PMDG 737NGX Operation instructions

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PMDG 737NGX
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE.......................................................................3
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................6
Prerequisites:.............................................................................................6
OVERVIEW....................................................................................................8
A NOTE ON WEATHER AND WINDS.........................................................9
A NOTE ON WEIGHTS...............................................................................10
P3D SETUP.................................................................................................11
Loading the saved flight: .........................................................................11
ELECTRICAL POWER UP.........................................................................12
PRELIMINARY PREFLIGHT......................................................................17
ROUTE OVERVIEW ...................................................................................24
FMC PREFLIGHT........................................................................................25
FUEL PLANNING........................................................................................37
Main route: ...............................................................................................37
Trip fuel:................................................................................................37
Contingency fuel:.................................................................................40
Taxi fuel:...............................................................................................40
Extra fuel: .............................................................................................40
Alternate diversion route: ........................................................................42
Trip fuel:................................................................................................42
Contingency fuel:.................................................................................45
Hold fuel:...............................................................................................45
TAKEOFF PERFORMANCE CALCULATION...........................................48
COCKPIT PREFLIGHT FLOWS................................................................54
BEFORE START PROCEDURE................................................................77
Takeoff/departure briefing:......................................................................78
PUSHBACK PROCEDURE........................................................................80
ENGINE START PROCEDURE.................................................................82
BEFORE TAXI PROCEDURE....................................................................83

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BEFORE TAKEOFF PROCEDURE ..........................................................86
TAKEOFF PROCEDURE...........................................................................87
ADVANCED FMC ROUTE MODIFICATIONS..........................................94
DESCENT & APPROACH DISCUSSION...............................................107
Approach explanation/breifing:.............................................................108
DESCENT..................................................................................................110
THE APPROACH......................................................................................117
AFTER LANDING .....................................................................................122
SHUTDOWN PROCEDURE....................................................................124
SECURE PROCEDURE...........................................................................128
ELECTRICAL POWER DOWN................................................................130
THE END!..................................................................................................131
ADDENDUM –WEATHER/WINDS USE................................................132
Preliminary weather setup: ...................................................................132
Cruise wind entry:..................................................................................135
The simple way:.................................................................................136
The complex way:..............................................................................136
Cruise temperature ISA deviation: .......................................................138
Descent wind entry:...............................................................................139
Descent ISA deviation:..........................................................................141
Takeoff wind:..........................................................................................143

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INTRODUCTION
Welcome to the second tutorial flight for the PMDG 737NGX!
This more advanced tutorial flight picks up where Tutorial #1 left off and
continues your PMDG 737NGX education. You’ll go through the complete
Amplified Normal Procedures from a “cold and dark” state including the
various tests that a real crew performs on the first flight of the day, you’ll
fly a special noise abatement takeoff and climb procedure and you’ll learn
about numerous advanced features of the PMDG 737NGX’s FMC that
you may not know about. Finally you’ll conduct a very unusual and
picturesque visual approach and landing in mountainous terrain.
We want to first extend a very special thank you to Panos Lalas, Vangelis
Vaos, Robert S. Randazzo, Giorgio La Pira, Jack Colwill, Johan Ketting
and of course PMDG’s beta team for their invaluable assistance in the
creation and editing of this tutorial. Innsbruck is a difficult airport and the
people above demystified it with their considerable experience.
A few prerequisites before we begin:
Prerequisites:
1. Tutorial #2 builds on concepts introduced in Tutorial #1 and is
written with the assumption that you have flown it and fully
understand everything contained in it. Screenshots are not shown
for every single item this time because it is assumed you know
where the basic things in the cockpit are.
If you have any questions about information or procedures from
Tutorial #1, please post the questions in our forum at Avsim.com
or submit a support ticket and we’ll be happy to answer them.
2. PMDG expended significant resources to obtain the rights to
include the actual Boeing flight manuals that pilots use in the real
airplane. This tutorial makes extensive use of them. While we
have provided screenshots and explanations for many of the
steps, we want you to get in the habit of using these manuals as
you continue learning the airplane in the future.
3. A note on navdata –the PMDG 737NGX includes the August
2011 AIRAC cycle from Navigraph by default. (aka the “1108”
cycle) Many simmers update their navdata each month through
Navigraph’s service. The data does change over time and thus
certain aspects of the route in these tutorials can end up

