Cruise
Once you reach cruise altitude of FL350, press the BELT button (if you want) to turn off the seatbelt
sign and enjoy walking around the cabin. Here you can speed up the cruise portion by using the sim
rate function of your FS, or you can enjoy the landscape around you. Remember to come back (if you
are accelerating the flight) when you reach the last waypoint of the route as long as it is further
enough for descent phase (at least 100NM), for this case, you can descent when you get into the FLO
waypoint.
Descent
Now, it is time to descend. For this tutorial, we are going to set the altitude to 4,000 feet, which is the
glideslope intercept altitude for the ILS 05L approach. In real life or if you are using the FS ATC, you
would descend to the lowest altitude ATC has cleared you down to, but since are not using ATC here,
we will just let it go all the way down automatically as if we were cleared to do that.
Move the ALT knob until you read 4,000 feet above the altimeter. Then move the VS wheel
until the aircraft starts pitching down; move the VS wheel to 1,500 feet of descent rate. Press
the middle of the SPD knob (like instructed with the other knobs here) to change from Mach
to IAS hold and decrease the value to 210 knots.
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