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yes, it sounds dramatically, but speaking for the B737 family the FCC's are relative "old fashioned" they have the FD and AP functions as well as Mach Trim with AP on and Speed Trim with AP off, Autothrottle has it's own computer, same for the Yaw Damping. There was no basically change between the Classic and the NG, for the Max they introduced an additional Stall Managagement Yaw Damper Computer and included the AT functions into FCC's. Of course they all have Bits and BITE and internal logics to compare and protect, connect, disengage, indicate and so on, but this is valid for all the Boeing FCC's, from the classic B757/767 3-FCC architecture to the B744 and 748 - here the AT functions are incuded in the FMC's then B777 with a new idea of Autoflight Director Computer, Actuator Control Electronics and Primary Flight Computers and finally the card architecture of the B787's or the two FCC each with two independant chanel architecture of the MD11 from Douglas, not speaking about Airbus, since it's a PMDG thread... It's an interesting chapter of different methods but after all they do the same: controlling the plane. Best regards

The autopilot FCC is an electrical component with no mechanical input, electrical position and force signals transferred from CC/CW to FCC A/B. The meaning of the sentense seems to be: if due to overforce and shear off the mechanically system the position and force signals as FCC inputs are invalid, no further calculation of these signals will be made inside the FCC, meaning the AP channel is inoperative and could not be restored during flight since it is sheared off = mechanically damaged. The first PMDG product, the handbook for Hardys 747 PS1 Precision Simulator was also used as login precedure and state of the art for the time beeing. Best regards

Hello Nuno, thank you for your effort to bring the pilot callouts back to life, one question: since I have most of the TFDI MD11 functions successfully set to my Goflight modules I'd like to know if it possible to use to lua-script along with the Pollypot Goflight Interface Tool (GFIT), it has it's own Lua-interpreter which is started everytime the GFIT software is activated or do I have to set the script in every case to the FSUIPC directory? I'm not familiar with lua-coding or programming unfortunately. Best regards and again thank you.

I've clicked "Install" then yellow "Installing" message was present, then the lightred "Remove" message. After some seconds "Remove" going to blue "Install" button again. Tried this several times, and finally after the third Removal/Installation procedure of the navigraph hub software the installation went through and the actual NavDB was seen on FMC MCDU. Seems to be an "inconsistent" navigraph hub problem on my PC, I don't know, however happy to have it now. Thank you for your help in this matter... btw have you seen the removal of the last 2 digits at ALT scale if VS is more than +/-3000 ft. It's amazing this level of detail.... Best regards

Hello, yes I'm using MD11 since last update frequently without any problems. After navdata update today the navigraph hub is unable to install the DB into sim. Removed MD11 completely and installed new, with original deliverd DB plane is working, at the moment all additional liveries deleted, only flagships in community folder. Whenever I try to install new DB the old DB is gone and no new DB is availalable in AC. Does anybody know, where the DB ist installed in TFDI / MSFS2020? Best regards

Hello all, could not install navdata update via navigraph hub for cycle 2601, have MD11 MSFS2020 and all updated. Navigraph hub is going to blue install field after trying to update. Is it just me or anyone else - please note it's MSFS 2020 cargo and pax. Thanks and best regards

I'm using BATC because of it's easy to handle user interface and the price with FSTL models and beeing satisfied most of the time. Occassionally I'm missing the possibility to quick reset the traffic e.g. before collision during taxiing and also missing the opportunity to edit the Simbrief transferred flightplan directly in BATC, sometimes it will not accept the star or a waypoint although MSFS and the aircraft has accepted the plan. Mayby the possibilities were there, but could not resolve both items, discord is not the solution since it confuse me more then enlighting me. For Pushback using pushback helper and it is working fine, and at least I have an enroute chatter until the approach. Satisfied (with both exceptions noted) customer here. Best regards

I "feel" more comfortable than the TO'ner with the plane, but there may different points of view: for me it's more importand that the fuel schedule for long haul flight is programmed correctly (and it's a very complicated system, belive me) than a clickable armrest. The systems are working well, major bugs ironed out, EFB, WX and TERR are implemented and finally I have to say for me that plane is programmed in the spirit of Bill Grabowski - love it. PMDG never will develop a MD11 again since Lefteris has done the major parts of development for PMDG MD11, but they went on different paths and for P3D there was no MD11 available, only a B717 from TFDI. So it seem the only MD11 we have at the moment, I've been waiting for the extension module which including failure simulation, CB handling and more. From my side a clear recommendation if you are willing to dive deep into the divas systems. And regarding the price - you get the pax or freighter and for a small amount the other one - at PMDG you have to pay the T7-300 and then again the T7-freighter fully. Best regards

same here, what a mess with MS and their experiments

a walk-around for checking brake wear pins for minimums after some time of operation, general tire conditions, oil+fuel leaks, bird-strikes at blades, slats, radome, missing panels and so on. If this is implemented a walk-around makes sense, otherwise you can visit plane spotter websites to check the beauty of aircrafts. Best regards

for me LOC capture is working when enter the 4-letter identifier / heading instead of frequency / heading manually.

