Birdman

Hello everyone, This is driving me nuts and it's hit and miss. I'm running 3 monitors. I am in full screen mode. I undock my PDF, ND and MCP and drag them and size them in my left monitor. Then I undock and drag the overhead to the upper monitor. So now I have everything sized and in full screen mode where I want them. Then I save the flight and call it..say 3 monitor setup. The problem is, if my FSX crashes or I have to restart for some reason and I load my 3 monitor setup the undocked positions aren't saved. I have to drag and re align all the windows again . Is there a proper way to do this that when a person loads in a flight, all these windows will be in their respective places on each of the monitors? If there is, I'd sure like to know how to go about it. I dont know if this is a windows or a pmdg issue. Windows 7, 8gb, i5 AT 2.7 pmdg 737ngx Thanks, Ed

Hi Chris, I'm in the market for an MCP and EFIS for my home cockpit build as well. I'm curious as to why you went CP flight over the FDS units. Was there some drawbacks or missing functions with the FDS units? Did you get the Pro MCP or the EL version? Thanks Ed

Hello everyone, I'm looking into purchasing an MCP/EFIS and also a CDU from FDS and I'm wondering if any users on the forum are using this gear with the PMDG 737NG X and if their experiences have been favourable. Your comments on this gear would be much appreciated. Thanks Ed

Have you used it yourself Robert? Is it as handy as the review says it is?

Nice Video. I especially recognize the wind noise. Often wondered if some of it was due to my sound system.

Your zfw is off. Something is amiss. (Your figure of 136 sounds like GW ) 1/3 fuel is correct as is full passengers. Did you also adjust your aft and forward cargo holds to 1500 lbs each? Redo your FMC inputs and calculations. You should come out bang on at 122.6 or 122.7. There are also some changes that need to be entered into the FMC if you are using the original nav data that came with the NGX. One of the changes is a speed restriction and that could cause a des path error at the 250 knot hard restriction at sugol.

Hello Digent, Saving in flight is very difficult with this complex airliner as others have already mentioned. Even the saved modes in flights with the tutorials will have you dropping a 1000 feet or more before the initialization criteria does it's thing. Some have suggested to enter the slew mode 'Y' then hit pause 'P' and save the flight. Personally, myself I have tried this and I think it may work to some degree but with my set up my slew control behaves wildly, seems to spin my ngx in circles and also reacts crazily to altitudes. If I can figure out why my slew control behaves this way, I may have better luck, but until then.... I would suggest trying this method just the same , but make sure you are on minimum 3500 agl final when you do the save. You can do a search in the forum also on topic of saving midflight and you may find more info on the subject. Goodluck and if you find any thing that works good, let us know. :-) Ed Ed

Sorry guys. I don't have permission to upload this type of file I can't send it privately in Avsim messenger either. . ( Error You aren't permitted to upload this kind of file)

Hello Nikita, I have one that's in excel and it's called Takeoff and Landing Performance 737-800 CFM56-7B v1.03. Would this be what you're looking for? The forum wont allow me to upload the file for some reason, but I can send it over to you privately if you like. It's about 5 pages long or so. Ed

Hello Captains, Not to hijack the thread , but a question on fuel reserves. A common daily route for WestJet would be say, Calgary-Winnipeg-Thunder Bay-Toronto- One way..each leg being 1.5 to 2 hours apart ..roughly. Would you load enough for the entire route, or at the risk of carrying non revenue cargo (extra fuel weight) would you fuel up for the first leg and top off at each stop along the route? Ed

Hi Tom, I have this same thing happen to me also. Just carry on with your approach and it will most likely autoland with the yellow single ch on the PFD. It does for me. I don't really know why it was doing the yellow single channel thingy, but I figured after I've flown enough routes and read enough of the manuals the answer would come. Ed

Thanks Bert. Nice site. Will practise this one also. Ed

Thank you very much guys for your input on the CTL. It really sheds light on it for me. I've muddled my way through Tutorial 2 a couple of times now, but usually by the time I had Innsbruck runway in sight I was so far behind the airplane that I just headed for the nearest PAPIs. I definitely need to do it a few more times yet as it looks like I've still got a lot to learn from it:-) There is so much information packed into that tutorial that it's hard to absorb over a short period of time. Great work by Ryan.Thanks again. Ed

Hello NGX Captains, I see this in my IAP charts and also in the fuel planning thread in Brman2006's post (within the picture of the excel spreadsheet in the NGX fuel planning thread). Would someone be so kind as to explain to me what exactly this means in terms of arriving at one's destination. Does this happen when you arrive at your destination, winds have switched so you overfly and circle backaround to land on the opposite end of the runway? Ed

Ahh, I have an old cycle, forgot to mention that. Ed

Hello eurowing, I have the Kooly fix in my FSX NGX CDU. Ed

Andrew, works fine on myW7 8G , i5 and a geforce 250 1 gig (100 dollar card)--go for it! You'll love the NGX. Ed

Hi Bruce,, A few questions for you if you will. Did you use the throttle set controls for each engine and which bullet did you use in FSUIPC? Did you use the joystick calibration tool in FSUIPC? Can you use the blue arc with no issues and can you move the throttles at will without disconnecting the AT? Sorry to ask so many so fast, but always wanted to remain as much within FSUIPC as possible, but I seem to have issues with it in this area so very interested in how you have yours set up. Thanks Ed

Fabrizio that was a great post. I remember reading it some time ago and passed it by, thinking my throttles were ok. After re reading it, I deleted the joystick calibrations in FSUIPC and set my thrust lever axes as throttle 1 set and throttle 2 set, sending to FS for calibrations (as per Jason's post). Auto throttle seems to be rock steady now, no more disconnects. I can also take advantage of the blue arc as well as move my thrust levers without having the AT disconnect. Glad this topic was revisited. Thanks. Ed

I set mine to the above post also and seems to work well on my homemade throttle, but I notice when my reversers activate (on the ground), the speedbrake (green) light comes on. Any ideas why that is?

Seems like a very complicated download page. I'd like to try the flight but I'm kind of nervous about those pages as it seems to want me to download and install some other program types.

Well done ! :-) I will be flying this rte soon. Thanks for sharing. Great read :-) Nice scenery also. Would love to see more of these :-)

Wow, thanks Kyle. I think In Canada airline procedures are probably quite similar to those in the US, but I am not an airline pilot, so wouldn't know for sure. I have re- posted larger more readable pics up top, I will certainly look closer at what you've explained in your post. It seems where I have errored is joining my STAR with my approach and I should be allowing myself at least another 40 miles to decend from FL190 to 3000. The reason I was joining my STARS with my approaches was to try and get away from the constant flight discontinuity message. :-) I will keep them separate from now on. really neat website for traffic flows. Thanks for that. Ed

Yes, sorry about pics, think I made them too small to see. Perhaps I can make them larger.The STAR is for KJFK for 22L .I'll try adjusting the descent a little. For experimentation, I'll delete restrictions at Lendy, but they are published as such with the restriction. Ed

Hello Captains, Can someone tell me what I need to do to adjust my plan. I get this quite often when trying to insert my own route into the FMS. (No des path after a certain waypoint or STAR. I have included the last 2 pages of my rte plan. Am I trying to descend to quickly and it's not able, or is my path just not doable. Wondering what parts I should adjust, the speed, the alt's or both. Ed