Da Flyguy

Gents, I recently bought a throttle quadrant for the PMDG 737. It's non motorized but has all functionality. I have little to no experience using FSUIPC but will go through some tutorials over the weekend. I should have no problems setting up the throttle, flaps, speed brakes, parking brakes. However I could really use some advise on the reversers (axis control, not switch) and fuel cut off switches as I am not sure where to bind them to within FSUIPC. Any help welcome Regards, Rick Melcher

Hi Mike, Had to try straight away and want to thank you. You hit the nail on the head. All as per normal. Once again a big thanks. Cheers, Rick

Hi Gents, I had another go at it setting up a basic flight plan. When the time came to select rwy and star the FMC page showed neither rwy's or stars and was followed by the message WMKK ERR: 15 RWY N/A along the bottom of the page. Any ideas welcome Cheers, Rick

Gents, Sorry but have a odd problem with NAVDATA. Parked at WSSS for a flight to WMKK. No STARS or SIDS are displayed in the FMC of the 777 for WMKK (Kuala Lumpur INTL) Then I set up the very same with the 737 and have no issues at all. (All STARS and SIDS displayed) All on very clean and new install. Installed 777 first then decided to install 737 as well. Must be something to do with where NAVDATA is located? Any Advise welcome, Kind regards Rick Melcher

Hello Rob, It makes no difference, taxi way, runway, apron area. My Lighting settings are as follows Shadow quality - medium Enable terrain to receive shadows (ticked) No - Terrain shadow cast No - Cloud Shadow cast Object shadow cast 6000m Internal Vehicle Cast Receive External Vehicle Cast Receive and the rest un ticked. Tried every possible selection without luck. I remember encountering same issue with Milviz 737 Thanks, Rick

Hello Gents, Just a quick one. When using my beloved PMDG 737 in P3D I am getting odd shadow cast of the aircraft on the ground from the VC. (Only showing bits of the plane) The other view points are not effected. Did do a search and believe it could be a P3D rendering issue. Anyway, If someone has some tricks or tips it will be appreciated. Have a complete clean install and not using Nvidia Inspector at this time. To all the PMDG staff I very much appreciate your wonderful products. Thank you, Cheers, Rick

Hi Carl, Thank you for the response. I have the i7 4970 (not sure what name it goes by) and paired up two GTX 780 Ti's Also use 16 gig of high speed corsair vengeance memory on a Asus Rampage V Extreme MB. I have minimized any tweaking. Dropped back the settings in NVidia inspector with the exception of Antialiasing-transparency Supersampling which is AA_MODE_REPLAY_SGSSAA_8X (can.t stand jaggies) I youtubed P3d tweaks and came across what for me is a miracle tweak. They mentioned to add the following line in to the p3d.cfg [Main] directory FIBER_FRAME_TIME_FRACTION=0.01 I selected an aircraft that previously gave me 29~33 FPS and without changing any settings (except to insert the above mentioned line) It now sits on 43~47 FPS. So this will hopefully also take care of PMDG's 777. Kind regards, Rick

I am very curious to find out how the extra eye candy will effect the performance of the 777 within P3D. How does she compare against the FSX version ?. I plan on using internal shadows because it just looks amazing. Do not care much for Autogen and high detail water so hoping the performance will be okay. Cheers, Rick

I flew into Brunei INTL Airport (WBSB) whilst using ASN and here also the weather was pretty nasty. Could that contribute ? Other then using ORBX Global and Global Vector I have a complete clean install with any other airport sceneries or other aircraft. Cheers, Rick

Hi, Yep it caught me out as well. Established passing the localizer capturing ILS and all of a sudden find my air speed dropping very quickly so disconnected auto throttle and auto pilot and did a manual landing. Saved the passengers ^_^. Had speed set 161 KTS and then out of the blue she dropped like a brick. Kind regards, Rick Melcher

Hi there, I for one am looking forward to flying the 777 in P3D.... I do however have a concern with this product and that is performance. I have noticed that some "other" complex aircraft in P3D take a real frame rate hit. More so then in FSX. Do not get me wrong, I am not after sky high FPS but to have it hover between 15 to 20 in P3d will make for a poor flying experience whichever way you slice to cake. Currently (with SP1c) installed in FSX I sit around 35 FPS give or take 5 frames. ... And because it doesn't fluctuate wildly I am experiencing very smooth flights with the 777 My question to you Robert is how this product performs in P3D ? (keeping in mind that I'll be happy with anything mid 20's) Kind Regards, Rick Melcher

Hi Ladies and Gents Probably know already but ORBX FTX GLOBAL has a new installer for you to grab that will allow a PREPAR3D V2 installation. So head over to the FlightSim store to download . Cheers , Rick Melcher

Most Asian carriers will use there 777's on 2~3 hour sectors between Singapore, Bangkok, Hong Kong, Jakarta, Kuala lumpur and this is why I like this region so much. .... Plenty choices and not too long

Hey Noble.....It goes without saying that I use the NGX although I still get lock up/freeze with her..... She flies great and never check the stupid frame rate counter...If the PMDG 777 is close to the NGX I will be more then happy.

The buzzsaws are back in town. and loving it. That's why I loved flying in the older 747-200 that had the PW JT9D engines