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Flight Management Systems ......................................................................................................................... 4
The X-Plane Flight Management System ...................................................................................................... 5
The “Pop-Up” CDU ........................................................................................................................................ 5
Invoking, moving, sizing, and closing the “Pop-Up” CDU ............................................................................. 5
Components of the CDU ............................................................................................................................... 7
Programming a Flight Plan ............................................................................................................................ 9
Initializing the CDU .................................................................................................................................... 9
Invoking the Flight Plan Page .................................................................................................................... 9
Programming the Flight Plan Origin ........................................................................................................ 10
Programming the Flight Plan Destination ............................................................................................... 10
Programming the Flight Number ............................................................................................................ 10
Executing the Flight Plan segment .......................................................................................................... 11
Programming the Departure ................................................................................................................... 12
Selecting a Standard Instrument Departure (SID) .................................................................................. 13
Selecting a Standard Instrument Departure (SID) Transition ................................................................. 13
Programming the route segment ........................................................................................................... 14
Programming the Arrival ......................................................................................................................... 15
Selecting a Standard Instrument Arrival (STAR) ..................................................................................... 15
Selecting an Instrument Approach ......................................................................................................... 15
Selecting an Approach Transition ........................................................................................................... 16
Programming Fixes.................................................................................................................................. 17
Programming a FIX for Standard Instrument Departure (VTU6). ........................................................... 18
Programming a FIX for Standard Instrument Arrival (BSR3). .................................................................. 20
VNAV ....................................................................................................................................................... 21
VNAV – Programming a Climb Transition Altitude ................................................................................. 21
VNAV – Programming Climb and Descent Speed Restrictions ............................................................... 22
VNAV - Programming a Cruise Altitude. ................................................................................................. 23
VNAV - Programming a Target Speed ..................................................................................................... 23
VNAV - Programming a Vertical Path Angle (VPA) .................................................................................. 24
Flight Plan Discontinuities ....................................................................................................................... 25
Inserting waypoints into an active Flight Plan ........................................................................................ 27
Deleting waypoints from an active Flight Plan ....................................................................................... 28
Direct To Waypoint ................................................................................................................................. 29