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Make sure you level the aircraft over the threshold, and then drop throttle back, lastly gently flare it. Guthrie

setup a final approach, save it. Practice landing for 6-8 hours straight pausing only for the bathroom. Practice when to throttle back and flare. Remember to level off over the threshold before you flare it or you will do the dreaded float 10 feet above the runway and touchdown late forcing you to mash the toe breaks and full reverse thrust before going off the end of the runway. Not that I ever did that...but my friend told me it could happen :blink: Also, before you ask why you can't engage LNAV after takeoff. Keep in mind the aircraft has to be trimmed correctly and pressure off the yoke before it will engage.. Finally keep in mind..before you ask questions on these forums. People will be hostile to you for asking questions on this forum if you have not meticulously studied the 300+ page manual as well as done all the tutorial flights. I know this from personal experience. :rolleyes: Guthrie

I would love to have PMDG's "problem" of having people beg for their products. Guthrie

Hello Fellow Simmers, Like most of you I am a huge fan of the PMDG NGX. I have dedicated a lot of time learning the ins and outs of this wonderful simulation, and I am almost at a place where I feel comfortable flying it online. As it is Christmas time my most excellent wife (with a little help from some Christmas cash from mom :blush: ) Has allowed me to purchase something for my modest computer cockpit. I currently have the CH Products yoke, throttle quadrant, and rudder peddles. I remember first getting these, and how it took my flight simulator experience from "hey look how many flips I can do in this 747" to "how does this FMC work" that is to say those items made me a better, and more serious simmer. I have never flown online before, but I have watched videos of other people on youtube. I am fascinated about the posibility of doing it too. I am now considering purchasing this from VRInsight. http://www.vrinsight.com/public_html/index.php?module=Html&action=SiteComp&sSubNo=24 Do any of you have any experience with this item? Do you think that this is worth the money $500? Would this integrate with the PMDG NGX, and future addons well? Any advice any of you have would be most welcome. Thank you very much for you time and assistance. Happy Holidays, Guthrie

I think they all took sabbaticals from work to become professional jump ropers... B) Guthrie

sounds like you have some calibration issues with your throttles. I only calibrate my throttles through fsx for the NGX. not FSUIPC. Make sure that your throttles are properly calibrated through your ch software, then make sure you have them setup correctly in fsx. If you use multiple programs at the same time to calibrate your throttles you will get massive issues. Btw this is absolutely not a problem with the NGX. Guthrie

today I downloaded the beta, and did a flight from winnepeg to anchorage. I monitored the flight closely. I used the PMDG MD-11 at altitudes of 340-350. I am happy to report that the weather looked amazing and the windshifts that had previously doomed my flight were gone. I only saw a couple minor effects on the aircraft, but the autopilot was able to adjust without issue. I would say this issue is resolved with the current beta. Amazing job. I am a happy customer at this point. Guthrie

tyvm for the encouraging news. I am excited to try it out! like Phil said I think if you get the windshift issue sorted this will be the best weather addon available. I appreciate your efforts, and the suggestions. Guthrie

Hello, I purchased this on the comments and reviews that I read. I have previously been using AS2012 I did a flight from Winnepeg to Anchorage in the PMDG MD-11. The cloud coverage was impressive, and accurate. I was hopeful on the wind smoothing. I discovered that an old problem that active sky has seemed to fix returned with this addon. Its the age old fsx problem of extreme wind shifts. in all of my PMDG aircraft including the NGX, these windshifts will cause autopilots to disconnect and create overspeed and low speed warnings, and can send my aircraft diving into the ground. I cannot accept this as a $45 addon when I can just run active sky 2012 with no issues whatsoever. I have read that the makers of OpusFSX will not ever never ever ever go to the global weather environment. I have read its PMDG's problem (it may well be, I don't know) To be honest I could care less. The only thing I know is...it's my problem. I feel that for the money this addon should work as good or preferably better than the current choices. I can see it has great potential, and does many things right. This windshift issue however has the potential to completely ruin a flight making the accurate weather depiction and awesome cloud coverage, and all the other neat features of this addon completely worthless. HIFIsim had the same problem with its active sky franchise. They knew how important it was to fix, and they fixed it. In my opinion it is currently the best choice out there for a fully featured weather simulation. That being said I can see the potential of this addon. I hope this issue is addressed quickly. I understand that this bug resides within FSX itself. I know the addon developers are simply dealing with the crappy bugged code that microsoft left fsx with. I can imagine for any developer this is frustrating....BUT....this is not freeware. The expectations are higher. Fix this. I am using OpusFSX with default settings. WInd smoothing is enabled. I am using it on one machine no networking involved. FSUIPC wind smoothing and pressure smoothing is disabled. I am using the most recent version of OpusFSX. Any advice or assistance on this would be greatly appreciated. Thanks Guthrie

