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1) Correct!2) The small plus sign is on panels that have a built in backlight. It marks the location of the ground and in the real AC can be pushed to reset a faulty connection.3) When a toilet is flushed there can be up to a 300 fpm pressure fluctuation. If the flush valve gets stuck you can get continuous cabin pressure loss. You then have to manualy close the toilet shutoff value (located on the lower part of the toilet shroud).Harry

The link to the MRG site is:http://www.b737mrg.net/Good free stuff up there including a slide show of a 737 walk around pointing out all the things to check.Harry Gentilozzi

I bought Pat Boone's Management Reference Guide for the Boeing 737 NG the other day. It is a very interesting read. It is meant for actual pilots and is relatively expensive for just us sim guys but having more money than sense I bought it anyway. It is 300+ pages of notes taken by real 737 drivers put together as short sequences on all the systems. I won't attempt to describe everything that is in there but a few items I found: 1) Why there are 4 light grey panels on the overhead panel 2) What the little white plus (+) sign means on any of the panels. 3) What you do if the toilet flush valve is jammed open. 4) Turning off the battery with external AC power connected puts the air/ground sensor in air mode and can damage the static inverter. Each section gives reference to the proper manuals such as FCOM, NNCs, and MELs. I am sure all this information is in all the manuals. It is how he ties it together that makes it fascinating. Harry Gentilozzi

Not to trivialize the bug, it can be a pain, but I find problems like this interesting. This beast is so automated that when something like this pops up it's a perfect opportunity to take control of the aircraft and return it to stable flight. Call it a simulated panic attack.Bug or not, I am sure this can happen in the real world and the pilot would have to deal with it.I seem to remember an airline flight many years ago where the AP commanded a roll to 90 degrees and then kicked off. I would have loved to hear the cockpit voice recording of that event ... Cpt - What the .... FO - Mommy ... Cpt - got it.Harry Gentilozzi

Did you have the APU running and its generator online before disconnecting ground power? Without the APU generator connected you would lose all those items. Harry

I had what I assume is the same problem after I installed the latest Duke update. After the install the RXP 530 unit in all my planes no longer worked. The same symptoms as yours. I had to deinstall and reinstall RXP and then it started working again.

>Hence if I move to the Atlanta airport the time jumps +3 hours. I mean +4 hoursHarry

ChuckIt must be just you and I that have this problem. When I start FS in the Create screen, the local and GMT times are proper for my time zone (eastern). The airport is defaulted to Seattle. Somehow FS is thinking that my local time (EST) is Seattle's local time (PST). Hence if I move to the Atlanta airport the time jumps +3 hours. If you change the airport to a local one in your default situation this problem goes away (or at least it did for me).CheersHarry

I know I should just let this go. But I can't.I am sure everyone in Amersterdam, Berlin, Mumbai, and Wellington are at home splitting the atom as we speak.Do you really want to contend that all americans are so stupid that they don't know the seasons are different in the southern hemisphere just because one man does not?Are you just rude or are you that ignorant.From another dumb americanHarry Gentilozzi

JohnI have to defend Ernie on this one. I just re-installed FSBuild and I thought I had problems with my key. Ernie responded the next day and gave me the correct key. No hassles.Regards,Harry Gentilozzi

TonyI saw some specs on that particular HUD the other day. I don't see a big problem to make that one. I have a few other projects on my plate at the moment. But when you think you have a solid PNL and AMP file I can hook into then send me an email at hgentilozzi@mindspring.com Anything to get another plane in the stable!Harry

TonyThe HUD has to be fitted to a particular aircraft because the connections to the heading bug and nav radios need to be soft coded. These are used to control the NAV/LOV/GS sliders for navigation and ILS aproaches. It could be made general if you wanted to drop these features but it looks like ROTW has that covered with their HUD.If there is an aircraft you would like it added to let me know. I could do that fairly quickly.Harry

LaurentMaybe its just a bug in FLY. I have never been able to figure out the method that FLY uses to call DeleteObject. It obviously waits until the object is not needed. But I tink it also has a time componenet to it. In my case I flew from Cincinnati (where I had the smokestack) to Richmond which is about 350 miles and I was about 40 minutes into the flight when the problem occrued. Harry

Alejandro I am sorry. That was rude of me. I did get your message. I left town before I got a chance to reply and then I just forgot. I get about 60 emails a day and once it comes off the front page I lose track.Harry

LaurentThanks! I think I'll wait for V2 before attempting any new smoke of my own. I did notice that the DLL got a fatal error after I flew away from the object about 200 miles. It got a fatal error in the DestroyObject call of the DLL. This usually only happens when you attempt to free an object that has not been allocated. Any ideas?Harry

LeenThe only name I saw was Yves Peybale. Sorry for the oversight.Thanks Laurent!!!. I love the little things that make the envrionment richer. Can you tell me how to make different kinds of smoke? Like dark smoke from old factories or large plums form Nuclear reactor colling towers.Harry

