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Just watching XP72 stream on youtube, and whilst not a massive fan of the 737. I have to say from what i've seen, the Ifly looks really really good, looks way ahead of PMDG products. It amazes me how other developers have caught up to and surpassed PMDG in terms of quality, years ago they were the gold standard. Now I think they are falling behind, all they seem to do is make excuses for delays etc in their forums.

Lol, Ok HDMI 2 it is then . I have an i7 4790K @ 4GH 16MB corsair ram and a GTX970 4 G Card. Will this be ok to run P3D at 4K on the 49" TV. I have read all the forums, but to be honest I am still a bit in the dark.Appreciate your advice. Cheers Neil

Ok thats good info to know. So I should use the display port over the HDMI connector. Did your TV come with a display port cable? Cheers Neil

Thanks for your reply Odourboy, I will buy the 49" version as I think Bigger is better Can I ask what you mean by display port? I thought you just used the HDMI 2 port for computer to TV links. Cheers Neil

Hi Guys, I have been looking for a 4K TV for P3D. Very interesting reading all your comments. Lots of good info. I was looking at buying this Panasonic 40" TV : http://www.richersounds.com/product/tv---all/panasonic/viera-tx40dx600b/pana-tx40dx600b I am unable to tell if this would be any good or not. Does anyone have any advice on this model? My budget is approx £500 Cheers Neil

As someone who works on the 787 in real life I have too say to my eyes it looks pretty accurate. Tim have you ever been on a real 787 flight deck? Were i have my reservations is on the system modelling, as to me thats what it's all about But I gotta say well done to Quality Wings from what I've seen looks pretty good. Cheers Neil

Yes, it's only part of the TUI group, the largest leisure, travel and tourism company in the world (that includes America). Cheers Neil

Hi Dan, I appreciate your a beta tester, but I don't think this comment was very helpful. James had spotted a bug, wasn't sure and asked if this was correct behaviour, and your answer seems to imply that he should be grateful that it even does a holding pattern. PMDG pride themselves on their accuracy and attention to detail and I think LNAV and holding patterns are pretty important functions which should work correctly. I'm glad that they will look into fixing it, as if you fly online on Vatsim it helps if your A/C can track a hold. Cheers Neil Waren

I could be wrong, but I thought any windshear warning on approach was an automatic go round? Cheers Neil Warren

Hi James, Are you sure your not asking too much of the airplane? I know toga should give you a massive amount of thrust, and if you are wanting to level off at a low altitude the autopilot modes you mention might not be able to do what you want them to. What weight are you? Again if light then toga will make you climb like a rocket, The autopilot is very good, but has its limitations. What speed are you selecting? The lower the speed the less likely the autopilot will be to to not bust the altitude, as you may be asking it to slow down and stop climbing, this all takes time to do. I,m sure there will be a much more succinct answer than my ramblings for you Cheers Neil warren

Hi All, Just so you are aware. I do not think this is free! Cheers Neil

Hi Dan, Thanks for your reply. Fuel dump on the 777 is approx 2 ton a minute. Max fuel is approx 150 ton. To dump 100 ton should take approx 50 mins. I had the fuel synoptic up most of the time. Fuel dumped from centre tank first then outboard tanks. As i say, time stayed at 400 mins until centre tank was empty, then time dropped to 10 mins. Dump was continuous from centre tank to outboards. No pause. Cheers Neil

Hi all, Yesterday I decided to try a #1 eng fail at V1. I selected the 777-300 in P3D at LHR, selected 350 ton GW, Max fuel load, approx 150 ton. Took off 27L, eng 1 failed at V1, I continued the takeoff, the thrust assy control upon eng loss was incredible to see. Made handling the dead eng so much easier. I then cleaned up and entered a hold. Carried out the eng failure chk list. Decided to fuel dump and return to LHR. I had set up the A/C option for auto MLW fuel dump option. So it automatically worked out I'd need 48 tons left to be at MLW. Fuel dump commenced, however the issue i noticed was that the fuel dump time said 400 mins! It stayed on 400 min until centre tank was empty then went from 400min to 10 min! I played around with manually selecting fuel to remain, and this made no differnece to the 400 min. Not sure why this is the case, a possible theory is that i had a route discontinuity, as i had entered KJFK as arrival airport, but not entered a full route, as i was never planning on flying to JFK. Cheers Neil

