Klaus Aschenbrenner - Maiden Flight of OS-AKS

Maiden Flight of OS-AKS

Here are some impressions of my first maiden flight in my own Boeing 737-800 flight simulator. I’m currently running the whole Project Magenta software suite for the captain side consisting of the MCP, the PFD, the ND, the EICAS, and the FMC. As a computer hardware foundation I’m using 4 PCs dedicated to the following roles:

PC #1: Run’s the flight simulator with FSUIPC
PC #2: Run’s the Glass Cockpit consisting of PFD and ND, and the MCP software
PC #3: Runs’ the lower and upper EICAS software
PC #4: Run’s the FMC software

During the maiden flight with this flight configuration was situated around the area of Vienna – LOWW. I departured at RW 29 heading to the west of Vienna.

As you can see I’m the auto pilot has taken me to 9000ft, with a cruising speed of 300kt with the heading 295. (Yes, I know there’s the speed restriction of 250kt under 10.000ft, but I’m in a simuator :-) ). Here you can see the programmed FMC for the SITN2X SID from RW 29 in LOWW (but only for demonstration purposes, because I didn’t activated the programmed route)

After crossing Tulln (LOXT), I was on course towards Langenlois (LOAG) where I returned back home on course 114 heading to RW 11 in LOWW.

As you can see the auto pilot (in a single channel approach) is establishing the plane on the glideslope and localizer of RW 11. We are 6,5 miles away from the touchdown point at around 2600ft at 210kt.