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UPDATE - I was finally able to make a full flight with no problems. So I went back to KABQ and loaded the problem flightplan and the issue happened again. It's the flight plan itself that is causing the controller issue from what I can gather which I find interesting. One thing I have noticed is I am showing a "NO DES PATH AFTER MAGNE" but my legs page shows everything working fine. After I lose control the altitudes and speeds are all gone. Someone test this out when you have some time. Wondering if its something in my flight plan or a bug. Because i can recreate the problem everytime. Flight from KABQ - KSLC LARGO2 (RWY3) RSK JNC HELPR LEEHY3 (RWY17) [VORD17 transition OGD] Maybe I'm not doing something right - but I wouldn't think that it would disable my flight controls during taxi. I have toe brakes is all. Not thottle control, steering, etc.

Still having problems - starting to think its the flight plan in the CDU. Tried not entering the plan and was able to taxi the whole way. at runway entered plan took off and then everything went south (literally - into the ground south). When i get some free time again i'm going to try and different route and see if this is the problem.

I've done a restart - and the issue happened again. I don't want to prove einstiens theory of insanity correct today.(Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results) So I'll call it quits until I hear something otherwise.

Very odd - Made a flight this morning no problems. Tried turning the flight around and making another - had numerous problems on the 4 takeoff attempts. So I completely restarted my computer and shut everything down but FSX. Starting at gate, wait until aircraft intializes. Then load everything into the CDU/FMC, pushback, taxi. While taxiing I noticed I can't steer any more with pedals. Look at flight controls nothing happening. Brakes still work. Go into the flight control config and see that FSX sees my controls moving. I recalibrate anyways and still nothing. Noticed MCP options not working also. Assuming this is a freeze, or a partial freeze. Anyone experience anything like this - how did you correct. I've got 50+ hours in this aircraft with little to no problems, and now out of nowhere its acting up.

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Which one, I have more than one NG (Livery - tail numbers) accross the country.

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Nope - too much work.

Is there a resolution for this, I change runway and the aircraft still fly's and seems to react; however, I can no longer manually fly the thing. Like the change screwed things up.

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Anyone find anything that works somewhat effectivly for a fuel planner? In some cases my fuel planning works well but others not so well. Some times I come in with more than needed and well today I didn't come it at all. Slight miss calculation and strong head winds well needless to say while intercepting the localizer I see low oil pressure lights and things don't sound so right. I ran out of fuel. And for those of you out there that like to push your cars to the limit on gas gauge to E. Not recommended in this bird. Still showing I had .3 Total Engines died and would not fire back up. So wondering what everyone is using. I know the FMC tells you in the PROG screen, but when running ACArs systems its best to know ahead of time as changing fuel after connecting to Acars tends to throw things for a loop. While on that topic is it possible to program a default on load fuel quantity. instead of having to hit one of the pre options or manually entering it in all the time. Lets say you do a series of short hops all the time and all you need is the 1/3, can that be a default on load? thanks,

I'm with you on this. I didn't really have any issues prior. to any of the hot fixes and ignored the first two. As I used the NGX more I noticed some little issues with the FMC when making big changes it would freeze. So I figured maybe someone has brought this up or the little tweaks made in the previous hotfixes would clean up these little issues and all woudl be good. Boy was I wrong. I went from 2 - 3 flights a day if not more to nothing. I couldn't get past the free flight screen before it CTD. Playing with it more I found the trusted options didn't look right and manually edited each one for the PMDG. which would re prompt me upon entering and actually allow me to get in the plane. Performance still wasn't right and the next time i loaded FSX I was back to square one. So for the last couple days I haven;t heard the purr of the engines. Tonight I took the dreaded plunge and unistalled FSX and all my add-ons. Let me remind you all how much time it takes to get the thing back to where it was. 4 hours later still no flight. It's amazing all the little tweeaks that need to be made here and there. Runway lighting, aircraft lighting (shockwave), addon scenery, cfg tweaks, ezdok install, etc, etc. The good news is I'm back to the orignal version and it seems to be working like it did prior. As for any future updates from PMDG - I'm going to wait until i hear what the general concensus is before i go through this again.

See this link here. http://forum.avsim.net/topic/343100-landing-lights/page__hl__shockwave__fromsearch__1

Ok, now that I've had more time to play around I was able to solve the problem. In my case the FSX.cfg file did not update correctly. I removed the old and had FSX build a new. When I restarted the normal questions pop up asking if you want to allow. Apparently the 2 dll files never asked the first go around. So i manually set the number to 1 and then open FSX. it asked if I trusted these files and everything loaded correctly. no more CTD for me.

I do but it is not currently hooked up. Only CH products hooked up at the moment. @ flyingscampi I too had my doubts about installing the hot fix since i wasn't having any major issues. I had a couple problems when changing a SID/STAR on the fly. Lessons learned - try not to do that too much. But I held off on all of them until the release of number 3, and thought hell if they have gone this far I'm sure something has to be tweaked; why not. WRONG. So no it appears that I will have to unistall the whole thing and just install the original. just hope I don't run into any activation issues. I'll save this for this afternoon, when i have more time to focus on it and not work.