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No answer, but I noted that as well. Seems the FMC needs some time to get reoriented, cause when I did some g/a's the frame rates came back to normal on the downwind leg. Clemens Kuehn

Wow, guys, thanks to all. This has been a tremendously detailed answer.My wife just asked me, why I had to know all those things (atop of all those things I have to know to get the fridge filled in the real world).Well, honestly, I do not need to.But I love to! This is just a great forum. Next I will turn off the pumps at FL260 and see what happens.Judging from all the effort that they put into this plane, I guess the engines will take notably longer when started without the boost pumps running (if there is an effect in RW). I remember Rob stating that the FMC would take slightly longer to initialize depending on the temperature of the flight deck. [As my wife is not around now: it's crazy isn't it? How many parts of this plane do they actually simulate?] THANKS again to all of you. Clemens Kuehn

Hi all, last night (it was late) I noticed, that you can start your engines with all fuel pumps off and even the low pressure lights on. I wonder if this is supposed to happen. Just loaded the plane with "short" panel state, selected 1/3 fuel and started the engines. The switches were in off position, engaging them turned off the low pressure light and started the respective sound (or shall I say noise?), so I think they are working correctly. Do the engines get fuel without the pumps on? Thanks in advance. Cheers Clemens Kuehn

Plus Charts.Thought about that myself. I just could not convince myself that I REALLY need it...It's quite expensive for just b/w with few shades in between.Well for the manuals it should suffice. Maybe you could check one in the store with an own pdf e.g. the MD11 manuals.Clemens Kuehn

Please correct me, if I am wrong, but the real world chart of the WEST approach retrieved from EAD seem to me to only refer to RWY 26 not 08.In FSX it was challenging but not a big problem to even bring in the PMDG MD11 or J41 (though the latter is a hell to slow down) doing the visual turn and approach to final at about -900 fpm.I am, however, not an expert so maybe the same procedure would be used for 08. But I believe that-s what the EAST approach is meant for. I am not sure, which approaches the vids show.Thus I guess your sim chart is wrong in this respect; but again, please correct me if I'm wrong.Regarding missed approach from short final, you are - as has been mentioned before - in Visual and thus on your own. Would be natural to follow the visual T/O procedure and head for RTT as soon as possible I guess.Cheers,Clemens Kuehn

I second that.Have the same problems as - obviously - many of you: tail not swinging - ah by the way the other cargo doors open - and the main gear missing on the 747F when switching back.And I am, too, sure the ground handling bus is powered and everything has been set up as described in the manual. Also I tried many variations.I also tried installing manually the Visual C++ redistributable as I think I read it somewhere. But to no avail.PMDGs Support Server gives me an error, I guess I'm not the only one.I would appreciate a post by PMDG. I not even know, which redistributable the software requires.SincerelyClemens Kühn

My, I had thought this thread would explode after those first glimpses.It is amazingly quiet. I guess you are all stunned and waiting for the next screenshot of the inside.Or is it just me? :(Clemens

Hi Captains,I could not find an answer doing a search over this forum.I wondered recently why, if I select a full payload - 241 kLb I end up at the 635 kLb ZFW, which is well above the 630 kLb maximum landing weight.At least, that's what I read in the manual.Have I missed something?Please correct me!Cheers,Clemens

Yeah, beat them for being a small company with dedicated service who does what it can to protect what they worked for.Maybe you can enlighten us, what would Microsoft have done, if you had lost you're installation disk?Well someone who has access to pirate software may have solved that too...Farewell!Clemens K

Wow, nice to hear that! I really have been eager to know, remembering all those "PMDG will not make profit with a small turboprop" posts.Glad to hear they were wrong. Congratulations to the team. Really appreciate your dedication. Though, yesterday I nearly overshot - she's really hard to slow down on approach... It definitely feels realistic (well as far as I can tell :( ), anyway: outstanding product!Clemens

JB, thanks. That pretty much sums up my thoughts as well. It kind of spoils my excitation. It's a terrific plane anyway and after all if I understand it correctly it was a testing project for the NGX...Clemens

Dear PMDG Team, dear beta testers,I wonder a bit about the failure model of this amazing plane JS4100. I was astonished to find the PMDG Addons menu empty for we saw, among others, a "Failures" item to choose. :( The product page mentions an engine failure model. Please would any of you comment on the following questions/statements:I guess non-engine failures work via the FSX failure menu (e.g. random instrument failures etc.)?Those probability based failures: Does short term EGT overtemp influence these, in other words: do I run more often into engine problems, if I do not handle them correctlyDoes it accumulate between flights?Would that be a global variable affecting any livery or do I esentially own above a dozen different JS41's with those liveries installed?Looking forward to your replies!And: Thank you so much for this intriguing simulation.You know there are so many out there silently appreciating like me! :( Regards,Clemens

Actually you just have to load the panel state (via the PMDG menu), it is saved automatically (but not loaded automatically, an FSX drawback as I understand it). Ah, and Panel state includes aircraft state...Have a nice flight!Clemens

Dear all,when recently I made a travel into the high north, I found that I was not able to select an approach into BGTL (Thule, Greenland).I am using the default AFCAD files provided by PMDG with the bird (did they update compared o the 744X by the way?).I did a quick search with the notepad and it seems that the airport is correctly represented in the files. There is even a SID/STAR file for BGTL which seems to correctly list the ILS Approach available for BGTL.In the FMC I cannot see any approach listed and even cannot select a runway for VFR approach. Seems perhaps the runway is missing?Anyone out there with a similar problem or even better is there a fellow who can check the AFCAD entries for correctness and knows how to correct for it?Thanks in advance!Clemens

Hi,I run FSX with the PMDG 747 on my MacBook Pro 2.16GHz Core Duo, 1GB 667GHz SDRAM with reasonable performance (under WinXP). I have most FSX performance controls on medium settings.I guess the machine you think of will perform very good.RegardsClemens