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Probably the same. As it appears the fire started after the plane touched down and came to a halt. The the oil/fuel isn't carried away by the airstream and gets ignited by the hot engine parts.

Looking at Youtube this seems not be always the case. For example in the following video the 747s land with taxi light off, but the 777s have it clearly on (eg 8:58). I would like to know as well why you would do that,

LOWS. Home of the Flying Bulls and lovely Alps around it. Sceneries all aroudn from here: http://www.x-plane.at/drupal/

Could you maybe write that again in a manner that we can understand it? Btw, the best way would be to report it in the X-Aviation forum (when it is open again) so that the devs can take a look at it. Many problems are due to some incompatbilities with other modules (eg XPUIPC). Others where left out for release (eg the doors) and if you had looked a the corresponding published list you would have had less anger now.

Before 2009 KTEx had a significant sloped runway, but they straightened it and now it is much less prominent. FTX modelled it therefore without a slope. So your X-plane version might represent a pre-2009 state. You can see a nice comparison picture here in reply 34. http://www.orbxsystems.com/forum/topic/111897-flying-high-introducing-telluride-regional-airport/

the B736 was never certified for steep approaches ( in contrast for example to the A318). So you won't find any official procedure for that. Of course you are free to try it. Technique is as usual. going down and slowing down at the same time in a 737 is never a good idea. especially for a non-precision approach you should be fully configured and at vapp at the IAF/FAF.

Try to split the voice and Flightsim Sound channel. I have the simulator via the speakers and vpilot via my headphones. helps a lot!

Leave the speeds in the FMC alone on approach and use speed select on the MCP. This will happen on G/S-capture anyway automatically.

Dear Rob, thank you for your response. I will do some more testing tonight, taking of from LFLJ and returning after nightfall. For your remarks. I dont use vector. I know LFLJ is compatible to P3Dv2 and seem to work in V3 as well besides of course the problems mentioned above.

Hi, i think i found out something rather strange in P3Dv3v3.1. Somehow a lot of things seem to change when taking off in daylight and returning after nightfall/dusk. As we already know taking off during daylight and landing at night stops PMDG planes illuminating the ground with taxi and main lights. I think this problem is even larger and also relates to eg mesh problems. I just did a nice flight LOWS to LFLJ (Courchevel) using the payware Courchevel scenery to have a nice sloped runway. The flight started during day and i arrive just before night fall. Unfortunatelly the moment i touched down in LFLJ (quite nicely) my plane jumped all over the place not following the sloped runway at all. It seemed as if the sloped runway was not recognized anymore. I reloaded the flight and did some testing thinking it might be related to the nice realair duke. But starting in LFLJ i could take off and land without problem, even changing the time of flight via the drop down menu (from day to night) while in the air staying in the vicinity of the airport didnt change anything. I then remembered seeing something quite similar to this also with the new EDDM scenery by Taxi2Gate and the taxi way bridges. During my first testflight i also took off from UUDD and arrived in EDDM after dusk (even though there was still light as you can see). There seemed to be no underpass under the bridges (see picture 1). But if I reload the scenery during the day there is an underpass (picture 2). It is also there if I start at night. So I conclude that something strange is going on within the sim between day and night. Can anybody confirm this or explain why it happens? Of course a "solution" would be to never fly in transition times, but this is more than stupid... Thanks regards chris pictue 1 picture 2

Thanks for the answer and tipp. im going to check that and report back.

Sound beautiful! Looking forward to it!

Hi, could it be that the combination P3Dv3 NGX Reboot and Vpilot causes the same problems as the Dash Module? I've just read that you fixed that CTD- problem in the Dash-8 Module. It seems as I have the same problem. Trying to use FS2Crew NGX and VPilot crashes both P3Dv3 and VPilot. Could this be the problem? Maybe the same fix? Regards, chris

Yes, it would be great if we could solve this problem!

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Same problem here. i hope it can be fixed!

Heads up, this is a X-Plane topic.

btw, i actually wouldn't compare a E190 to a B737, there are really two different categories of airliners. THe 190 has a MTOW of around 110,000 lbs, the 738 around 170,000. But as you can see, 738 are operating out of Bern, even though they are BBJs and most certainly much lighter than a regular charter flight. However, you can easily compare a 738 to a A420, and they are quite common in Bern So as long as you limit your weight and check the numbers with Topcat you should be fine. I have used flaps 25 quite few times (Santo Dumont!) and there was never a problem.

Ups, i have a slip here too. Should be VAS at the end of my text. Thanks for pointing that out!

How do you measure your vas - consumption? If you just look at the task manager you will see the wrong numbers (they are much lower than the actual size). You have to use either process explorer (virtual size enabled) or a registered version of fsuipc. Btw, you need a 64bit system to use all the 4Gb vram. A 32bit system will crash already with 3....

Wow, that was quick. It looks as it is back. Thanks!

Just wanted to donwload the newest version. But it looks as this is still not possible via Flightsimstore. So what am i supposed to do? I paid money for it and now I am not able to use it??!!

Yes always a good idea to know what is going on around you. i personally use Qutescoop (http://sourceforge.net/projects/qutescoop/). But you must be aware that the sectors shown in these programs are not always identical with the actual sectors/zones of the controllers. Especially around major airports with complicated airspace structures.

Yes, the controller usually contacts you via PM if he wants to talk to you. Of course, if you know where you are, you sometimes can guess that you are now in an active zone when an controller shows up and you can contact himself.

You should probably consider that touch down rate is not the main factor for a "good" landing. A too soft touch-down can even be hazardous (especially on a wet runway).