Hi everybody,
I am currently flying the 777 over the Pacific Ocean with the new SID and STARS, and it appears that my plan doesn’t want to follow its flight plan and I can’t figure out why as I followed the tutorial.
Can someone help me please ?
It seems you have two waypoints too close together and your aircraft is doing circles trying to get to the second one.
no my waypoints were quite separated actually, at first I thought that it was because I had one waypoint added in the middle of the SID. but when i removed it it still went in circle
By how much - how many nm?
I removed the SID to see if it works a minute ago, I suspect that it was because my SID Transition was doubled If you get what I mean
between 80 and 200 i guess, Simbrief FPL
That is a possibility however it looks like your plane is in the middle of the ocean.
Oh ok thats more than enough.
Have you ruled out the simplest reasons first? Like forgotten to set gps/nav?
I was leaving LAX, the transition over the Pacific is quite far away from the coast
Yes of course
Yes that’s true. Have you made sure that the part of the route “your aircraft is on is “active” - ie shows as a pink line.
seems like it was a SID problem, I removed the SID because I think the transition had a problem. Now that it is removed I’m starting to fly straight but I’m not sure if it will continue
ahaha of course, I would have been extremely disapointed in myself after all of this flight time.
Ok lets see if that solved it.
I think I figured it out, the transition waypoint was used twice (once in the SID and once just after the SID) and I’m wondering if that confused the Autopilot.
It probably did.
let me get back to you in a few minutes for a follow up, thanks for the help !
You are very welcome.
Quick follow up :
It seems I am now flying according to my flight plan (passenger were starting to feel sick turning across the Pacific for no reason)
i think we should warn other users to PROPERLY check their flight plan, maybe in the future devs could add a bug fix that removed doubled waypoints.