Question for Q400 drivers

loopa · Post by **loopa** » Sat Apr 18, 2015 10:10 pm

Is there a way to program holds in the FMS and fly them on LNAV or do you guys fly holds traditionally using HDG ? Thanks for the info.

countryhick · Post by **countryhick** » Sun Apr 19, 2015 5:20 am

Holds are programmed and flown with the FMS. Classic Dash also.

loopa · Post by **loopa** » Sun Apr 19, 2015 10:32 am

Thanks countryhick.

Also another question, when you do the VNAV TO a point, can you do it to two points? Say you are flying an arrival where you have a 21000 or Below restrictions followed by a 14000 and below restriction, can you do the vnav to both points or do you have to do a vnav to the initial point, then do another vnav calculation to the second point?

Thanks this stuff really does help.

Cheers

Loopa

countryhick · Post by **countryhick** » Sun Apr 19, 2015 12:02 pm

All arrivals are in the database, the Vnav will take care of all the altitudes, if it's armed of course!!

Canoehead · Post by **Canoehead** » Sun Apr 19, 2015 12:55 pm

Up to 9 VNAV waypoints can be programmed.

loopa · Post by **loopa** » Sun Apr 19, 2015 1:37 pm

Don't you have to initially do a VNAV TO a way point? Or by simply loading the arrival and arming VNAV it takes care of them?

Another question I had is I understand when you climb/descend in IAS, you use the VS wheel to change the IAS bug. How about when you are level and want to bug a speed for a reference. Is that something you guys don't do or is there a speed bug somewhere that I'm missing?

Gah the biggest adjustment is getting used to hitting ALT SEL every time I bug a new altitude. So annoying

Canoehead · Post by **Canoehead** » Mon Apr 20, 2015 9:23 am

loopa wrote:Don't you have to initially do a VNAV TO a way point? Or by simply loading the arrival and arming VNAV it takes care of them?

Can be done either way. When the STAR is loaded, simply enter the desired rate of descent in the VNAV page and when TOD arrives, select VNAV and away you go, provided a lower alt has been entered in the alt sel.

Another question I had is I understand when you climb/descend in IAS, you use the VS wheel to change the IAS bug. How about when you are level and want to bug a speed for a reference. Is that something you guys don't do or is there a speed bug somewhere that I'm missing?

We don't typically set a speed bug for reference for cruise flight or assigned speeds. You could use the open or solid delta bugs if you want, but it may interfere with duties already complete (ie approach prep setting Vref speeds).

Gah the biggest adjustment is getting used to hitting ALT SEL every time I bug a new altitude. So annoying

Be glad you don't fly a classic Dash. They don't have the line drawn between the selector and the Alt Sel to remind you to hit the button. At least we get that

loopa · Post by **loopa** » Mon Apr 20, 2015 10:07 am

Canoehead. Thanks so much!

And lol about your ALT sel comment

MCB · Post by **MCB** » Mon Apr 20, 2015 3:40 pm

Some language NSFW, but hilarious and accurate:

http://www.reddit.com/r/flying/comments ... me/cq26tut

loopa · Post by **loopa** » Tue Apr 21, 2015 5:35 pm

I think there could be a similar rant for any air plane really. Someone really has emotions about the q400

moe · Post by **moe** » Wed Apr 22, 2015 12:24 pm

MCB - that was funny

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