Thanks to FSMP who described how to fool the AVSIM forums file check, here is a panel state for how I would receive the aircraft for a typical turnaround - this will differ from company to company, but I'll just go with what I know because some people did ask, and I've tried to set every single switch or control to appropriate vaules. Some FS values (Com and Nav radio's in particular) don't get saved, but that's irrelevant really - I've simulated receiving the aircraft at FACT (hence some of the settings, ie landing alt, typical fuel state on arrival). The passengers have all climbed off, and both doors 1L and 2L are open if I recall correctly. The file is actually a .rar - just delete the .pdf extension at the end, and unzip to your FSX\PMDG\PMDG 737 NGX\PanelState folder. I've called the files 'Turnaround'. This isn't exactly groundbreaking, but anyway :) - let me know if there are any faults.

Many thanks for this Simon

Hi all, I posted a response in another thread here before realising that there may already be a whole bunch of people here who actually fly these things for real, and the forum may not need some guy butting in with anecdotes of real world ops, which may or may not relate to the product. Whilst I don't own the NGX, I've been simming for years, and owned other PMDG products which have been consistently excellent. I happen to fly -800's IRL. Flying 101 (ZS-ZWP) in particular is one of my 'rides', which happens to be an available paintscheme (I sit in the labelled seat of 'Co-Captain', lol)! We operate short-haul, quick turnaround kind of ops. Typical LCC stuff I would imagine, although our destinations are fairly limited. In the past, I've always wished to be able to ask questions of a line pilot on type, not so much regarding technical questions (the manuals do a decent enough job of that), but regarding the nitty-gritty details of day-to-day operations, ie what gets done when in practice, and WHY. So.....if anybody wants to know something, or have me check how something works on the actual aircraft I'll have a go. I've got a sim ride coming up mid-September as well, so I can try the barrel-roll/aerobatic moves that you need me to do then :) I apologise if this is not needed, or if there are already plenty of sources for this info - I just remember wanting this kind of stuff when I was starting on the more complex products out there. Edit to add: A quick browse seems to show that you guys have this covered! Anyway, just though I'd ask :)

thanks for all your answers and tips ... few years ago the late Mell Ott tried this barrel in a 744 sim ... was really intersting to read his attempts ... wish you the best on the ride. we ve tried that on a DC10 sim a really few years ago but seems the hyds /computers never let us go there but the bank was really already bad ....

Wow what an amazing thread.Inspired me to do some flying in SA, downloaded landclass and a pack of updated airfields so I'm ready, I'll just wait for the uploaded config for ZWP.Simon, if I may ask how many flights do you normally do in a day? If possible, could you provide an example of a rostered day? Including times.

Thanks a million Simon, really appreciate it.

Simon well appreciated, 19,353 words!! - thank you again. For convenience, I assembled all of Simon's posts and pictures into a single PDF.

Thanks for all these great posts! well worth to read.

This PDF must included in the NGX installation...! Thank U Simon

Thank you Simon! Your insight has been absolutely outstanding. Thank you for your time to do this.

Gone quite after such a rush of activity.

Thank you Scott for the pdf file. Excellent document to be kept!

Hi all, Just an update - I had one or two requests for more details on our sign on-sign off duties, ie what happens before and after the flight. I've been having a few busy days, but I plan on doing that when I can. It's technically Off Topic, but I won't tell anyone if you don't :) And yes, this topic will tend to drop off the horizon eventually, but I will comment when/if possible in other threads!

thanks so much Simon this mean a lot to us non RW 737 NGX drivers, get us a fascinating understanding or RW applications and gets our hobby a little closer to realiy

for some reason that turnaround FMC setup does not work for me, either hangs loading panel state of kills both FMC power

Hmmm - I've been flying ZWP, since I fly it IRL and I've got it configured as close to reality as I can so far. Tabs has asked me to get them an updated .ini file so that they can update it as 'closest to reality' on the PMDG site, which I do plan on doing, just waiting for final confirmation on one or two points (I want to fly it again IRL for a final check). It's possible that the panelstate file may cause issues if your aircraft is configured differently to the one I'm using (ie you have ETOPS, HUGS etc and I don't), but I'm not clued up enough on the technical details behind PMDG's programming here. I've reloaded it several times, and while not all options that I set were saved as I had them, it loads fine. I haven't uploaded my aircraft configuration .ini here yet since it's not final (about 90% confirmed at the moment), and I (and perhaps PMDG too) would prefer to avoid different versions floating around.