GNSS/WAAS
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Having an amazing experience with my first flight today. Stretching it's legs from EDDB to LXGB and the sounds are amazing and I learned that the bleed air valves have to be on high flow to keep the cabin temperature under control at FL350, which also causes a slightly increased fuel burn.
I was wondering though, is this option in the Sensor Control page realistic? Do star ships actually use GNSS/WAAS today or should I set this option to NO for maximum realism?
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Today's Starships all have a certified source of GPS information installed in the nose avionics bay (not the GNS 430), which you can monitor from the "LRN Status" screen. They don't have the GNSS/WAAS Enable/Disable CDU option, because the system is always on, but I added it for anyone who wanted to fly without GPS.
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Today's Starships all have a certified source of GPS information installed in the nose avionics bay (not the GNS 430), which you can monitor from the "LRN Status" screen. They don't have the GNSS/WAAS Enable/Disable CDU option, because the system is always on, but I added it for anyone who wanted to fly without GPS.
@Black-Square Hey, does that mean it is typical to fly en-route using GNSS but not RNAV1 SIDs and STARs?
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Aren't the Starships also supposed to have ADS mandated by the FAA?
@Captain-Bakon That's correct, and they do, with position information supplied by that certified GPS.
@milestobudapest That's how I fly it. I gathered the same is true for the real owners. As I said elsewhere, I have been fascinated by what I might term "Screens + FMS = SimBrief" effect with Starship. I suppose anyone can fly how they like, but even at the size/speed of Starship, most real world operators are more concerned with getting in and out of their destination expeditiously and enjoying the flight, rather than using briefing software to assign every leg of the route.
