VATSIM Tutorial: How to Deal with ATC Instructions & the FMS Enroute!

How to fly directs, how to step climb, how to avoid weather, how to enter restrictions and more! A quick tutorial showing you some of the FMS & ATC basics during cruise 👇👇MORE INFO & TIMESTAMPS HERE!!👇👇
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In this video I'm showing you how to deal with some of the common instructions and situations that you may encounter while cruising on VATSIM. Make sure you check the timestamps below to skip to a certain segment of your liking. Keep in mind, this is for flight simulation purposes only. I'm not a real world pilot, I'm just sharing information from one VATSIM enthusiast to the other!
👉👉--- TIMESTAMPS --- 👈👈
👉 - Intro: 0:00
👉 - Going to and from UNICOM: 0:57
👉 - How to fly direct to a waypoint: 2:29
👉 - How to step climb: 6:26
👉 - Traffic separation (vector): 10:33
👉 - How to enter an offset: 13:01
👉 - How to avoid weather: 15:23
👉 - Speed instructions & Mach number: 20:34
👉 - Top of Descent - when & how: 22:23
👉 - How to enter restriction at waypoint: 24:06
👉 - Basics of holding: 27:47
👉 - Outro: 31:34
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[@ViSijGames]

Tesrra 😂 5:42 Power of the dutch language! Nice video😀👌

[@AviationPro]

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[@vaizmanitay2837]

thank you so much i decided to take a step next and start flying on vatsim after almost a year of offline flying. im watching your tutorials all the time and im learning a lot from you thank you very much for your time and effort for making videos for people like me who want to fly at vatsim and have no idea how it works thanks again! like+subbd

[@AviationPro]

You're welcome! :)

[@aviation737pilot8]

Yess new video love your video's keep up the good work!!!

[@darkshadow7709]

Oh, yeah! finally another VATSIM video. Keep up the work :)

[@AviationPro]

Thanks! :)

[@jerkergustafsson623]

A great video man!. Very informative and useful for us trainee pilots :)

[@AviationPro]

You're welcome! :)

[@Rishi-xk5uu]

Thanks a ton for this VID! Plan to start flying on VATSIM and plan to continue my PPL this summer!

[@AviationPro]

You'r welcome! Good luck!

[@stefannirschl5129]

Informative as always!

[@AviationPro]

Thank you!

[@dann9208]

Very helpful! Thank you!

[@AviationPro]

You're welcome!

[@quget436]

need to config my headset for transmit audio, any idea please

[@NorwegianCaptain]

Very Good video as always😀

[@AviationPro]

Thanks! :)

[@Flexflex744]

I once flew from Palma de Mallorca to Cologne. I think, 5 minutes after entering German airspace northern of Switzerland I have got a direct to my Entering point of my STAR. This means, I flew 300 nm from one waypoint to the next one.

[@JMoyam]

*Nice Tutorial my friend... wich resolution are you use it ?and what kind of antialiasing MSAA or SSAA. cheers from Colombia*

[@AviationPro]

Thanks! I'm using 2560 x 1080 with 4x MSAA.

[@maroon9980]

The thumbnail is brilliant

[@AviationPro]

Haha thanks :). Being distrubed by ATC when having your first sip of coffee... :)

[@johanjansen6303]

Keep it up!

[@AviationPro]

Thanks!

[@Hoggs]

Awesome info, any chance of a video comparing all these FMC functions in an Airbus? I usually fly the a320 and I don't know where all these features are.. :(

[@AviationPro]

Thanks! I don't have an Airbus yet, might consider the new Aerosoft Airbusses that are coming out, but until then, I don't have much experience with the Airbus FMC ;)

[@aviationchris5091]

Awesome tutorial, thank you for sharing this. I'd like to know if you could include the arrival time for a waypoint. Say the controller instructs you to arrive at a specific route point by a specific time. Would like to see this how it's done in the FMC. Thanks

[@AviationPro]

You're welcome Chris! I intentionally skipped that, because it requires the RTA (Required Time of Arrival) function of the FMC, which is not simulated on the PMDG 737. I think I will cover that topic in some Oceanic tutorial videos in April/May, because the 777 and 747 do have that function and it will be even of more importance there. As a workaround, you'd have to check your arrival time at a waypoint in the 737 FMC and adjust your speed as necessary.

[@aviationchris5091]

AviationPro Awesome, thank you, looking forward to studying more on oceanic procedures and looking forward to future videos covering oceanic.

[@granthenderson687]

Always good viewing and explained very well , Just one question on this , when ATC say cleared to star , what exactly does that mean ?