and from their discord today: WX/TERR are in progress, pictures shown there. Best regards

please use the MD11F, checked actual with plan from KMIA to KDEN with 77T Cargo Freight also you may set PAX to 0. Best regards

I'm using following procedures: generate flt.pln in Simbrief, initializing MD11, importing pln into EFB, then sending W&B data to the FMC and doing the performance calculation, then continuing until TO. Have set all frequently required controls including AP to external hardware, have no mods in community folder and the MSFS settings to moderate to get a smooth output to the 55" and two 21" with Panel Popout Manager for the four screens. Set time compression during long hauls max 2x with FsSimRate and the plane is flying well, ILS frequency input into FMC manually, LOC capture with HDG SEL and landing manually from about 1500 - 1000 ft. Until now no CTD, blackouts or bluescreens, it is working. As next I'm trying to operate the ELEC/HYD/FUEL/AIR Panels one at a time in MAN mode to see what happens then. Is a lot of fun to operate the AC. What I'm missing are the WX/TERR displays. Best regards

Hi, finished several long haul and short leg without crashing, MCDU entries working well, LOC/GS captured accurate exept one time I was approaching LOC with wrong angle, step climb also working here. What do you mean with EET and what do you think is poor in regard to the EFB? And for the fuel - check the fuel system transfer behaviour during long haul route and compare with the books, it seem to be modelled accurate. Best regards

sorry, downloaded with the manager too, but no logfile or link to it... is it online at TFDI webpage? Best regards

thank you for the info, downloaded and installed without problems, is there a change-log anywhere? Best regards

Hello, after soving installation trouble by installing the plane into other than community location and using AddOnLinker I have done some flights with the AC and must say, I'm impressed by accuracy and quality of the product, for the normal procedures it is working flawless, also the mentioned NLG steering is smooth and exactly, would say a worthy successor of Bill Grabowski / PMDG's diva. Except the long filename problem and the fluctuating N1 during CRZ and the annoying discord I'm very happy with it. Btw never experienced such a well organized and structured Lvar / Event / Event Id system as from TFDI before, so it was possible for me to assign within shortest time the AP/EIS and other functions to my hardware and it is working including the AP indications... and flying here with Panel Popoutmanager with moderate frames (on my outdated I7-7700 / 1080Ti system). Happy with it. Best regards and thank you TFDI.

for taxi max N1 40%, maximum taxi speed straight ahead is 25 kt and maximum taxi speed during turns, on ramp, on contaminated surfaces and in congested area is 10 kt or you will damage your nosegear, consider to use ENG2 only for taxiing to avoid FOD. For my "Installation Failed" problem I found out it was caused by the long filename problem. although in registry long filename was set to 1 it doesn't work. TFDI has extrem long filenames in the MD11 file structure so it will reaches the limit soon and it seems to be a problem for several customes too, reading their discord. Best regards

Thanks for the hints, I've used Edge Browser for downloading, and disabling the windows security function for installing an addon sounds a little bit strange for me at the first moment. But if this is the last option I will thinking about it. Meanwhile I got an advise how to proceed from TFDi and will follow as soon I'm on my desk again, hopefully this brings more light into the failed installation process. Best regards

Hi Terry, tried it several times, no help - the files were downloaded completely and then installation process stopped and the fail message occurs. Could not do anything more than wait at the moment, thank you and best regards

unfortunately they do not respond so far, is there any other idea what I can try? Best regards

Thank you, ticket was raised, waiting for response. Best regards

TFDi Installation failed after downloading 2026MB for MSFS with following note: "INSTALLATION FAILED The TFDi Design MD-11 and/or its dependencies failed to install", the only action I can do is closing the Install Mnager Window. MSFS community path is acknowldged by install manager, I have marked the MSFS installation. Is there any idea what I can do else, Windows and MS store are updated, TFDi activation code is valid. Best regards

did not sync date & time and access was possible today, yesterday no chance - stuck on "checking for updates". For me it seems to be a question of MS Server capabillity as usual, sometimes you can easily access, sometimes not, then there is this cryptical "checking for update" or black screen or other surprises... same procedure as the "bandwith too low" events. What do we have now: a sim which is starting or not, no T7, no PMDG or Fenix WX, excellent landscape and weather, unsolved AI traffic and ATC problems, lots of high quality aircraft and scenery addons. As earlier was mentioned here - a backup (offline) sim seems to be a good idea. Best regards