Author: Gring
Subject: Operational issue - no dups allowed
Posted: 21 Apr 2014 at 9:18am
Edited by Gring - 9 hours 4 minutes ago at 9:56am
Subject: Operational issue - no dups allowed
Posted: 21 Apr 2014 at 9:18am
Did you press the "Activate Approach" LSK? When you enter a flight plan, then select a procedure, it loads the procedure at the end of the flight plan (reference your other question). You'll see a "Gap in Route" message in the flight plan meaning that you are still navigating to the airport and the approach has not yet been activated. Once you press the "Activate Approach" LSK the IAF becomes magenta and you are now working from within the approach component of the flight plan. You can now go "Direct To" any of the fixes within the procedure and it will sequence from there.
I have not tried specifically going Direct To the MAP, but I have tried Direct To an IF within a procdure and it works correctly in the real box in a real airplane.
EDIT: I just tried it in the simulator as I described above and it works correctly. In fact, if you are in the hold at ZIMOT you can add additional fixes to the flight plan while the airplane is flying the hold. To exit the hold, simply highlight the next fix (the one you added) and press the "Activate Leg" LSK and the flight plan will sequence out of the hold and navigate to the next waypoint.
Edited by Gring - 9 hours 4 minutes ago at 9:56am