Creating an FMS Flight Plan HD

In this tutorial we walk through how to set up a basic FMS flight plan between Honolulu (PHNL) and Hana (PHHN) airports on the MD-80 X-Plane 10 Mobile. Transcript below. ******** Jennifer Roberts here with an X-Plane 10 Mobile tutorial. Today we’ll take a look at setting up a short flight plan in the FMS of the fully enabled MD-80. I’ve started a flight with the MD-80 already running at Honolulu. We’re going to set up our flight plan from runway 08L at PHNL to Hana Airport (PHHN) runway 26. First let’s clear the scratchpad by pressing the CLR button. Next, press the FPLN key to invoke the flight plan page. Use the key pad to type in our origin airport, PHNL, then press the button to the left of the ORIGIN data field to fill it in. Use the scratchpad again to enter PHHN, then press the line select key next to Dest to fill it in as well. We will enter an optional flight number as well, using the same process as before. Press the EXEC button to activate this segment of the flight plan. Next let’s program the departure. Press the DEP ARR key for the index page. Press the button next to DEP to see the list of departure options. Our runway is on this first page, but you can also use the next page or prev page buttons to move between pages. Press the line select key next to RW08L. Now we’re on the Standard Instrument Departure procedures page, or SIDS. These provide the optimum solution for the transition from the airport terminal environment to the en-route phase of flight. The SIDs that use our chosen runway of 08L are displayed here, and we’ll choose the MKK4 departure. On the next page the transition waypoints are displayed. Press the NEXT PAGE button to select the PULPS transition. Click the EXEC button to execute it. This flight plan will have no en-route waypoints because the departure and arrival airports are only a short distance apart. Instead we will jump right into programming the arrival, so press the DEP ARR key again. Press the line select key next to our destination airport PHHN. If a Standard Instrument Arrival procedure (or STAR) is available, it would be listed on this page. This airport only has the RNV26 option available, which is an RNAV procedure. This requires the aircraft to be equipped with GPS, which ours is, so we’ll select it, then pick our transition on the following screen. We’ll select PULPS again, then press the EXEC button to execute the instruction. Now we need to check the entire flight plan and repair any discontinuities. Press the LEGS button, then the NEXT PAGE button to page through the flight plan. We have a discontinuity on page 2 which can be repaired by connecting the waypoints around it. Press the line select key next to PULPS then the key next to the DISCONTINUITY line to fix it. We’ll look through the entire flight plan...and there are no further discontinuities so we’ll press the EXEC button again to execute our instructions. So that’s how to enter a flight plan in the X-Plane FMS. Rememb