weird FMC

[Clement Derisbourg 1398018]

Hi everyone my FMC is weird.

 

I explain, I never used it before so I had a look online see how to set it up but I dont have on my FMC either the EXE button and dont have the page int/ref index so as all the video I looked online start the FMC using it and I dont have it I'm stuck. I tried to take a screenshot of my FMC but I cant attach it in my thread.

 

Hope someone could help .

 

Cheers

[1275389]

I suggest uploading photos to imgur and posting the link.

What FMC? What sim? What plane (and who makes it)? We need more information. There are countless FMCs out there and they all work differently.

[Clement Derisbourg 1398018]

Hi thanks for your reply the FMC is from a Boeing 757 from this website

 

https://www.justflight.com/product/757-jetliner-freemium

 

Used with fsx steam edition !

 

You can see some fmc picture in the website

[Don Desfosse]

You may want to seek [Mod - Happy Thoughts]istance from the FMC developer....

[Randy Tyndall 1087023]

Clement,

 

That is the previously payware version of Just Flight's B757 that is now free from their site and called the JF "Freemium" B757. The FMC you are referring to in the panel takes a previously built FSX default flightplan and plugs it in to both the "FMC" and the default GPS. So, it's like having two GPS systems, both showing the same data.

 

As you noted, there is no EXE button, nor is there an INT button. Pretty sure the video you watched was concerning the current payware JF B757, not the previously payware/now freeware JF B757 that you have. The Freemium "FMC" is a "pretty" version of the default GPS and really nothing more. There are some extra things you can do with it that the default GPS won't let you do, but it's still just a default GPS at heart and very limited in it's functions. I thought there was a tutorial that came with the "Freemium" download on how to use the FMC, but cannot find it on my system

 

It uses the default FSX NavData, does not show SIDS or STARS, and cannot be updated to the current AIRAC cycle unless you use the Herve Sors NavData update site that updates the FSX data, not the "FMC" data.

 

Randy

 

Edit: Just to better help you, Clement, today I loaded up the jfB757 Freemium for a short flight from Boise to Salt Lake City. I had a previously saved KBOI-KSLC.pln I built using the default FSX Flight Planner, so I used it. The FMC showed me all the waypoints I had entered, but nothing showed in the HSI as far as a "track" or waypoints. I looked at the GPS and the plan wasn't loaded there, so I suspect you have to first, build a plan with the default planner, second load the plan from the default flight planner page so the GPS has it, and third, load it in to the FMC by pressing RTE on the FMC and then selecting "Load FSX Flight".

 

Also, the HSI always was oriented to point North, no matter which direction my aircraft was headed. I was also mistaken when I said it has no "INT" button. It does, "INIT", but it does not do what that key does on a functioning FMC. Also, be very careful with the RTE button. Once you have selected your route do not ever press that button again until your flight is complete or it erases your flight plan and you have to start all over.

 

The direct to button let me select a waypoint to fly directly to, but when I picked on, the aircraft immediately turned northward, I think because the GPS didn't have a "plan" loaded. It just seems to confirm what I said above, the FMC in the Freemium uses data from the GPS, so it is nothing more than a glorified second GPS with some additional, but "touchy" extras.