2 hours ago, Stearmandriver said:

As far as the missing segments, I don't do long sim flights so I haven't run into it, but I think I read on their discord that there is also a known issue about segments drawing correctly if they exceed a certain distance, or are a certain distance away etc.  Can't remember the specifics, but if that's the issue you saw, it should also be getting fixed.

Yeah, that seems to be the issue I got. Setting the runway won't fix it.

Edited October 28, 20241 yr by cepact

The biggest issue I am running into is going to any external view often causes an engine to spool down. The ignition switch is on, but the engine is dead.

I don't have any engine ignition set on my throttles. I am using a Bravo so I don't know if that's it.

4 hours ago, cepact said:

I did not edit the flight path, same as you I let the airplane go, it started doing a 360° turn, I reinserted the next waypoint and everything got fixed, no issue for the rest of the flight.

Change your destination to the destination of route B before requesting again

Sorry for the confusion.  It was the same flight EWR-OPO just different waypoints (LAT/LONGs).

1 hour ago, T_Bone said:

At first you couldn't monitor the engine display on takeoff? I could understanding PM not having engine displays, but the PF should at least, unless I'm confused at what the other guy was getting at. 

It's not the entire engine display, just the additional informations below like oil quantity, pressure etc.

2 hours ago, T_Bone said:

At first you couldn't monitor the engine display on takeoff? I could understanding PM not having engine displays, but the PF should at least, unless I'm confused at what the other guy was getting at. 

Like Stearmandriver said...

Standard Boeing FCOM vol 1 chapter 2.1 - Before taxi procedure mentions after the flight control check to 'Select the primary engine indications'. ie. blank the secondary engine parameters.
This was already the case with the NG where it stated 'Blank the lower Display Unit'.

The idea is indeed that the pop-up feature of the secondary parameters would make sure an exceedance does not go unnoticed.
The drawback is that you will not see it coming therefore some operators decide to deviate from this Boeing recommendation in their SOPs.
 

Not sure what you mean by 'PM not having engine displays' -
Both pilots can view the engine instruments at any time whatever the side they are displayed on.
There is no obligation or recommendation from Boeing to have them on a particular side as far as I'm aware off.

4 hours ago, BrammyH said:

The biggest issue I am running into is going to any external view often causes an engine to spool down. The ignition switch is on, but the engine is dead.

I don't have any engine ignition set on my throttles. I am using a Bravo so I don't know if that's it.

This and esc to the menu and back is properly caused by a controller or phantom input or spikes. I have had this alot

Michael Moe 

5 hours ago, Sylle said:

Not sure what you mean by 'PM not having engine displays' -
Both pilots can view the engine instruments at any time whatever the side they are displayed on.
There is no obligation or recommendation from Boeing to have them on a particular side as far as I'm aware off.

The convention typically is that the PF will display engine indications on their side while the PM has the large ND. I think that's what the poster is saying. But I don't know if that's an actual Boeing recommendation or just common practice.

We leave engine instruments on the captains side every flight, but yeah it differs per operator.  What was meant when this originally came up was the secondary engine indications; oil qty, vibrations etc.  A push of the Eng button toggles between secondary indications shown or blanked.  Primary indications (like N1, EGT, oil press) are always visible. 

Boeing's theory on blanking the secondary indications is that if an exceedance occurs, the secondary indications will all appear, with the exceedance highlighted by color or reverse video, depending on the issue.  They feel this display change will be more of an attention grab. 

Conversely, many of us would like to easily monitor these parameters the entire flight, and if an exceedance occurs, we feel the color or reverse video highlighting will be enough of a further attention grab (this is how we always operate the NGs - in the compact engine display with all parameters always visible on the upper ND.)

On 10/28/2024 at 2:13 PM, threexgreen said:

The convention typically is that the PF will display engine indications on their side while the PM has the large ND. I think that's what the poster is saying. But I don't know if that's an actual Boeing recommendation or just common practice.

I was referring to the engine parameters, not the secondary ones. Got confused.

 

On 10/28/2024 at 10:15 PM, Stearmandriver said:

We leave engine instruments on the captains side every flight,

Excuse me if I misunderstood - but does that mean if it‘s the FO being the PF he can‘t see basic stuff like N1 on his side? 

1 hour ago, Fiorentoni said:

 

Excuse me if I misunderstood - but does that mean if it‘s the FO being the PF he can‘t see basic stuff like N1 on his side? 

Don’t be thinking that the 737 cockpit is that big. You are not too far from anything there 😅 I have worked on 737’s as a cabin crew for almost ten years and I can’t forget how crammed it is in there…

8 hours ago, Balint Szarka said:

Don’t be thinking that the 737 cockpit is that big. You are not too far from anything there 😅 I have worked on 737’s as a cabin crew for almost ten years and I can’t forget how crammed it is in there…

Oh, it's certainly not crammed in the pilot seats; it's a comfortable cockpit.  It just doesn't extend aft as far as some other flight decks, giving that impression of being cramped when you're standing in the doorway vs sitting where people are intended to be up there. 

10 hours ago, Fiorentoni said:

 

Excuse me if I misunderstood - but does that mean if it‘s the FO being the PF he can‘t see basic stuff like N1 on his side? 

These screens are very large.  There isn't that much distance between the inboard side of the CA's inboard screen, and the inboard edge of the FO's.  A person in the right seat can still see the engine instruments on the CA's screen just fine.

I just purchased this yesterday and did an uneventful flight, the aircraft hand flies very nicely as others have said.

Question:  I notice that the rotary dials and flip switches are kind of wonky when it comes to using the mouse.  Sometimes only the mouse wheel works, other times moving the rotary dial counter clockwise will work by holding down the left mouse button but clockwise will not work at all unless you use the mouse wheel.  Is this a known issue, feature ?

3 hours ago, MarkW said:

Sometimes only the mouse wheel works

Yeah! I bought it today and did a first flight like a charm except that I could not enable FD and AT. Clicking here and there and double checked FMC setting without success. Was JUST about to ask here - as the manual only showed me enabled AT examples - how the hell to enable FD and AT. Now I know. Just worked with the mouse wheel. 

Edited November 7, 20241 yr by DAD