SteveLet me give you a short set of directions and let me know what I should expand on.1) In my case I used TM to make the KLUK airport. (Thanks a billion Allen Kriesman for a great piece of software). I put a couple of smokestacks out there. When I made them I hit the 2D button and wrote down the name of the SMF file. In my example it was called DLUK2050.SMF.2) When I was finished with the TM model and had it PODed up I quite TM. I then un-podded the file. I went to the Data directory. Inside there were a couple of sub directories with names like D195158. Inside of these there were file names like TM_LUK_W.S10. There will be more than one. Look inside each using a text editor until you find the SMF file name from step 1 (DLUK2050.SMF).3) You would have found an entry that looks something like: ---- world object type ---- mobj ========== BEGIN OBJECT ========== 39 06'13.7264"N 84 25'58.2722"W 483.000000 ---- object type ---- mobj ---- gestalt flags ---- 106757 ---- detail level ---- 3 ---- object name (descriptive) ---- TOWER 001510031 ---- model manager ---- ========== BEGIN OBJECT ========== ---- model entry ---- norm DLUK2050.SMF ========== END OBJECT ========== ---- night model manager ---- ========== BEGIN OBJECT ========== ---- model entry ---- norm NLUK2050.SMF ========== END OBJECT ========== ---- inertial angular position ---- 0.000000,1.309000,0.000000 ========== END OBJECT ==========Look for the tag and copy it: ---- object name (descriptive) ---- TOWER 001510031Then steal and insert this entry after the one above: ---- world object type ---- _lod ========== BEGIN OBJECT ========== --- smoke offset (lat,lon,alt) ---- 0,0,100 --- funnel smoke object name --- TOWER 001510031 --- seconds between two smokes --- 0.2 --- feet between two smokes --- 20 --- sight limit distance --- 5.0 --- array number --- 8 --- smoke objects array --- fumee.smf fumee1.smf fumee2.smf fumee3.smf fumee.smf fumee1.smf fumee2.smf fumee3.smf ========== END OBJECT ==========And change two things. First --- funnel smoke object name --- TOWER 001510031Set this to the same name as the tag of the first object. Set the x, y, and z offset by changing the tag. --- smoke offset (lat,lon,alt) ---- 0,0,100Here mine is centered on the object and 100 feet high.Thats it. Make sure you followed Y. PEYBALE instrucitons for the DLL and Smoke pod files. My last step was to re-pod the TMLUK.POD file and clean up the Data and Models directory.Does this help at all?Harry Gentilozzi

BartNo I don't. But I have about 200 airports TM'ed. Its become an addiction. My favorite in Ohio is the Cleveland Burke (BLK) airport.Harry

I just wanted to say thanks to Y. PEYBALE of ROTW for the smokestacks DLL. I just tested it on some new scenery I made of the Cincinnati Muni airport (see attached pics).I am still experimenting with how to use it. But it does follow the wind and is fun to use in the pattern. Harry Gentilozzi

JanIt only works with the Sahara but it would be easy to adapt to the other aircraft. I want to see how this works on other peoples machines before I take it any farther. I will upload the source code for the DLL when I am done. Harry

Thanks Tony. Shame on me because I have been reading this forum since FLY first came out. After consuming everybody elses great work I feel like I owed something.I really enjoy this sim. I know its getting old but I can't seem to switch back to MSFS even though I buy every new version of it including 2004. Its the old dog new trick problem. Harry Gentilozzi

Jan Here is a list of the failures:Component Descriptionengn unknown engine failureoilp oil leak failurenup1 pneumatic pump 1 nup2 pneumatic pump 2idct induction air cloglpmp left boost pumprpmp right boost pumphyfl hydrualic pump failurelmag left magentormag right magentoatt1 pilot artificial horizon hsi1 pilot HSIn1cb Nav/Comm 1 n2cb Nav/Comm 2 gpcb GPSstlf stall Warning Failure circuit breakermanL main tie bus left circuit breakermanR main tie bus right circuit breakeravi1 avionics tie 1 circuit breakeravi2 avionics tie 2 circuit breakerlAlt left alternator circuit breakerrAlt right alternator circuit breakerbatt battery bus circuit breakernesf non-essential bus circuit breakerhppc hyd pump control circuit breaker hppp hyd pump power circuit breaker fqty Fuel Qty circuit breakerfflw Fuel Flow circuit breaker

I just uploaded a version of the Sahara aircraft that simulates certain failures. It uses a DLL and a configration file to accomplish this. You can set components to fail during the takeoff roll, the intial climb, or the final approach. Or you can give it a mean time between failures number in which case it will randomly fail within that average period.It has a readme file containing the installation instruction and a short document describing the panel changes and how to set the configuration file. As I say in the document it is meant for system dweebs like me. If you just want to fly from place to place the base Sahara is what you want. Harry Gentilozzi