Shmiffy

It's a rare occasion that i post these days, but to let this pass without offering my condolences would be to do a disservice to Michael I feel. It's been a long time since Mike sorted my FSX machine. He did such a good job of it, and taught me so much that i've never needed to go back to him. My machine works a little beyond its capabilities, and when i have issues i know just what to do, thanks to Mike. Mike wasn't everyones cup of tea. It's been alluded to here, but his gruffness and straight talking suited me right down to the ground. Say what you mean, and mean what you say. Words to live by, and my Michael did. He was a kind, caring, funny man, who helped so many of us, get more from our hobbies, and understand the technicalities a little better. Rest in peace Michael.

That's because it is a 747-200Bhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_Force_OneCheersSmiffy

Hi Guys:Twas me that wrote that guide over at FSLabs. When i get back to my FSX Machine (about Feb next year sadly) i shall probably be updating that thread and fixing that screenshot (i think i may have accidentally deleted it - sorry) and i'll be revisiting with the updated ASE V2.? and seeing where i get with it. Thanks and Happy ChristmasSmiffy

The VA related threads were in the BAV Member Forum Martin - That's what i meant, not the Avsim Forum - Sorry for any confusionCheersSmiffy

So let's get this in perspective and offer the other side of the coin shall we?You join one of the oldest and most successful VA's around.You are a member for less than 5 minutes, and having complained about quite a lot of the VA already in other threads, you then start a thread called 'what don't you like about the VA' in the hope that enough of your friends of a like mind will whine about things enough that a 10 year old VA will suddenly change the way they do things on your say so.One of the longstanding members or two takes offense to what you say, and they flame you a little, you then go off on a rant and state that you are leaving the VA. After having done this, one of the board see's this, and as it's pretty well known in the VA that if you state in a rant that you are going to leave because you don't like it etc, that the board will save you the trouble of finding the delete button and do it for you. And so he does.You then fire off a few emails to people who don't respond on the same day (why should they, the VA is their hobby - you don't pay to join, they have jobs & family to deal with which always comes first etc) and then when you don't get a response the same day, you go onto a public forum and start airing your dirty laundry in public. I wouldn't let you back in after that, and I don't think that many other VA's would either. It states in your profile that you're 35, although given your behavior, i would suggest that it's more like 15, below the joining age of the VA anyway... Think about it...SmiffyPS: At Martin - I wouldn't say a sincere apology counts for nothing. Far from it in fact, but there are ways and ways not to do things.

Hi McCrashWith the Simufly INS that Concorde X uses, you are able to use the AEDU Card System to load the next set of waypoints, so really, theres no typing to do. Every 9 waypoints (sometimes less) you need to just load up the next card, exactly as it was done in the real world. If FSLabs hadn't done that, and as you suggest, asked the guys at simufly to come up with an additional waypoint quantity, they would have all sorts of other complaints about a lack of realism. Rock | FS Labs | Hard Place....CheersSmiffy

Given that Lefteris Kalamaras owns FS Labs, the guy that was lead developer and Technical Director for most of PMDG's add-ons, wouldn't it be reasonable to expect that the quality would match / exceed that of PMDG? CheersPaul

How cool is that!Put them back on sale on the site!!!!!Now i know what i want for Xmas! P

I haven't had a chance to speak to Stephen Bell about this yet.Paul

Dan: Sorry to hi-jack your thread, all will become clear as to why, as soon as i explain the problem, and you were a recognisable name that i know is sane enough not to launch into me for knackering your thread!Guys...I'm using Windows 7 32Bit, with Firefox 3.6 and i cannot start a new topic or do a 'full' reply, i can only type in a fast reply window...The pages appear for a new topic or a full reply, and if i have a quote in a full reply i can select text to highlight it, i just cannot type anything, or delete text. I have the same issue another forum that appears to use a similar forum plugin, but as yet nobody has been able to suggest a fix. I just ran a check for updates with firefox and i am informed that i have the latest release.Could somebody suggest the appropriate google string or a fix for this? I would like to avoid changing the browser if i can as i have tried most, and Firefox is by far my favourite other than this very annoying issue...CheersPaul

You are correct Richard.CheersPaul

From memory, so bear with me if this seems a bit vague....Look below the Captains Radio Panel, below the frq selection, and down to the right, you will see a switch with L C R and MKR, switch that around to MKR. After that, you need to look at the blue switch to the left of that, and turn it round to the right, that will up the MKR Vol to MAX, and scare the pants off you, the wife, and the kids, when you forget that you have done it and have your speakers nice and loud for those RadAlt callouts...CheersPaul

Paul's nailed it (as you'd kinda hope really!)the turning main gear is what Boeing refer to as Body Gear Steering, the 777 does it too. Helps keep the tyres from scuffing and/or getting dragged off the rims as Paul suggests.IIRC the winglets are switchable in sim under the PMDG > Options > Misc menuCheersPaul

