So, I love this plane. I've been flying it for months now and I can't get enough. However, a weird thing has started happening. When I try to fly a coupled ILS approach, the plane acts normally except for the fact that when it is stabilized on the localizer its almost always 1 to 2 dots off to the right! If I let it autoland, it puts me in the dirt, or at least half off the runway. Its consistent at all airports i've tried it at. Obviously something is corrupted, but I'd like to avoid a reinstall. Any ideas? Chris

Try running the Flight 1 registry repair tool (run it as admin) - this almost sounds like that kind of magnetic variation problem that the 744 and MD-11 can experience if the registry data gets corrupted.

Try running the Flight 1 registry repair tool (run it as admin) - this almost sounds like that kind of magnetic variation problem that the 744 and MD-11 can experience if the registry data gets corrupted.

Hi everyone.First, sorry for my bad English. I hope that you can understand me.I have the problem of the magnetic variation both in the B744 and MD-11. Specifically I encounter the problem on rwy 03R of MPTO (Panama).I try the Flight 1 registry repair tool without success. I tried to deactivate some sceneries too and don´t work . As I am a brave man :( I had some experiments and had remaned the file \FSX\Scenery\Base\Scenery\magdec.bgl and FSX reacts rewriting the scenery library, and voila!! problem resolved.... but just on MPTO. On LEZL (Seville, Spain - my living city) before the experiment I had no problem and after that the runway is misaligned in the ND's of both aircraft, so this is not the workaround for this problem.I'm desperate, becouse I really love this aircraft, especially the B744, in spite of in the real life the aircrafts that I love are the Airbus (I am working in Airbus Military) but there isn't any decent Airbus on FSX.Please, any idea? My OS is XP SP3 and I have no extra scenery installed (I prefer the real operation of aircraft to the beauty of sceneries.)Thanks in advanceAntonio Magana

Turn off all add-on scenery with the FSX library manager, this doens't uninstall them, and see if that makes a difference.

Hello Antonio. I have just landed at MPTO ( Full Auto Land) and I agree with your findings. The MD11 landed 50 feet to the left of the runway, on the dirt!!?Now that you mention this, I have seen this behaviour before! I usually disengage the Auto Pilot at 1000 feet or so and land the MD11 manually, but the other day I was inbound to KLAS RW25R and the aircraft was off line to the right on approach, down to 1000 feet and below. Needed a AP disconnect and manual landing.Now that this seems to be a problem I will inverstigate further.I have just landed at EGCC RW05L and the Aircraft was off the centre line by 30 feet to the left, although we had all wheels on the tarmac ( Just)These landings were in Calm weather, absolutely no wind!Looking at the runways using Airport Design Editor, I see they all appear to have different magnetic variances and the beam widths are all different. I am going to try increasing the width of the beam. I think this will only allow an earlier "capture" angle, but I dont yet know what else to try?Perhaps its an FSX anomaly ( Another one :( )Regards.

Hello, David.It is no necessary to land. Just put the aircraft on the rwy with a state of engines running ready for take off, make a short programming of the FMC for a local flight MPTO/MPTO and assign in the departures page the rwy where you actually are. In the ND you can see the rwy and the dash line representing the rwy extension misaligned with the heading of the aircraft. In others airports there is no misaligned and in others ones the misalign is less evident.The technic you are using is OK if you have sufficient visibility, but in case of low visibility, or even en CAT III land you cannot see the rwy until it's too late to correct the path. The problem with the align is really frustrating.I don´t think that this is an error on FSX because in this case, the problem would happen in every aircraft, but in my case only happen with the PMDG aircrafts.Regards

Antonio, did you try my suggestion?In FSX there are only two things that will cause you problem: Either a registry entry error or an AFCAD/Scenery file with errors. You said you don't have add on scenery but make sure you don't have any add-on AFCAD files.When you ran the registry repair tool, did it indicate that the registry entry was updated?

If other aircraft have a perfect alignment I wonder why the MD can't nail it? If it were AFCAD/Scenery/registry errors then surely other aircraft would have problems....wouldnt they?See ya.

Hi David,NO.... They wouldnt.To save time investigating other airports, just have a look and follow the advises given by Ryan and Dan.If you autoland in the dirt at MPTO 03R, or off-center at Manchester, your MD simulation is not operating correctly.ADE editor is a great programm where you need it, but will solve nothing where the localizer and runway are perfectly aligned.Hope it helps, enjoy flying this beauty.Regards,Harry

To save time investigating other airports, just have a look and follow the advises given by Ryan and Dan.Regards,Harry

David,Very good you enjoyed the LSGG landing.For the rest I can only repeat myself as stated above.[[The unpredictability of the ILS accuracy...........perhaps its been programmed that way .]] My MD11 autolands are very predictable.Know the problem however, and had to make use of the registry repair tool before, for the 747 installation long ago.Use it, or.... install everything from the basics.Whatever the reasons may be, your installation is not operating as intended. Harry

David,Good to know it helped you solve the misalignments.Hope it will help Antonio and Chris as well.Happy flying,Harry

The registry repair tool resets the path to the FSX.exe in the registry correctly if it has somehow become corrupted. It makes sure that all applications that need to find the fsx.exe will do so. I have had to use the repair tool once or twice over the years. It works well and quickly. ILS alignment errors are a thing of the past with it...I just need to get myself a nice big and powerful i7 like yours David, with 6Gb RAM and an SSD for FSX... I have other issues with the MD that are making flights into more heavily populated scenery nigh on impossible, as either LSAS or ATS, VC displays or what not lock up and do not respond or refresh... I think it is a memory issue...Andrew