Is it possible to somehow change the age of the aircraft (so i dont start with a brand new one where everything works perfectly) ?

Edited February 14, 201214 yr by A32X tebsu

I did not understand what you are trying to ask? in An aged aircraft somethings are not working? i don't think so, but maybe someone else understood and can help you cheers.

Yes, continue to fly it :(

Wow, these are some terrifically unhelpful answers here.But back on point, there is a file that stores all the hours of the various components for that particular aircarft. It is labelled as the aircraft's tail number. I cannot think right now off the top of my head where exactly it is at, but I believe it to be in the PMDG folder in the FSX root. You can open it up with just a text editor and increase the age of all the compoenents. How this will translate into the sim, I do not know, but it should do the trick.

Edited February 14, 201214 yr by Cras

Bump this...It would be great if PMDG can enable this. I thought about this before but never thought to ask.

I've not played with the settings, but all the timers, failures and so on are avaiable in the saved panel state .sav file.If you want to change timers, just edit the file, but pay attention to the "units" used by the timers, I've seen that for some items the units are not what do you expect.To add the age to the panel, you need to edit the textures and make it manually.

Wow, these are some terrifically unhelpful answers here.

I don't know what you'r talking about, i just didn't understand the question, i will be more then a glad to help, i am sorry of it's look like i tried to teased or provoke him.

Is it possible to somehow change the age of the aircraft (so i dont start with a brand new one where everything works perfectly) ?

Using the PMDG options menu in the FMC you can enable failures and they will happen even if you've only started flying the plane just now. You do not have to make the plane older in order to get failures. And btw in real life an older plane won't necessarily mean guaranteed failures and problems, because usually a plane is taken good care off. :wink:In the PMDG-737NGX-Introduction.pdf you can read everything about failures starting on page eighty (I can't type the number here because that results in a smiley...). RANDOM failures will give you failures 'right away' (if you want to: you can set how soon and often they will happen randomly), while SERVICE BASED FAILURES may give you want to expected, but not too soon. I think RANDOM failures with a short time setting (and SERVICE BASED FAILURES set to NO) is what you are really looking for.

Edited February 14, 201214 yr by J van E

It seems like dodge-the-question day here...Some don't answer it all, others provide alternate answers...what's going on today?Andrea and Scott hit the nail on the head. You'll need to go find the aircraft's .INI file in the PMDG folder within your FSX folder. In there, you'll find the values. What the values mean, I don't know, but Andrea mentioned it in his post.

It seems like dodge-the-question day here...

It seems like comment-on-posts day here...Just kidding. :(

Maybe we can implement MMEL as you can do with the Maddog.Not all instrument work on real aircraft but there is a limit to been able to fly, and each aircraft have this list.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Master_minimum_equipment_list

Bump. I've wondered this. I know where the files are, but I can't make sense of the numbers.

http://forum.avsim.n...ost__p__2091675there was an excel sheet linked inside.Here is the link for this Excel sheet:http://dl.dropbox.co...ure%20Items.zipthere you'll find which systems corresponding to which numbers.As I wrote in the other thread I haven't verified if this whole procedure works.But maybe other people can figure it out ...

Edited February 14, 201214 yr by guenseli

Thanks for that, I will do experiments when I have time ;)

In order to not start a new topic, I'll ask in here. I recently installed a new livery, and would like my timers to carry on from the livery I usually fly with. I remember a post RSR made when SP1C came saying what one had to copy/paste between aircraft ini's in order that the "used" timers from one aircraft go to another. Can anyone point me in the right direction?