JaneRachel

that is what threw me Matt. I have only ever seen it with INTV in the realworld. So I had to go digging. I honestly love doing the research. I learnt something today realising both style MCP's are out there. It is 30 years since I have been upfront in a 757. I am pushing 60 and still always learning :) Thanks for your tips incidentally, they were really appreciated. Jane

Actually, we were both correct. This aircraft SHOULD have altitude intervention. I spent some time this morning digging out my training manuals, Boeing manuals and the Bulfer and Ray airline reference guides. My memory was correct, she should have full altitude intervention in exactly the same way as the 747-400. The first 3 batches of 757 off the delivery line were not fitted, but batches beyond that had full intervention on the altitude knob (and in fact the Bluebird has an altitude knob that is pushable, which was only fitted to those aircraft that were later built). An easy test that this is one of the newer batches is that she is GPS fitted. All the GPS/Pegasus birds have ALT INTV at least according to all my old training manuals that are now cluttering my desk :)

Can a smart 757 person remind me of the descent procedure please in VNAV. Does pressing the altitude knob start a descent (with a lower alt pre-selected) like the 747/777? I am not getting that to work buyt unsure if that is the logic on the 757? I have to use DES NOW in the FMC to start down a bit early before the TOD marker. Likewise pressing the alt knob does not delete constraints in the FMC? (right now I am having to FLCH up and delete by hand) before returning to VNAV if cleared above a constraint Last question (honest), has anyone mapped the A/T disconnect on the TCA throttle quad thrust levers to disconnect the A/T its not playing ball with me on the default TCA mapping, which does show A/T disconnect is mapped to the side buttons on the throttles. Thanks everyone! Jane

I just had the exact same issue. The aircraft AIRAC data was dashed out. Saw your post and reinstalled to community 2024 and all worked fine. I am wondering if this is a MS Store / Steam purchase thing. I am on the MS Store version of 2024. I reinstalled a number of times with no success then saw your post. Your advice certainly fixed it for me by installing to the community 2024 folder and not the default community folder. I can now update the navdata. Thank you Jude

A man after my own heart Scott, I am just hoping that we can get a Britannia livery at some point!

On a good wind day, the Manchester to London shuttle with a 757 at the helm was airborne for only a shade over 20 minutes. You are right, the 757 is massively versatile, which is why it became so popular with the charter holiday airlines (vacation for those of you west of the pond :) ). She could get in to tight spaces in the Greek islands or little Spanish airports, or do an ETOPS Atlantic flight. She is particularly effective at the airports with little to no ground services, de-planing via steps. Another win for the charter crowd. I have memories of riding a 757 in to Pula Croatia for example, which at the time was a runway and a shed. I had the opportunity many times to fly jumpseat in the Icelandair 757s where the crews simply loved them. Their 757s took everything that was thrown at them in the wild Icelandic winters with aplomb and again, showed massive versatility across the network.

I also, like yourself want to recreate some of the BA flights. I came home from Orlando jumpseating a 744 ( a captain called Greenwood ) and was transferring to BA to Manchester from Heathrow with a 757. We were delayed and the flight was almost empty. To get me home for Christmas, I was exempted from passport control, whizzed across the place in a car straight to the 757 which I also jumpseated in to Manchester! So I really want to recreate that flight in to Manchester

I got the same! I keep checking as looking forward to this, so many memories of jumpseating Icelandair to Keflavik. Oh and Jon, I emailed you earlier if you havent seen it :)

Has anyone tried Pushover to print ACARS messages? I have been messing with it for over an hour with no success. I followed the Fenix support page instructions, got my user key and token entered in to the EFB, as created by the Pushover website. Set my printer to "Pushover" However, when I hit print in the MCDU I get a printer not available message. I have checked that the user key and token are accurate (a straight cut and paste from the Pushover website). My phone Pushover app seems to be working. I login, get the welcome message etc after setting up the account. Any help would be appreciated, thank you UPDATE: It seems the settings are backwards, the window for "Pushover application key", add the token. On the "Pushover: Token" entry box, add the user key... It is working for me with this reversal. Jane

Just done a couple of flights to Gatwick and Heathrow, with the notorious stepdowns on the STARs. She was much more stable in meeting restrictions and speed constraints than I have seen before (in fact in any other sim too). No nosedives or oscillations. It all felt very under control. Pretty much the best managed descent I have seen with any of the sim Airbus fleets. Flare was so much more natural feeling and I nailed a couple of landings around 150FPM. It just felt like it wanted to land naturally rather than drop like a brick. Taxi felt much better and surefooted too and felt very convincing. I used to have an issue with braking which is now much more natural feeling. I also had an issue in "Old Fenix" where often breaking would end up yawing to one side or another, but now decelerates on the taxiway and runway straight as a die. Acceleration and deceleration were not an issue, even in the UK rain and current gusting winds. All in all, everything feels more polished, natural and tighter controlled. I am working my way through the changelist, Really impressed with the sheer volume of changes and fixes. Well done Fenix team, thank you! Jane

