AFS4 777F out of NZCH.
Posted: Sun Nov 17, 2024 2:14 pmI wasn't the only one mystified by the doors on the 777F, but thanks to advice in the IPACS forum, and the excellent tutorials on the Aerofly website, I know now. It's perfectly logical - you need to use the MFD screen, so you need electricity and to get that you need the APU runnng....but what a lot of newfangled codswallop! In my day there would be an underling to do menial tasks like closing doors, and if I returned safely in my Connie, I'd tip him sixpence.
Don't know why it wanted to taxi out in full landing config, but I fixed that and at 'line up and wait' I let the co-pilot take over. You just press the TOGA button and then press 'c' and off he goes.
Rotated nicely, and on climbout altered course slightly. I realised he was following an old flightplan I had made for setting a record for NZCH - NZCI in a Concorde and forgottten to cancel.. As that called for a cruise at FL430 I wanted to see what would happen. The 777 ran out of puff just short of FL420. Lots of fun, and I even learned something.
Don't know why it wanted to taxi out in full landing config, but I fixed that and at 'line up and wait' I let the co-pilot take over. You just press the TOGA button and then press 'c' and off he goes.
Rotated nicely, and on climbout altered course slightly. I realised he was following an old flightplan I had made for setting a record for NZCH - NZCI in a Concorde and forgottten to cancel.. As that called for a cruise at FL430 I wanted to see what would happen. The 777 ran out of puff just short of FL420. Lots of fun, and I even learned something.
When the big door opens, there is a brief animation visible inside, which seems to be a load-person using a container pusher or whatever it's called. That's typical IPACS. There are quite a few of these little cameos around, not fully operational in themselves but ready to be combined into a bigger development later on.