Load the cold and dark panel state. For some reason though, it won't turn off the INS Switches... You can save your own panel state as i have done that sets the aircraft up to your required level of cold and dark, in my case all the altimers are in Mb and the batteries and ground power are on, along with the Logo Lights, and the Nav Lights. Air Con is one pack only, and the no smoking signs are on etc. Just as i would expect my friendly local aircraft engineer to leave it for me,i'll assume FSX as that's what i fly. IIRC in FS9 it's similar.ADD On'sPMDGPanel StateLoadSelect panel state. mine is called 0_BAV B744 PAX Cold and Dark the 0_ is to keep it at the top ;)Hope that helpsPaul

It's your AIRAC updating the navdata and the current r/w runway heading is 3 degrees off of what it was when your scenery was made.We have an edit for it in the readme of the SID/STAR package that Steve Bell our 747 TC at BAV put together. You can either join BAV, or PM G-CIVX on the forum... I bet if you ask Dan Down's nicely he may even send it your way ;)CheersPaul@ Dan Downs: I'm sure Mr Bell wouldn't mind and i'll try and remember this thread on Friday when i next speak to him (favourited the thread, I'll still probably forget though). but it's the rwy hdg modification in navapt.dat that's in the readme i believe is what is needed in this instance. I don't have it to hand at present.CheersPaul

HiI may well be wrong, i'm just going to look through a couple of 744 op's manuals to confirm, but the only automated flap retraction that a 744 is capable of is when the reversers are unlocked and the leading edge retracts (retracted? i think it was disabled as a result of an FAA airworthiness directive after a BAW 747-436 almost ran out of runway at FAJS due to an erroneous rev unlk message) It's certainly not something that i have seen or heard of in the PMDG 744. I may be wrong though as i said. I would suggest that it is more likely that you have an erroneous keyboard command or axis going to your sim that is causing a flap retract.CheersPaulEdit: I note that there is an old thread on the Prune that PMDG's very own 'Q' has responded to. It would suggest that on the QF 744's there is indeed an automated flap retraction associated with the receipt of the > FLAP RELIEF message on the upper EICAS. I have cause a > FLAP RELIEF message to appear once or twice only within the PMDG 744 and that was a result of me not paying enough heed to the Flap Schedule on the PFD. I do not recall that the add-on started to retract my flaps for me though, so i would erringly suggest that it is not simulated on the PMDG Version of the aircraft. I can also not find any mention of it in the BAW B744 Manuals. It may just be an option that QF Took and BA didn't. I certainly wouldn't argue with Q's far superior knowledge though.Cheers P

Very nice!Can't wait to start smashing this into the tarmac around Europe! :)CheersPaul

FSUIPC is very useful and highly recommended, to get the autobrakes to disconect try increasing the thrust out of reverse and (or?) pressing on the brakes,Works for me every timeCheersPaul

So good, i played it twice. @ PMDG in general. Can your next add-on please be more realistic, the last one i bought, i flew in it from Dubai to Heathrow, opened my front door, and i was still in Dubai, which is frankly unacceptable. CheersP...couldn't resist it, felt the thread needed a little perspective...

Hi Guys:In all my years of flying the PMDG 747 on Long hauls, it is a rare occasion that the old girl gets above FL370/FL380. In fact, sizable portions of some of my trips can be spent as low as FL280 as a result of high ZFW and the VAST quanities of fuel that the 744 can carry. It takes a while to burn off enough that the Opt Crz level starts heading north.If you wish to go with realism in your step climbs, pressing in the ALT knob is a bad move. The trolley dollies will be rolling down the cabins as the nose pitches up to a 1000 FPM climb. An alternate method that would hardly be noticed in the cabin is to press ALT HOLD, Dial in the new altitude, and then use V/S to bring the aircraft into a 400FPM climb. While she is climbing, head to the VNAV page, and update the cruise altitude using the keypad and upselect it to LSK1L. Once she has levelled out re-engage VNAV, and Roberts your Mothers Brother! :( CheersPaul

Hi Guys:I wonder if anyone has found a version of DDS Converter two that works in Vista or 7? I have tried the current version with both, and i cannot get the prieview.CheersPaul

Cheers Geoff:Holger's Tutorial was invaluable to me when i started flying the Queen. Great to see some new blood wanting to get to grips with the fat girl!CheersPaul

Here's a fuel ready reckoner that i started working on before i discovered FOC. Thanks to Steve Bell (G-CIVX on the forum here) for the basic methodAll weights are in KG's.You enter your values in the white boxes, the green boxes are autosum's. Once you have those, you need to run your route through Active Sky or whatever WX addon you use, and enter those into the rte data page winds aloft in the FMC, Once you have done that, you can add or remove fuel using the PMDG options box to ensure that your remaining fuel levels are as required.It's basic, but it served me well before i invested the money in FOC.CheersPaul>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Note: I had to change the file extension to .TXT = CHANGE IT BACK TO .ZIP WHEN YOU HAVE DOWNLOADED!!!!!!!!!!!!!! <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<I AM NOT SUPPORTING THIS - IT WAS FOR PERSONAL USE - USE IT OR DONT USE IT, Your Choice....

