Felis 747-200 Full Tutorial - Part 1 - Flight Engineer Setup

Part One of a tutorial series looking at the Felis 747-200. Flying from London Heathrow to Phoenix Sky Harbor, in this video we’ll be preparing the aircraft for the flight as the flight engineer would do.

Errors, Omissions, Clarifications:-

Make sure you don't accidentally hit the Pack 2 when scroll wheel zooming!

Passenger weights: An average passenger weight, including carry on bags, in 2021, can be assumed to be 88kg, plus another 17kg average for hold baggage. However when the 747-200 was in regular airline service 77kg would have been a more likely figure due to reduced overall passenger weights and lighter carry-on bags. As such, 100KG per passenger including hold bags seems like a reasonable compromise.

When starting the APU, the DC meters should be selected to APU Batt to monitor the drain on startup.

The fine print:

It shouldn't need to be said, but please remember these videos are for recreational simulation and entertainment purposes, not real world flight instruction.

Unlike most videos on the channel, I have been given free access to the 747 by Felis as a result of participating in the Beta testing program. My videos are not intended to be an outright promotion of the product, but rather as informative tutorials with the model.

The flight routing:
UMLAT1F UMLAT WOBUN WELIN TNT WAL IOM BEL GOMUP 5920N 5930N 5940N 5750N HOIST N604B MT SSM J101 GRB MCW OBH J197 HGO PUB J64 RSK J161 GUP BUNTR3

INS Waypoints generated by Simbrief or Skyvector (best to copy to monospaced text editor like notepad)

LAT LONG WAYPT ITT DIS
N5140.3 W00041.7 UMLAT 356 21
1 N5201.2 W00044.0 WOBUN 342 14
2 N5214.8 W00051.1 WELIN 328 57
3 N5303.2 W00140.2 TNT 291 56 //DUB 114.90 N5329.9 W00618.4 0
4 N5323.5 W00308.1 WAL 305 71 //TIR 117.70 N5629.6 W00652.5 0
5 N5404.0 W00445.8 IOM 305 62
6 N5439.7 W00613.8 BEL 319 189
7 N5700.0 W01000.0 GOMUP 294 340 //FL310
8 N5900.0 W02000.0 5920N 274 309
9 N5900.0 W03000.0 5930N 274 309

1 N5900.0 W04000.0 5940N 253 340
2 N5700.0 W05000.0 5750N 246 263 //YYR 117.30 N5319.2 W06017.7 0
3 N5502.0 W05700.0 HOIST 252 581 //YWK 112.30 N5257.7 W06651.2 2 //FL340
4 N5105.0 W07145.0 OMTOL 258 130
5 N4948.0 W07429.7 MT 246 443
6 N4624.7 W08418.9 SSM 237 198 //FL360
7 N4433.3 W08811.7 GRB 250 239
8 N4305.7 W09319.8 MCW 246 246
9 N4122.5 W09821.2 OBH 233 194 //FL380

1 N3923.3 W10141.5 GLD 249 96
2 N3849.1 W10337.3 HGO 230 49
3 N3817.7 W10425.8 PUB 243 198
4 N3644.9 W10805.9 RSK 206 20
5 N3528.6 W10852.4 GUP 226 857

[Bazzawombat]

I worked on the B747 classic for 25 years and became a licensed engineer on same. I wish to congratulate you on the accuracy and factual correctness of your presentation, well done!

[az-rule]

This aircraft is sooo detailed. This is hardcore simulator level. Salute to those who can operate this aircraft !

[a.nelprober]

I like how simplistic the flight engineer panel is once you actually look at it closely.

[andreyo]

Hands down the most underestimated flight sim channel on YouTube. Top quality content!

[eduardogrillo]

I always looked for very professionally made tutorials and finally found not just the video but the whole channel. This is Brilliant! I’m amazed with your work on this! Fantastic!!!

[yosri]

Thank you for this detailed tutorial. This aircraft is more difficult than all the others I've owned, so it's nice to watch someone go through it properly.

[rshvkkt]

Wow! The systems simulation is really really deep, at par with PMDG. This tutorial really helped me clear up a lot of misconceptions and is a treasure trove of knowledge. Can't wait to get my hands dirty on this one!

[sajeelAkhtar]

Brilliant, as all your tutorials are! Loved the pace, the technical explanations and the how the flows were explained. Can't wait for the next series. And indeed Felis did right on calling you to beta test this aircraft, can't think of a better person to do it.

[clickaviation]

I have been waiting for your in depth tutorial for this bird. Thank you 🙏🏻

[iain]

Just bought this today, I fly mostly the IXEG 737 and the Zibo sometimes. MSFS just doesn't do it for me, nice GFX but the rest feels to arcade like. Look forward to learning this. Test flights from Prestwick Scotland then first Cargo flights from Luxembourg to Narita and Chicago. Need to check out your other videos, the quality is top notch, cheers.

[davidg]

Amazing! So happy to see this series begin! As always, I appreciate the amazing content and all the knowledge you share.

[OrionRox]

Thank you to give me the confidence to purchase this amazing bird. Came from Flight Deck 2 Sim!

[PilotGery]

I still cant believe just how much all this stuff is now in "auto" mode now

[larrybueno]

I love your videos and the Felis 747 is an amazing simulation!

[GuillaumeB]

Thanks for the tutorial, it's very nice to hear someone speak calmly :D
I now just need to find more time to fly, my computer crashed during the inital climb of my first flight -_-

[luzten]

Simply the best flight sim channel. Thanks a lot Graeme :), as always!

[myZisfantastic]

Thank you for your very good tutorial. I notice that Felis did a great job with the INS, which I used in real life as a former flight engineer(DC8 and DC10). He forgot to add the MSU lights when the test button is depressed on the CDU, should be good to add this in a future update, if you can tell him.

[RoamingAdhocrat]

"I don't need the tutorial! I've flown enough of these before… I can skim the checklists and yolo it."
two hours later: charge down the runway at Gatwick, waffle into the air… zero chance of a safe and controlled return to the runway

[Virtual-CPT]

Excellent tutorial video, as always. Many thanks!

[retoboller]

This is the best explaining-video with a no easy and old fashion airplane! An absolutly brilliant instructor! Because I would fly with the INS-System (and not with the X-Plane 11 FMC) I would ask how I can become the same flightplane into my tablet in the B747-200 (which flightplane-program and what are the steps to fill in there)? Because skyvector would give an oposit direction to UUDD.Thank you for help.