Captain Caveman

Thx!

Hi, i see in many videos that the user change view to FMC, Overhead Panel etc with a nice transition effect/zoom. Are these preset hotkey ? If not how do i set it up ?

The ability to zoom all tree lcds at once in 2D cockpit, so that they line up nice under the MCP, like on the 747. All the space between them and the gear handel is useless 95% of the time. This was not an option on the MD11 and was a bit grumpy over it :(

In the 05DES update it says they are gonna make: PMDG Bombardier Dash-8.So by "Dash-8" this is clearly what they refer to.

Not to be picky but its 747-8 , not 747-800 ;)

With the big LCDs on the new 787s they can watch a movie straight on that, or play xbox ;)Just need to add some inputs :(

Hi,after playing flight sim for many years i have always wondered aboutthe boredom of being a real pilot.I love flying sims but if the cruise time is more than an hour or soi tend to speed up the simulation speed.Except the occasional radio contact and turning some fuel pump off ect it just isnt much to do and get kind of boring.I know that on long routes they have extra pilots rotate but stillyou have to sit there for hours.It is important to monitor the systems ect i get that but it cant be directly fun?So my q is, is it boring in real life also ?Is it something one just gets used to and find not so bad after some time ?Secondly do the 2 active pilots get to do anything or do they just have to sit there?Can one of them play a handheld game or watch a laptop movie while the other monitors the systems ?Extra question to simmers out there.Do you sit hour after hour in cruise just watching the systems or do you tend to speed things up also ?

I hope they do a BBJ/2/3 version of the 737NG. I dont think there are much difference from the normal version to the BBJ ,just some extra fuel tanks.So i guess im happy as long as someone makes some good liveries for that, PMDG or its users.

you could always add things like the weather rader and have it as an optional feature...and warn that its not modeled correcly after the real thing. that would be a great compromise.

Hello fellow captains!im just wondering what 744 engine you perfer to fly...and why!PW 4062GE CF6-80C2B5FRR RB211-524HI really dont care to much myself...i fly what my prefered airlines use...but i like GE and RR better that PW atleast...dont really know why though :(

did you insert the posision into the fmc?

no way to limit on LNAV ? its not very good for my passengers when doing30 degrees turns in cruse hehe. how is this in real life?

Hi when in LNAV with bank limit set for f.ex 10 on the 747 the aircraft stillturns more than the limit. is this an error or is it like this on real?

its just that the flat panel looks so poorly grafics wise. i dont beleve its real if you know what i mean hehe i dont feel like im looking at the real thing. ppl look at the pmdg 747 overhead panel and this md11 panel...anyone preferthe md11 flat one over the 747 angled one? i sure dont

but in rl it is acctualy 3D...here you have to make it look like its got some depth and angleit. flat looks kind of "cheap" and is used by low quality add ons in my mind atleast. i love your products and there very high quality so i think its sad you use flat panel on this one :/so why the change? didnt you like the 747 overhead?

but why the change ? it looked so beautiful on the 747...the "3D" gave a much more realistic feel...and NO virtual cockpit is not the same.

looks like the overhead panel is "flat" and not a little angled like on the 737 and 747 ? i hope im wrong :/

what is korean air doing there :( thats a long way from home hehe

when atc plan the traffic do they know the track of the aircraft before giving the heading ?i would assume this is quite important for traffic planing. if a plane has a 15 degrees track off the heading i assume they would wanna know about it...before it happens.

But why does the aircraft let you set hdg on the mcp and not track? andwhy does atc operate with hdg? it makes much more sence to use track since thatsthe direction the aircraft acctualy is going...

When flying the 737 i often get a diffrent track than the heading i have selected.f.ex: heading 180 and track 190. this means that the aircraft flys a little wideways cause of the wind right? with the nose 10 degrees of the direction of the aircraft is flying?and now for the real question:when flying in LNAV the aircraft always flys on the route track, but does it change heading accoring too the wind or is the heading and track the same in LNAV?

i just had the same problem, and had had it many times. today at LIRF for me to!

Hi im just wondering what normal VS is during climb and decent with passengerson 737 and 747. Often i dont get down in time for the glideslope with using 2500 as VS and following ATC.should i use even higher?

over 2GB is overkill. the preformace jump from 1 to 2GB isnt very big, its a little improvmentin some cases, depends on the rest of the system to. the preformance jump from 2 to 4GB is like none on the games of today. So when gaming, 1-2GB should be fine. 1GB for low/mid end, 2GB for high end with high res playing

maybe his staff likes the products and go buy them themself, is that bad?is it so bad with some free exposure ?this starts to sound like mpaa and microsoft :s its not like you loose any money on it...