LOL! I was thinking the same thing. Sounds like the voice of the computer from Star Trek.

Or my house's security system

Yeah, Delta flies loads of them, and the rest of the legacy carriers except US Airways (somewhere in purgatory between "legacy" and "low cost" if you ask me) have enough of them and use them such that they couldn't jump ship and straight-up replace them with the 739ER or 321, or heavies. Long live the 757 as fas as I'm concerned... it and the DC-10 have always been two of my favorite aircraft. There's a reason the Captain Sim 757 was the first payware addon I bought... Looks pretty good in McPhat's Delta colors...

US Airways does fly the 757, they just don't have as many of them as AA or DL do.Not only was the introduction of the 777 a death knell for the MD11, but the MD11 also drastically under delivered in performance when it was first introduced. This eventually led to lackluster sales for the MD11, and then the introduction of the T7 in the mid '90s was the final nail in the coffin. This was a huge issue for both AA and DL who both wanted the aircraft to specifically fly to NRT from DFW and ATL. With the under performing aircraft, pre PIP, flying this route wasn't economically feasible for either airline. Not surprisingly, AA kept the MD11 barely a decade and DL didn't keep them much longer than that, both swapping them out for T7s.

But neither of those can replace the 757 on the lower demand transcontinental flights which are sometimes as long as 4500 nmi.

Not quite. AFAIK, EWR-TXL is the longest currently operated 757 route in the world, and that's 3500nm and is at the very edge of the 757's usable range.-johnny rodgers

Apparently the strong desire for type commonality with the 737 Classic stopped the 737 NG becoming a small 777 as far as the flight deck is concerned. Shame.For once, an FS video that shows the flight deck, and the pilot flying it!Don't use the autopilot on the IGS as it arms LAND mode, and this is generally discouraged for any offset approach. On aircraft with a separate AUTOLAND function, AUTOLAND is never armed in such situations. The reason is because if the RA goes below 50 ft for any reason, the system will enter FLARE/IDLE (the approach path is not cleared of obstructions below which is a factor in the category of the approach). Not what you want, especially at Kai Tak. It won't do it in APP mode, instead dropping out passing below DH/MDA (MDA minus 50ft, or below 400ft RA with no MDA/DH on non-ILS approach on Airbus; autoland arms only if ILS and certain criteria is met). An IGS is *NOT* an ILS.Best regards,Robin.

Congratulations on post number 1,000! Also, I disarmed the autopilot and regardless for what mode you're in, the autothrottle should turn off at 50ft, whether it be autoland or normal navigation. The autopilot was used to follow the IGS in the MD-11, and then disconnected once minimums were reached.

You seemed to be doing quite well hand-flying it. AP not required. :) Just watch that right turn - you need to ensure a V/S of about 600 ft/min to stay on the visual approach path during the turn (though I did find the IGS and MM placement is not where it is IRL; something I fixed in the FS9 version).

Congratulations on post number 1,000!

heh - 1001 now! :PBest regards,Robin.

<br />Congratulations on post number 1,000! <br /><br />Also, I disarmed the autopilot and regardless for what mode you're in, the autothrottle should turn off at 50ft, whether it be autoland or normal navigation. The autopilot was used to follow the IGS in the MD-11, and then disconnected once minimums were reached.<br /><br /><br />

Hi,The autothrottel doesn't turn of itself at 50ft. It retards the thrust to idle.. But you should be in landing configuration, so that you see the green box. When you touch the ground the autothrottle is disconnected so that you can set reverse thrust. The next time you maybe fly at least a correct speed for your choosen flaps so that they can extend aa they should ;-) Armed spoilers and enabled autobreak are also very recommended. Best regards,John

Well, then I know something you don't know. My father flew the MD-11 for Delta, and according to him, and what I've read, the autothrottle turns off at 50ft, regardless.

Okay. Thats an argument. I think your father also knows that the autopilot is not disconected with the two AFS override switches.

US Airways does fly the 757, they just don't have as many of them as AA or DL do.

Yeah, 24 or 25 of them if I remember right... my point being that US could probably live without them easier than the other airlines. If only because they do have a lot less than the others.

Not quite. AFAIK, EWR-TXL is the longest currently operated 757 route in the world, and that's 3500nm and is at the very edge of the 757's usable range.