[@AviationPro]

Thank you! It means you have to follow the Standard Terminal Arrival Route that is given to you. In this example that could be the NERDU 4K arrival.

[@granthenderson687]

Cheers for that ,using your route in your video here if i may ask for one last scenario , if ATC say fly direct to star ,rather then cleared to star, then I would assume you would bypass all waypoints in your flight plan and fly direct to NERDU ? , I was asked this flyiing on vatsim last week in which i override all waypoints and flew direct to my approach star , I was then told by ATC I was off-course and that i was not following my flight plan , your thoughts on this please

[@ddekoster9271]

Can you make a video on how to do an ETOPS flight with planning and inflight?

[@AviationPro]

Atlantic procedures videos should be coming April or May

[@ddekoster9271]

AviationPro Thanks, that would be great!

[@Mickeys_Flightdeck]

The FMC has a function to fly a route with an offset parallel to your current route for separation. Will I have to know this function or will they always say turn left/right heading... to get me on this offset?

[@AviationPro]

As explained at 13:01, yes, you should probably know it, but it's rarely ever used. On VATSIM I have never encountered it.

[@Mickeys_Flightdeck]

AviationPro Yes, after lunch and continuing the video now I know this too. Shame on me. I was catched by the good explanation.

[@SandboxerOfficial]

Haha, just changed the Callsign from KLM37J to KLM37L. ;)

[@AviationPro]

Yeah it was supposed to be 37L haha, only realized later I had been saying 37J all the time :)

[@Morakanis]

When you du a holding does the arcraft (Boeing) fly one time around or do you have to tell when to leave the holding?

[@AviationPro]

It will keep flying the hold, you can tell it to exit by clicking ‘exit hold’ or by simply selecting a new active waypoint in the LEGS page.

[@Morakanis]

@@AviationPro Ok, thank you :)

[@greyprogrammer]

Yesterday I received instruction to go directly to waypoint that was not on my Legs page. I entered it on the keyboard but I did not know where to insert it. I added it as first element to the list which messed up my flight plan. What should be the proper way to do it ? Should I report ATC that I don't have this waypoint on my flight plan ? If not how should I know where the point is ?

[@AviationPro]

This may happen sometimes, but usually only during arrival or departure. Ask them to spell the waypoint so you are sure it's not anywhere in your legs page. If not, tell them it's not in your flight plan and whether they still want you to fly direct to it.

[@nt_clt08]

I have one question, how the hell do we know our position?! Like our waypoints, or just even if ATC gives us a RNAV, we follow the headings but don't know where to turn to get to your transition waypoint

[@johngalonska5753]

Please help, I have recently installed, the software, and I am registered with VATSIM. I have XP 11.26R2. I have followed each and every step with connecting to the network. In my SIm it shows connected, in my plane I set my trans to stdy and listened to ATIS, afterwhich I switched to the TWR Freq, for EDDF. Nothing, I then tried GRND, again nothing. I have checked that my call sign is right, name and info is correct. Where can the problem be? Thanks

[@furkan8066]

Go around tutorial pls 😢

[@LikedGecko315]

VirtualPilot Furkan I mean it’s pretty simple, you just go full power and pull up and announce a go around then the tower just gives you a heading and the approach frequency. Hope I didn’t sound complicating.

[@aviation0964]

Bruh look at charts

[@aviation0964]

Top right it will say MISSED APPROACH

[@stevesumner9988]

Where is your uniform? The look is a nice touch. Keep up the good work.

[@AviationPro]

I only use it in VATSIM Full Flight videos ;)

[@Lorien311]

How to program a offset in a airbus ?

[@AviationPro]

I don't know unfortunately!

[@poryg5350]

I've encountered a situation where my cruise speed is at my own discretion, but upon order to descend it's too high for the plane to be able to descend and I need to slow down. I wonder... do I slow down and report to the ATC that it's going to take a minute before I descend, or do I not do anything and request speed decrease as a reply to the order to descend?

[@AviationPro]

Just slow down haha, no need to ask unless they really somehow gave you a fixed speed somewhere. ATC should know you need to slow down. Also when passing 10.000 feet don’t worry going down to 250 knots, ATC knows this and will expect your shallow descent to loose speed.

[@poryg5350]

@@AviationPro Thank you. I'll keep it in mind.

[@huzzard]

is vatsim worth it is there active players?

[@oxyo3531]

I want to sign up to vatsim but I don't want people to know myself real name. What should I do?

