Super 80 Professional – AOM
FLIGHT MANAGEMENT
Section 15 Page 3
Super 80 Professional – Aircraft Operating Manual
Coolsky, 2018
FMS Special Commands
You can enter special commands into the
scratchpad to have the FMS perform various
tasks.
RESET
This feature completely resets the FMS. It will
delete all data and restores default startup
values.
Example: Enter ‘RESET’ into the scratchpad
and press enter on the keyboard or press the
EXEC key on the FMS.
SAVE
Use this feature when you wish save your
FMS data in order to resume the flight at a
later time.
Enter SAVE followed by a filename
(separated by space) to save all FMS data
to a file. The flight plan and all entered data
will be saved.
Example: Enter ‘SAVE VHHH-ZSSS-2’ into the
scratchpad and press enter on the
keyboard or press the EXEC key on the FMS.
FMS data files are saved in the default P3D
flight plan folder with a *.FMS80 extension.
LOAD
Use this feature when you wish to resume a
saved flight. Note that this feature will not
only load the flight plan but all the FMS data
as saved with the SAVE feature above. This
feature will not load a P3D flight plan file. It
will only load data files saved with the SAVE
feature.
Enter LOAD followed by a filename
(separated by space) to load saved FMS
data from a file. Example: “LOAD VHHH-
ZSSS-2”.
Example: Enter ‘LOAD VHHH-ZSSS-2’ into the
scratchpad and press enter on the
keyboard or press the EXEC key on the FMS.
Loading a P3D flight plan into the FMS
You can load a P3D flight plan into the FMS
by entering the flight plan filename into the
Company route (CO ROUTE) entry field on
the Route page. Enter the name of the flight
plan you wish to load without the .PLN suffix.
The FMS has a limited character set
compared to your computer keyboard. The
FMS can only load flight plans using the FMS
keyboard character set. Make sure you save
your flight plan using the characters
available on the FMS keyboard. The flight
plan name can have a maximum of 24
characters.
Valid example:
Flight plan 001.PLN
KLAX to KDEN.PLN
ESSA-EKCH-1.PLN
These example flight plans would be
entered into the CO ROUTE entry field as:
Flight plan 001
KLAX to KDEN
ESSA-EKCH-1
Invalid example:
KORD_KMIA_001.PLN (use of underscore)
The FMS will search for the entered flight
plan in the standard P3D flight plan folder by
default. You can change the search
path/folder manually by setting the
‘fms_flightplan_path’ variable in the
Super80Pro.ini file.
Example:
fms_flightplan_path=c:\P3Ddata\FlightPlans
fms_flightplan_path=\\NETWORK-PC1\fplan