Programming and following routes in the updated C160 Transall in Microsoft Flight Simulator

As you may have seen, the C160 Transall recently received a major update - adding all sorts of capabilities around cargo drops, and flares. Alongside that - and the subject of this video - it now has the capability of programming basic flights into the FMS, and using the autopilot to follow the route.

I spent quite some time looking to see if anybody else had figured it out yet - and found nothing - and then ran into the brick wall of the keypad on the FMS, which is undocumented. After something of an "aha" moment, everything fell into place :)

I will be returning again when I have more time to figure out the rest of it's capabilities, and to understand how to manipulate the data shown on the navigation displays.

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[ceegnz]

You're a national treasure Jon, just grabbed this and the dash-7 one and bought you a couple of kofis :) And thank you for the VA, those tours have breathed new life into my simming. No more same old same old and just knowing the world is there to explore, now I'm actually exploring it !

[MCCDEMON]

Great Job and thanks for the explaination of the FMS and all the efford you put into this video!

[speedlime]

What a great update, I love flying this plane. Real old school flying which makes a change to the airliners. I fly this or the 414 to change things up in the sim. Thanks for sharing.

[gorillachinchilla]

Hideous weather! Thanks for another great video.

[darryl]

Thanks so much for the training. Greatly appreciated. 👏🏾 👏🏾

[thibault]

Thanks a lot! Was looking for this kind of How To for a long time!

[jay-rus]

Nice…was looking for a new video to watch this evening.

[TheBullethead]

And you did this whole flight without pushing the idle levers from start to norm ;) Still, very helpful.

[daver]

I haven't flown this in ages, time to dust it off! Thanks for the video.

[dillank]

This was a very useful video. I am thinking of buying this, and this is an excellent demonstration of the difficult bits. I appreciate your efforts!

[oisiaa]

This is a fantastic plane. I need to check it out.

[laxrider]

awesome video sir, I'm currently flying the Dash 7 at the moment but after seeing this I defiantly need to give the C-160 another go, cheers from Los Angles

[alexhennessy]

Not being able to select a runway if there isn’t a STAR is a pretty big oversight. Sometimes direct is the best option.

[MrPeterhemm]

Quite the interesting keyboard design. Thanks for another flight idea!

[stefanblackadder]

I just bought this on sale so this video is really helpful. Thanks.

[enterusername]

Legend, could never get it to follow gps. Cheers for the help.

[Burrator]

Great timing, just going to restart a world tour in this plane since the update is out

[jay-rus]

Btw….prepping for one of these videos sounds like a job as opposed to a hobby. Lol

[shinkicker]

It's unfortunate that the FMS doesn't work well with waypoints that share the same name (you can't make a selection of the one you want), and that approaches don't display if they have more than one transition (iirc it was if there was more then one transition option, it happened at 2 of the 4 airports I flew into since the update) meaning you cannot select a runway. Hopefully fixed in a hotfix, or a future update.

[yams]

Well done mate ! You must be up very late, thx for sharing