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.

There are plenty of VORs that share the same name as others and the only differentiating characteristic is the lat/lon. In this case it would seem that the selection criteria is picking the wrong one. Maybe the logic is only looking at the name in the airway instead of the name/lat/lon to make a full match.

Once your stab trim position was calculated by the FMC and displayed on the CDU did you set it before attempting to take off?

Hmm, wouldn't that have been a configuration change it should have trimmed away for you while keeping the trimmed 250 knots?

This is exactly what happens to me and seems to be the same as Kyle's link. THR REF/LNAV/VNAV but LIM SPD and I can't seem to get rid of it except to use speed intervene until cruise alt. Doesn't happen all the time so it is likely the SID out-of-order thing. I'm sure they'll fix it in the next update.

For me I found I couldn't get N1 movement if I started the flight sim with a cold-and-dark airplane (I put the Cessna 172 as the default flight but it wasn't running). If you press CTRL-E when you're hung like this does it make the engines respond to thrust levers and the gen's kick in? I ended up re-saving my default flight to a running/avionics on 172 and haven't run into the problem since.

OK, just to make sure I'm getting this thread; Flying straight and level no AP at 250 knots. If I reduce thrust the aircraft should pitch down to maintain 250 knots at some new V/S (depending on how far back the thrust levers were pulled) without having to touch the trim. If I increase thrust the aircraft should pitch up to maintain 250 knots without having to touch the trim since that's the speed it's trimmed for... Flying straight and level no AP at say 250 knots and drop in a notch of flaps, the aircraft should start descending because the drag will have incrased and the aircraft will nose down and re-trim itself (config change) to maintain the 250 knot speed... Flying straight and level no AP at 250 knots and reduce thrust to slow down, I will need to manually trim the aircraft to be level at the new desired speed...

Are the clickspots only for the captain's CDU or will it do all 3?

Cool. As they say you learn something new every day. Thanks!

I start with the "cold and dark" cockpit scenario (haven't hit the un-resettable siren bug) but have noticed that after going into the NAV RAD page and deleting the two NAV freqs (change the M to A) that both VORs auto-tune to the same freq all the time. Aren't they supposed to split for better DME accuracy or am I doing something wrong? Thx!

Well, to be pedantic, 172 and 182 models with the KAP140 autopilot or G1000 have electric trim and thus trim switches as well as the wheel. My 414 had electric trim...