So I am playing with the 700 series add-on for PMDG and I have a couple of questions that are probably answered somewhere in the 3000 pages of manual but I want to make sure it is not a bug and see if anyone else has the answer right off the bat rather than searching for hours in a book thicker than the Bible.

 

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1.   When I turn the lighting for the cockpit and turn it just past halfway the back panels on the MCP LEDs turns blue.  Is this normal ops?   It never did this in the 800 series.

2.   The TCAS Indicators never went away on the MFDs.   These were on while on the ground and never went off.   I use FS2Crew to do the start up sequence and he didn't seem to indicate a problem with the TCAS system.

3.   When I turned the lighting nobs to turn on the background flood lighting on the MCP and the MFD panels they had no effect on the lighting until AFTER we landed and started the shutdown sequence.  Then the lighting turned on.   Normal operation in the 800 was for the lights to activate the moment you turned the dial and light up the consoles.

4.   I use FS Passengers X and had to go through the whole FS2Crew work around to get the FSPassenger mini window to show.. however... it has ANOTHER panel icon that sits on top of it now and will flicker off and on but mostly it stays on, covering up the damn mini window...   -_-

 

Anyone experience these problems (if they are problems on the 700 series PMDG 737) and know a work around?   Thanks.

 

Wouldn't the pmdg forum be the ideal place to ask!

Wouldn't the pmdg forum be the ideal place to ask!

 

Probably.   This is why you don't post when you are half asleep.   It's more than just a PMDG issue though which is probably why I posted here instead rather than multi-post the same topic which is probably against a rule somewhere.

What is that blue box to the right of the FS2Crew?

 

That could be causing the problem, because it is the same color blue as the blue your MCP LEDs are turning.

What is that blue box to the right of the FS2Crew?

 

That could be causing the problem, because it is the same color blue as the blue your MCP LEDs are turning.

 

That is the FS Passengers X box with a graphic glitch on it.     I have corrected MOST of my problems.   I just did a re-install of the latest service packs for both the 600/700 expansion and the 8900NGX base package and the TCAS problems went away.    I still cannot get the 700 to turn on the background lighting when I turn those knobs.   I saw somewhere where someone said the 700 doesn't have that lighting but then that makes me ask... WHY are there knobs for them then?