Oh you're quite right.... try writing posts on an iPhone and thinking about it at the same time... harder than it looks. What I was intending to say was that the longest 757 routes come close to 4500 sm. More like 4200.There's a number of them around 3600 nm great circle, which of course works out a little longer by the time it's all said and done. The longest one I remember is Icelandair flying KEF-SFO, which they pulled the plug on recently.. I could be wrong but I think occasionally a 757 flies NYC-FCO for some carrier, not sure which, and has to make a stop at YQX for the return flight. That would be a bit over 3700 great circle which is plausible but not something they'd ever regularly try. Apparently the loads get pretty light on some of those FCO flights at certain times of the year. Anyway the point is that the A321 and 739ER compete with eachother nicely but only can comfortably replace the 757 on e.g. the US coast-to-coast routes. Transatlantic routes probably won't happen unless they like stopping at YQX on every westbound leg. Which reminds me... Sun Country flies an NG on MSP-LGW and back via YQX... probably going to be one of my first flights once the NGX is ready...

Delta flies New York to Amsterdam in their International 757s, but recently announced their gonna stop flying the 757 over the pond. Now only to Hawaii, and the whole of NA.

That is a scary approach, I can see why they closed it.Michael Pare.

Hey Spartan 7W, I enjoyed your video, but why did you do so many things incorrectly? If you were going to showcase the MD-11 why wouldn't you portray it correctly? You left the autobrake disarmed throughout the entire flight which should of been armed, or if not in use clear the caution light. Second you got an EICAS not configured for landing alert stating your spoilers were not armed which is greatly ill advised. Third you are never supposed to disconnect the Auto-Flight System with the AFS Override switches this is for non normal operations, and disconnecting the auto-flight should be accomplished via the yoke disconnect button, and should be pressed twice to silence the disconnect warning. Lastly you were to fast for your commanded flap position, and flap relief was activated, yet you did not further slow down or correct the issue. It just perplexes me as to why someone would make a video with so many obvious errors. Sorry for the rant.Angelo Cosma

Hey Spartan 7W, I enjoyed your video, but why did you do so many things incorrectly? If you were going to showcase the MD-11 why wouldn't you portray it correctly? You left the autobrake disarmed throughout the entire flight which should of been armed, or if not in use clear the caution light. Second you got an EICAS not configured for landing alert stating your spoilers were not armed which is greatly ill advised. Third you are never supposed to disconnect the Auto-Flight System with the AFS Override switches this is for non normal operations, and disconnecting the auto-flight should be accomplished via the yoke disconnect button, and should be pressed twice to silence the disconnect warning. Lastly you were to fast for your commanded flap position, and flap relief was activated, yet you did not further slow down or correct the issue. It just perplexes me as to why someone would make a video with so many obvious errors. Sorry for the rant.Angelo Cosma

I was talking to someone else who's made MD-11 videos, and he agrees the FSRecorder, the program tha records flight data for playback so you can concentrate on flying, and filming later, has some issues with the MD-11. The yoke was tripping out teh entire time, same with throttles, and since FSX was rebooted, it didn't save my info. It was behaving differently. When I landed, I disconnected everything correctly and had autobrakes, but that didn't record in FSRecorder. I'm working on fine-tuning that.

I was talking to someone else who's made MD-11 videos, and he agrees the FSRecorder, the program tha records flight data for playback so you can concentrate on flying, and filming later, has some issues with the MD-11. The yoke was tripping out teh entire time, same with throttles, and since FSX was rebooted, it didn't save my info. It was behaving differently. When I landed, I disconnected everything correctly and had autobrakes, but that didn't record in FSRecorder. I'm working on fine-tuning that.

FSRecorder and lots of other general FSX utilities can see what's going on inside of FSX but with an addon like the MD-11 it's almost a whole new freestanding program that FSX connects to when you load it in the sim. It's great because it blows through the limitations of FSX but the downside is something like FSRecorder only sees what's actually running inside of the FSX, which excludes most of the little details in the cockpit.Watching replays of my landings with the stock FSX replays can be kind of silly.

Yeah, Accusim from A2A is tha same. My Spitfire playbacks yield engine fires.