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There are different levels of idle just so you know depending on which phase of the flight you are in

You bring up a good point about the scenery, when I get the chance I will try to do a flight to a different location, see what happens there.

I do not get to the point for calling the descent check. The first attempt it froze when I was looking at the descent forecast page after entering the winds and was off looking at the approach plate, this last attempt I had complete the forecast page and was entering DME rings into the fix page and the sim just froze up. Both times I didnt complete the couple tasks I wanted to before calling for the checklist.

Twice now I have had my flight ruined because FS2Crew hangs the sim on Descent Checklist. I set up the values in the secondary panel for my approach, I then tell the FO 'Lets start settnig up for the descent', I then go about my buisness of tuning the radios, setting up the FIX pages, entering the descent forecast in the FMS and the sim just hangs and it is when FS2Crew is displaying 'DESCENT CHECKLIST'. Twice in a row now I have lost a flight at this exact same point, the previous attempts I have tried using this reboot were no-gos at the gate beause the program was not detecting any speech. Even this last flight had this issue, I had to close out the sim and reload it to get FS2crew to even start correctly. I would revert to the classic version at this point if it didnt mean having to reinstall the entire aircraft again, which I already had to do to install this version. This is using the latest NGX version redownloaded from PMDGs website, FSX:SE, SOP1.

Tried to give the new reboot a go for the first time today and when the gate agent walked in and asked if I wanted to load the passengers, I noticed the voice was not being picked up. The settings said voice mode was activated, I looked at the logs and it showed the system was loaded correctly, but nothing was being shown as being recognized, nothing in the log, nor any text showing up in the green bar. I figured something wasn't instantiated correctly, so I toggled the system over to button control with the intention of flipping it back to the voice to reload the voice system. I didnt see any other way to do this, but I saww that once the mode flipped, it was now locked. So I wasnt able to switch back to voice. So I gave up the flight, maybe I will try it tomorrow. But there needs to be some way to reinitialize the voice system, because everything else seemed to be working. I didn;t have time to actually fly after fooling around trying to fix the problem, but I did end up just reloading the sim and the voice did work so nothing was terminally wrong, just an oddity with loading. Anyway, I printed out the manuals, read through the three SOPs and looked at the various settings and customizations you can do, look forward to flying the NGX again with the new FS2Crew, looks like it is yet another great product. Cheers,

Ah excellent, this will do nicely. I was thinking about if it would be possible to toggle it via a keypress, I will give this a try the next time I fly the. Thanks!

So I had to get a new PC, old one just wasnt working anymore. Re-install FSX into this new rig, got the chance to fly the NGX again after a while, got the Emergency upgrade and was going to try that out. I get into the 737-800 and the VC hotspot to pull up the FS2Crew control panel was not working. I was still able to pull up the panel from the drop down menus so it is not a 'show-stopper' but I just wonder what could have gone wrong here. I use TrackIR/EzDok I dunno if that would do something, I found that EzDok sometimes caused the camera to go 'behind' the captains head rest and made it impossible to interact with the VC, but this is not what this is. It is just like, the hotspot isnt there. Is this a known bug? or should I just try to re-install and hope that sorts it? Cheers! Scott Kalin

I second this motion lol. I do not like the FO switching the seatbelts over to AUTO after 10,000 feet. Flying the United States I don't recall ever seeing the seatbelt sign turned off until the aircraft has reached cruise altitude. I always immediately flip the seatbelts back to ON after the FO touches the switch.

Use PFPX or topcoat to generate the loads. But don't use the feature that sends that to the sim. Instead look at the weights and balances page and see how topcat thinks the passenger and bags should be dispatched. You can then use the CDU to load the plane using topcat numbers as a guide.

How is doing it like that even remotely 'proper'?

Flew the Level D 767 all the time. My number 1 go to plane for quite some time. However those days are long long long gone. My last two complete fresh installations of FSX have not had the LvlD 76 installed, and I don't see that changing anytime soon. There is simply no point in my flying it anymore. It is dated, always had trouble getting the ground call stuff to work, the FMC getting blown out on engine start (yess I know there was a .dll that sorta fixed it). FS2Crew did make it very enjoyable to fly that plane, but with the PMDG stuff now out, nah, no place for this plane in my hangar anymore. And I really don't miss it either.

Use Space Shuttle Fleet for Orbiter. It is available on Simviation.com It handles very much like it should during the re-entry and the approach. And yes, the Shuttle does drop very fast, it is not an easy thing to glide down dead stick to a safe landing. As for SSMS 2007... not very realistic in terms of handling. Still a very fun sim, dont get me wrong. For anyone interested in learning what it took to fly the Shuttle, it is well worth it, but if you are looking for the most realistic flight dynamics, Orbiter is your best bet by far. And SSM 2....yeah don't hold your breath on that, if it is still going to happen, it isn't going to be happening any time soon. Christ is right, they have left us in the dark for a long long time and the few people of authority who were there were clearly not invovled in the development process and were doing psuedo-updates at best and ended up just raging on us saying he was not going to bother with us anymore so...yeah.

I never understood the appeal of this game. Why do people play this when they could use Orbiter Space Sim? Orbiter is free and actually realistic.

No it doesnt. And if I was being honest, the documentation for PFPX is borderline ###### poor. It isnt too hard for someone familiar with commercial aviation to understand what to do, but I cannot imagine how those who are less than familiar are dealing with it.

