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The document outlines the features and functionality of the electronic flight bag (EFB) simulated in the Fly the Maddog X aircraft, including the different available apps, customizing options, and importing and displaying flight plan files.

There are 5 main apps available on the EFB: Setup, Performance, Weight & Balance, Electronic Flight Folder, and Aircraft Services.

You can customize the desktop wallpaper per aircraft by creating a 1024x768 PNG image file with the aircraft registration as the file name and placing it in the community folder.

EFB Manual

MSFS 2020 edition


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INTRODUCTION
The electronic flight bag (EFB) is an electronic information management device that helps pilots
performing flight management tasks easier.
A Class-1 device (standard commercial-off-the-shelf COTS equipment) is fully simulated in Fly the Maddog
X, it hosts Type-A (i.e. document viewer) and Type-B (i.e. electronic charts) applications (apps); in
addition, an app to automate take-off/landing performance calculations is also installed.

GENERAL
The EFB in Fly the Maddog X is battery powered, it can be used regardless of the aircraft power status.
A complete charge lasts approximately 9 hours, depending on flight mode being activated or not; when
loading the aircraft, the EFB will always be at full charge.
To switch the EFB ON or OFF, press and hold the “home” button for a few seconds.
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In this EFB version, there are 5 available apps:


- Setup: the EFB configuration module.
- Performance: this app has been developed to automate take-off/landing performance
calculations for each Fly the Maddog X variant/engine.
- Weight & Balance: this app allows weight and fuel management: it’s also capable of importing
OFP files (Simbrief or PFPX generated) and set internal weights/fuel/pax figures in real-time
within the simulator, and in sync with GSX.
- Electronic Flight Folder: displays all the relevant information of the flight after importing an OFP
file.
- Aircraft Services: Allows to open/close all the aircraft doors and stair, start refueling, de-ice
operation and PAX boarding/unboarding.

Navigating is simple, as you can expect from a real tablet: to close an app or go back, simply press the
"home" button. Toggling between multiple options (i.e. performance data) is achieved by clicking
left/right over the data field while, clicking on an empty data field that needs user input brings, the
keyboard overlay. To hide the keyboard overlay, click in any part of the screen.
A white upward/downward arrow is displayed on the top/bottom right corner when multi-pages
documents are shown, to jump pages.

There are two independent EFBs, positioned on CM1 and CM2 sides. A left click on the hotspot shown
below hides/shows the EFB. A right click removes the tablet but leaving the support frame in place. The
same hotspot can be found on CM2 side and it’s used with the same criteria.
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DESKTOP WALLPAPER
You can customize the desktop wallpaper per single airframe. Create your image (1024x768) and save it
as a .png image, then move it to your %MSFS2020%\Community\lsh-maddogx-aircraft\Aircrafts folder.
The file name must be the aircraft registration.png, i.e. for the default I-LEOX livery it must be named I-
LEOX.png and placed in the above-mentioned folder.
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SETUP

- Flight mode: this button sets the flight mode ON/OFF. Flight mode must be switched ON during
the before start flows, and OFF after landing.
- Brightness: the slider controls screen brightness.
The setup page can also be triggered clicking on the signal strength icon on the top right corner.

PERFORMANCE
The performance app is a powerful tool to automate takeoff/landing calculations.
If you press the CALC button without entering any data, you get the regulated takeoff weight performance
limited. It's a quick and dirty way to check if you have any takeoff performance limitation.
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Flight data must be inserted for automatic calculations:

TAKEOFF DATA FIELDS


AIRPORT: insert ICAO code.
RUNWAY: select the departure runway.
RUNWAY LENGTH REDUCTION FROM RWY START___M RWY END___M: insert if appliable.
COND: select the runway conditions.
FLAP: select the desired flap setting.
WIND: insert the reported wind.
QNH: insert the airport QNH.
OAT: insert the outside temperature.
A/I: select anti-ice system condition.
PACKS: select bleed packs system condition.
TAKEOFF WEIGHT: insert TOW.
Press the CALC button: after a second the bottom half part of the data screen will be calculated.
The MTOW field value can be used in ACARS, when sending the fuel docket, if after the automatic
calculations your weights must be reduced for performance limitations.
LANDING DATA FIELDS
AIRPORT: insert ICAO code.
RUNWAY: select the arrival runway.
COND: select the runway conditions.
FLAP: select the desired flap setting.
WIND: insert the reported wind.
QNH: insert the field QNH.
OAT: insert the outside temperature.
REVERSE: select if using or not.
ADD REF: insert required additional speed to Vref (if appliable).
AUTOBRAKE: select autobrake.
LANDING WEIGHT: insert LDW.

Press the CALC button: after a second the right half part of the data screen will be calculated.
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WEIGHT AND BALANCE

This app has been designed to completely bypass the corresponding load manager page; a valid OFP must
be imported for the app to show the weights/fuel data, but if you already imported one from the
electronic flight folder app you will see all sections already populated, without the need to edit anything
unless you see any “red fields” that need to be corrected with balancing.

If you press the Import OFP button, an OFP selection dialog window is shown.

NOTE: If the automatically retrieve of the latest SimBrief OFP is enabled, an extra button Simbrief OFPis
displayed to connect to SimBrief server and download the latest OFP.
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OFP file populates all weight figures. You will still oversee setting the C.G. balance as appropriate.

If you don't use Simbrief/PFPX to generate the OFP file, plan the flight with the load manager and have
the EFB activated, it'll be loaded in the electronic flight folder directly.

If you want to make last minute changes, i.e. top up your fuel prior departure, adjust the Block Fuel and
request refueling service again; remember also to send your revised fuel docket message via ACARS.

ELECTRONIC FLIGHT FOLDER

The electronic flight folder app is used to display relevant information of the OFP, split into different
sections. A valid OFP must be imported for the app to show the flight folder, but if you already imported
one from the weight and balance app, you will see all sections populated.

As stated in the Fly the Maddog X Quick Guide.pdf document, the OFP file is an automatically generated
txt file, either by our fuel/planner route integrated in the load manager or exported via PFPX/Simbrief.

There is a new PFPX template file included in this release to enable the electronic flight folder app
visualization: go to your %documents%\Maddog X Files\Redist folder, copy the “MaddogX ACARS.txt” file
to your C:\Users\Public\Documents\PFPX Data\FlightplanTemplates folder, overwriting if needed.

Simbrief is already capable of generating the new OFP file format.


The default “LIDO” layout has the correct sections inserted. However, if using a different layout (i.e. BAW,
EZY), the sections might be labelled differently or some might be missing. Every OFP layout is organized
differently and this is unavoidable, but at the very least they should all have OFP and Weather/NOTAM
relevant sections.

The only exception is using "UAL 18" format: no OFP will be included, as this format cannot be translated
into text. In this case the user will see "Unsupported OFP layout (UAL 2018)" in the EFB.
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AIRCRAFT SERVICES
The Aircraft services app includes 3 pages:

DOORS/STAIR
The status of the cabin doors and stair can be checked (open doors and extended stair are show in red)

Clicking on the buttons will toggle doors/stair status. Clicking the Boarding/Unboarding button will start
PAX boarding/unboarding.

GROUND
Used to activate/deactivate ground services, refuel the aircraft or perform ground de-icing operation.

When active, they are highlighted in blue.


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MAINTENANCE
To open/close aircraft maintenance hatches. The Fix all failures button is displayed only when aircraft is
at a gate or parked, and if a failure has occurred.

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