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changing in newer data. If you’re using a later navdata cycle you
may see differences –just use your best judgment, things do not
often change drastically and most terminal procedures will have a
similar name if they’ve changed, often moving up one number or
letter in the sequence. (for example, the BXK2 SID becomes the
BXK3, things like that) If you see a NAV DATA OUT OF DATE
message on the FMC scratchpad when you load the airplane, the
older 1108 navdata cycle included with the product is the reason
why.
4. Several other addons popular with simmers are optionally used in
this tutorial:
Active Sky Next –this is a full featured weather program that
provides you with realistic real world weather in the simulator –
ASN or a similar program is required to have fully accurate winds
aloft and descent forecast predictions for the FMC, which is
described in the addendum. ASN specifically will also enable the
weather radar that was added in SP1d.
http://www.hifitechinc.com
TOPCAT –a performance calculator that will give you accurate
flaps, reduced thrust and assumed temperature settings for the
runway you’re taking off from, similar to what a dispatcher at an
airline uses.
http://www.topcatsim.com
Aerosoft’s Approaching Innsbruck –very nice scenery product
for the Innsbruck area.
http://www.aerosoft.com
5. This tutorial assumes the use of the default PMDG 737NGX
aircraft options configuration –if you have changed them, please
reset them to the defaults on the MENU/PMDG
SETUP/AIRCRAFT page.

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OVERVIEW
Our second tutorial flight has us piloting our winglet equipped 737-800
from EHAM - Amsterdam Schiphol, The Netherlands to LOWI –
Innsbruck, Austria, high in the Alps. The route is around an hour and a
half in length and like Tutorial #1 is a common inter-European regional
flight in the real world, especially during the busy winter ski season.
Innsbruck is world-famous for its unique approaches and today we’ll be
flying the most famous and challenging one, known as the LOC/DME
East with the circle to land procedure and visual approach for Runway 8.
The last part of this approach is completely handflown –no autolands
here!

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A NOTE ON WEATHER AND WINDS
This tutorial will not use weather by default because doing so correctly
and realistically requires a weather addon such as Active Sky Next. If you
do have ASN or a similar real world weather program that can output
readable winds aloft data the addendum at the end of this tutorial explains
how to set up ASN and the FMC for use with wind predictions.
If you are going to do this just please be aware that the weather situation
changes dynamically just as it does in real life. The optional weather
related sections are written in a generic form to account for this but it is
quite possible that the departure runway at EHAM will not be Runway 24
and the arrival runway in Innsbruck will be Runway 26 instead of Runway
8 based on the actual winds.
If this is the case you have two choices –either follow the tutorial as
written and accept that you may be violating real life standard operating
procedures for crosswind or tailwind components on landing, or look at
the charts for both EHAM and LOWI and slightly modify the tutorial
procedures so that you use the correct runways. At EHAM this will likely
just mean selecting a different version of the LUNIX SID that’s made for
the new runway. At LOWI this could mean doing a straight in approach to
Runway 26 instead of the circling procedure to Runway 8.
These are the types of situations real pilots find themselves in every day
and adapting to it is something you’ll get used to as you use real life
weather in the sim.
If you have a weather program and are going to use it to fly
this tutorial start that program now so that it connects to P3D
before we launch the flight. Please read the addendum (page
132) first so you know what to expect during the tutorial.

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A NOTE ON WEIGHTS
This tutorial is written using imperial weight units (pounds) because
they’re what the PMDG House Livery defaults to. We have however
included the metric equivalent kilograms wherever applicable in
parentheses after the imperial units if you’d like to fly with them instead.
Note that these equivalents are approximate and may be very slightly
“wrong” in a perfect technical sense due to rounding and conversion etc.
It does not matter for our purposes here –if you’re down to 1 or 2 lbs or
kg making a difference, you have much bigger problems on your flight!
Both Tutorial #1 and #2 would be flown in real life with metric units –
imperial units are mostly limited to North American airlines.
If you would like to use metric units, the option can be
changed in the FMC by pressing MENU, then PMDG SETUP
at LSK 4R, then AIRCRAFT at LSK 1L, then DISPLAYS at
LSK 2L. Press PREV PAGE once to get onto page 9/9. The
option is located at LSK 3L.