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I had the same thing happen to me 3 times last night flying across the Atlantic. First time was trying to step climb from FL370 to FL390. Slightly after FL380, alarm bells went crazy, the plane pitched up and skyrocketed to FL430 in seconds before I could even get control back to stop it. Then I pitched it down and it went below FL370 with speed in the lower yellow tape. Got it back to a normal climb profile and put it back to VNAV and the same thing happened again! Was completely lost as to what could cause it, I had never seen this behavior before. I figured I would try another long haul flight first before I reported it just incase it was a quirk last night, but since the OP had the same issue, maybe it is a real problem. At first I thought it was a weather issue, i'm using REX Overdrive plus for weather control now. Chris Lezama

4th Trini right here! lol And yes, anxiously awaiting the Caribbean Airlines paint. Thoroughly enjoying the aircraft though with the AA paint since that is my company... Chris Lezama

And I was just amazed to see that the virtual pilots in the cockpit move and do things when looking at them from outside. The captain stretches for a second, the FO flips some stuff on the overhead, and the constantly look around outside and at the instruments. All this with virtually no performance hit... Talk about the little things! Chris Lezama

hahaha!! censored... sneaky!!!Looking real good fellas! Excellent!Chris Lezama

Man, i fell out seeing this! LMAO!Chris Lezama

Well we are retrofitting all of our 738 interiors to match our brand new ones so all of them will have the flip down screens and the new "slide reclining" seats (these things are actually great, im 6'5" and my knees are finally saved by how this seat reclines!).I was flying back home to Dallas on Sunday on a 738 and some of the screens wouldn't retract. I was like "ALREADY?!?!?!". I guess you get what you pay $30 million for... LOL!*and to play the good employee*Thank you for being a loyal AA customer!*end good employee speak*:Big Grin:Chris Lezama

At AA, we sure do notice it! Especially compared to our MD-80s... We ordered 35 more this year to speed up the replacement! Despite how I love the MD-80, from a cost perspective, I can't wait until we are rid of them damn things!Chris Lezama

I actually do as well. I would appreciate some help with this as its so difficult to taxi the maddog with the view point like this. Landing is also tricky.Chris

The ILS approach to 13L is vectored south of JFK towards the Verrazano Narrows Bridge, then up the east river in a right traffic pattern for the intercept of the localizer. It is hardly used and only in situations where weather absolutely demands it.The main approach for the 13's is the VOR 13L/R approach. It keeps them away from the LGA traffic pattern as arrivals from the south and west are vectored over brooklyn and queens towards the airport.JFK arrivals over LENDY cross there at FL190 as stated in the LENDY5 arrival. They are then vectored over LGA or south over the statue of liberty depending on the arrival runway in use (4s/13s for the prior, 22s/31s for the latter).

Actually, his question was not answered. FYI.. I am curious as well. It would just be interesting to know specifically what areas of the sim they needed the tools and SDK to figure out as it pertains specifically to the PMDG 747 product.Great post by the way Rob!

I just brought my shiny new FSX from Circuit City as well for $47.99. Figured id buy Trainz 2006 for 19.99 at the same time since i had the extra $20 to spare!

I have been using this for a quite a while now. However i am looking for something just like this where i can find flightplans to and from NON USA airports to and from NON USA airports. Flightaware is not aware of flights that are not beginning or ending in the USA. I am particularly interested in live flightplans for flights between Europe and the Caribbean.Anyone know of a good resource for that?Chris

This is probably my single most wish as well. It always bothered me that my plane was always dark when the area around me was bright. Especially when not using AI aircraft, static aircraft would be lit with night textures so that they are bright in bright areas of the field. The taxi and landing lights do bother me as well. I do hope this is something that can be improved upon.I guess we will see!

I dont know what is wrong with my system, but i just brought a new XPS Gen 5, with the P4 EE 3.2 Dual Core and an ATI X850XT PE 256 MB card and i average around 15 fps with the Level D 767, a simflyers scenery, ASV, and FS settings maxed out. At KLAX with the same setup, i go as low as 8 fps. I have yet to see anywhere near 100 fps on my system, and for one so powerful, i think something is wrong. I fly on vatsim, so i never have AI traffic loaded.Any ideas?Chris

>>Hi Neeraj and Brad,>>>> Fist, just call me Vala, I totally hate my login name and>>have no idea why I picked it that way!!! :-badteeth >> Also, thanks for your inputs guys, now I know the reason>>for the third party guys, but I still dont know which one's>>better... I appreciate if anybody can help me out with that.>>>> Vala>>>Vala. Actually they flip back and forth some times because of>thr drivers.>One bit of advice if I may. I purchased an MSI GT-6800 NVidia>based video card. I'm satisfied. I would not pretend to say>it's better/worse than ATI's XT800 series, because I dont have>one to compare.>If you purchase the GT-6800 be aware that at least MSI had a>slightly cheaper version that was not as good as the NX>version, different GPU.>Make sure it's the NVidia GT-6800 NX, it must have NX>designation for the better GPU.>In spot view I can get up to 100 (bounces off 100) FPR if I>use the hatswitch and look at the bottom of the aircraft (no>back ground textures), otherwise 85-95 FPS. 2D cockpit 50-65>FPS. VC 25-30, never seen it go belowe 25.>Running A64-3400, 1 Gig Corsair LLP memory, 2 Raptor 74 gig>WD's RAID-0>>Best> >What are your fs settings that give you those frames?