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Make sure you hit the TO/GA and not the A/T disconnect button. When you're in a "seat point of view" Those two switchboxes easily converge.

The perfect amount of fuel to land with is your reserves (Fuel for holding, alternate and those 30-40 minutes of extra) plus whatever you saved in during the trip.

Engine bleeds can be shut in order to increase preformance (Air is not "stolen" from the engines any longer). The correct procedure for this should be in the QRH or FCOM (or use the above). In any normal situation you'd have engine bleeds on, APU shut off (and not bleeding, ofc), packs and Isolation Valve to Auto. Resiric fans can be as you like, but with them off, the air would be rather nasty after a short while. I know that some pilots prefer these off during ground ops and even take offs, because they're so noisy. Taking off without engine bleeds is basically only done on fields with short runways, high temperatures and/or high elevation.

Found it, sort of. It's on the MIP for the Classic, but I haven't found it yet for the NG. I'd think it would be somewhat in the same area, though. (Picture taken by me in 2008, a SAS 737-400)

That's actually plugged. There's a hull enforcer right there, which ye can't put a hole through. At the 700, I think it's row 5 or 6, check it out next time you're boarding a 737.

Hit "Speed INTV" on the MCP. When you do, it will follow the path, but set the speed that you're inserting on the MCP.

Have you ever waited it out? You are - on both picture - at FL100, aka acceleration height. Also in both pictures, your IAS is below what the FMS has set. Try and let the craft get its speed set properly and then check your climb rate. Edit: Looking over your post, I'm certain that you'll see that everythings fine. When you reach FL100 (or 10 000, if you're under FAA rules), you'll suddenly be allowed to fly more than 250kias. Your FMC sets the optimal climb speed for you when you do the pre-flight. Once the plane's above FL100, and are no longer restricted to stay below a certain speed, it accelerates to the optimum calculated speed setting. Because your engines already are going at full, the aircraft will pitch down for a moment while it gains it speed.

Bwahaha, the replies to this topic actually made me laugh loudly (or LOL, if you like). Karma? For real? And that many of you? Weeell, ok. I'm not gonna ruin this thread by starting a discussion about my thoughts around religion and other spiritual... stuff (send me a PM if you dare discuss with me ). To OP: I loved your story, a kid's job is to exploit their parents from time to time (to a certain degree, of course). Scratching a CPU to get a new one, I don't see the harm. It's not a mean thing, it's a white lie. Noone will get hurt from this. Enjoy the upgrade, Jamalje!

Meh. If I had enough fuel, nice weather and no failures on the aircraft, I think I'd be able to program it to autoland. If I was an easily stressed person, no way. And there's no way I'd even consider doing it manually, unless I was the only guy alive on the friggin thing. I have landed it sucessfully a couple of times in SAS' NG full-motion crew training sim, but no. Just no.

If I know the terrain and the weather is nice: When I see the airport/surounding area. I love flying the 737 manually, preferably without A/T and F/D as well. I always fly the ILS manually when I'm established and everything is set, unless the conditions are CATIII. But now I can do that manually with the HGS!

Guessing you're not entering the coordinates. Go to POS-page, go to page two, confirm that GPS L and R show the same coordinates, then choose (click on) any one of them. This should make the coordinates show up in the scratchpad (bottom left corner of CDU display). Go back to page 1 (prev page), then click on the button by the empty field (empty boxes). Those boxes will show a couple of seconds after you set the IRS-switches in aft ovhd to "allign" or "nav", so if they don't show, wait a bit.

Check your settings, do you let your joystick override A/T? If so, only a small touch at the throttle lever on your joystick will disconnect it.

Just checking. Did you have both nav rads tuned to the ILS? Both CMD's on the MCP activated?

Post's dropping in faster than I write here :( Well, I doubt this is a software issue, so try to follow the resolution propositions, and see if it disappears. The QRH says the following: Condition: One or more of these occur:•A zone duct overheat•Flight deck temperature control is failed. Refer to FCOM vol 2 chapter 2.31.4 for more info on the air system.

Yeah, it's in the QRH as well, chapter 2.24. Check any warning you get with the QRH (Quick Reference Handbook, found in your PMDG NGX documents folder), this add-on is as complex as the real thing, so to say. Any warning or error you get that is not obviously software-issues (freezing, FSX errors, CTD's, etc etc) can almost always be solved by handeling the aircraft correctly. Obviously, this is our hobby, not our jobs, so to read all of the thousands and thousands of pages that follows this aircraft is quite extreme. But the QRH is indexed very nicely, making it easy to find the issue you're having, and anything that can be done to solve it.

Set packs to Auto, not on. And have you checked the QRH? All errors and warnings should be listed in there.

Got it too, currently trying various texture-settings and resolution configs. Gonna drop back in if I get any resolution to this.

Didn't some Japanese guy marry his robot or computer or gameboy or something like that?

Got my download-link, and the first thing that pops up is "database connection problem". It also pops up when I try to reach any site on the eCommerce part of PMDG's pages.

Genious! Thanks :D

Right, I'm just curious, will the NGX HGS have any options to it's lay-out? For example, I've been watching the NGX HUD-landing vid, and there's one thing in particular I missed from it. I know that Scandinavian Airlines has a ruwnay-drawing in their HGS, in other words, they can actually see the runway itself drawn on the HGS, even though it's not visible due to fog or other meteorogical events. Will this be possible with the NGX? It's just a small detail that I'd really like to try, and I wouldn't be disappointed if it's not there, considering the severe complexity of this add-on. But still, it would be a nice addition to the other hundreds of thousands small almost (stand-alone) insignificant details and features that makes this add-on as good as it is.

That. The companies SOP's vary on many many subject, this is one of them. At SAS, for example, they will engage the FD once they've landed (if it was ever disenganged), and let it stay like that through the ground stop and into the next leg. The A/T will be disenganged when/after landing (depending manual or autoland), and activated as a part of the Before Taxi checks.