This thread is turning surprisingly elitist...you all play a flight simulator. It's not real! Who cares how people use the simulator get over yourselves...And these elitist vatsimmers posting here are exactly why I don't use vatsim.Guthrie z

what are your system spec's? what kind of addons do you have? Did you try and reinstall FSX? How is your hardrive? Defragged lately? What kind of tweaks do you have in your FSX.CFG? Do you run on a 32 bit or 64 bit cpu? I disagree with how you call out the PMDG employees. You didn't pay these guys to troubleshoot your PC for you. Obviously the NGX runs fine on most peoples systems and doesn't freeze when they load it. This should indicate you have a problem somewhere within your system. How is this anyone at PMDG's fault? PMDG carefully added the minimum and maximum specs to run this simulation. Does your PC fully meet these specifications? These are some of the troubleshooting questions you should be asking yourself. If you notice none of them have to do with posting on the forums and calling out PMDG employees Guthrie Z

I found in VNAV descents that the plane will always try to be a little low once you are getting close to your intercept alt the plane should level off allowing you to easily slow your speed put flaps out and gear down this will get you right where you need to be for intercept. I also will put in a speed restriction of about 225 this forces the plane to drop alt faster at the beginning of descent when I can use speed brakes (if there is a tailwind). by the time I am breaking 10000agl the plane is slower and descending gently.... it takes away some of the slippery "ness" of the plane. I don't know if its right but it works. Guthrie Z

Put a speed restriction of 225/10000 in the DES page. Works for me every time. Guthrie Z

Ya I have this exact issue too. Guthrie z

I can't help but point out the irony. Your post seems a bit rude and aggressive. Guthrie Z

so awesome...good job man. Guthrie Z

Thanks everyone for your support. I think the flight sim community is one of the greatest. I just made another landing my best yet. I realized I was cutting throttle too early and flaring too hard so this last one I waited until 30 was called then cut throttle and just sort of feathered it at about 15 to 20 and I think I greased this one. Now to do this with a crosswind and weather lol. I think ill practice it 500 more times first. One piece of the puzzle at a time Guthrie Z

Since playing FSX I hardly ever tried to manual land. It was just too hard. As I have played now for about 5 years I have built up addons, and learned the ins and outs of fsx. I have also used many plane simulations and taught myself from the ground up through manuals and much internet research how to fly these advanced simulations. I do not want to be a real pilot, and I have no delusions about being a real pilot in terms of skill and knowledge. I, like everyone have been waiting for the NGX. I have spent all my free time practicing and this simulation is just amazing in every way. Last night I loaded up my sim and worked on touch and go's. I tweaked my ch flight yoke so it would fly straight, and then I took on the challenge of trying a manual landing with HGS. I flew to my RL home Denver,CO. I did it!. I took over manual control of the airplane at 1000ft and I followed the HGS...I don't know why but I my heart was beating fast and the pucker factor was high (after all I was just sitting in front of my PC.) I used only small corrections on the yoke, and she flew straight and true. It felt awesome to achieve my first manual landing. I did it again just now, and did really good. I know I am such a nerd but this is so addictive I love it! Guthrie Z

http://youarenotsosmart.com/2010/05/11/the-dunning-kruger-effect/ Guthrie Z

this is most likely happening because you are hitting APP too fast. If you hit it before the G/S is active it will indicate G/P on your PFD. You can tell if the G/S is active because you will see a white diamond show up on the PFD that is your G/S once you are ready to capture it hit APP then you will see G/S show up on your PFD then hit your CMD B. make sure you are not seeing G/P indicated on your PFD if you want autoland. Guthrie Z

I use vnav to descend and something I do is to add a speed restriction of 225 I also mod the speeds at waypoints before the iaf so that I am at 185 and ready to drop flap at the iaf. This plane does an amazing job at meeting the speed restrictions with vnav. It will even tell you if you will need to use speedbrakes at an upcoming waypoint.Guthrie z

Yes... once you see the white diamond shaped carrot show up you then hit APP wait for Glide Slope capture G/S will annuciate on the PFD and carrot turns magenta. then hit CMD B and you will autoland. If you have access to approach plates you can get the G/S intercept altitude for your runway so you will know what altitude you need to be at for G/S capture instead of guessing. Guthrie Z

I corrected this by centering a camera on the HGS and creating a new view in EZCAM. Now I just hit a button on my joystick to pull up HGS perfectly centered and aligned . Guthrie Z

FSX is CPU bound we all know this. Some people go out and get the fastest CPU they can find thinking FSX will now scream through the frames like the youtube videos they watched but...Things don't work like that. In order to maximize your CPU you have to remove bottlenecks from your entire chain/system. You need a fast video card not so much because FSX needs it but because your CPU requires it to operate at its best. You need a robust power supply to provide adequate power to your CPU and your high end video card. Think of it like a car. You can stick a turbo charger on a 1996 Ford Festiva but its really not going to be as fast as a Turbo Charger on a sports car. Point being you need to build your PC to support the heavy workload FSX will put the CPU through. That being said, I do not overclock my video card. I run with a GTX 580 an i7920 OC to around 3.6ghz and a 1000 watt powersupply with plenty of cooling. For me FSX runs nice and smooth with the "******* tweaks" that are linked in the PMDG manuals as well as using an external frame rate limiter and setting FSX to unlimited. Guthrie Z

Make sure you wait until the proper intercept alt to capture the G/S . On the PFD make sure the carrot appears (it looks like a white diamond) once you hit approach and it captures it turns magenta. If you hit APP too soon then it goes into G/P mode instead. Guthrie Z