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Hi Guys:I am in need of Climb and Descent Tables for the 744. Also, if possible, the CI Table, Long Range Cruise Mode Table, and the 1 Eng Inop Table. The priority is the Climb and Descent Tables however. I am trying to create a new aircraft profile for Flight Operations Centre and FS Build. I know by roughly what percentage the PMDG 744 burns fuel differently to the real world. I just need the actual data so that i can input it. CheersPaul

Hi Kevin:Perhaps a little more information would be in order. 1. What Key Assignments have you tried2. Where are you trying to assign the Key's (IE FSX Keyboard Commands or PMDG Keyboard Commands)3. Are you running the latest PMDG 74X Updates?All is fine here...CheersPaul

Hi SwissMD11. Firstly, if you could use your real name in your post, it would make me feel a little more like i am talking to a person rather than an aircraft ;)Right then, Fuel...There really is not a great deal to add to what Craig has already said. But for the purposes of a procedural approach to it, i will let you in on the way that i do it. 1. Choose your flight, and find a flight plan (i try and find that day's real world FP, as that would have been planned based on the most economic route for the airline, using their million dollar super computers, what i dont have access to!)2. Input the flightplan into your planning software of choice. I use Flight Operations Centre or FSBuild. FS Build is linked to my Activesky setup for R/W WX, whereas FOC is linked to a real world WX Server that the airlines use. 3. Use your Flight Planning software to generate the Paper Flight Plan (or the Communications Flight Plan as BA would call it). 4. Once you have an FS9/X Plan, and a B744/X (in my case) plan, input the plan to Activesky 6.5/X5. Calculate the winds for your first flight alt (for me today it was FL300 on my trip that i am currently flying from EGLL to KSFO at 3 Tonnes short of MTOW).6. With your FMC open. Go to the Page and then or this will bring you to your route winds page. At this stage, i have filled the aircraft with my calculated ammount of fuel and the reserve in the PERF page is 0.7. Input your winds to the Right LSK's as (my next waypoint) {6820N) <252/037> and so on for that altitude. Then recalc the winds for your step climb alt's and input them at the appropriate LSK's.8. Rinse and repeat as necessary. 9. I usually plan to have 14.0 remaining on arrival prior to starting the APU. If i need to add or remove some fuel prior to completing the rest of the FMC formalities, i do. 10. I then set my Reserve to about 12, depending on the destination. Today it is 10, as i have a many and varied choice of diverts in North America, and Fuel Critical would be unlikeley to cause any serious concern unless i was looking at arrival at SFO with about 8T or less.I should thank Steve Bell (G-CIVA) for teaching me that simple method, among many other things 744 related, and getting me flying at sensible altitudes and sensible fuel bills. Enjoy :-hahPaul SmithEditor - Focus MagazineBritish Airways Virtual

Just a bump.... :-waveFound this after much looking, and figured that with the popularity of 9Dragons / FlyTampa Kai Tak that this one should perhaps be stickied? Mods?CheersPaulPS: Thank you both for the advice

So, my first post in the 744 forum and it's likely to be a controversial one!Robin:I appreciate your point, i really do, but to state that FSX really is a poor peice of work on the basis of a few minor, although admittedly annoying bugs, is a refrain that i have heard often, and to be quite frank, am getting somewhat bored of.As someone who has Beta Tested what is probably one of the most complex FS Addon's in history (SSTSim Concorde), you of all people should surely realise that sometimes, there are bigger fish to fry.In this instance, the smoke issue, i would imagine that they have added it to the list, and will fix it. Whether that is a future Service Pack that a tiny team at Aces is working on, or if it is in FS11, who, really cares that much.Regardless of your opinion, FSX has improved the visuals and with an assortment of the RIGHT add-ons, you can expand on those visuals 1,000 fold. With a good computer, you can run FSX at great frame rates and to be honest, that's what most simmers are after.If you cast your mind back to previous FS releases, the same old posts as we are seeing now for X afflicted 2000, 2002, 2004 etc.I dont work for Aces, i dont work for MS, but if i did, i would probably be having serious doubts as to whether or not to even bother with a continuation of FS development. After all, with the price people pay for the software vs what actually goes into it (or even comes out of it for that matter), i would personally be inclined to just hook up with a Pro Full Motion Sim manufacturer, add $1,000,000 to the price and concentrate on that. I'm sure that there would be a lot less people on forums bemoaning the fact that one of the animations is a bit off or that a tiny little village in the back end of beyond is missing.Robin, apologies for hitting you with this particular post, it's not directed only at you, but all who post FSX sucks. Lets be honest. What would you prefer. 98 or X?The team took a gamble, took advantage of the future of personal computing, and took advantage of new toold and techniques, at the very least they deserve a hearty congratulations for having the faith in the product, and the determination to continuosly expand and improve on a product that probably has one of the smallest markets of any of the MS groups products.Apologies to the OP for dragging this a touch further off topic than it already has gone. So if the mod's feel that this would be better served as a new thread, pleas move it, or ask me to and i will. It is not meant to be an inflammatory post, and i didnt set out to attack anyone in particular, but having googled FSX a bit over the last few days in a search for new and exciting tips, tricks, addons etc, and being hit with a million and one posts that do little other than #### about FSX, i am sure that you can understand that it begins to sound like a very old and overplayed record after a while.CheersPaul