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Good evening!
Although it is more a visual thing not so important on simulation, I am curious as to how does one instert a negative ISA deviation in the LEG WIND page on the FMS?
That is, after releasing a flight plan on PFPX, the OFP gives us the predicted wind direction/speed and ISA deviation for every waypoint on the flight plan, however I can only insert a positive deviation on the temperature. I mean, if the deviation is for example +10, it's only a matter of writing +10 or simply 10, but I couldn't find how to insert the data when the deviation is negative. I've tried -10 and M10 and both values/prefixes return invalid.
I cannot find such information on the FMS3000 manual.

I honestly can't remember, asking a developer.

Thanks!

Funny thing... I'm currently doing another flight and just tried inserting a negative temperature deviation and it accepted -XX (minus symbol and the temperature), so, disregard my question. I don't know why it didn't accept it yesterday.

CS-TMT wrote: ↑

Tue Feb 02, 2021 7:16 am

Funny thing... I'm currently doing another flight and just tried inserting a negative temperature deviation and it accepted -XX (minus symbol and the temperature), so, disregard my question. I don't know why it didn't accept it yesterday.

Strange, were you using keyboard input or just the FMC pressing buttons?

Just the FMC buttons
However I found other minor visual glitches:

- On the MFD or PFD route, when I set the map to show the ETA at each route fix, if it is past UTC midnight it shows with weird symbols. For example if my next fix has an ETA of e.g. 23:45 it shows correctly, but if the following point and all after that has an ETA after midnight, they show for example 0:0-15 for 00:15.

- On the FMC, the ETE to some route fix or abeam point, if more than one hour away (doesn't matter if before or after midnight) shows a mix of hours and minutes, for example, if some fix is 01:15 away, it shows an ETE of 01:75 (01h15 equals to 75 indeed), or a point 02:30 away shows 02:90. That is, the correct hour plus the minutes from the previous hour if I'm able to explain it well.

Thanks for that report. I've forwarded it to our Developer to look at. I will try to reproduce on my side as well.