>this 767 is so well detailed and modeled that unless you hold>a license or work on them you will never find all the features>lolThose are words i love Gary. Im so keen to fly this baby, with the possibilites to do it with maximum reality.Its shouldnt be to long now. I've visited the homepage almost everyday now. But it shouldnt be to long now, or?

The "problem" with the realism of this new bird is that some users might suspect a bug when the aircraft really only now works like it should! :)Tero

Wade-What is the real life purpose of this feature? -Lee Barberhttp://home.nc.rr.com/uniuniunium/dvasig.jpg

The jettison pumps require a lot of amps to run them. It's best if you shut a few non-essential airplane systems down during jettison (e.g. Inflight Entertainment systems, Equipment Cooling fans (the Equip Cooling can still run in its backup mode), galley drain heating, etc).The depowering of the external lights is an option I wasn't aware of, but I'm told it is mentioned on the Smartcockpit website. Dumping the external lights seems to me to be a little extreme, however. At the moment, I'm trying to get independent confirmation of this (It could be an error or a rare option?).Any real world pilots/engineers out there heard of this?Thanks.Cheers.Ian/

Geez. The nerve of the airlines! It is unthinkable that my in-flight movie would be interrupted during fuel jettison. What kind of service is this? No wonder they're going out of business.;-)Lee Hetherington, PP-ASEL (KBED)

This is an exerpt from the 767 AOM (company specific)----------------------FUEL JETTISONThe aircraft is equipped with a fuel jettison system, which provides a possibility to dump fuel from the centertank only.The system utilizes the normal center fuel pumps and two dedicated jettison pumps installed in the samehousings as the center fuel pumps. The jettison fuel is routed through the fueling manifold to two jettisonnozzles inboard of each outboard aileron.The nozzles are provided with nozzle valves for discharge of fuel.During normal operation two fuel jettison transfer valves isolate the pumps from the fueling manifold.Activation of the fuel jettison system results in load shedding in the electrical system, due to the electricaldemand of the fuel jettison pumps.(Refer to AOM 1.6.2).The jettison rate is approximately 72,500 kg/h (1,200 kg/min).---------------------So then I looked at scheme 1.6.2, which is a diagram that shows the interconnetion between the busses and the systems. The logic itself is not mentioned however, so it's not possible to derive the effect of the load shedding during fuel jettison from the AOM.The diagram is depicted belowhttp://bev02.adsl.utwente.nl/vliegvrienden/pics/767elec.gifhowever, I found another exerpt from the same AOMFuel jettison load sheddingElectrical load shedding will ocur during fuel jettison due to the electrical demand of the jettisonpumps. The following equipment is afected:

Thanks, Roel.It does sound like it is airline specific, but I'll check with our pilots in case I've overlooked something.Incidentally, your diagram appears to refer to loadshedding "in general". There are several kinds of loadshedding on the 767 and they are activated for different reasons).Cheers.Ian.