Id like to see the ability to pic the engines myself. That was something I had hoped would be in the NGX back when we were all hovering around the forums waiting for it to be released. A feature that didnt make it in, not the biggest deal I suppose, considering about all the other features of quality in the aircraft, but if there was something that would be cool to see added as a feature when a new SP or the BBJ package is released, being able to choose which engine is installed would be one I would like to see.

I am not sure if that can be done. The way I do it is I write up the flight plan in FSC (at least I do until the Topcat guys come out with their planner), and then I save it so I can use it for things like FSFK, Active Sky...but I always enter the flight plan by hand into the NGX's FMC. As far as doing it the other way around, how are you entering things into the FMC? What are you using for reference?

Well, I am not sure what exactly is going on with not seeing the 2D panel, and I don't know if that might be the sign of something more sinister going on, but as for Fs2Crew, you should be fine. I have FS2Crew, and EZdok, and when I boot up the NGX, EZDok does its thing and sends me into the VC, and I have never had any issues, so if you are not seeing any ill-side effects, I wouldn't loose any sleep over it.

Yeah the air conditioning panel is different. A bit different. And you will obviously be missing 2 of the over wing exit lights on the door panel. The 600 really is quick to respond to change of speed. 800 being slippery, I find you are being kind. That thing is not to be flown distracted into the terminal area that is for sure. Prior to the NGX I pretty much only flew the LDS 767 or PMDGs 747, and none of them were like the NGX, that thing really is hard to slow down. The 600, heck, even the 900 I find is much easier to slow down. The 800 really requires you to stay ontop of the speed, more so than anything I have flown in FSX.

Blunt? nah, not at all. I didnt take any offense to it. I am wrong often enough to have gotten used to it being pointed out to me I remember it being odd how like, they said they would give us due warning and then just kind of sprang it out on us that either I was read their post as being something like.....5 days warning, not 24 hours, or I missed something else along the way, which actually would make more sense. I was busy at another forum back in those days. Either way , PMDG 777....bring it on. I am ready to fly it when they are ready to release it

Ah, you are probably right EGL77W. I could very well be remembering it wrong. Or more likely I missed that post. I remember it being that they released something that said they wont spring it on us in the middle of the night, that we will have plenty warning. And then all of a sudden the Facebook stuff happened, and threw the whole board into a frenzy, and then they said it will be released the next day. And then the website got attacked and yeah....added a little extra drama to the whole mix.

They said that about the NGX, that they won't release it without notice. Well, their notice was just like this, a bunch of Facebook hints.

Been waiting on that 757 for the better part of a decade. Doesn't matter, wont buy it anyway. And please....spot on with regards to the systems. Do 767s all have their engines fail to start on the first try and get the FMS data blown out? Is the VNAV descent like plunging over the top of a roller coaster in the real thing? Perhaps 767 also has primary electrical systems also wired through the hydraulic system like the LDS 767 also seems to have. I flew that plane almost exclusively, and while it was fun, it never was up to specs with things like the PMDG 747, the Maddog MD-80, and especially nowhere near the NGX.

For what its worth, and I am sure it isn't that much ,but I find it silly that they wont even try a 767. Because the Level D is a joke at this point, and I would be hard pressed to even say that LDS as a developer doesn't even exist anymore. An NGX-grade 767 would be something I would buy without question, and there is no hope for such a product coming from Level D, nor would I see any reason to suggest the Level D 767 as a purchase for someone, especially once the PMDG 777 comes out.

There is a few things about the FS2Crew work flow that I don't particularly like. Having flown the NGX so many times on my own before FS2Crew for the NGX was able to be made, I had developed a few extra things to the checklists that I liked to have done. For example, I do not care too much for the FS2Crew FO messing with the display screens so much. I dont like which CDU screen he sets for his side, I dont like how he is always messing about with the lower center DU, I like to have the hydraulic information up for all of preflight and then switch over to that extra engine info for take off up to about 12,000 MSL. I dont like leaving the outboard landing lights deployed and on as long as he does, I don't like him having the seat belt sign on Auto, I never want it on Auto during climb or descent. But, it is easy enough to just override him and get things done the way you want them. One thing to know about FS2Crew, is that while it is always there after you install it, as it is loaded up when you load up the NGX, it doesn't actually activate until you tell it to. The full way of doing things is you click on the standby artificial horizon, you pull up the config screen and then you press a button to start the preflight flows, at which point the FO will come alive and start flipping switches and talking and all that fun stuff. You can do as froogle suggested and ignore the pre-flight stuff and move your FO into a position further down the workflow, and then trigger that moment by calling for the appropriate checklist to get that part going. But until you do either of those two things, your FO will not do a darn thing for you. Well, he might listen to your commands for things...I am not sure, but it comes with a hard mute that will prevent it from listening at all. I think you can even kick off the voice recognition module as well and there is no chance FS2Crew will pick up on anything at all. But I tell you, having that FO there during take off and landing really is a nice thing to have. Especially with the HUD. I can just be sitting in my predefined HUD position in EZDok and not move, and when ATC throws something at me, and can call it out and the FO will change the MCP for me, and I can continue flying the FD all the way up to time to put it on command A. Just to add, FS2Crew is really worth it. I own it for several different planes, both the old button version and the new voice command ones, and they just add so much. The voice versions are really something, I cant recommend FS2Crew enough.

That is how I roll. Best solution in my book when using the HUD, don't have to take my hand off the stick and don't have to look away from the HUD.