Hi Scott, i'm an IVAO kinda guy so got rid of servinfo in favour of The IVAO Eye a long time ago :( Anyway, It's a Load Limited flight, so the best ZFW i could get, less a bit of comfort factor was 222,300Kg which works out as roughly 490087.60 Lb's using a web based conversion calc.In the FP That i ran above, there is no alternate, but i requested about 12,000Kg's (26400 lbs) to be the Remaining Fuel, which is about what i would plan for for a KLAX EGLL trip including divert to EGKK about 30 Miles down the road.So, based on an 01:00Z Departure (about 10 Mins time), you would need 149,420 Kg's of Gas, or about 428622.73 lb'sNot sure if that responds to your point, i hope it does, but keep firing away....http://manuelsweb.com/kg_lbs.htm is the conversion calc i used BTW...CheersPaul

Okay, i've tried running a plan through Flight Operations Centre using a BAW 744 with the RB211 Engines. It's definately a load limiting flight, apologies for all the weights, being a Brit I use KG's. BRITISH AIRWAYS VIRTUAL - COMPANY FLIGHTPLAN SEQ002 RLS001 BAW9999 RKSIKATL.001 ETD 01.00Z 09.11.28 Aircraft B744-RB21-BAW Registration GBYGE TO SLOT ...... 222.3 ZFW .... 01.00 OUT .... TNKS .... 370.7 TOW .... OFF .... USED .... 234.3 LAW .... ON .... LEFT .... 6075 ESAD .... 13.40 IN .... ACH FL .... 6809 DIST NCR CRSM 110 GCI 1050 BIAS PROFILE: AGSUS/F310 - 44E60/F330 - 50N50/F350 - TAMRU/F370 - BIL/F390 TIF ...... 136.42 12.14 6075 W/C T062 DIVF ...... 0.40 00.15 ALT* F/RES ...... 5.50 00.30 C/FUEL ...... 0.00 HOLD ...... 0.00 RRES ...... 5.00 00.27 TAXI ...... 1.00 EROPS ...... REQ ...... 148.32 13.26 DIVERT 0.40 EXTRA ...... 1.10 RTE RES 5.00 TANKS ...... 149.42 PLAN REM 12.0 TOT RES ...... ALT SUMMARY FUEL TIME FL DIV SPD SCHED ALT* 0.40 00.15 Cost Index 0 ROUTE: SEL1A-SEL / G597-LANAT / Y51-SAMON / Y513-KMC / DCT-GOC / OTR4-PABBA / OTR5-CALMA / DCT-44E60 / DCT-48E70 / DCT-50E80 / DCT-50N70 / DCT-50N60 / DCT-50N50 / DCT-49N40 / DCT-PRETY / DCT-TAMRU / DCT-SEFIX / DCT-CASDY / J500-YVR / J52-GEG / J136-BIL / J151-STL / J45-PLESS / RMG3-RMG / (I10-SCARR) NOTES : - Fuel Bias rised to 1050 - Route exeeds 105 per cent of GC ! - FLIGHT PLANNED WITHOUT ALTERNATE: - Holding Fuel (15 Min.) added as Alternate-Fuel - UWX DATA FILES IN USE : 20091128.00U / 20091128.06U / 20091128.12U - STOPS/EROPS NOT CALCULATED [FF] FLIGHTPLAN: AWY POS FREQ FL MT DIST TME ETO ATO ETA EET FUEL FOB RFU ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ RKSI 0.00 ..../..../..../0.00 0.00 /.....148.4 SEL1A SEL 115.50 F040 104 023.5 0.03 ..../..../..../00.03 1.34 /.....147.0 G597 ENKAS F080 086 022.0 0.03 ..../..../..../00.06 2.58 /.....145.8 G597 KARBU F100 086 013.9 0.02 ..../..../..../00.08 3.33 /.....145.1 G597 JINBU F180 087 044.6 0.06 ..../..../..../00.14 5.73 /.....142.6 G597 KAE 115.60 F190 087 008.2 0.01 ..../..../..../00.15 6.11 /.....142.3 G597 SORKA F230 129 030.2 0.04 ..../..../..../00.19 7.44 /.....140.9 * TOC AGSUS D-010 G597 AGSUS F310 129 078.3 0.09 ..../..../..../00.28 10.20 /.....138.2 G597 LANAT F310 131 042.6 0.04 ..../..../..../00.32 11.17 /.....137.2 Y51 SAMON F310 100 