I have worked through tutorial #2 up to the point of taxi to runway 24. I saved a flight after engine start with everything ready to taxi. As I start to taxi the indicator light for speedbrake armed comes on and causes the Auto throttle arm switch to go off and I get the A/T warn light on and master caution light on. I have checked the speedbrakes lever - it is down and locked and outside there are no speedbrakes up. However I can not get the light to go out even after cycling the speedbrake lever and then back to locked position and the auto throttle still won't engage. Every time I try to move the switch to armed it stays off and turns on the A/T warn light again. I have gone back to my saved flight before taxi and everything appears normal with no speedbrake armed light but when I start the taxi out to runway 24 the speedbrake armed light comes back and the whole problem starts again. I thought maybe there was something I did in my process up to this point so I went back to the PMDG 737NGX Tutorial #2 EHAM-LOWI Before Pushback saved flight and went forward with the checklist. As soon as I started to taxi the same problem occurred. I have the full version of FSUIPC for my CH throttle but have only a keyboard command for the speedbrakes and did not use it. I also checked failures just in case and it is set to NONE Active.

 

Anyone ever run into this issue in tutorial #2 before? I could not find a post about this in my search of this forum. Your suggestions to fix the issue would be greatly appreciated so I can take off and continue the tutorial. I was able to go through tutorial #1 without any issues.

Thanks

Jerry Hayman

Double check in fsuipc calibrations that the spoilers aren't active.

 

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Thanks AJ,

I checked and the spoilers show "axis not processed" so that was not the problem.

Use PMDG saved flights.

 

master caution light on.

 

What does master caution says? A/T disengage, deploying speed brakes not causing MC light go on. There might be a bug with saved flight.

Thanks for your reply rsvit, you are probably right about a bug in the saved flight. The master caution (light on) has no message with it on the screen to its right. The only thing that happens is the speedbrake armed light (green) comes on and the A/T arm switch goes off. I have also tried the PMDG saved flight from pushback with the same result. So this time after having tried both of those flights with the same problem I went to the PMDG saved flight "before takeoff" and was able to get airborne without issues. Then I went back to my saved flight to see if there was any master caution message (no) and was able to get to the runway but when I throttled up for takeoff the master caution light came on, the horn sounded, the speedbrake armed (green) light came on and the A/T arm switch went to off again; while I was rolling down the runway. I aborted the takeoff and will try the PMDG saved flight "before takeoff" again and see if I will be able to continue on with the flight.

 

So at this point I am thinking it is just the two saved flights that have the problem (seems funny to me that both of them would have the same problem).

I'll let you know if there is further trouble tomorrow when I finish the PMDG before takeoff flight.