Okay I think I’m getting some of it. I think I can easily make a flight plan based on the airport’s procedures. I can choose a departure procedure and an approach procedure. What’s the diff between approach and arrival procedure anyway?
Some of the waypoints have an altitude set into them. The A/P doesn’t follow it though, should I check my phone every waypoint then to set the alt on A/P?
You need to arm vnav after you reach you cruising altitude. Arrival procedure is how you enter the airport’s area and direct yourself to the runway in a realistic pattern. Approach for lining up with the runway and when you’re on final, all the way until the runway.
Hey thanks.
So I tried VNav before and it said iirc, that i have to be on descent. So i have to be like >10k ft to use it?
So thinking if procedures, it’s departure, arrival, and then approach?
Using these when creating fpl, how do I know where my toc and tod are???
You can only arm vnav when the aircraft is flying at anything below 100 fpm. I usually just arm it around 10 secs. after I reach my cruising altitude. It will tell you the distance to your tod in nautical miles (NM) in the vnav box in the A/P section.
Yes, that’s the order. After you lift off the ground, your lnav should already have the information of your chosen departure procedure (assuming you pre-planned it). Then comes arrival procedure (descent) and approach (final/appr).
TOC = Cruising altitude, right?
There’s a load of tutorials on the official YouTube channel https://youtube.com/@infiniteflight?si=F6f7igvlrtBvjtTQ
Top of climb, after you’ve finished ascending.
Okay guys. I have made up my mind. I’ll stick with IF. The challenge to learn gets to me. I want to know how these things work, and if it takes time, then so be it.
I was just appalled a bit when I realized this wasn’t as easy as RFS, but now it’s exactly why I want this one.
Trust me, IF is so much better. I hate the controls in RFS. The planes are much more detailed and better in IF. Great choice, and yeah, once you learn everything, it will be so much fun!
I’m learning. Yeah.
I only have to learn how to stick my landings.
Sometimes I can, sometimes I can’t. I’m annoyed when I can’t but it is what it is.
And I’m nervous about still not being good enough for TS/ES when I get there.
I don’t know how to hold, I don’t know how to fly pattern, I know what they are, but I can’t execute.
Anyway, lots to learn and lots of practice to do.
Oh believe me, I’ve had my landings too…I will admit, I’ve force closed the game after a hard landing once.
There are hundreds of videos online that can help you make smoother landings, and like everything, you need to keep practicing. It might even take a month.
Oh bro, don’t even worry about TS, violations are extremely rare in it, and just do what your supposed to and be realistic. Simple! There are a few terms and rules you will need to learn for the ES but that’s why it’s called TS, to train you for the ES.
Yeah I’m annoyed by my flights to landing ratio.
And I don’t think I’m halfway to 25 landings yet.
I’m also at a place where I’d like to fly different kinds of planes but with IF, to be realistic, it seems like I have to learn one plane (climb profile, vr speed, landing speed, etc etc) at a time.
A quick guide to make smooth landings from me, it really depends on the plane:
All with full flaps and light load towards the end of your flight
All kts in IAS (airspeed, not ground)
A220:130-133 kts
A318: 130 kts
A319: 135 kts
A320: 138 kts
A321: 140 kts
All A330s: 137-140 kts
A340: 140-142 kts
A350: 140-142 kts
A380: 145-147 kts
717 💀: 140 kts
737-7: 130-133 kts
737-8: 135-137 kts
737-9: 137-140 kts
747-2: 142-145 kts
747-4 & 8: 145 kts
757: 137-140 kts
767: 140 kts
All 777s: 137-140 kts
All 787s: 138-140 kts
E175: 130 kts
E190: 132-135 kts
All CRJs: 130-135 kts
Fully flare after you hear 10 (later in smaller aircraft, sooner in bigger ones).
For A380 and B747 start flare at 50 cause you’ll touchdown quicker than you think.
For E-jets, 737s, A220, A318,19,20,and21, flare later.
Watching your speed is very important. Try to keep centerline and be focused when flaring. Don’t flare too much or you’ll float. It takes a while to land properly. No one said they’re easy! Even I struggle with them these days!
Don’t worry about that, just focus on getting used to everything, it will take time, trust me.
Also, if you practice in solo mode you can just retry an infinite amount of time instantly, so I would advise practicing there to familiarize your self with each aircraft. The a330 is a fun one to land 😉. For me, 737s are a challenge.
Man I’m such a yapper 🙄
I would like to argue this. What do u think looks wrong with the physics, there’s crash physics that infinite flight doesn’t have. For us Indians infinite flight is almost 10x cheaper than what it is in other countries, so for us refs will be more expensive but for other countries they would pay less for rfs. Graphics aren’t cartoon like, obviously your opinion but they have trees and buildings that IF don’t have. Also in rfs you can sit in autopilot for climbing because it maintains ur speed and altitude whereas u have to set it manually in infinite flight. Not going to create a IF vs RFS argument here but I feel you said it in a very harsh way.
I recommend you stay with IF because it has a much better community than RFS and also there are lots of things to explore. We have the user guide that you could check out and read how to communicate with ATC. As of now I assume you are in grade 1 so you don’t need to be very serious and you fly in causal server so there is no ATC. But anyways if you want to be realistic I recommend watching the tutorials on the IF YouTube channel as they are very helpful, especially for what you wanted to use(simbrief). Also there’s a APPR guide on YouTube so check it out. But just a tip, if your landing on runway 27 that has a heading of 270 do not just set the appr and think it will get you to the runway. It will just align you I recommend having a heading of 270-300 degrees or 240-270 degrees while landing as infinite flight autopilot comes to align slightly late. And also while aligning with the altitude it pitches up a bit. Overall you will enjoy infinite flight and let me tell you there’s a lot to explore as well.