Hi all, As Rob has stated above, the auto-relight system provides flameout protection by activating both ignitors. It is not autostart, that is a different system, used on the ground. Cheers Neil

Hi All, Ok so i just set a flame out in the failure options and yes the engine does auto relight, straight away with cont ign turned off. I don't think this is real world behaviour, but i could be wrong I will wait on Kyle to investigate further and enlighten us to the correct operation. Cheers Neil

So sorry to here such sad news. I wish Tom and his family the very best at this difficult time for them. Tom your contribution to this community has been nothing short of spectacular and you are an inspiration to many. Your hard work and dedication to the flight sim community has produced the best web site for all members to use. Best of luck and stay strong Tom. Our thoughts and prayers are with you. Cheers Neil

Why won't engine flame out work? Put a timer on it then you shouldn't have Continuous ignition on if you set timer for say 10 min after takeoff. You will have a flameout and have to restart it. Cont ignition is designed to prevent flamout in critical phases of flight, i.e takeoff and landing. Cheers Neil

Hi there, Yes I believe this is a known issue in P3D. PMDG did mention this i think. Off the top of my head i think they decided to release it with the camera inop (as not a show stopper). Rather than delay the release. Don't quote me on this, but i think they will try and get it working at some point! Cheers Neil

Hi there, I have set up a flight with max fuel approx 145 tonnes, set a VR cut on Number 2 engine. Took off, followed ECL for no:2 engine shutdown. Started APU, then started a fuel dump. Very quickly led to a fuel imbalance,more fuel in left tank, less fuel in right tank. Followed fuel imbalance ECL, opened both crossfeed valves, turned off both left fwd and aft fuel pumps. Still left fwd fuel pump stayed on (i presume because its feeding APU). Therefore the left fwd fuel pump was feeding ENG 1 and APU and no fuel was being rebalanced. DC fuel pump in left tank was not on, different to the first picture in above post. Am I doing something wrong here? I would post screenshots, but can't figure out how! Cheers Neil

Hi all, Looking at the list of fixes in SP1 I saw this: 0002893: [systems - Fuel] Fuel Balance issues EO (rsrandazzo) - resolved So this may be fixed, when I next get a chance I will load up a full fuel load, take off, fail right engine, start APU, and begin fuel dump, and carry out fuel imbalance ECL when required and see what happens. Cheers Neil

Hi Kyle, When i first mentioned it, one of the posters said he had submitted a ticket. I will have another look at it when i get some time and submit a ticket, I wasn't sure if this is correct behaviour or not. If someone on the team could comment on this we may find out this is correct A/C logic. It just seemed illogical to my small brain :mellow: in that in a certain situation you are unable to correct a fuel imbalance. Cheers Neil

Hi Rob, The problem with the APU is not the amount of fuel it burns, but that to correct a fuel imbalance from left to right side you need to turn off the left hand pumps, which you can do. However with APU running it automatically uses left pump, so pump stays on, imbalance gets worse!! Cheers Neil

Hi all Has this issue been fixed in SP1? Cheers Neil

Hi, I made a similar post to this a long time ago, there is a thread somewhere in this forum. I think the problem I had was that the APU was being fed by the left pump and with engine shut down it led to a fuel imbalance and I could not figure out how to resolve it. Not sure what correct logic should be on real A/C. But I was surprised if this was real behaviour, as it seemed wrong to me. Cheers Neil

Hi all, I did a quick test flight and had exactly the same issue. Everything froze on A/C. But carried on flying. Then banked over and crashed. Had no control. Weird Cheers Neil