So I have several problems/points of ignorance1. I still have not figured out the heading system. I know you can tell it which way to turn by turning the heading knob in a certain direction. It turns my aircraft in the oposite direction every time I engauge it on departure even though after taking the runway I set it to runway heading and pull. The the controller said fly heading 265 after departure, so I set it to 265, taking of on runway 28l at SFO and pulled it, then took off, then engauged heading mode and the aircraft turn right! It should have turned left because that is the direction I rotated the knob.2. Also having not flown this aircraft for months (been in the NGX) and having FS 2 crew for the MD11, I am having random pop up windows apear in my face. These are not the standard FS2crew pop up windows that need to happen for the program but they are the ones that dont. Like the whole overhead when I am right in themiddle of my takeoff run, or the pedistal when I hit the takeoff button on the FS2crew mini panel. These also do not go away like the ones FS2crew uses for the FO to flip the switch. These panels never popped up before using FS2crew and the MD11 so I think something is wrong. It is extreemley irritating to have the overhead pop up and cover the whole screen in the middle of the takeoff run. So it seems that FS2crew is opening them, but it did not need to before and it is not making them go away like the other ones. Just wondering if anyone has experienced this before. It seems like after a while of not flying a particular aircraft bugs get incorporated somehow.3. Also, I am currently enroute from KSFO to PHNL and during the preflight of the FMS I entered all of the fields in INIT page on and now in cruise all of a sudden the FL, Temp/wind, and opt/max FL are all dashed lines. As I try and re-enter the data it says not allowed. Also the FMS is not using any wind data or altitude to compute my fuel at destination obviously. Why would it do this, am I stupid, has it been a while?or... has MCE screwed everything up. I had it running in the backroud, the demo you know, to see if I wanted to buy. I do not. Why might you ask am I running MCE along side of FS2Crew? I thought the voice was pretty cool to adjust the knobs on the Autoflight panel so I did not have to fumble around with pulling and pushing with the mouse and all that crap. Turns out that, Trev? is that his name? selects any other altitude that I tell him so he is fired. 3 pages of voice training should do it, too many bugs. We will see what happens on the approach int PHNL with Trev ejected from the seat and Steve in his place instead. Steve does not do Autoflight panel knobs but I am ok with that.Sorry for all the questionsThanks3.

Now, you do not need to pull the heading knob before takeoff. Turning has nothing to do with the direction you turned the knob. If the desired heading is to the right of the current heading the aircraft will turn right. If the desired heading is to the left of the current heading, the aircraft will turn left.You should check your key commands for FSCrew because I think they may be messed up.I unfortunately cannot help you with the FMS because I've never seen that happen in cruise.What is MCE? Never heard of it.

Sorry, Multi Crew Experience.As far as the MD11 heading controll, yes you can command the aircraft to turn in a certain direction. You can go right to 250 if you are on 260, the long way. You can see the dashed line showing the turn direction on the perimiter of the nav display. I just cant figure out how to work it, I am a little confused on the manual with this. The only proble is setting the departure heading due to the fact that I am sitting at the gate in a random direction, this is where I set it. So whne taking the runway, with the heading set to runway heading, if the aircraft is a little off sometimes it will try and turn the long way to the heading, i.e. 355 degrees all the way around. I hope that is not confusing. If I take the runway and pull or push it should work because it is the same heading I am on while lined up on the runway.I wonder how the key commands could have gotten screwed up though. There are only 2, primary and secondary buttons. I'll have to check though because sometimes FSX just andomly decides to re-asign keys for those pop up windows even though I intentionally unbind them. I use the VC only w/o even the pop up windows.Thanks

Edited January 23, 201214 yr by denver69

Sorry, Multi Crew Experience.As far as the MD11 heading controll, yes you can command the aircraft to turn in a certain direction. You can go right to 250 if you are on 260, the long way. You can see the dashed line showing the turn direction on the perimiter of the nav display. I just cant figure out how to work it, I am a little confused on the manual with this. The only proble is setting the departure heading due to the fact that I am sitting at the gate in a random direction, this is where I set it. So whne taking the runway, with the heading set to runway heading, if the aircraft is a little off sometimes it will try and turn the long way to the heading, i.e. 355 degrees all the way around. I hope that is not confusing. If I take the runway and pull or push it should work because it is the same heading I am on while lined up on the runway.I wonder how the key commands could have gotten screwed up though. There are only 2, primary and secondary buttons. I'll have to check though because sometimes FSX just andomly decides to re-asign keys for those pop up windows even though I intentionally unbind them. I use the VC only w/o even the pop up windows.Thanks

Hi there,I went through the same thing.... You have to use the logic of the md11.If you pull the heading knob, you are commanding a turn, even if you have selected cureent heading, you are commanding a turn to that heading and that's exactly what the aircraft will do.The only way to go about it is select runway heading as per procedure, and once lined up PUSH the heading knob in to command current heading hold. The aircraft will disregard heading select and give you heading hold. Then if you get vectors, simply turn the knob onto a new heading and pull to command a turn.

Edited January 23, 201214 yr by WR269

As for the dashed lines in your fmc, you probably changed the route or departure parameter and didnt activate the change.... It happens when ou havent used the Animal for a while.My suggestion of a fix is to use the secondary flight plan and enable it as active flight plan.Will.

Edited January 23, 201214 yr by WR269

Thanks I will be sure to push it next time when lined up on the runway.

Its a real challenge flying the NG 737 for a while and going back to the MD11. Not the same going back to the NG for some reason. I am really at a toss up for which I like better. I almost lean toward the MD11. God forbid I say that, I mean the NGX is newer and better in so many ways but I think the MD11 is just such an underdog and a very interesting aircraft from an engineering standpoint. I also wish and wonder why they did not implement that FMS refueling procedure with the NGX, thats such a great thing.I will probably change my mind when they come out with the FScrew for the NG.

Just for your info, you should be able to find a program called fuel loader that pumps fuel at a realistic rate for any aircraft (you can define the rate) Cant remmeber where I got it from because I have had it so long but the company is called Simulation Hardware LTD. I have mine on another computer running over a network with wideFS