- Official Panel Configuration Thread
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How do you guys pick your landing runway in FSX?
A lot of times I will look on flightradar24 and see when they are using at the actual airport.
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Windows 7 or 10?
I have a laptop that came with 10 and it works fine. I bought a new hard drive and a copy of 10 for my flight sim computer and it works fine. I did the free upgrade on my daily use desktop computer and had some issues. It was a pretty new build for me so I went back to 7 on that computer with a reformat and fresh install. Based on my experience I would recommend a full clean install of Windows 10 and not do the upgrade. I did not see the option to do a clean full install when I did the upgrade to Windows 10 but maybe I just missed it.
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Autobrake and CH Rudder Pedals
I had an issue with the potentiometers in the CH Pedals. The brake potentiometers are mounted in little seats in each rudder pedal. What I found was that over time they would work their way out of the seats a little bit causing them to not consistently return to the proper position when I released the brakes. I'd have to open up the pedals and reseat them but the problem would recur sooner or later. This issue may have something to do with the problem you are having.
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Ground speed vs programmed speed
Chicago has a similar 250kt restriction. Putting the speed on the climb page then selecting ECON is the way we typically did it on the 737 when departing there.
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British Airways does not use nav lights?
No, they didn't install the switches on those planes.
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British Airways does not use nav lights?
Right about the time the new livery came out at AA they announced that the logo lights would be reactivated on the planes that had them and all new deliveries would be equipped with them. There is a batch of 737s that never had them installed so those planes will never have logo lights. I have found on the majority of legacy AA Airbuses they are burned out and nobody ever writes them up so they don't get fixed. I have noticed on the majority of legacy US Airbuses the logo lights work.
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Analog RMI below ISFD Gone--and More Lights Above MFD
One of the lights is "CABIN ALTITUDE" and the other is "TAKEOFF CONFIG". When the intermittent warning horn sounds the appropriate light will illuminate. These lights were added after the Helios accident where the crew misidentified the cabin altitude horn for the takeoff configuration horn.
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British Airways does not use nav lights?
Airliners do have two bulbs for each position. At least all the ones I have flown. The Airbus, well our Airbuses, only have one set turned on at a time, which is annoying because if you find one burned out you have to go back to the cockpit and switch to the other set and go back out to make sure all of those are working. To date I've only ever found the white tail nav lights burned out on the Airbus. I'm guessing it's because that is a regular bulb and the red and green are LEDs.
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Analog RMI below ISFD Gone--and More Lights Above MFD
The extra lights are takeoff configuration and cabin altitude lights. These were added because both warnings make the same sound. As far as the RMI it is a company option. Everything can be displayed on each MFD so I guess some companies decided not to order them.
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Trim sound / trim wheel
At one point during development the trim wheel speed matched the real world plane more closely but there was some negative issue with it. The fix made the wheel spin a little slower. It's been a few years since development so I can't remember what the issue was. In the real plane when you start trimming, the wheel is a little lurchy and uneven. If you trim for a longer period of time it smooths out. The sound in the sim matches the early stages or trimming pretty close.
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Center Fuel Tanks on long hauls
At least on American 737s, and I think all 737s will be converted to this, each center tank pump will automatically shut off, after a short delay, when that pump’s sensor detects low output pressure. If we have more than 1000 pounds of fuel in the center tank at departure we turn both pumps on. We leave them on until one pump indicates low pressure, then we turn that one off. We turn the other pump off when the pump indicates low pressure and the center tank is empty.
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Three questions
The first time I flew this arrival to JFK I though they forgot about us and left us high. After doing it a lot I found out this is the norm. If they are landing on the 31 or 22 runways they will start vectoring you down south when you are around EWR and around counterclockwise to the landing runway. If they are landing on the 4 or 13 runways they will bring you over LGA and then bring you around clockwise to the landing runway. Either way you will end up using the speedbrakes from a long time on that descent in order to get down in time.
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Shuts down randomly?
I've had this happen before with my Saitek X52. What worked for me was assigning the axis and then immediately assigning it again. The second time it came up as the correct axis.
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FMC Spaghetti SIDS and STARS
The BASET3 is not an appropriate STAR for any of the 24s or 25s. It's for landing east.