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Or... just hand fly. 😛

I'm hardly a newbie at this. The behavior I'm seeing with the 747 brakes is new. I haven't been able to consistently reproduce this, but there are times when just briefly touching the brakes causes a +1 increase in the temps; How can that be right or normal, in any circumstance?? I will continue to try to find a repro case and will post a video when I figure it out. Thanks.

During VATSIM's hugely popular "Cross the Pond" event today, there was a very long wait from pushback to takeoff (I was number 30 or so in the conga line at KJFK!) Twice during this extended taxi process in my 747-400, I had multiple tires blow out due to severely overheated brakes, and had to use the maintenance page to repair the tires and cool the brakes. I certainly wasn't doing anything unusual w.r.t. braking. Nothing I haven't done hundreds of times in the part. This is new behavior since I updated the QotS II to the latest version (i.e. after the 747-8 release). If you need me to do anything on my end to assist determining root cause, please let me know. - Bill

Chuck, I'm not clear if updating to 3.2 scenery would require you to re-install your scenery add-ons. They say the content and scenery updates are "optional", but they never do say whether upgrading those will impact third-party add-ons! Personally, I want ALL of the updates, not just the client update! But, at the same time, I don't want to have to re-install all my third-party things. Does anyone have a definitive answer to this? Thanks.

FYI, using the nVidia frame rate limiter with my 2GB GTX 770 + 335.23 drivers causes frequent, random stutters (well, actually a "freeze" in which FSX does not run) lasting 4 or 5 seconds on average every 30 seconds or so. Unflyable! So, for now, I'm using the internal frame rate limiter. See my profile for my complete system specs.

I am talking about MOVING the CDU, not SIZING the CDU. Thanks.

My issue is that I cannot move the CDUs around once they have popped up. I'm pretty sure that worked properly during my first couple test flights. Anyone else see this behavior?

I was a pilot of the PMDG Fly! 777, and have a sneaking suspicion that this version might be somewhat more comprehensive. =) Thanks Rob for the update, and thanks to the broader team for all the hard work, every product PMDG has released has been of the highest quality! Best regards, and I look forward to what the future will bring to our favorite hobby! - Bill

"The cheque is in the mail!"

I fly on VATSIM with FSInn, and I certainly see traffic on TCAS. Would you please post a screenshot showing the ND, and the FSInn "Radar" and "Network" windows? Capture the screenshot at a time when you believe that an aircraft should be showing on TCAS.

Ever since PMDG started modelling random failures (I believe with the 747?), I always fly with them turned on (I vary the probability based on whim), and have had many scores of failures, many of which were "catastrophic" - although I've never had any lead to a crash. Even after all that experience, I still find my adrenelin rushing when a bell goes off. I recently had an engine fire during an approach with the NG on VATSIM, and that got my attention "real quick like".

I've had no issues with these drivers in FSX (as of yet), but I once had the drivers deadlock (which is worse than a crash, they at least half-&@($* recover in a crash, albeit screwing up any game you may have been running) while viewing a YouTube video. Ironically enough, the video was one of the four in RSRs recent presentation! :LMAO: (Great presentation BTW, Robert's a natural charismatic speaker, no wonder he ran for office!)

To confirm this is not a joystick problem, you can use AxisViewer to compare the reported axis position versus the reported control surface position.http://library.avsim...php?DLID=165339

Actually, I mostly fly PMDG planes, that's why I posted here. In my experience, the positions reported by SimConnect seem to match up very well with the actual control surface positions.

I finally got around to polishing up and writing docs for a little tool I wrote for myself last year, and recently added it to the file library.http://library.avsim.net/esearch.php?DLID=165339&CatID=fsxutilHopefully some of you will find this useful, I never fly without it!