petedob

So what's the difference a flaperon and an aerilon?

Good news...although it will probably take a year or two for the product to debut.

Yes, you can. I did it a few months ago after the purchase of a new PC.

I had the same issue and had to paste my serial number a few times to get the activation to work.

For those who are interested, below is a modification I made in the aircraft.cfg file to increase the turn radius of the nose wheel steering. Turns on the ground in the Carenado 850 seem a little wide, although others may think it is fine. In the [contacts_points] section of the config file I changed the value highlighted in red to 58 in the line below (you can adjust the value up or down for more or less steering range): point.0 = 1, 21.52, 0.0, -5.95, 1500, 0, 0.7, 58, 0.45 2.00 0.9, 3, 3, 0, 250, 235 //0.45, 3.0

That's good advice for all who contact Carenado...

Ryan, Thanks for sharing your observations of the Hawker in this forum. They have been helpful and hopefully the developers at Carenado are taking note.

I think they come up because internet forum topics are like conversations...people have them without knowing someone else has deliberated a subject multiple times. Besides a 757, what other aircraft types do you think PMDG would produce as a flight sim?

There's not much left for them to create given their current business philosophy...unless that changes.

They do...maybe you haven't run across any yet. This report transitions from "how" to "why" a helicopter accident occurred when investigators were unable to determine any mechanical or weather related contributions to the accident: http://www.ntsb.gov/investigations/AccidentReports/Reports/AAB0703.pdf.

It's probably more important at this point to understand why the aircrew shut down (or may have been attempting to restart) an engine during the phase of flight they were in. Was the aircraft not climbing acceptably? Did the crew panic? Who knows...stating that they panicked or all they had to do was to pitch for v2 and fly to a safe altitude is premature.

Could it be possible that the aircraft was not sufficiently climbing to clear obstacles along their flight path and maybe the crew was attempting an engine restart?

It seems odd there is a procedure for shutting down an engine after a losing power in that engine (unless there is an indication of a fire) during the first few minutes of flight.

Thanks, I appreciate your expert knowledge of what PMDG thinks is profitable. Are you sure?

PMDG team, Are there any updates you can provide on the DC-6, other than "it will be done when it is done"? Is there any way to elevate it from a pet project and get it to customers sooner? Pete

Add a 2d panel like Jim says to do and your troubles are over.

Loss of control of the aircraft in IMC could have also led to loss of life on the ground. I think there are too many unknowns to interpret the conditions and pilot's skill in this incident.

You're right, "PSolk" should have no opinion unless he was there.

Your blowin smoke.

...well you're right, we wouldn't want a thread lock to happen. What does a dancing rat have to do with anything?

If it acceptable to post news of this incident on AVSIM, then it should be ok to post any and all comments about it.

"In order to answer that question we have to define the word "leadership". My simple definition of leadership in the context of our hobby is being able and willing to provide guidance and support to other members of our simming community, no matter the forum or location, AVSIM or otherwise. This, of course, is not the entire definition of leadership, nor is it the only one." - I agree with Tom...my only concern is the assumption by some AVSIM members that their posts about topics not related to flight simulation belong on AVSIM. A current post, "Top five bad guys in film" is an example. I think some leadership needs to be applied to remind the community that AVSIM is not a 'post any' information source, unless that is the intent.

"We are a community of people who have a hobby of flight simulation, that doesn't mean that nothing else interests us, or that I don't enjoy sharing other things with my flight sim friends. If someone doesn't like the thread, they can just as easily move on to the next one." ...good one.