Is there a website that I can use to find planes climb profile, flaps speeds/approach speeds and trim via the planes weight
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I use Simbrief to get the numbers. It doesn’t have trim, but it does have climb profiles (some aircraft have 2 climb profiles) and takeoff and landing calculations with the flap settings if that’s what you’re looking for.
How does that work?
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See if this may help
How to use SimBrief with Infinite Flight
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I use 15 up trim for everything
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I use 5-8 trim on the boeing. Any trim less than 15 for the airbuses
Simbrief climb abd descent profiles are quite off for 777 and a380.
How so? Would you mind clarifying for me?
The reason this may often be the case is because it always assumes a continuous climb and descent at a specified speed determined by your CI - whereas in reality (especially for descents) there may be intermediate altitude constraints where you may have to level off (or descend to other altitudes as specified by the STAR,) which may not precisely align with that of the precalculated profile.
In other words, SB doesn’t care about altitude constraints in procedures. This applies not only to the 777 and 380 but pretty much all aircraft. You may, however, be able to get away with following SB descent profiles at smaller airports with little to no high terrain around it, where these STARs may simply not exist and you simply descend to the altitude specified by the IAF in whatever procedure you have filed.
Well, I wouldn’t say it always assumes a continuous desecent. I have experienced a couple of cases where I was at FL380 in an A380, and it had me descend to FL280 and hold that till I reached a certain point. At one of the high elevation airports and high temp airports, it would extend my downwind and tell me to stay at 7,000 at 250 KIAS before turning base and following the approach set by IF. Are you perhaps referring to a case where you are level at 10,000 feet at speed suggested by Simbrief and it doesn’t translate well in IF (maybe it says you can do 260 KIAS but the small altitude flickers cause a warning from IF). Could you picture a scenario? I’m trying to make sense of what you’re saying.
Take this for example. It shows a continuous descent path from TOD all the way to YBCS - and the VNAV altitudes generated automatically will reflect this accordingly.
Sometimes SB will give you a lower cruising altitude right at the end of the cruise phase of your flight if winds are unfavorable further up - meaning that you will have technically descended to FL280 before your actual TOD.
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My trim fails sometimes :[ (foreshadowing)
I almost fly only on Emirates which consist of 380 and 777s. The descent profiles like which sim brief uses 84/310/250 often have less track miles which requires to slow down the aircraft to 250kts before 10K ft and to make things worse you start descent rate at 1800vs for initial descent. This is not even close to real life as they rarely exceed 1000vs above 28K and I do suspect infinite flight vnav could be the culprit as it follows a continuous descent unlike irl where it adjust along with the winds and ground speed. Takeoff profiles are rather insane even long haul flights like from DXB to SYD often climb at higher speed then you would on irl and hence fuel consumption is greater than shown in the charts of simbrief.
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Yeah agree with that. Actually when I reach an uncontrolled airport, I use STAR chart to set my descent step climb and the VNAV profile on IF works well with that. Now for the initial climb a just set between +1000 and +2000 ft/min above 230kt or TRL/TA and I let it go. That bring more realism for your flight.
The best I suggest is to take your plane and do takeoff at different load % to calculate your referential trim. Because this is kind of “at your discretion”. For example as I use Logitech joystick, my trim value for the A350 will be:
20% for 50% load;
35% for 60% load;
40% for 70% load
45% for 80% load
How do I find thrust settings?
These might help you a little. I used to use these for a basic idea of the thrust/flaps/trim etc
After a while you kind of get a feel for it. I rarely look at these now 🫡
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