Werner747

Same on your side buddy - all the best and God bless for the new year.

That is quite a mouth full from a chap with only 20 posts, you are clearly quite new. A word of advice - your attempts at looking like a wise guy comes off pretty cheap unfortunately. Are you a software developer? Do you know what actually goes into software development? If not, please tell us why you are qualified to give such a lofty opinion in here? The biggest problem we have these days on public fora are people who think or believe somehow they know everything about everything else and it gets a little tiresome. So please, just don't do it.

As a pilot or passenger? Unless you can tell me that you have PILOTED these airplanes in real life, I have to respectfully tell you that I don't think you are in the best position to judge accuracy - you do know that PMDG have real guys that actually pilot these aircraft to assist with the testing right? I think that takes precedence over your armchair assessment of the accuracy of the aircraft.

Hi Bryan, Just a quick question - I know you said that the ECL is left out of the equation, but does this mean you follow paper checklists like in the 747-400, or how did you integrate it? Not expecting massively complicated answer, just to get a quick idea please. Many thanks in advance!

thanks for the reply, I do slow the aircraft down to 230 knots with about 5 degrees of flap so it should easily be able to hold the pattern. What it does is not try to fly an erratic pattern with right hand turns trying to stay inside the hold at high speed. It turns left, away from the racetrack pattern. That is not normal. thanks for the reply, thing is I am not just sitting back and trusting the magic to happen, I just want to know why others are getting the patterns flown and my aircraft doesn't want to :-). So in essence, this being a learning curve, I want to know WHY it is not doing it so that I can get it right in future. I haven't had the time to return to the problem just yet, but will play with it a bit over the weekend. Thanks for all the replies, I am giving it another go this weekend so will keep everyone updated on how it goes :-)

Hi everyone, Okay - so... I have recently started to dip into the abnormal procedures and getting some practice done on that (which is a lot of fun btw). Here is the scenario first. I do a medium fuel and normal payload takeoff with a properly loaded route and VNAV/LNAV profile loaded into the FMC as if I am flying a route. The aircraft is then setup to lose an engine at V1. So that part is easy enough, follow the engine out procedure, but now because of the medium fuel load, I am overweight and need to dump some fuel to get within landing parameters. So I had to the assigned fuel dumping area which is off the path of the magenta line obviously, so I engage heading select to fly off and alt hold mode and head off to the dump site. Now the idea is to setup a PPOS holding point in the FMC to hold and dump fuel until I can return. The setup all goes well, the aircraft will enter the hold without issues (by default a right hand turn obvioulsy). I do this by switching on LNAV and it enters the pattern just fine, does the downwind leg and the moment it needs to turn right again to return to the waypoint and complete the track, it turns left and out of the pattern. and from there does all sort of weird maneuvers but never properly enters the pattern again. What am I doing wrong here? Can anybody assist? TIA

Agreed - what I have also noticed is how much more responsive the engine are compared to the -400! They react to throttle changes so quickly. Quite a different feel overall to the -400

Thanks Peter! I dabbled a bit last night, didn't fly, just sat on the ground and went through everything getting a feel for it. Really worth the investment, guarantee you will enjoy it!

Hahaha - I have been badly ill with the flu since Friday so only getting to take a look now which is good since missing the rush this time around 😉

What would you like to hear - we have debugged A, B, C today and we have issues with these 45 lines of code? Software is not like your average building job or project which is common sense. We have had a good update not too long ago and in the last week had an awesome cockpit tour - what more do you honestly want.

Hi Peter, I recently (as in during the week) pulled the trigger on P3Dv4 as well, so this is the news I ahve been waiting for! Thanks!

Wow - just absolutely WOW!!! I have grown used to the fact that when PMDG goes silent they have their heads down in the mud somewhere to come up with something incredible, and you have pulled out all the stops yet again! The P3D v4 features are great since I have actually just today started to invest in the odd and ends needed to make the transition and to put FSX away for good. Absolutely stunning work folks, I cannot wait for the finished product! Regards

Wow - I don't visit these forums as often I used to due to real life time constraints, but I am glad I came across this tonight. All the best and God bless my friend. This is a very different take on how realistic our PMDG simulations are. Take care and all the best for the future!

