I studied the PMDG-737 tutorial 1 including the SECURE PROCEDURE.

Suppose a new crew takes over and performs all preparations for the next flight.

As is is not a cold and dark I wonder what is the procedure ? What to do with the Overhead panel settings ?

Do I just use the same as prior to tutorial 1 ?   And if so in what sequence ?

Is a IRS alignment required before each flight ?  

NB : I intend to do it right.

Thank you

Hubert Werni
 

Tutorial 1 actually states the purpose, actions and sequence of the secure procedure.

 

You can follow it or you can follow FCOM procedure. If the airplane departs soon cold and dark is not set and the cockpit left like after secure procedure.

 

IRS are realigned after each flight to match the maximum precision. If you need to do it real fast, you can do the fast realignment. Usually it's enough time to do the full realignment.

 

 

As is is not a cold and dark I wonder what is the procedure ? What to do with the Overhead panel settings ?

 

You just power everything down to just before the SECURE procedure.  Reverse the procedure to power back up.  Different airlines have slight variations.

 

 

 

Is a IRS alignment required before each flight ?

 

Yes.

 

 

 

NB : I intend to do it right.

 

The problem is, the definition of "right" is getting the plane to fly.  What to leave on, power down, and when to do any of that is all up to the airline, in the end, and a bunch of them do it differently.

 

It's a huge simism that there's a single, correct way to do all of this.

I wouldn't do a turn around flight with the PMDG its best to quit fsx and restart. Its explained somewhere in the manual. FSX does not release all of its memory back to the OS when you end a flight. If you don't exit FSX, when you start another flight it doesn't have all of the usual free memory available to it. By exiting FSX after each flight, you'll be sure to have all the memory available for your flight.

 

 

I wouldn't do a turn around flight with the PMDG its best to quit fsx and restart.

 

If you're not using tons of photoreal scenery, it's a non-issue.  I used to have the NGX and a few other aircraft, along with UTX and it was a non-issue.  I flew leg after leg and never had an OOM.  When I added orbx and realistic airports, that's what did me in.

Yeh i agree with that. I don't have any scenery installed except for edinburgh airport scenery and only have the NGX installed. I focus entirely on the 737 and not jump to an A380 or other addons like most simmers do!

 

I'm sure RW pilots wouldn't do that? Aye jimmy you're on a 737 today then tomorrow jump on the 747 lol

 

Its been over a month with no issues and i have a very stable system now. Soon as you clutter up fsx thats when things go wrong!

 

Who looks at scenery when departing on a 737 and climbing out to FL350....

Generally we park up and do the shutdown checklist. Then if we're getting off the secure checklist up to the power and battery. If a new crew get on or the engineers we leave it like that or if just the cleaners then one of us holds the Ground Service button on the forward FA's panel while the other dumps the Ground power and then battery.

 

After that...who cares! We're usually too tired to give a damn by then.   :-)