Kinetic2080

Do you know if they will include planetary flight? I've played eve online and x3 and you never land on planets. but being able to land on planets like freelancer and elite frontiern would make my day!

Great! Well, there seems to be no separate "MEL" manual there, but maybe the info is covered wuthin the included manuals, they are as extensive as in the NGX!

Honestly I don't know. There seem to be a bug so only the "Introduction" and "Tutorial #1" was installed to my Start -> PMDG Simulations -> PMDG 777 Start Menu...

Thanks for the answers. I will use "777 LONG" for Startup State now. Slightly off topic but how much fuel does the APU use anyway? May an air conditioning unit replace the job of adjusting the cabin temperature? I guess the APU/onboard systems will always do a better job.

Ok thanks. The 777 has a 4 minutes self-check. Is this tied to the power on of the APU, or will ground power do? How much of the flight preparation can be done before the aircraft runs the those checks?

Hello, just a short question. I noticed in the Tutorial 1, in the Cold and Dark addendum the APU is started just after the battery is switched on. My question: Is the activation of the APU sometimes delayed until shortly before pushback, like in the 737 or is the APU usually running this early on the checklist?

Thanks for all the specific CI's and input. It seems that flying the 777 to it's full potential (mach 0.84) isn't always the case then. As a desktop pilot it's easy to assume time is the most important factor. I probably will join a VA or get a livery for a airliner that uses higher CI, and be flying closer to 0.84 mach. - Andrew Wold

Thanks that was a good general explanation. However it says the cost index range for the 777 is 0-9999, while the PMDG Tutorial says the range is 0-999. Some specific cost indexes for the 777 would be helpfull! -Andrew Wold

Hello, the cost index in the B738 runs from 0 to 500 while the cost index on the 777 has the range 0 to 999. So to calculate a good cost index in the 777 I just need to double the 737 cost index to get a usable 777 cost index, right? ... I thought not, but any good reads on the subject? - Andrew Wold

Even the base product Flight Simulator X needs activation. If MS closes that server it doesnt matter how your addons install offline or online for that platform, your investements are gone. -Kinetic

Sweet. Thanks, Kinetic2080

Hi, I'm pretty new to the 737NGX and have this question about setting up the flightplan in the FMC/CDU. When select PLN instead of the MAP on the knob on the panel left of the autopilot (MCP) console I can see the departure airport as well as the SID I select on the Captain's Navigation Display screen (middle screen). Question: Is there any way to display (or center the display) on the destination airport? I think I did this in the 737 Pilot in Command but I forgot how... at least it makes it way easier to select the right STAR without having to resort to charts... and even with the charts to double check the destination part of the flightplan when I'm far from the destination. Thanks for any help, Kinetic2080 -

Hi, I've just gotten a new graphics card, the very capable Nvidia Geforce GTX 560 Ti. I haven't upgraded to a new graphic card in several years so it's a bit hard to explain... There is an ugly fade-effect applied to the autogen trees in FSX. It only happens to those trees that has vertical textures to make the roof of forests seem more dense. The problem is that this creates an ugly light green line as these parts of the trees fades in. Here's a picture that might explain it better: Basically are there any setting in the nvidia control panel or fsx.cfg files that disables this fade-in effect to a portion of the tree-object? Note: I don't think this is a hardware issue, or I would post in the hardware-forum. -Kinetic

I agree they should have given it more time! My guess in an earlier post was that they would at least let it run for a year to see how it performed with more interesting scenery-areas and aircraft... when you trickle release content, you can't expect the 'big boom' effect of the free launch to last forever. A second advertisment and discount campaign when more content would be available would have been needed for instance near x-mas. Only when content equal to a boxed version had been in place would MS Flight had the chance to be judged fairly by the communities... ... that's why I feel sorry for the dev team, they did an excellent job with the flight dynamics, the best in-house GA planes released from Microsoft (compared to FSX) and graphics that it was too bad we didn't get to see for the rest of the world. I hope they will find new assignements quickly. -

Darn... guess I refused to see the signs. After an initial juicy release (for a free title) with deluxe planes and plenty of missions... ... things got quiet with a slow trickle of those much debated warbirds. I thought the team had to use all their resources on Alaska scenery and would catch up with deluxe planes after that... ... but when Alaska was released as a generic area, with only a few areas Hawaii-quality I guess I should have seen the writing on the wall ... I wonder what unfinished aircraft and scenery were planned... or if they just wrapped it up with a skeleton team, when they 'gave it up' to steam. A sad day for desktop GA enthusiast :( I'm sad at least :( -