Indeed - at this point it is only MD-11, my only legacy product but I really NEED that to work when I want to lol. regards

I had it for FS2004 in boxed version and then got it for FSX. I haven't flown it in a long time but that is only because of time constraints etc. I am a Boeing die-hard fan. This aircraft is more like a 'Bus than a Boeing in many respects, but I still love it. In fact, I would still recommend anyone to buy it in it's current state if this is something your are interested in. Marvelous aircraft. I have always wondered if PMDG cannot just give some developer the rights just to do a texture overall on it. That would be awesome, but still, lovely aircraft and still a favourite to fly. Regards

What I normally do is use the proper approach speed, and at 20 feet go to idle and raise the nose just a degree or two. That results in excellent landings, however, as I said I think I hit some sheer on those last ones. I am seriously contemplating getting ASN to avoid getting caught out by those nasty sheer buggers on finals! Regards

Thank you everyone - and NO, my replays didn't look like that LOL!!! It is pretty amazing the amount of abuse it seems that these birds can take. I would imagine though that the Silway incident would have warranted a close inspection of the gear and flaps before being cleared for service? I usually land at between 80-140 fpm, but I suspect that on both of those occasions I had a bit of sheer on finals. I use FSGRW so I cannot use the weather radar to detect sheers. This can get tricky sometimes... Regards

Hi everyone, Okay so... I generally get greasers in my Queen and I have developed a really good landing technique with her. That said, for various different reasons my 2 of my last three landings were what I would consider to be dangerously hard landings in the sense that it might need some inspection post flight :-). The first one was on a flight from FAOR - DGAA where I impacted terra firma at around 410fpm, and then today from FAOR - YPPH landing at 355fpm. I know that there are rules pertaining to the amount of G's sustained during a landing which is used, but can anyone give me some guidelines please? Many thanks in advance

LOL Jack - I know it isn't funny, but the way you tell the story and your reaction is priceless! All the best - they should have it sorted out in no time! Regards

Which one - the study airplane in real life or the sim one lol? Regards

Indeed! And let's face it - if a price tag is already 90 USD and you have to add the 65% margin, you are looking at another 58.50 USD, ramping it up to a whopping 148.50 USD. Now let us put that into perspective, I live in the not so sunny RSA. The Rand to USD now trades at a nice R 13.60. So to me, what would have cost R 1 224-00, now costs a whopping R 2 019-00! To put that into perspective, that is about 20 percent of your just below average salary here in RSA. Sorry, cannot afford it - now let us look at the impact on P3D products shall we? The concern is exactly what you mention - you may have the option but if you could buy something for 10,2 percent of your salary, why buy it for more than 20%? DTG will get rowdy, the deal will be cancelled and all of a sudden, BOOM! No PMDG in FSW. It is a little oversimplified I know, but there you have it. It cannot work and it is not sustainable. Regards

Because we learn from history that we don't learn from history. I would think that in our niche community people should work together and not try to hold the monopoly and exclude everyone else - they just sawed off their feet with blunt bread knives the folks at DTG. With that mindset, they may as well stop development right now as it will go down the tubes like Flight... OR - they could actually take the community and the potential customers into account and build something positive for the future. I really hope they can come to their senses, however, given that they came up with this thought in the first place, almost certainly suggests that they won't - at least not until it is too late anyway. Regards

I doubt there is something like that in the pipeline, or else PMDG would have released some sort of statement informing us of new plans. I stand to be corrected, but I don't think so. Regards

I am also following this because I had the exact same issue - sent one of the PMDG guys a PM here asking what to do but didn't receive a reply. Regards

Okay, I found a solution that works for me - instead of running it as admin only, COMPLETELY TURN OF YOUR UAC, run OC, then the updates and then turn the UAC back on. This did the trick for me, no more missing dll's etc. Good luck!