Stupid question about pushbacks

[Ricard]

After i start a pushback in an Airbus 330 i try to steer the tail with 1 & 2 but nothing happens, i have no idea what im doing wrong.

Can anyone help??

[Drew]

took me ages to work this out, and had to be told in the end

you do not steer with the 1 or 2

you press 'shift + p' and immediately after, you press either 1 or 2 (using the numbers along top)

if you want to push straight back for a little while and then turn

shift + p - for push back then shift+p to stop - then shift+p then a number to pushback/turn

takes a couple of 2nds for the turn to begin


does that make sense or am i rambelling?

[samiranks]

go to this link get the fscopilot download and in that download there is pushback where all you have to do is put in the amount of feet
push back the turn distance in degrees and youll even hear ground talking to you at the time of pushback
http://ftp.www.mcdu.com/mcdu/SetupFSCopilot14B4.exe this will take care of it i guarantee

[SaVas]

Hmmm never saw that before samiranks. Methinks I will have to look at that when I get home later. thanksfor the link

[CowlFlapsOpen]

there is also a wonderful groundhandling gauge suite by Rob Barendregt at AVSIM. It handles pushback, parking brakes and taxi. I know what you are
thinking: I need a gauge for this? But check it out it is wonderful and easy to add. I don't use the full suite anymore since most of my fleet is
light GA but I still install the parking brake portion in every aircraft.

[Drew]

samiranks wrote:
go to this link get the fscopilot download and in that download there is pushback where all you have to do is put in the amount of feet
push back the turn distance in degrees and youll even hear ground talking to you at the time of pushback
http://ftp.www.mcdu.com/mcdu/SetupFSCopilot14B4.exe this will take care of it i guarantee

that sounds liek the sort of system that comes with the pmdg 747

i'll give it a try now, thanks for link

[samiranks]

its great Drew something i use often because default pushback sucks.. It also does the landing data info tells you the temperature and
pressure altitudes also you can use time sync where it keeps you up to date with real time every 10 or 20 seconds or so. Im not sure of
the time frame but it works great. It really adds to real time flying. Ground control even tell you to set parking brakes, okay release brakes
ready for push please start engines, and tell you okay have a good day captain.. Really nice

[samiranks]

SaVas wrote:
Hmmm never saw that before samiranks. Methinks I will have to look at that when I get home later. thanksfor the link

Let me know how it works for you, or any questions http://www.mcdu.com thats the website and forum location

[lightrail]

I use fscopilot all the time for pushback - works great. Once you've set your pushback options and called for pushback, you can close the pushback
dialog window and everything works in the background, while you go about doing your checklists or whatever.

[jeremy19446]

The link does not work for me

[samiranks]

which link jeremy? go to http://www.mcdu go to enter site go to forum go to fscopilot . when you get there,,,, there is a thread that says
fscopilot cannot download or something of that sought.. click on it and the link is there.. or try this again
http://www.mcdu.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=2060

[SWAFO]

FS2Crew is a great program that includes a very realistic pushback module as well. Might be worth checking out

[Dutch64]

SWAFO wrote:
FS2Crew is a great program that includes a very realistic pushback module as well. Might be worth checking out

But there is no fs2crew for the a330

[lightrail]

try here for fscopilot

http://www.mcdu.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=2060

http://www.mcdu.com/en/fscopilot.php

click on the download link (just below the red title information) in the forum that the first link above takes you to.