PMDG 737-700 for MSFS - Tutorial: VOR Approach

[@sebastianbednarz6964]

I am not a Pilot in Real World. Just Simmimg since FS 2000. Youre doing a great Job. Many many thanx for this!

[@A330Driver]

Thanks a lot!

[@kennethd2643]

Excellent MOI! As a retired Army pilot and rotary commercial ticket holder, I still love flying instruments, and like all fellow aviators we always look for the edge to make us better. Your tutorial was informative and concise that it does not trip the snooze alert! Look forward to watching your other vids!

[@WarHawkAU24]

Gotta love non precision approaches. Many times, I remember shooting a ndb approch, thinking I nailed it, and looking up to see how far offset the runway actually was.

[@peterspatz6918]

What I didn't do often in Sims until MSFS are VOR approaches. Now with Navigraph charts on second monitor and airliner like 737 it makes a lot of fun to it e.g on the greek islands.

[@willy30123]

Nice video, and thanks to explain us how to do a non precision approach, now I think is easier than I tought.

[@A330Driver]

Thank you! It really is easy once you practice a couple of them.

[@kevin1873]

That was awesome. Thank you for sharing. It's been while but I definitely need to do some more VOR approaches. I miss the old days of doing VOR DME ARC approaches. hehe.

[@1Mr.Legend1]

perfect this channel is diamond for me

[@rockyjetproject1345]

Thank you for this great tutorial. Very in depth and it’s awesome.

[@beescan22]

Very good information once again. Learned a lot about proper operation of automation, very much appreciated. Appreciate time and effort to produce these outstanding videos.

[@pushingtin207]

Wonder if you could do a video on localiser approaches you are the one that i go to initially to learn the 737...excellent videos..

[@mortenha6998]

Excellent tutorial again :). One question: At 02:18 in the video you explain the inbound track with the glidepath GP at 2.90 deg. Is this a parameter that is retrieved from the NAVDATA database? And is automatically populated when you choose the VOR approach on the DEP/ARR page?

[@PervonHarke]

Yes I think so. At least I did not have to change anything and got the same waypoints as him by selecting the VOR approach through the DEP/ARR page.

[@madsib5187]

@@PervonHarke And the plane will start to decend automatically according to this angle once it reached this point?

[@Patrick_AV]

Hi Emanuel, why wont you set your altitude direct to the DA and are you doing it step by step?

[@PhilippeBorfiga]

Great tuto like always ! Thank you again for all this beautiful stuff !

[@eyejoydesigns]

Very nice. Thank you for the refresher.

[@ВладимирЛут-я7с]

Thank you for the tutorial! If I'm cleared for VOR approach and instructed by ATC to report when established, what and when exactly I shall report?

[@MrSqueeze737]

Overhead the VOR station

[@dancingtango]

Brilliant tutorial yet again. Thank you. Out of interest, what percentage of approaches in real life would be NP VOR as opposed to ILS?

[@A330Driver]

I’d say maybe 90% are ILS and the res pt NPAs of all kinds.

[@rockyjetproject1345]

@@A330Driver There is one in Alaska, PAJN. That approach is rare also for Runway 8. Thank you for this tutorial.

[@orion-viikhmernight2748]

Thanks for sharing the knowledge sir.

[@stacyhill5978]

On toga takeoffs i get alarm till wheels are off ground. How do i fix this thanks

[@HELERsx]

Can someone explain me, why the plane doesnt accept VNAV in my case? I had a simple flightplan with Crz Altitude and Limits set, with Departure and Arrival in the Flightplan. But I cant activate VNAV in the air. I had to fly with FLC mode. But then my APP-Mode also didnt work.

[@turbotemple509]

Sir, Student pilot here, really want to fly thr 737 and will go for TR next year JanUARY.i am just trying to prepare in advance. SO i hope ,you help me out. Question 1 at 2:27... Do we need to fill in the CDU with vor approach details,such as distances, slope etc? or does this come preloaded in the CDU/fmc.? If yes, then how do we feed this data such as slopes 2 . Flying vor which are located on the centerline...non-offset...does anything change? 3. I KNOW you said vor/loc is just for localiser only but then why does it have the word "vor" in it ?Can you please do this with VOR/loc Mode? Do we descent with vs or do we have any other option. PLEASE please do a vor/loc video.We Need more clarity on Vor appoaches and radial interceptions from you. I DONT trust the others. 4

[@gamingandreview0246]

Can i ask something? Does a NDM or NDB approach give a ILS signal? because i randomly got ILS while approaching PGSN 25 with NDM approach.

[@somil07]

I do VOR-DME approaches by just tuning in VOR frequency (not CRS) and pressing the APP button, works just like an RNAV approach with FAC and G/P guidance. What's the difference?

[@A330Driver]

you’re using IAN mode which got some advantages but also some disadvantages. For example if you wanted to do a circling approach it would not hold the altitude. More on that in future videos.

