For our first hop.
The 737 is not an easy aircraft to fly. So
there are times you will need the assistance of your autopilot and auto throttle.
Maintaing your speed, altitude, and direction are difficult without it.
After these are activated just click with your mouse up or down for any
deviation change you need to make. Its not full autopilot, it’s only a
semi. You have to make the necessary changes. Set your auto throttle and
speed to 250 below 10,000 ft. Remember when
I mentioned to change your panel to the 777-300 panel. See how much easier
it is to read. Your VOR 1 and VOR 2 are in the same window.
We are
going to do a very simple SID (Standard Instrument Departure) maneuver.
This particular SID is called San Jose Eight Departure. Open up your radio stack
and change your NAV 2 to SJC VOR 114.10.
Then change NAV 1 to OAK VOR to 116.80.
Next
change the course to 121 degrees and the
Heading to 110 degrees. Get ATC approval for
a VFR flight to the south. ATC will also direct you to runway 30R.
SET Nav
1 and Nav2.JPG
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Set
Course to
121
degrees
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Set
Heading to
110
degrees
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1.8
miles out of the SJC VOR 114.10 DME of your VOR 2
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Activate
Altitude Auto Pilot
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We are
now departing runway 30R. Switch your Speed on. No Throttle control will be
needed by you as the Auto Throttle is active. As your knots increase to 170
a slight pull of your joystick to get only a positive rate of climb. When
this is ascertained, raise your landing gear At this time, activate your Altitude Auto Pilot. You will want to maintain 5000
ft throughout this flight until ATC tells you otherwise in the real world.
In this case they will not. Maintain 303 degrees until you are 1.8 miles out of the SJC
VOR 114.10 DME of your VOR 2. At this time of roll out we are .8 miles.
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Activate
Heading Auto Pilot
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Notice
your VOR 1 for OAK is active. And we are 1.8 miles out from SJS VOR 2. This
is the time you want to activate your Heading Auto Pilot. You may also want
to retract your flaps from 5 degrees to 0 degrees.
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We are
almost at the 121 radial of OAK VOR 1
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We are
now intercepting the 121 radial of OAK. We will maintain 121 degrees until
we are 47 miles out of OAK VOR 1 DME. Make slight adjustments to keep on
course. Open the
radio stack and change VOR 2 to Salinas
SNS to the frequency 117.3. When we will be 47
miles out from OAK intersept MOONY Intersection.
Which is the radial 346 of SNS.
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346 degree outbound
radial of Salinas
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47 miles
out on the OAK DME
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121
degree outbound radial of OAK
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There !! You will note that we are still heading 121 degrees. We
are 47 miles from OAK at the 121 outbound radial. We are also at the 346
outbound radial of SNS. We have intersepted
MOONY.
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Now that
you just intersepted MOONY, it’s time to change a
heading to 108 degrees. The outbound radial will be 288. Open the radio
stack and change NAV 1 VOR 1 to a the frequency
112.6 and track it to Panoche. The Vortac for Panoche is
PXN.
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We have
just passed PXN. And this lesson is over. What you have achieved is a SID
(Standard Instrument Departure). You’ve learned to use your Auto Pilot
affectively, intersept radials, Locate
Intersections. Now what you need to do is fly the same SID, but this time,
instead of flying to PXN, Navigate to AVE. Let me know how you did.
We all need to thank Dustin Owens – Baltimore / Washington Hub
Commander for assisting me in assembling this Web Page. Thank you Dustin
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