149.1 0.14 ..../..../..../00.46 14.35 /.....134.0 Y513 KMC 112.00 F310 091 092.5 0.09 ..../..../..../00.55 16.30 /.....132.1 DCT GOC 115.30 F310 090 191.4 0.19 ..../..../..../01.14 20.38 /.....128.0 OTR4 TOPOS F310 091 103.0 0.10 ..../..../..../01.24 22.56 /.....125.8 OTR4 PABBA F310 092 072.9 0.07 ..../..../..../01.31 24.09 /.....124.3 OTR5 ADNIP F310 067 157.9 0.16 ..../..../..../01.47 27.36 /.....121.0 OTR5 CALMA F310 069 185.7 0.19 ..../..../..../02.06 31.22 /.....117.2 DCT 44E60 F330 061 500.3 0.46 ..../..../..../02.52 40.50 /.....107.9 DCT 48E70 F330 059 481.0 0.53 ..../..../..../03.45 50.49 /.....97.93 DCT 50E80 F330 068 411.7 0.47 ..../..../..../04.32 59.47 /.....88.96 DCT 50N70 F330 079 385.9 0.43 ..../..../..../05.15 67.58 /.....80.84 DCT 50N60 F330 076 385.9 0.41 ..../..../..../05.56 75.21 /.....73.21 DCT 50N50 F350 072 385.9 0.32 ..../..../..../06.28 81.03 /.....67.40 DCT 49N40 F350 078 394.4 0.40 ..../..../..../07.08 87.98 /.....60.44 DCT PRETY F350 069 297.7 0.35 ..../..../..../07.43 93.89 /.....54.53 DCT TAMRU F370 072 064.7 0.07 ..../..../..../07.50 95.22 /.....53.20 DCT SEFIX F370 073 162.3 0.20 ..../..../..../08.10 98.47 /.....49.96 DCT CASDY F370 059 109.6 0.14 ..../..../..../08.24 100.68/.....47.74 J500 YVR 115.90 F370 070 032.7 0.04 ..../..../..../08.28 101.32/.....47.10 J52 SHUKA F370 089 042.7 0.05 ..../..../..../08.33 102.13/.....46.29 J52 TWISP F370 094 089.8 0.11 ..../..../..../08.44 103.82/.....44.60 J52 GEG 115.50 F370 094 105.9 0.13 ..../..../..../08.57 105.81/.....42.62 J136 HILIE F370 073 038.1 0.04 ..../..../..../09.01 106.52/.....41.90 J136 MLP 117.80 F370 077 042.5 0.05 ..../..../..../09.06 107.30/.....41.12 J136 HLN 117.70 F370 087 159.6 0.17 ..../..../..../09.23 110.01/.....38.41 J136 BIL 114.50 F390 092 146.5 0.15 ..../..../..../09.38 112.46/.....35.96 J151 RAP 112.30 F390 099 263.0 0.28 ..../..../..../10.06 116.78/.....31.64 J151 ONL 113.90 F390 101 209.8 0.24 ..../..../..../10.30 120.41/.....28.01 J151 DSM 117.50 F390 094 233.5 0.27 ..../..../..../10.57 124.45/.....23.97 J151 JAVAS F390 129 056.1 0.07 ..../..../..../11.04 125.41/.....23.01 J151 CHASY F390 133 005.9 0.01 ..../..../..../11.05 125.51/.....22.91 J151 SKBOZ F390 133 009.4 0.01 ..../..../..../11.06 125.67/.....22.75 J151 COLIE F390 135 024.8 0.03 ..../..../..../11.09 126.10/.....22.32 J151 TWAIN F390 134 050.0 0.06 ..../..../..../11.15 126.95/.....21.47 J151 STL 117.40 F390 137 066.1 0.08 ..../..../..../11.23 128.08/.....20.34 J45 PLESS F390 130 095.4 0.11 ..../..../..../11.34 129.69/.....18.73 RMG3 BNA 114.10 F390 133 148.5 0.17 ..../..../..../11.51 132.09/.....16.33 RMG3 DRAKK F390 149 028.0 0.03 ..../..../..../11.54 132.55/.....15.87 * TOD NEUTO D-029 RMG3 NEUTO F310 150 047.9 0.05 ..../..../..../11.59 133.54/.....14.89 RMG3 RMG 115.40 F150 150 065.4 0.09 ..../..../..../12.08 134.14/.....14.28 I10 PENCL F050 146 038.9 0.06 ..../..../..../12.14 134.42/.....14.00 I10 ZMANN F040 094 003.1 0.01 ..../..../..../12.15 134.45/.....13.98 KATL 0.00 ..../..../..../12.14 136.4 /.....12.00 [FF] WAYPOINTS AND WINDS : ENROUTE ICAO FREQ LATITUDE LONGITUDE MAG WD