737 Flight Crew Operations Manual
Flight Management, Navigation Chapter 11
FMC Preflight Section 40
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Introduction
Completion of the FMC preflight requires data entry in all minimum required data
locations. Completing all required and optional preflight data entries ensures the
most accurate performance possible.
Data link can be used to load preflight data from airline ground stations. Using
data link reduces the required crew actions. Manual crew entries replace existing
data. Data link can also be used to load takeoff data onto the TAKEOFF REF
pages.
Preflight Page Sequence
The normal preflight sequence follows paging prompts on each CDU page.
The normal FMC power–up page is the identification page. Preflight flow
continues in this sequence:
• identification (IDENT) page
• position initialization (POS INIT) page
• route (RTE) page
• DEPARTURES page (no automatic prompt)
• performance initialization (PERF INIT) page
• with U10.1 or later installed:
• N1 LIMIT page
• takeoff reference (TAKEOFF REF) page.
Some of these pages are also used in flight.
March 15, 2007
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