[@somil07]

@@A330Driver In my case does it actually utilize the VOR frequency that I tune in? This IAN is something I'm particularly interested in knowing more about. Will look forward to it!

[@A2_FIT]

I have one problem in pmdg, when I activate vor loc on final ils approach I doesnt activate, it happened once in my life, but why? I was approaching cairo 18L, can it be a cold and dark start up error?

[@user-lz2mt5nc9e]

Maybe it's a stupid question, but why is it called VORLOC if you don't even use it for VOR approaches but instead use the LNAV mode?

[@A330Driver]

Because the function *can* track VORs. Which doesn't mean we have to use it for it, right? Let's say you loose RNAV capability, then you'd still use the VOR/LOC function for conventional navigation, including tracking of VORs.

[@matteopierdona5564]

Hello! Been watching your videos for a while! Recently looked at this one, and you said to check that the descend angle of 2.90 degrees is correctly set on the FMC. If the descend angle calculated by the FMC is different from the one published, how can i change it? Double checked the altitude restriction and everything was ok Thank you !!!

[@joristebbens697]

Very informative 👍

[@gjgaming5016]

Hi there! Just had my second VOR-approach, and I am somewhat confused. At point of the approach start (in this case D.7.0), I lowerd my MCP altitude to minimums rounded upwards. Despite this, my airplane started leveling off att this altitude, which led me to dissengaging autopilot. At this point I also set the missed approach altitude to 6000 feet, which seemed to do nothing, it still leveled off att (in my case) 1100 feet.

[@A330Driver]

Hi, did you ensure the plane was in VNAV PATH? Sounds like you were in VNAV ALT as you probably lowered the MCP altitude too late. Do it 2NM *before* the FAF, not *at* the FAF.

[@Luxi001]

8:13 why are you changing to 1000ft? Is it shown in chasrts or sth?

[@ilkermertcolak]

I assume it is the closest to da

[@olbrok]

Hello, if the other pilot doesn't have a VOR mode selected on the ND, how do you keep track of the required navigation precision of half-scale deflection on a VOR approach?

[@A330Driver]

Just watch the green needle. 10 degrees equals full scale deflection, so 5 is half.

[@daveowens7613]

Hi there, I'm not sure if this is the right place to raise this, but I am actually going on holiday to Kos next week so I thought I'd try a flight there in the simulator. All went very well until I go about 30 minutes out from landing and then I had an oil pressure warning followed by an engine failure. I didn't really know what to do. I checked for failures via the FMC and there were none enabled. I was pretty sick having just flown for three and a half hours! Can anyone explain this as I never even got to try out the VOR approach, lol?

[@shimizu67]

Do you have tips as to what visual point of reference to use during landing? The hardest part of a VOR is the very end, no guidance whatsoever, and I tend to stay too high and then have to dive steeply. It's a pain.

[@A330Driver]

In the real world I would have said use the PAPIs until approx 200ft, then just maintain the rate of descent until 50ft above the runway where you transition the look towards the runway end and flare it with the help of the rad alt. In the sim due to the lack of proper functioning PAPIs... you need to transition a bit earlier, when exactly is hard to say though as the inaccuracy of the PAPI is different per airport.

[@Rmi_brandito]

I don’t know what company your with but out of all the real life pilot that make sim content your landing are 9/10 butter most of the time, you you can’t be a Ryanair 😅

[@roballen2378]

Lmao he just recently revealed he was with Ryan air this whole time.

[@Rmi_brandito]

@@roballen2378 on god?!🤯

[@junebakke6458]

Dumb question but how do I set up to practice this approach? Where did you leave from?

[@Mariodingenen]

Hallo Sir. I have a problem with the HUD . The text in it is not centered but it is tomuch to to the left ,How can it back centered?

[@dishantlalwani]

nice captain

[@yams900]

Very good 👍 Danke !

[@skogis06]

I struggle to understand how to get the correct lateral guidance with VOR approaches in 737. With G1000 you have a clear indications when you are drifting of the radial, but what are you supposed to be looking at when flying VOR approaches raw data?

[@A330Driver]

I'd recommend to use the VOR mode of your ND and then monitor the deviation. You still got the track line showing you where you are going and if you're following the radial or drifting, that's a very good tool to use.

[@askiner43]

what is the difference betwwen LNAV/VNAV approach? in this video you just used the VOR signals for lateral navigation right? so what would be the other option instead of VOR if you want to make another LNAV/VNAV approach?

[@arminsh4855]

Vnav IS vertical navigation and lnav is lateral navigation

[@devinhicks1821]

Thank you for all the fantastic videos. This may be a dumb question but how do you use the flight plan and keep it showing when using the CDU? My system won't keep the flightplan on top once I start pushing buttons in the sim forcing me to switch back and forth. Thanks in advance.

