Hi All, Has any one experienced that the spoilers have refused to stow after deploying them as prompted by the FMC? It happened to me yesterday on a flight where no matter how I positioned my spoiler lever the spoilers would not retract. Has anyone experienced that phenomenon? Also, I noticed that I don't ever get the "RESET MCP ALT" after patching to 1.1. I am patiently waiting for the message as the airplane approaches the T/D symbol on the ND, but my understanding is that is that the message should show it self as much as 3 minutes prior to reaching the decent point (this time I have checked that I am in LNAV and VNAV with all parameters put into the FMC).With thanks in advance,Boaz

It will display only if you have not reset the altitude. It appears on the CDU SCRATCHPAD @ 5miles to TOD..[h4]Best Wishes,Randy J. Smithhttp://img.villagephotos.com/p/2003-8/196432/winglets_lg.jpg [h3] AMD XP 2200 |MUNCHKIN 512 DDR RAM |ECS[/b ][i] K7S5A MB[/i] |GF2 MX 32 MEG and still runs GOOD!|WIN XP PRO |MITSUBISHI DIAMOND PLUS 91 19"[/h3]

Hi Randy, As always: Thanks for the fast and concise answer :-) I will try it in the next few days even though I seem to remember having crossed the 5 NM boundary before T/D and still not having reset the MCP. But, my memory seems to play trick on my at my advancing age (29 summers is a long time ;-)). Will recheck it.Boaz

Hi Randy, Today I re-tried the same scenario to see if I did something wrong (or if I could reproduce the behaviour regarding the missing "RESET MCP ALT"). I was flying along and noted two things: First of all, the T/D indication was not on a leg in my route, that is the circle was offset a little to the right of my active leg. Secondly, after crossing abeam the T/D, the Path Deviation Indicator just started to tick away as I of course began to deviate from the calculated decend path. At no point was there ever any message in the scratch pad of the FMC. When I resat the MCP ALT, while still being in VNAV and LNAV, the plane began to decend and finally caught up with the planned decend path. The only difference was the fact that I used FS9 instead of FS2K2. Unfortunately I cannot show any screenies as I for the life of me cannot get the PrtScr to work (think it is null-wired on this keyboard :-))With kind regards and thanks in advance :-waveBoaz

No one seems to have answered your first question or you have worked it out? Just press Shift/ twice and the speedbrakes will stow. Had the same problem yesterday. Killed me on fuel till I worked it out. Can someone please send a boat to the Bay of Biscay, 133 people need help due to aircraft running out of fuel. Its COLLLLLLLLLD!!!CheersMilesWet, cold and miserable. Hope I make it back before the next patch

Sounds like your passengers and crew got spoiled! HA! Get it...? Spoiled!? I know...That comment is not helping your situation. :0)Regards,Chad C. DeMuth-OlsenPilothttp://home.bresnan.net/~atc01/Images/chad...1_signature.jpg

Boaz,The spoilers will not reset with the '/' key due to the implemntation of flight spoilers on the PMDG model. While the real 737NG has a flight spoiler position that works wonderfully well, MS Flight Simulator has no definition for a "Flight" position so it gets confused when you use the '/' key for spoilers in flight (flight position) We are aware of this and are trying to come up with a solution. In the meantime stow your "boards" with the handle in flight :-) RegardsPaul Gollnick :-coolTechnical Operations/Customer Operational SupportPrecision Manuals Development Groupwww.precisionmanuals.com