[@vagifasgarli]

Best :)

[@AviationPro]

:)

[@AviationPro]

:)

[@vagifasgarli]

AviationPro your my best aviation channel :) thanks for all video i like your all money

[@vagifasgarli]

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[@vedymin1]

Did you reset your pressurization panel ? :)

[@AviationPro]

Hmm.....

[@AviationPro]

Yes I know, I think I forgot actually, but normally when doing a flight I do set it correctly :)

[@vedymin1]

After a step ? Did i miss something :D ? You already had it at fl390 :) ?

[@AviationPro]

No it was on 370, but I didn't set it to 390 when step climbing. There's always stuff I forget when making a video that focusses on something else ;)

[@vedymin1]

Ahhh ok, i thought for a second that i didn't watch the vid like i should :)

[@jasonmacklovin4526]

I don't know how to proceed direct to something. How can I do that?

[@AviationPro]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/Y4GyaWV9npeYbtU

[@jasonmacklovin4526]

Bedankt

[@automaticBRO]

Can you do a tutorial with xplane 11 with vatsim?

[@AviationPro]

What about?

[@automaticBRO]

AviationPro like how to connect using vpilot and such

[@AkunPulivari]

You can only use xsquawkbox. Just download it and copy the folder to your X-planes "Plugins" folder

[@joonahamalainen6570]

Hi! I have flown about 10 flights in vatsim, with vpilot but now i have a small problem... Yesterday I was preparing my flight in Gatwick, and suddenty i couldnt hear anyone on Gatwick ground frequency. I tried to restart vpilot and it didnt work. I heard people on other frequencies though. Now i cant get my flightplan filed, because i get "syntax error". What the hell I got to do? xD My vatsim experience has been great so far, but now i dont have any idea how can i fly again...

[@AviationPro]

Maybe a simple restart of the PC did the trick?

[@joonahamalainen6570]

AviationPro I just deleted Vpilot and installed it again, now its working again :)

[@nathangray2825]

The controller doesn't HAVE to send you a contact me though. It is the pilots responsibility to call the controller first. Quote COC B.3 "A pilot must at all times check for appropriate air traffic control coverage for the airspace he is crossing at any given time. If there is an appropriate air traffic controller available or upon request to make contact with an appropriate air traffic controller, then the pilot should immediately contact such controller."

[@AviationPro]

Well, to me there's a fine line between 'if there is an appropriate air traffic controller available' and 'upon request to make contact with an appropriate air traffic controller'. You simply can't expect all pilots, especially new ones, to understand the ATC structure and their boundaries at every airport. Sure, I keep a look out for ATC, and if I'm flying in Dutch airspace and Amsterdam Radar is online, I'll tune immediately, but in many other cases I don't simply because I'd prefer to let the controller decide whether it's appropriate to contact me. So all in all, I personally don't take CoC quotes so literally, for me I just understand it as: be weary of ATC in your surroundings, and be able to get in contact as soon as you can, especially after a contact me. It becomes a problem when pilots truely start to ignore ATC that is active in the area they're flying in...

[@varrssity2143]

i was the 300th like :):):):):):):):):):):):):)

[@honeybadger9425]

Is Vatsim noob friendly? By that I mean I have no idea what to say to air traffic control.

[@AviationPro]

If you avoid big airports and big events, yes, make sure you start slowly and train yourself: kzbin.info/aero/PLtO_n5SzuAadbW1hjV59Ebm6s9APfWsZM

[@hannleefly]

You forgot Chrono ;D But great video keep it up :)

[@AviationPro]

Thanks!

[@shahinkharrazi]

After flying more than 2 years with xplane 10 and 11, these clouds and ground look likes plastic on p3d. The future is xplane and time to retire the p3d and fsx code base sims. Good luck

[@AviationPro]

Haha, thanks!

[@mauricet8417]

How do i find my vatsim pasword???

[@AviationPro]

You received it by email, if you lost it contact the VATSIM Membership department.

[@raulaubele7240]

I see you are back to p3d v4, xplane is a bit nervous and unrealistic, in a real heavy aircraft you do not have to do so many corrections like you have to do in xplane.. . 😆

[@AviationPro]

Haha, well I never (and never will) fully switched, but I agree that some of the effects you see on GA aircraft in X-Plane seem to be a bit exaggerated in the bigger airplanes.

[@vedymin1]

From what i tried, i'd still take flight dynamics of good p3d addons like A2A over those of x-plane ones. Both sims are capable of delivering both funny and very good results in this matter, probably depends whether the fm modeller knew his platform good enough, i guess.

[@singhamaninder5836]

I need your help AviationPro! Please! Its urgent!