Thanks for that Steve, I had no idea he was a POSKY chap, the modelling was top notch! Gives me high hopes for the 757

Speaking with my game dev and flight sim dev hat on (coming up on my 47th year in AAA game dev), there is often a genuine camaraderie between devs where you might expect to see competition. We all hang out together regardless of current company and support each other where we can at the development team level. It is a shared passion for creating games and sims that draw us together. Also, certainly in AAA games, you often face musical chairs of being laid off after your current game gig and looking for the next game. You might be at Blizzard, move to Ubisoft and then after that game ships back to Blizzard again, etc. etc. So what may appear competing teams may actually have been your team and colleagues just months earlier. Its not so bad in flight sim compared to the corporate AAA games world in that regard, but that camaraderie exists (yes, there are spats, we are human) I spent 15 years as deputy editor at Pc Pilot Magazine. I have worked on projects with PMDG, Just Flight, Aerosoft and many sim devs. It is a fact that we all actually get on really well with very little drama behind the scenes. I love that about our flightsim experience and community, whether as a dev or sim captain. Having known RSR for over 20 years (and 15 years or so in the PMDG beta group myself), there will be no underlying motive except he is excited to see this 757, as am I. He is a dedicated simmer and has routinely congratulated other teams behind the scenes. Is he perfect? no but then neither am I, but who is? People often assign Rob some sort of Machiavellian mindset which in reality is just not there. He wants to make money at PMDG, he is a business, but that is not to be read that he does not have warm relationships with other devs.

According to my SI log, I have flown over 1300 flights in the last year with SI (its great when you work from home and can do 3-4 short hauls a day 7 days per week!). I have seen a massive improvement in the product during that time. Vectors now, by and large, are sensible, do not send me miles away from where I need to be for a tight intercept. The issue of being left too high also seems to be resolved. Every day, there just seems to be a little more polish with the raft of updates. Is it perfect, not by a long way. Is it improving rapidly to the point where I would not want to fly without SI? Short answer, yes! all the best Jane

I am glad that is not just me Ron. I land it like a brick on wheels!

and an A318 so I can do London City :) ?

really helpful, thank you!

thank you so much!

Can some kind soul confirm which gate(s) the aircraft uses at Manchester please. I notice it is no longer gate 12.

Of airliner evolution Jon :)

I must be hardcore as I do run long haul flights without time compression and never leaving the "cockpit" as such. Hence, I never have done an overnighter whilst sleeping. I tend to longhaul at the weekends, get up early on a saturday morning, fill my desk with food and drink and do the longhaul so I can land in a reasonable time before bed. Yep, only with toilet breaks. I do my fuel checks over waypoints etc. Sometimes I find myself getting up quite early at the crack of dawn to make sure I can do the whole thing before bed though! My wife is disabled and bedridden and my PC is next to her bed, so I fly whilst keeping an eye on her. When I was Deputy Editor at PC Pilot magazine, I was of course, paid to clock up the hours flying each week as my job. I used time acceleration only to check if it worked for review. If people want to time accelerate or not is fine by me. Whatever people want to do with their sim is all personal preference. (sorry wasnt aiming this at you directly Farlis, thought it was going to the general thread!)

A known bug, to get around the issue change the units to feet and you will get sensible landing distances and no errors (or the other way around, not at my PC right now). Its a bug in the metric/imperial units settings.

I cannot for the life of me get the terrain overlay working. Yep, I installed the terrain file from the downloader and ran the exe to setup as per the synaptic website. Everytime I open FS2024 I get a "writing to the exe" popup that just sits there in the background and never goes away. I go in to the sim, make sure I select terrain overlay on the ND map and nothing ever appears. Spent a couple of hours trying to troubleshoot. The terrain module app entry appears in the exe.xml when I open the XML file to check. With the correct path, but that is as far as it goes. Its also annoying to have the dialog box "writing to the exe" constantly opening when booting the sim!

and here we go... she is out on the marketplace.

A couple of quick questions, is IAN supported? Secondly, has anyone got reversers to work with the thrustmaster Boeing throttle quadrant. My reverse gets stuck and refuses to disengage and then bounces the throttles all over the place. I am using the thrustmaster quadrant settings as the profile (as in downloaded the thrustmaster control settings from the marketplace for the Boeing kit and selected in control config) Just tested against the PMDG 737 and 777 and no problem with these TCA default config settings. Many thanks! Jane thank you Andrew, really appreciated!

A couple of quick questions, is IAN supported? Secondly, has anyone got reversers to work with the thrustmaster Boeing throttle quadrant. My reverse gets stuck and refuses to disengage and then bounces the throttles all over the place. I am using the thrustmaster quadrant settings as the profile (as in downloaded the thrustmaster control settings from the marketplace for the Boeing kit and selected in control config) Just tested against the PMDG 737 and 777 and no problem with these TCA default config settings. Many thanks! Jane