B744 ACARS suddenly INOP

[Captain Kevin 586]

1 hour ago, scandinavian13 said:

I don't recall the 744 ever having this, so I think this one is down to cloudy memories of how things were before the update and, instead of chalking it up to the human brain being fallible, making a vague assertion that we removed an entire feature from a product (this takes effort) in the process of updating it.

I'm actually not really sure where anybody made the assertion that the feature was removed. He simply asked if the -400 was capable of doing this, and I only confirmed that I had never seen it since the initial release of ACARS functionality. I don't know how often he flies the -400, but I fly it fairly frequently compared to the -8.

[downscc 1,327]

Ditto Kevin.... we never had preflight comms in the -400.  Section 5.34 in the FCOM is basically how PMDG modeled their product, uplinks available for RTE, Winds and Descent Forecast.

[Captain Kevin 586]

Copy. I suppose I could have looked at the FCOM if I actually cared enough to even bother, but I admittedly didn't.

[scandinavian13 5,192]

13 hours ago, Captain Kevin said:

I'm actually not really sure where anybody made the assertion that the feature was removed. He simply asked if the -400 was capable of doing this, and I only confirmed that I had never seen it since the initial release of ACARS functionality. I don't know how often he flies the -400, but I fly it fairly frequently compared to the -8.

James' post made an implication that it was missing, as he said he was unable to do it, as if he should have.

[jgoggi 65]

No, I just wondered if it should have been present and I did something wrong or if it's a feature not present on the -400, only on the -8...

[scandinavian13 5,192]

8 hours ago, jgoggi said:

No, I just wondered if it should have been present and I did something wrong or if it's a feature not present on the -400, only on the -8...

I stand corrected. Read too much into it, I guess.

Thanks for clarifying.