Hey Folks,

 

I love this plane!  Love it, love it, love it.  In fact, I can spend a whole evening parked at the gates, sitting in the cockpit with the manuals at my side, not move the plane an inch, and still consider it a thoroughly enjoyable evening.

 

I have a problem.  Between the FCTM and two volumes of FCOM, I've got over 2800 pages of PDF documentation and lack the ability to bookmark anything.  There aren't any 'Table of Contents' bookmarks provided either.  Can you please change the permissions on these files to at least allow me the ability to bookmark pages I'm interested in?

 

Thanks,

Tom

 

I am afraid this will not be legally possible...

Why?

 

These manuals become MUCH more difficult to use then.

 

Another usable compromise would be to have PMDG provide the TOC bookmarks as they do with the Introduction and Tutorial #1.   Is that an option?

It is a legal issue related to Boeing. If you search the forum I believe Ryan explained this. 

If you own a tablet 3rd party pdf apps should allow you to create your own bookmarks. These bookmarks are stored locally and do not modify the actual pdf file. The iPad iBooks app allows this and another app called pdf expert allows this as well. I do not own an android tablet but there should be something similar available there as well.

I'm very happy to hear somebody is digging deep into the manuals. Good job Tom!

 

Paul Racines

Andres, you've pointed me in an interesting direction I hadn't considered.  It makes me think that, if a tablet app can do it, there might also be a PC-based PDF reader out there that might let me do it via a sidecar file as you're suggesting.

 

Paul... I've got thousands of hours in the virtual air with all the airplanes we know and love.  I did my intro flight with this bird the first night I got it.  It gave me the fix I need.  Now it's time to figure out how to use this thing.