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  1. ORBI (ORBS) for FS9 please 

  2. Hi. Has anyone here tried flying the new Rotate MD-11 in VR mode? If so, could you kindly say 'hello' here and I will ask my specific question (I have problems and Rotate support sadly don't look like they will be able to help me any time soon). Thanks. :)
  3. By way of a 'bump'... anyone have the FF a350, and a VR headset? Be good to know if others also find the 'OIS' dead. Still no reply, after months, from Flight Factor and their 'ticket' system. What rubbish customer service :-( Thanks.
  4. Hi. Anyone have this a/c? I bought it some months back but have not been able to fly it yet as the IOS (EFB/tablet) is completely 'dead' in VR mode (I have never flown 'on the monitor' again after my first VR XP11 experience!). I use an Oculus Quest 2. The 'blurb' showed the a/c to be VR-capable. Well, all the switches do work, but with with no flight setup possible (unless I keep removing the VR headset, switching to non-VR and back), it's a non-starter. Opened a ticket with FF, but apart from being asked to reinstall the a/c, several weeks ago now (no change), I have had no other response from them. Great! Wasn't cheap either. Thanks for any ideas on this.
  5. 52 original DVDs (bought directly from FS Genesis), from whole world 'blanket'/fill terrain data down to highest-detail SRTM. Also 12 original FS Genesis DVDs covering USA/Russia for FSX Based in UK. Any (sensible!) offers? Worth a fortune, originally!! :) Martin
  6. Thanks. By the time I get back from holiday in a couple of weeks I'll doubtless have forgotten half of it!
  7. Yes, I can get help with both on other forums, but I think that I have to accept that many things in X-Plane, good as they are, are never going to be perfectly exact replicas of the real world. (And since I am not a real-world pilot of Airbuses or Boeings, I probably wouldn't know the difference anyway when it comes to the finer details). The 'Manual' indication on the map is not an invention of LittleNavMap - it is just how the map indicates the end point of a Manual Termination procedure. How closely that procedure in the map software reflects Manual Termination procedures in the real world, I couldn't say. In essence, given that by adding Transitions and Vias to my flight plans over the past few days, I have got some odd results in the aircraft FMC (fairly long detours in the wrong direction, for instance), and that I am in front of my PC console and not real cockpit instruments, I think I should compromise between what I understand to be real-world procedure and what I can realistically achieve in X-Plane (taking into account the limitations of X-Plane, my ATC programme and of my ability to get my head around the finer points of this)... or I shall never get any actual flying done.
  8. Manual is not a waypoint. It is an indication that a heading, track or a hold is held until terminated by ATC ('Manual termination').. If you Google 'Procedural Leg Types', it is explained in most of the pdf files that come up (at least the ones I have downloaded).
  9. All screenshots from LittleNavMap. not the manual. Yes, it is. No, it is generated by LittleNavMap along with the STAR. From what I have been told on X-Plane forums, this is perfectly normal. To be honest, I think all this is starting to swim around in my head rather: I should leave it a while and come back to it. Perfect timing really as I am going abroad on holiday for two weeks in a couple of days time. I'll have a fresh look when I get home again. Thanks.
  10. True, the SIDs aren't a problem on the whole, but it is still useful to read the stuff CRJ linked to. LittleNavMap does pretty much everything I need (I use it in association with SimBrief).. but quite frequently the number of usable SIDs or STARs are relatively few. LittleNavMap brings up a visual image of the path as soon as you click on the SID or STAR - most are obviously not appropriate for the incoming flight path. The one for Mumbai VABB which I posted is the best of the few options available when flying up from the south-east (VOHS here), but having flown the route since I last posted, I am even more amazed at the 'detour' to MB395, which is at some of the highest terrain in the region (northern end of the Western Ghats mountain range). Why (I ask partly rhetorically, as I guess no one on the forum would know, unless he/she is part of the FAA or whatever) is MB395 included in the STAR? Having flown the route, as I say, missing out that point would give an easier approach, in my humble (but doubtless misguided!) opinion. Well, the good thing is that I have quickly changed from regarding SIDs, STARs and Transitions as a complication I can avoid (and did) simply by flying to the runway's 'LOC/GS point' and engaging the APPR mode, to something that is actually an enjoyable part of the pre-flight programming (which now take some ten times as long as before, but that's all good!). Thanks as ever to folks for taking time to reply. Martin
  11. Thanks again for this. Yes, I may have some 'wrong' ideas in my head about aspects of this. Perhaps, as an example of the use of the 'via'.. If you have a choice of three or four in the FMC, how would you go about choosing the most appropriate? The ones I have been offered seem to be, in essence, waypoints, but quite a way away from my programmed route+STAR, so I usually opt for 'No Via'. I think I need to keep programming flight plans into the a319 FMC and comparing with the LittleNavMap information and map page (or vice versa) to work things out. I am still a bit nonplussed as to why the SIDs and STARs themselves can be so oddly formed though! For instance, flying into Mumba VABB Rwy 27 from the south-east, I chose STAR MOLG1A. This seems a very unwieldy path (like the one I posted a few days ago), with its 'dog-leg' sudden change of direction. It goes to MB372, then MB394, after which there's a sharp turn east to get to MB395 and then some 150 degs back again, leading to a 'manual' section, north of the airport. I don't understand these odd twists and turns. They aren't usually governed by terrain considerations. I think you are right that even a very well-modelled FMC is not going to be able to interact with ATC in a totally realistic way, due to the limitations of the ATC programmes for the most part. The more I fly this a319 (and it's the first a/c I have flown in 20 years that models all this so comprehensively (hence my incentive to do it justice!). I am sure after a while, it will all fall into place!
  12. In LittleNavMap you (very) simply enter the navaid ID in the search box, Navaid tab, and double-click.... FYI
  13. OK, progress: the simple reason I couldn't see the transitions or vias is that I stupidly wasn't looking far enough out - they are much further away from the airports than I imagined. They do show on LittleNavMap (I located them first on good old FS Navigator for FS9!). I think (?), with that sorted so simply, I should be good to go!!
  14. In LittleNavMap have you updated the scenery database? How do I do that? It is updated via my Navigraph subscription every month, if that is what you mean. Otherwise, if you are saying there is something else I need to do, I am afraid I can't see what it is, CRJ
  15. Thanks Larry. I do know what 'via' means (I did Latin at school for a start! Now I am an English language teacher :)), but I just don't yet see why, if there is a STAR selected, plus a transition, the pilot would be asked for input for a 'via' as well. I suppose there must be more than one way to get to the transition point - that makes sense from the use of the word 'via' at least, but as I still can't locate (on the map) any of the transition or via points I am offered by the FMC (which is quite possibly me being a bit dense, I wouldn't deny!) I still have no way to choose one transition, or 'via' over another. Is the via an actual point, like a waypoint, or a path, like an airway? (I assume the former, but it could be either. Using your analogy of a car - not so good for me as I have never driven a car in the 60 years of my life! - I can go from Southampton to Luton, via Staines (point), or via the M25 (route))? I choose SIDs and STARS using LittleNavMap, which highlights the chosen route. I then adapt my flightplan as needed (deleting now obsolete waypoints, which are within the area of the SID or STAR), but after that I am working in the dark when trying to select which transition and/or via to input into the FMC. Thanks again... I'll have a look at your links too, of course.
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