[@A330Driver]

I use a tool called desk pins. Highly recommendable!

[@devinhicks1821]

@@A330Driver Thanks very much for that. Tried it and works brilliantly! Blue skies!

[@germangomez6213]

Thanks! new subs

[@jincyayrattu6606]

TNX CAPT❤

[@hamdiraouf1]

good evening; I would like to know what your feelings are in MSFS2020 verse compared to p3d or Xplane with the Pmdg 737-700; Are there really bugs. I currently use the p3d and I would like to switch to the msfs2020. thank you. your video is impeccable continued and congratulations.

[@A330Driver]

Of course there are bugs, you’re hardly going to find any software without them. But I’d say it’s superior to P3D in almost any way (minus the EFB).

[@22cheddar]

Hello, in case of VOR DME approach instead of VOR approach, can you use also LNAV/VNAV - APP approach or you have to descent via ft/per min ?

[@A330Driver]

VOR and VOR/DME approaches are exactly the same in terms of SOPs. I wouldn't know of ANY VOR only approach however nowadays....

[@kvan27]

Hey, just curious if the 737 automatically tunes frequencies when in range of them. So for instance an ILS frequency or VOR frequency when you have either loaded as an approach.

[@A330Driver]

Hi Kyle, no it doesn't. The pilot has to tune them him/herself.

[@bensteel3944]

Am I getting wild landings by not turning my Fight Directors off? I think that is my problem with manual landing.

[@A330Driver]

Turn them OFF when you don't use them, keep them on and use them when they provide useful information.

[@williamwidjaja850]

please localizer approach video then

[@raghavendrasingh257]

Hi sir, What is that white bar in altitude which you used for setting missed approach alt in mcp 10:04

[@MentalAviation]

1000ftvagl

[@Nightmare77-07]

Ist das in der Realität auch so, dass der Anflug relativ schräg zur Bahn verläuft? Bin ihn gestern nämlich auch mehrmals geflogen und da war es auch so und in Funchal komme ich auch relativ schräg zur RW rein? 🤔

[@A330Driver]

Da musst du auf die Karte gucken, wenn der Anflug Offset ist, wird es dort drin stehen. Bei vielen NPAs ist das definitiv so.

[@Nightmare77-07]

@@A330Driver was meinst Du mit Offset? Dachte eigentlich immer, dass man, außer Ausnahmen wie Hong Kong Kai Tal usw ne Runway immer relativ Center anfliegt… wäre ja auf Kos eigentlich auch möglich…. Komischerweise wenn ich reale Anflüge auf Madeira anschaue und Dein LPMA Video mit dem Sim, dann seit ihr sehr gefühlt immer rechtzeitig Center ausgerichtet. Fliege ich aber zum Beispiel den RNP Z approach auf die Funchal 05 dann komme ich genauso extrem schräg zur Bahn wie Du hier auf Kos. 🤔

[@grantwood8325]

Thank you again ! Can u tell me how I calculate my Anh ? If I am requesting performance through the fmc does it auto populates? Or do I get from simbrief flight plan? Thanks !

[@A330Driver]

Hi Grant, what do you mean with your "Anh"? Could clarify please?

[@grantwood8325]

@@A330Driver sorry good sir meant qnh

[@quantomic1106]

MSFS really likes to put trees and high-rise buildings at runway thresholds? They really need to fix this.

[@A330Driver]

yep, they need to fix it for sure!

[@picoproclan]

Any idea how to remove the AoA indicator on the primary Display on the left?

[@A330Driver]

See the intro manual, it's explained in there.

[@theHDRflightdeck]

Someone didn't arm the speedbrake for landing ;p

[@A330Driver]

That's what you get for not reading the checklists but doing all these explanations. Luckily the speedbrake will still auto deploy when the reversers are pulled.

[@toms6489]

There's something i don't understand if anyone can answer it. Is it better to manual set your speed in the autopilot during the approach or should you let the fmc handle it? I've had times where the ap has switched from vnav to manual speed entry and lvl change. I think the pfd also said 'retard'? What's going on? Did my airspeed drop too low and if it did, why? I'm using pmdg's 737. Also has happened on an ils approach. I set the alt to the alt I'm planning to disable the ap at, but i generally don't set the minimums.

[@A330Driver]

It can only automatically set it in VNAV, once out of VNAV you have to do it manually.

[@Torcsen]

Why the difference in N1 on engines?

[@A330Driver]

Something many will notice when they start using multiple thrust levers is how hard it actually is to set both engines to exactly the same N1. Carry this forward to real world where the two engines not only have to be set seperately, but also by sensors of different quality and on non FADEC controlled engines even the difference in the two engines themselves and you end up with thrust settings almost never being identical on both sides.

[@Torcsen]

@@A330Driver åhå! Yes I can imagine 👍🏻 not easy I understand

[@Mikkel09]

First✈️

[@tsganeshman]

😂😂😂