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Aah, the joys of searching before asking, and actually finding the answer ! Thank you Boris, I'd just run ccleaner too and the first service I checked (Flexnet) was disabled - so I enabled and started it, restarted FSX, selected the NGX, no error, job done. GameConsoleService isn't even on my list as disabled, it simply doesn't exist here - so I don't that's the culprit Many thanks !

When I load the website I get the PMDG logo top left then under that is the blue menu bar (home / products / shop etc). When I'm in the 'shop' part of the website (it starts with the "browse by category" screen) the 777 has disappeared from the Products dropdown menu. It's present in the products dropdown when I'm on any other part of the website, just not in the shop. Which is where I particularly wanted to find it :-) I've made this happen on 3 browsers on two computers so as far as I'm concerned it's a glitch

Absolutely. I'd never have been able to take a 767 into runway 33 at CGCY with a reality based VA but it was a blast in Level D's just because I could, then it was a doddle in the NGX with all the HUD wizardry just because I wanted to, and I don't know whether I'm looking forward to trying it more in the T7 or the DC-6 !

Depends on the VA. The ones that model themselves on real world airlines certainly, but there are VAs and flying clubs around that will let you fly what you want where you want. It's supposed to be fun, if it wasn't nobody would do it

Or the expansion packs for the NGX. Or (as if we could forget it!) the Wood Pigeon.

Good news for people without all day to sim the long haul routes who want to fly the 777 on 'unrealistic' short haul routes. Here are a couple of great real world excuses for using big planes (these were for the A380) on short to very short haul routes. BA will initially be flying their new A380's on short haul European routes to maximise cabin crew and pilot training opportunities, by using the planes this way their A380 crews can fly up to 4 sectors a day. Even better, when Air France were introducing their A380 fleet they flew them between Paris and London (just over 200 miles apart) partly for crew training and partly to not have the planes sitting around between long haul flights. If it's good enough for an A380 it's good enough for a T7 (source : http://www.flightglobal.com/news/articles/bas-first-a380s-to-ply-short-haul-routes-to-train-crews-377714/ )

Next logical question then ... for short runways, can you select RTO as the autobrake setting for a landing ?

I remember when it happened and there were rumours about the co-pilot turning the wrong knob a bunch of us on another forum all leapt into our PMDG Boeings and tried it to see what would happen :)

A friend took us night flying in a cessna one evening here in Auckland out of Ardmore NZAR and we decided on the way back to drop into Auckland NZAA - New Zealand's major airport - for a coffee. It was quite late and in a loooong window with nothing happening and we could see the airport off to the right so figured we could just get a visual clearance. Ahh, no. ATC cleared us direct to an intersection then a particular approach. After muttering briefly about smartypants controllers who do this sort of thing just for a laugh our pilot had to reply that we were a VFR flight with no charts and hence no idea where the intersection or the approach were. There was a long pause, then ATC asked if we could see the airport. Yes we said, we could see the airport. There was another long pause then ATC clicked the channel open, gave a deep sigh, and said "just land". :)

I recall something in an update which I'm pretty sure was to do with the NGX that rather than go through all that we could not delete anything, copy the variants section of the aircraft.cfg file, then after the update paste back it back into the new aircraft.cfg and that was it, job done in about 30 seconds.That seems an awful lot easier than 'just' reinstalling all the liveries every update, would it still work (if, obviously, we say no to deleting anything...) ?ThanksGary

I remember in the manuals for one of my FS9 PMDG planes there was a maximum recommended simulation rate (possibly 8x, might even have been 4x). Is there a similar recommended limit for the NGX ? I fly in real time but have been doing some tests where I've wanted to speed things up until I got to the bit of the flight where I was expecting trouble. I've searched here and in the manuals but they're common words and it didn't turn up anything useful. ThanksGary

If I had to guess I'd say it was a map light on a flexible arm ?

One of my cockpit videos is on a Virgin (?) 747 out of London, they seemed to be kept down low for an awfully long time there, so yes it does really happen. Probably not all the time, but sometimes.

I was trying to find the definitive answer on why we can't have a weather radar. I understand the gist of it but not the details and I'd like to hear the official word. Searching turned up pages and pages and pages of threads that are essentially "Can we have a weather radar" / "no, PMDG have said why not, search the forum". So I searched ... All the way back to 2004 ... And I couldn't find it. So where is it ? Is there an actual message by an actual PMDG staffer that says why we can't have weather radar ? Can somebody give me a link to it ? I give the moderators permission to delete any replies that say "I want one too" or "PMDG have said why not, search the forum" Gary

QRH 452 pagesFCOM1 1035 pagesFCOM2 1240 pagesFCTM 416 pages That's 3143 pages of manuals, not counting the introduction and tutorial, and do you think I can find the empty weights of the variants anywhere ? I've tried searching for "weight" across all pdf's in the folder but got about two and a half thousand hits, then I tried searching for "empty weight" and got pointed at the guide for the EFB which may give me the info I'm after when I figure out how to turn it on but isn't there just an ordinary list of weights somewhere ? Gary

Thanks Marijn :)

If I have gone directly to my \fsx\ folder and set fsx.exe to run as administrator do I need to change start menu entries and desktop icons too, or will 'run as admin' just work now no matter how I launch fsx.exe ? ThanksGary

Finally managed to sneak my order through :) Download worked first time, installing now. The installer said it was going to check whether I needed any other bits and I should install them if prompted, Then the Direct-X installer popped up so I ran that (I hope I wasn't supposed to install the bing bar, there are some things I won't do even for the NGX ) That installer finished, and the taskbar entry for the NGX installer has vanished, I guess that means it's time to run fsx err run the config manager no that wasn't it, umm, must be time to rtfm to see whether I need to do anything before I run FSX or the config manager Gary

Actually yes there has. About 15 hours ago PMDG pointed us at AoA's staging area which says at the top of the page "This page is will be updated over the next 48 hours in preparation for the PMDG 737NGX Launch." Sounds like a pretty clear 48 hour heads-up from PMDG to me. I'm picking release in about a day and a half :)

I've been flying PMDG since the FS9 NG and I've never had to submit a support ticket - there are plenty of things that haven't done what I was expecting but I've never been the first one it's happened to and I've always found the answer in the forums. Gary

Oops :) No less cool though.

Someone sent me a link to this 'picture' of a -900 on Boeing's website - it's zoomable, it's draggable, you can walk it through 360 around the plane ... you can zoom in close enough to read every label on the outside of the plane ... it's awesome ! http://www.newairplane.com/737/explained/#/Explore

Well played Sir !

Remember the 4th is RSR's birthday ! You can take that two ways - first way, he will be wanting some family time and the hours after launch will be insane for the PMDG team, so they'll either get it out of the way on the 3rd or wait til the 5th, Second way, launching the flagship product on his birthday is a very cool tribute. My money is on the 4th ...

Woohoohoo !!! Just posted on the facebook page :