wongben4

hi, does anyone know energy management circle when in offpath decsend is modeled or not? it is because when i select offpath decsend on PS1.3, I will get 2 dashed line circle indicating the distance for decsend to desire attitute under clean or speed brake extent situation.thanksben

>That's interesting, that route is a very long way of getting>there at 9200Nm, A GC route would take the aircraft north over>the Arctic then down through Siberia for a total distance of>about 8500Nm. >>Possible because of the wind (weaker headwind or stonger tail wind), for example, during winter time, CPA 829 from panc to vhhh will normally fly over sea of okhotsk, then over hokkaido, over osaka, then over taiwai, then ELATO 1A arrival. However, the headwind during winter time is very strong (the stongest I experienced is 380km/h head wind which brings the A343 speed to around 500km/h $$$), thus, sometimes they will take a longer route but weaker headwind component, which flyes over Russia, then harbin, then beijing, then down to VHHH. Ben$$$does anyone notice that A343 flyes slower than 747, the curise speed for 343 is normally mach .78, but for 747 is .84.

thx..I love this.."Singapore Airlines has equipped its new aircraft with special cupboards big enough to take a corpse in case any passengers die en route. "ben

yeah, I know... in fact there is a lot of limitation in FS2004....but do u know is anyway I can modify my FS2004, maybe change some parameters...thankben

Anyway, does anyone know what is the max time a cockpit crew can work in each flight? and what is the min resting time between 2 outport flight. (ie VHHH-KLAX-VHHH, what is the min resting time for those crews visiting KLAX)thanks..ben

yeah... UA895 from kord to vhhh...I was actually flying on this route twice (of course as a passager)...I noticed that the two flights were not fully loaded and I suspect that UA sacrifice payload for fual and range....ben

Hi, I noticed that the taxi is not very smooth for pmdg744 (i mean for a real 744, I only need to apply power until reached desire taxi speed, then the 744 itself can taxi a very long distance without anymore power), and I know someone had posted it before long time ago. Can somebody tell me how to decrease the friction parameter in FS2004?thanksben

I wanna to , but I don't think 744 is capable to fly such long range even if the plane carries no passager but fuel...SIA uses A345..ben

Hi... It would be better if we could somehow "download" the enroute wind and decsend forcast into the FMC, or getting the destination weather on ACARS with activesky, it is what I am always dream of...ben

from flightaware.com, I noticed that the longest daily scheduled flight in the world is frow kewr to wsss by singapore airliners (SIA21) and it takes about 17:30 hours. Do anybody know how many cockpit crews do they carry on board? I don't think 4 is enough...FYI, here is the routeJFK HAPIE DOVEY NATY 46N040W NATY ETIKI NATY REGHI UN484 RUSIB UN491 LGL UL851 KUDES UN871 ALGOI UT23 BABIT UN739 LULIK UN739 NEPOS UM19 ETIDA UM21 GERGI UL614 YAA UG8 EZS UT36 ALRAM G208 UMH UL124 ZAJ UL124 KEBUD L124 PG P318S DOSTI M638 KC G208E TELEM N895E AAE N895 NNP N877 SADAP N877 LAGOG N571 GUNIP R467 VKL A464 LELIB LLB1Aben

thanks you very much ar...I love to learn new stuffs which cannot be "played" or "used" on FS2004thanksben

Hi, do anyone know what is the ATC function(button) on the 744 FMC for?thxben

Hi, I tried to activite the reserve thrust for PMDG 744 after touched down by pressing F2, and I saw REV on the EICAS. However, the N1 is only at about 31% and when I stopped pressing F2, the reserve thrust closed automatically. Does anyone know why??thanks you very much...P.S. I am using thrustmaster Top Gun Afterburner joystick, the reserve thrust works fine without playing with the joystick...Now assume the above problem is solved, does anyone know how to set my FS2004 such that I can apply reserve thrust on my joystick. I have FSCUIP 3.5 registered version.thanks againBen :)