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No, no 6/7's go into NZQN. Only...Qantas: 738ANZ: 733, A322, ATR, Beech 1900, & Q300'sJetstar: A320

If it's RC4... it's just another way of saying at 40nm from the destination be at this altitude.Use the FIX button and enter in "/40" then press the button for it to get the code to enter into the LEG page... make sure you insert it into before and after the correct waypoints. Set the altitude required for that point and you're good to go.EDIT: You don't use RC4... just ask for a more specific instruction from ATC that you can understand. Nothing wrong with that.

OK... I guess I'll have to go with it.I'll have to test the approach next.

ok... got home from work. Here are the screenshots. I don't know if you'll believe me, I was hoping the winds would show on the ND but it didn't. So two tests. Lined up at KSFO. No weather except winds. No controls except for F3 to 40% and then autothrottle. 1. Winds 11/16 2. Winds 193/16I don't use any controls. Set up the FMS for V speeds and such. Just let it go...So if we talk through it. The first scenario has the winds from the north, which should push my plane south, or to the left. I should have to correct this by inputting to the right to counter. Again, I used no controls to counter to show effect.Starting up and positioned from the Start Menu for runway 28LAbout 10 seconds later, at 75ktsNow, 2nd scenario... winds out of the south pushing north, I should go right.About 10 seconds later... 74 knotsTheories??? Comments??? Can anyone else test this for validity???I'm not sure about weather vaning... I don't fly big guys, but in cessnas, they tend to go "with" the wind so you have to correct into the wind as it tries to push the plane away with it. But even in FSX the cessnas will still start trying to point themselves into the wind. I'm saying that this is a PMDG thing.

The plane, automatically? I would if I could, but then I'll end up being pushed off the runway by the backwards wind.

No,... you misread... I have to correct left because the plane is veering into the wind to the right. When it should be the other way around.

Well,... honestly I couldn't tell you because those stages have less wind than cruise and more speed than approach or t/o, which makes it more negligible.But I do know that every approach and every take off I have to compensate for this.What's your theory???

Yes, in cruise it seems right... just on approach and t/O its opposite???

For me it's most evident when during T/O....Say you're lined up on a runway 27... the wind is 315@whatever... as soon as the speed kicks up the plane is turning right, not left as it should.I have the latest FSUIPC and its registered.

This is just FSX... I have noticed this on every aircraft ever since FSX came out. I never found an explanation either, seems people just think this is the way it should be???

yea, I tried entering the winds for those three during cockpit set up, which makes more sense to me, and let it go at cruise since it's only about 20 minutes up there. I'll look at this next time. That makes very good sense actually. Which now makes me wonder about that input from ASE which is interpolated winds for the entire trip.

Well, from what I noticed it continued out too far on both 1L/R and 28L/R initial heading which would overshoot the next assigned heading and not make the third turn in time. Causing overcorrections.To me it's just a smoother departure when done manually.

I took notice of this tonight after reading this thread.KSFO PORTE3 AVE SADDE6 KLAXI noticed that AVE was populated with winds, although incorrect according to ASE, I wonder where it got this from???It was the only waypoint I could enter winds for too, although there were several waypoints more between TOC and TOD?

Not to say that I know for sure, but i don't think so.I fly these SIDs without LNAV, using either VOR, heading control, or by hand. Take the PORTE3 departure from KSFO, great practice for exactly what you are asking about. If you let the FMC take the departure in LNAV mode you'll badly abuse the procedure.Might pay to take a look at it and see how the FMC judges the turns. I can't say for sure because I just ignore whatever it says.

you need to get ground power or APU going and it will stop.

yea, I do... I have the same specs except i7 950 and OC'd to 3.8... but with 6GB of DDR3 2000MHz ram. I am fairly certain its memory shedding... I was flying the new FSDT KLAX, which is pretty meaty. Half of the terminals were gone after flying in from KLAS. Are you using add-on scenery???

+1 here as well... I chalk it up to the memory getting drained. It will be there at the beginning of a flight, but after a half hour... gone.

All I have to say is wow... Opened in the morning, almost pitch dark in the shadows, the sun rise and effects on the clouds is pretty good, have rex2 too. Definitely worth the price!Just one thing, it seems to have disappeared my landing and taxi lights?

Quite, true... I have my PPL too. But we're all talking about a commercial bird, correct? Just want to make sure here.

I though a commercial pilot was trained to use all devices available to them in order to reduce management in the cockpit???Wouldn't that mean using the 'box' and everything available in it???Wouldn't that make this an important request?

Yea, right... I wish! HeheJust saying - and to you too, thank you - but, what you are trying to help with again, and as before, is different than what the OP has been asking about.

Boom! Wow, thats sweet... hello! Missing the point again

Probe heat - on

The only crews with bomber jackets, I believe, are from Virgin. A British company run by a very, very rich man. They also paint girls on the nose of the planes like old WW2 planes too. US airlines have dropped to the bottom of the world barrel in the last 15 years, scraping everything they can for a buck... Giving leather jackets for crews, haha... Too funny!I will say that he was right about it being up to the pilot to decide upon approach, but only at maybe Denver or Mexico City would a 10,000' disconnect make sense.... And to say it's mandatory, or something close to mandatory at 10,000', because pilots 'lost their feel' is way over the top and a gross inaccuracy.

What a load of bull.