March 9, 201610 yr Hi all, is there a way to configure FS2CREW for the PMDG 777 to turn off taxi light before turning on landing lights (and vice versa), as well as keeping the taxi light off for takeoff, approach and landing? I've looked through the forums and manual but have been unable to find it. The virtual airline I fly for has a policy of never using the taxi light and landing light at the same time, and deducts points from my overall flight score when I use FS2CREW as it will turn the taxi light on at several occasions, including runway entry procedure, takeoff, as well as on approach. If this isn't already included in the FS2CREW, it would be my number one wish if you could include it in the next update. :smile:
March 9, 201610 yr Commercial Member Hi all, is there a way to configure FS2CREW for the PMDG 777 to turn off taxi light before turning on landing lights (and vice versa), as well as keeping the taxi light off for takeoff, approach and landing? I've looked through the forums and manual but have been unable to find it. The virtual airline I fly for has a policy of never using the taxi light and landing light at the same time, and deducts points from my overall flight score when I use FS2CREW as it will turn the taxi light on at several occasions, including runway entry procedure, takeoff, as well as on approach. If this isn't already included in the FS2CREW, it would be my number one wish if you could include it in the next update. :smile: What's the name of your VA? Why would they deduct points for that? B. York FS2Crew Web Site / FS2Crew Facebook Page / FS2Crew Discord
March 9, 201610 yr Author HI Byork, Im flying for KLM - royaldutchvirtual.com... They have a points system built in to the ACARS, and it adds or subtracts points for following company SOP's. Using the taxi light with the landing light is against their SOP, so it deducts 5 points per instance, thus preventing me from scoring 100%.
March 16, 201610 yr Author As an update: I just got the FS2CREW for the PMDG 737NGX, and with SOP 1 it all works beautifully (not tried the other SOP's on it yet).
March 16, 201610 yr That's odd. What's wrong with keeping both lights on? Are those SOPs derived from the real KLM? Jaime Beneyto My real life aviation and flight simulation videos [English and Spanish] System: i9 9900k OC 5.0 GHz | RTX 2080 Super | 32GB DDR4 3200MHz | Asus Z390-F
March 17, 201610 yr Author Yeah, believe it is KLM's SOP to do it that way, probably with the reasoning that there is no point in having the taxi lights on as the landing lights are so much stronger.
May 13, 201610 yr As an update: I just got the FS2CREW for the PMDG 737NGX, and with SOP 1 it all works beautifully (not tried the other SOP's on it yet). How did you get it to work like that? Cause I still have to do it manually and sometimes even forget it. Victor Roos
June 23, 20169 yr This is a very weird SOP. One would think the more lights the merrier when looking at a safety standpoint. Bryan Richards "People depend so much on automation that they forget how to get the automation to work." B.W.
June 23, 20169 yr Looking at Youtube this seems not be always the case. For example in the following video the 747s land with taxi light off, but the 777s have it clearly on (eg 8:58). I would like to know as well why you would do that, Regards, Chris Volle i7700k @ 4,7, 32gb ram, Win10, MSI GTX1070.
June 25, 20169 yr This is absolutely not the real life SOP of KLM! I assume it's some sort of limitation in their ACARS tool. Seen that before at other VA's where because of limitations to detect something properly they had to divert from real world ops.
July 16, 20169 yr Author Update: It is indeed a limitation in the way FSX communicates with ACARS, and RDV is working on a new ACARS system that will resolve the issue.
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