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thanks a lot for your answers - that makes sense. I gather from the responses here that had this been a real world situation where I overran the space within the markings, I would have argued that the runway length was stated as 10,000 feet, which was misleading. I would then have been nailed for not being familiar with the Jeppeson (sp) diagram where the landing distance available is spelled out. Richard Bansa

Afternoon ladies and gents, I flew into KPSP this weekend w/ the 737NGX, the runway 31L-13R is listed @ 10,000 feet long. As I approach the runway I notice it has a displaced threshhold (a very long one on 13R). I adjusted my touchdown point so as to touch down on the runway markings on 13R, I was barely able to stop the aircraft before the markings on the other end of the runway, with full reverse thrust and autobrakes 3. So looking at the shorter parallel runway 13L-31R, I estimate the length between the markings on 31L-13R is about 5100 feet. My question is this, is it legal for me to touch down on the displaced threshhold? Or do I have to land within the markings? Thnx in advance!! Richard Bansa

looking at Frank's numbers as well as other figures, I guess I've been under utilizing the power of the turbine engines by running them at only 650 lbs of torque and 85-89% of NG, however the good things with that is with good tail wind you can stretch the range by a few hundred miles. Regarding cruise altitude and supplemental oxygen - on one forum that I was reading one of the Tduke owners who regularly cruises around FL300 said he believed the FAA certification of the duke to only FL250 had to do with attempting to boost survivability of an explosive decompression. He said he knew his Duke could safely handle pressurization up to FL350 and as far as he was concerned in an aircraft the size of the Duke, an explosive decompression at FL250 would be just as fatal as one at FL350. Another Tduke owner had replaced the original pressurization system in his aircraft with a Beech Queen Air pressurization system. All very interesting. Richard

The OAT for the whole trip hovered around -40F. I read this excerpt on another forum, and those figures were part of what made me start wondering about the numbers I was seeing. My torque was around 650 lbs per engine w/ about 2080 prop RPM, now granted I did have tail winds of around 25kts so that helped with the speed, but my fuel flow seems off. Richard

I'm getting 25 to 26 gph per engine for a total burn of around 50 gph...

Thanks for the replies guys!!! Ryan I was reading a post by a real tduke driver. He said that even though his tduke is only certified to FL250 he routinely goes to FL300. He does carry a bottle of supplemental oxygen, but he noted that even at FL300 the pressurization diff tops out at the 4.7 max, that was the same result I got in the sim, even at FL 290 the diff was 4.7 and the cabin altitude stopped at 10,500. But we'll pretend I have a bottle of supplemental O2. I think Allen was right about my speed dropping too low for single engine ops. My fuel tanks were balanced to within a few pounds so that shouldn't have been an option - I was riding the rudder pretty hard but the plane was just hard to control, but now that I think of it, I was using dual engine ops speed on my approach. Richard

I just started flying this plane and I love it. There is a little bit of a lack of information out there, so I have a few questions in the hopes that there are some experienced DuKe Turbine drivers out there. enroute from KMIC to KCMI this weekend, I suffered a right engine failure. I didn't have the oil doors open because I was in cruise @ FL290, and I wasn't paying attention to the oil temps (thought they only had to be watched on climb out at slow speeds). Anyway, the initial diversion was fine from altitude. As i got down to around 3,000 feet i started experiencing extreme yawing motion. In order to turn into the good engine I almost had to be in a 90 degree bank (just trying to line up with the runway). I had the prop on the bad engine feathered and was only on approach flaps. Is this normal behavior with this aircraft or am i doing something wrong? Also wanted to check and see if it's normal to pull the Prop RPM lever back during cruise to reduce the rpms to about 2000? FInally, I've seen people say they're getting about 60 to 66 gph with this bird, my typical cruise set up is about 88-90% of NG, RPMs pulled back to 2000, fuel flow of about 25 to 26 gph, this gives me ground speed of 275 to 300 knots, wind dependent. Does this sound normal? And finally I've been looking for a larger selection of repaints for the aircraft but have only found very few. I've checked the library here and at flightsim, any other ideas on where i might find more repaints? Thnx for your time!!! Richard Bansa

Yeah I have to agree this shows up in all weather conditions - I can't see it in the day or even at night with regular cockpit lighting, the only way I see it is at night with cockpit lighting turned on. But it is apperantly just part of the texture. Had me exited for a second there though. Richard Bansa

be gentle her folks - this is my first screenshot in about 10 years i don't even know if it'll show up. I tried following the "how to post a screenshot" steps in the screenshot forum. for some reason the picture is coming out like an old negative film. THis is actually good because I did not take any screenshots while the storm lighting was on so on the regular screeshot you can't see the "ice" - on this negative looking shot though if you look at the left vertical side of the left windshield you can see the icing effect I am talking about. 2016-1-10_0-8-6-169 by richard bansa, on Flickr <a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/137701215@N06/23999034889/in/dateposted-public/" title="2016-1-10_0-8-6-169"><img src="https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1500/23999034889_21d6b400bc_b.jpg" width="800" height="500" alt="2016-1-10_0-8-6-169"></a><script async src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js" charset="utf-8"></script> Richard Bansa

Peter, I did actually take screen shots, I'll post them tomorrow night (1-13) when I get home. It's been a long while since I posted a screenshot so I'll have to figure out how to do it, but it shouldn't be too hard. Richard Bansa

Capt R, TABS, Kyle, what say ye gentlemen? Richard Bansa

I was under the impression that the 777 did not have a feature where visible ice build up on the windshield showed up. However the other night I was in transit from YMML (Melbourne) to KSAN (San Diego) and a few hundred miles southwest of Hawaii i ran into some ferocious thunderstorms. I was too heavy to climb any higher than 35,000 feet and the storms were really widespread making it difficult to go around so like the bad capt that I am I plowed through. The lightening was really intense so I ended up turning on the Storm lighting in the cockpit. That's when I noticed what looked like ice building up along the edges of both front windshields. This could have just been an illusion caused by using the storm lighting, maybe that's the way the glass looks at night and I never noticed it before, since I've never had to use the storm lights. But then I wondered if PMDG had slipped that in this last upgrade? Richard Bansa

Thanks Luke!! Appreciate the info. Regarding the hard drive, right now i only one non-SSD drive in the system, a 1TB SAMSUNG HD103SJ, would it be possible to copy my FSX file from this drive to an SSD drive so i don't have to reinstall FSX from scratch? Richard

good afternoon all, it's that time in the life cycle, fsx is running well, but i am having some straining issues (loss of fluidity) in some of the more populated parts of fsx, ORBX NorCal, Chicago, New York, etc. Rather than buy a complete new system I want to upgrade my motherboard and the chip, as well as my video card, and as the title says I have permission from the finance minister (wife) to go to $1000. Here are my current specs, any suggestions as to what I can upgrade my CPU and video card to would be much appreciated. Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit Intel® Core i7 CPU 930 @ 2.80GHz (4 CPUs), ~2.8GHz 12288MB RAM NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 thnx!!! Richard Bansa

Hi Dan - thnx for the tip, was running out to catch a train yesterday so I missed it, but will keep it in mind for the future. I was inspired to take the T7 into KSAN after seeing a British Airways 747-400 go in there back in 1998. I was in San Diego honeymooning w/ my wife and while driving by the airport I watched a Speedbird flight drop in - it was pretty cool. All the times I've flown there in the 737 I've used the RNAV into Rnwy 9 with a step down approach, this time with the T7 I flew the localizer approach - the parking garage is always scary though!! Richard Bansa