip to first unread message

Rene Grothmann

unread,
Jun 1, 2008, 3:52:11 PM6/1/08
to
Can anybody tell me how to change the heading for nav 1/2 with the
mouse in the boeing 747 ms fsx? Did they forget this? Or only by
keyboard?

RobertVA

unread,
Jun 1, 2008, 10:28:38 PM6/1/08
to

I only have FS 9.1, but I can't find any way to set the COURSE on the
B-747-400 Horizontal Situation Indicator with the mouse either. It moves
properly when pressing "v" followed by "="(unshifted "+") and/or "-"
(number row above the letters) on the keyboard though. I don't know if
FS X retains the same default keyboard assignments. Since the display
merely points to the VOR tuned by navigational radio number two, instead
of offering a Course Deviation Indication (CDI) there would be any point
to a course setting.

Most of the other modern transports have a "CRS" display and knob on the
autopilot panel.

The "heading" setting is associated with the gyrocompass instead of the
navigational radios. Perhaps your use of "heading" in association with
the navigational radios was a typographical error.

Michael Everson

unread,
Jun 1, 2008, 11:37:43 PM6/1/08
to
To adjust the heading on the 747 you use the knob under the heading readout.
To adjust the VOR Course you click where the course is displayed on the
multi function display.

"RobertVA" <robert_c7...@invalid.net> wrote in message
news:xVI0k.275$QI2...@newsfe23.lga...

Michael Everson

unread,
Jun 1, 2008, 11:42:47 PM6/1/08
to
Robert, there is still a point to setting the course as you need it set if
you want the autopilot to fly a particular radial to/from the VOR station.

Rene, if you are in the "virtual cockpit" view some of the buttons are not
clickable so sometimes you have to go back to the normal cockpit mode if you
don't know the keyboard mapping.


"RobertVA" <robert_c7...@invalid.net> wrote in message
news:xVI0k.275$QI2...@newsfe23.lga...

RobertVA

unread,
Jun 2, 2008, 12:23:48 AM6/2/08
to
>(snip)

Since the autopilot doesn't utilize the SECOND navigational radio to
follow a VOR radial, the autopilot wouldn't justify a second course
setting either.

Rene Grothmann

unread,
Jun 14, 2008, 9:45:23 AM6/14/08
to
Clicking under the VOR readout works. It is not very intuitive, and
certainly not the way it works in the real thing.

Anyway, thanks for the reply.

0 new messages