Guide to planning flights with Simbrief for the Xbox with the Boeing 737-600 in Flight Simulator

The 737-600 is now available in the marketplace for the Xbox in Microsoft Flight Simulator. The biggest challenge therefore for aspiring "big jet" pilots that might buy it is how to create flight plans, given that the 737 does not use the in-game World Map screen to program it's flight management computer.

In this video I show a quick work-up of planning a flight in simbrief (which you can use for free on a computer, or tablet - anything with a browser) - and then programming the flight by hand into the 737 flight management computer.

We also fly the flight just for a bit of fun, but you really don't have to watch all of that if you don't want to (I even use auto-land - the height of laziness!)

Something of interest that comes up during the flight (there is always something to learn) - the transition altitudes don't show up in the operational flight plan - they only appear in airfield charts - therefore you'll need a Navigraph subscription if you want to know them. Generally speaking, the transition altitude at UK airfields tends to be 6000ft and North American airfields 18000ft.