Slice it in half...

[petermcleland]

Did you have to go outside Peter??

No Garry...we have a row of domestic hot water bottles (rubber ones), hanging on the coat hooks. Naturally, only for peeing but it can be a long wait to visit an airport loo to sit on the throne

[petermcleland]

Here is that Tutorial published by Just Flight:-

http://www.petermcleland.com/757/757Captutorial.pdf

I will publish my own in due course.

[speedbird591]

Tech Log entry at Capetown:-

This is really not good enough for these long flights and I have taken the liberty of installing at company expense, a PortaPotti in the heads compartment.

The pressurisation does not work in the AUTO position as it allows the cabin altitude to rise to levels requiring oxygen. We are operating in the MAN mode and keeping the cabin altitude down to 10,000 feet.

The fuel system seems to be broken as, regardless of which pumps are on, the wing tanks empty first. This is inconvenient on long flights as it means that the APU can not be started at the end of the flight. Boeing like their Centre tank to be emptied first and I have made a small mod here at Capetown to ensure that happens and will check on the next flight.

Peter McLeland 36794

03/01/10

Comment by Engineering Shift Supervisor

Unable to reproduce faults on ground. Await further reports.

Transferred to ADDs (Acceptable Deferred Defects).

Ian

[petermcleland]

Humph!...No surprises there Ian

[DaveB]

Refuse to sign for it next flight Peter I'd send some of the Vanguard team down as a number of them worked 75's.. both avionics and engineering but I fear they'd demand I go too in case a tight space needed getting into or a ladder needed to be climbed! Ah Dave.. we've got a job for you (exiting stage left)

ATB

DaveB

[petermcleland]

Refuse to sign for it next flight Peter

Can't really do that Dave as it is all my own work at the moment that I would not be signing for...PortaPotti, Rearrange Fuel System and also I remember reading that this aircraft is not cleared to navigate in the very high latitudes and I discovered when trying to plan this next leg down into Antarctica, that McMurdo Station is not in the Just Flight DataBase. So I've had to insert the airfield and four threshold points for the runways into the DataBase.

Anyway, it all works and the FMC now sees and accepts MacMurdo Station and its runways. However, even though the final waypoint IS in the DataBase and it flightplans to it, the Magenta Track Line stops just short of it (the edge of the World!!!). So I don't know exactly what the aircraft will do when it reaches the end of that line and I have taken the liberty, in MacMurdo's AFCAD file, of inserting an NDB beacon near the threshold of ice runway 33. This should allow me to find that runway in poor weather.

Anyway, it will be interesting to see how it works out after another 4000 nms of ocean and ice

[DaveB]

I suppose you'll be used to the portapotti having done so many hours in the Merchantman. Visitors to 'Superb' often look in (we keep the loo door open for access to the crew door) and you see by the look on their faces what they're thinking. Not exactly the lap of luxury

Well sir.. rather more work than anticipated. Let's hope she hangs on when she reaches the edge of the world

ATB

DaveB

[petermcleland]

Well Dave, it seems to have corrected itself now and looks past the end of the world to the airfield. Note that final track is landing on runway 33...but look at the Green True North arrow!!
The Magnetic Variation here is 144.4 degrees East so on the runway my Magnetic heading is 330 but the True heading is 114.4 degrees.

[DaveB]

144.4degs.. ee-gads Peter Glad it appears to have accepted the routing

ATB

DaveB

[Fodda]

Peter, thanks for the link. I didn't have that pdf at all as I bought my 757 package directly as a download from CS rather than from JF and the CS documentation is a dry as old twigs. I couldn't really refuse though, when they offered it all as a fiver for one weekend.

Don't rush about writing up a tutorial fo the FMC, I can appeciate that your time is your own. But in the interests of all here who haven't a clue about setting one up or using one, I'd like a flight that I'd do as a matter of couse. Maybe... Continental flight CO77 Bristol International to Newark NJ USA? I love flying in and out of Bristol. If that seems rather like overkill on the distance front, then any decent short A to B would do for me as long as I could get to grips with progamming and using an FMC.

As it is, I've got your upload and will have a play with that for the rest of the weekend that isn't taken up by watching Formula 1 (I'm an addict ).

Cheers again.