Peter Clark

I just wanted to thank everyone for their input. I ended up going with the 4790K and 16G of RAM and a GTX 980 video card. I haven't assembled the system yet but it's definitely going to be better than my old 2009 system no matter which way I went Thanks again

Reading some reviews on the 5960X to get up to 4.5GHz I'd be looking at say an Asus X99 Deluxe with water cooling?

I thought the 5960X was only 3.5GHz turbo mode?

Hi, I'm starting to line up parts to build a new FSX/X-Plane machine. So, having read around I'm still not sure on CPU. If I've gotten it right, the base specs are: The 5960X has 8 cores, a base clock of 3GHz with 3.5GHz turbo mode, DDR4 and LGA2011-V3 socket. The 4790K has 4 cores, base clock of 4 GHz with 4.4 turbo mode, DDR3 and LGA1150. From what I read FSX doesn't really care about cores and the 4790 does better with FSX, but would the extra cores on the 5960 help when addons like PMDG are thrown into the mix? What about X-Plane? Is the difference noticible enough to sacrifice a little bit of FSX performance for longer-term better usage of the 8 core system by P3D and FSX? I'm going to throw at least one nVidia 790 or Titan into the system. That's another thread though.. Thoughts? In this case the $ difference between the 2 (yea, I can practically build a whole system with the difference in price between the 5960 and the 4790) isn't going to be the tiebreaker.. Thanks all!

Unlikely their Boeing agreements would ever let them open source any of their licensed products.

The MEA for NEFER to BOL is 3000, the at or below restriction at is 6000, wouldn't you be coming around at the 3000 MEA and meet the GS at the proper elevation from http://www.airservicesaustralia.com/aip/pending/dap/MMLII01-137.pdf ?

78 and 54 actual readings would seem to indicate something's gone awry would it not?

Yep. The KBOS 777 flight goes to EGLL.

Auto-step climb has nothing to do with time acceleration, if it's on in the CDU it will automatically step climb regardless of the time acceleration setting.

Or set the FO NAV display to PLAN and look it over on that display instead of captain's side ;0

It would appear so.

Doesn't the FAA site that stores the domestic METAR dialins also have the rest of the globe too? You can put foregin stations into the websites search field for both METAR and TAF. I haven't had the interest in decompiling the page source to figure out how it does it tho. What's missing is a server system to download that data and reply to requests from this CDU. Course, converting that to an ATIS is a different discussion.

OK, I think we've all come to the same conclusion - there's a flaw in the way the FMC logic picks the waypoint from the database. It appears it's not even restricted to the 777 but something that's persisted since the 73. I'm sure PMDG will figure out the same fix (search by name/lat/lon instead of just name) when doing the DB lookup from entering an airway and address the issue. No reason to keep beating the dead answered horse.

Is it when the generators kick in?

The issue seems to be is how they're differentiated and selected when entering airways into the CDU. If entering an airway selects the NDB instead of the VORDME where the VORDME is called out (by lat/long) in the airway file (I don't have it in front of me so I can't tell) this is a DB lookup issue. Entering by name on the legs page the CDU doesn't know it's supposed to be part of the airway and will give you a list to select from, including the lat/long so you can intelligently pick.