Flight Controls Quit Working

[wildwally 0]

Very odd - Made a flight this morning no problems. Tried turning the flight around and making another - had numerous problems on the 4 takeoff attempts. So I completely restarted my computer and shut everything down but FSX. Starting at gate, wait until aircraft intializes. Then load everything into the CDU/FMC, pushback, taxi. While taxiing I noticed I can't steer any more with pedals. Look at flight controls nothing happening. Brakes still work. Go into the flight control config and see that FSX sees my controls moving. I recalibrate anyways and still nothing. Noticed MCP options not working also. Assuming this is a freeze, or a partial freeze. Anyone experience anything like this - how did you correct. I've got 50+ hours in this aircraft with little to no problems, and now out of nowhere its acting up.

[badderjet 181]

Yeah the NGX will just turn you into a passenger every once in a while. Especially when messing around with CWS, so better never ever screw with that at all. Other than that I see similar behavior on several occasions. And no, no way to correct anything for me. Apart from restarting obviously.

[wildwally 0]

I've done a restart - and the issue happened again. I don't want to prove einstiens theory of insanity correct today.(Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results) So I'll call it quits until I hear something otherwise.

[wildwally 0]

Still having problems - starting to think its the flight plan in the CDU. Tried not entering the plan and was able to taxi the whole way. at runway entered plan took off and then everything went south (literally - into the ground south). When i get some free time again i'm going to try and different route and see if this is the problem.

[wildwally 0]

UPDATE - I was finally able to make a full flight with no problems. So I went back to KABQ and loaded the problem flightplan and the issue happened again. It's the flight plan itself that is causing the controller issue from what I can gather which I find interesting. One thing I have noticed is I am showing a "NO DES PATH AFTER MAGNE" but my legs page shows everything working fine. After I lose control the altitudes and speeds are all gone. Someone test this out when you have some time. Wondering if its something in my flight plan or a bug. Because i can recreate the problem everytime. Flight from KABQ - KSLC LARGO2 (RWY3) RSK JNC HELPR LEEHY3 (RWY17) [VORD17 transition OGD] Maybe I'm not doing something right - but I wouldn't think that it would disable my flight controls during taxi. I have toe brakes is all. Not thottle control, steering, etc.

[fulcrum_64th 9]

if you can fully reproduce that freeze let the PMDG gang know about it. Regards Karim

[bjratchf 80]

I was able to replicate something similar- where the yoke was stuck fully deflected to the right on startup. No amount of computer restarts and/or aircraft swaps could rectify the problem, a reinstall was needed. -Brendan

[falcon999 24]

UPDATE - I was finally able to make a full flight with no problems. So I went back to KABQ and loaded the problem flightplan and the issue happened again. It's the flight plan itself that is causing the controller issue from what I can gather which I find interesting. One thing I have noticed is I am showing a "NO DES PATH AFTER MAGNE" but my legs page shows everything working fine. After I lose control the altitudes and speeds are all gone. Someone test this out when you have some time. Wondering if its something in my flight plan or a bug. Because i can recreate the problem everytime. Flight from KABQ - KSLC LARGO2 (RWY3) RSK JNC HELPR LEEHY3 (RWY17) [VORD17 transition OGD] Maybe I'm not doing something right - but I wouldn't think that it would disable my flight controls during taxi. I have toe brakes is all. Not thottle control, steering, etc.

Open a ticket with PMDG support.