Bill Grabowski

Widescreen should probably have been the default option. Hi Markus. Bill

The background of that overhead panel is not the one supplied by PMDG, and it looks like you need to set the option for widescreen panel.Bill

Max,You have a slightly unusual screen resolution. FS has to compute and remember panel dimensions, so when switching from a small to a larger size, sometimes the panel (any panel) doesn't adjust. You can manual "stretch" the panel to fit your dimensions, or reload the panel. Full screen mode works better.The tiny box in the upper left corner is a gauge. It usually isn't seen, but when you have size problems, FS causes strange things to happen. If you can ignore it and realize it's actually supposed to be there, great.Bill

Yep, that's what you should see.Bill Grabowski

Tony,You are quite right here. Vin has messed up. We tried to get him to use smaller heads, but my head is really, really big, and although he actually DID shrink it for the MD-11, it obivously wasn't enough. Robert's head is HUGE, and you know why he refused to have his shrunken (if it gets any bigger, it'll explode). Another problem I see here is we can't actually tell who the "big head" in the PMDG airplane is and the angle isn't quite right.You should try reloading the airplane and, given that the MD-11 sim randomly loads heads, you might possibly get one of our "small headed" team members. That's not to be confused with a small brain (at least I don't think so), but let me suggest you keep trying till you get, say, Vin's head (we call him "Pinhead" - sorry Vin). This should make you very happy. Or, alternatively, send us your head and we'll shrink it. :( Bill

Edd,That's because Jamie has right clicked on the subdued arrow on the FCP to left shift the entire glareshield just enough to make the entire FCP visible. He's switched from the view a real Captain sees to the "Schizophrenic" view, where the DU's stay in place but the glareshield perspective is from the pedestal. The advantage is that you don't have to constantly left click on the arrow to shift only the FCP just to see the altitude buttons/knobs.Bill

Luke,Oops. The PMDG_MD11_FS9 folder is my personal folder. You should only have the other two.Bill

One other thing, check each of the folders ...PMDG_MD11PMDG_MD11_FS9PMDG_MD11F... to make sure that the subfolder...panel.WideScreen... is present and something is in it.Bill

Edd,In your FS9 "Aircraft" directory are three folders for the MD-11: PMDG_MD11PMDG_MD11_FS9PMDG_MD11FIn the PMDG_MD11 and PMDG_MD11F folders is an "Aircraft.cfg" file which for each aircraft should have the following ...[fltsim.XX]title=PMDG MD-11 (whatever GE or PW variant)model=(GE or PW)panel=WideScreen...If "panel=" does not point to WideScreen, it's easily enabled just by adding "Widescreen" making it appear as above.NOTE: This has to entered for EACH of your aircraft, i.e. [fltsim.0], [fltsim.1], etc...Bill

Edd,Try hitting SAVE before you exit the Load Manager.Bill

Luke and Edd,Check the load manager again. You have to set widescreen separately for the cargo and pax versions. Setting just one won't make it for all.Bill

Understood!Bill

Pod?If you mouse click on the button on the glareshield below the PNL/FLOOD switch which says "SD" (with a underline, and below that the icon of earphones), you WILL see the (1.) Systems Display Display Unit (SD DU), (2.) the Systems Display Control Panel (SDCP), and (depending on which page is displayed on the SD), (3.) the corresponding control panel from the overhead panels (i.e. HYDRAULICS page -> HYD control panel). Now, if you mouse click again on that "SD" button, all three panels will disappear. If, however, you click on the 'X' in the upper left corner of the SDCP, only the SDCP and the SD DU will disappear, leaving the overhead panel for the SD page that was showing (i.e. HYD control panel if the HYDRAULICS page was showing). If you click on the 'X' of the overhead control panel (HYD panel), then only the overhead control panel will disappear, leaving the SDCP and the SD DU.Therefore, if you want ALL three panels to be removed at the same time, click on the "SD" button on the glareshield. Bill

Kevin,The rationale behind the arrangement for the engine start panel is straightforward. First, you really can't adequately view and manipulate the start switches in the existing pedestal view, and second, the throttle levers cover the engine start panel from the top-down view. Additionally, since there are few times you would need to access the engine start panel (engine start and shutdown), adding one more mouse click in a logical search sequence does not seem a terrible inconvenience. The engine fire panel is large and at the very top of the overhead panels, and the only panel in that section really necessary to access. To have included it in one lower overhead panel view would have minimized the other, more used panels. Again, the engine fire panel is rarely accessed, but can easily be reached by going to the overhead panel view, and with one extra RIGHT mouse click on the 'X' in the bottom left corner (you can't see the top corners) using the same mousing scheme for the rest of the overhead panels ... voila!, the engine fire panel appears.Bill

Robin,On behalf of Michael and Vin and Vangelis and Pete and Armen and Lefteris and Robert and the all the testers... you're welcome!!Bill