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I think that this is a very unrealistic request. Checklists, flows, procedures, that's what it's all about in real life. Trying to avoid problems by standardization and repetition. In all my (both IRL and Sim) flights I've always used checklists and I never got/get bored of flying. I do sometimes wonder why I don't use a checklist when I drive my car :-). Just my 2 cents ...

Two mice/mouses will work (just tested it), but they will operate on the same cursor (arrow). I wouldn't know how to get a second cursor on one PC. And what about framerates? I also don't think that you can run two instances of Flight Simulator on one PC, let alone assigning two different yokes since there is only 1 fsx.cfg ...

Thank you Julio, great stuff!

This happened to me in one of my first flights (before any of the SP's). I had no clue about what was happening, since I was flying with all failures disabled! And sure enough, when I landed, the right landing gear failed and my right wing touched the ground. Never had any failure since though (still everything disabled).Best regards,

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Great story, thanks for sharing!Only experience I have so far is a touch and go in a real A320 simulator in a Tokyo science museum, where I could only handle the primary flight controls myself (great fun though).

Thanks Mandy! That did the trick, everything back to normal now. There was a weird tailnumber, nothing to do with JAL at all. I believe that it was a tailnumber that I used a long time ago on the default 737, long before the NGX was released. No clue where FSX dug up this number all of a sudden :-) ...Best regards,

Hi all,Before installing SP1c, I uninstalled my liveries. Then after the install of SP1c I reinstalled them. I didn't save any old files, as I'm not advanced enough to fly with failures yet, so the actual number of hours flown is also not important to me.Just now I loaded the Japan Airlines 800WL and there are quite a few differences from the plane that I flew before SP1c:- no HUD- different secondary altimeter and horizon- Honeywell in stead of Collins MCPAlso the plane started C&D in stead of ready to fly. I didn't change anything in the JAL livery, not before and not after the installation of SP1c.When I check JA320J.ini I find for instance HGSInstalled=1 where I suppose "1" means "yes". So I wonder, why does the plane show up in a different way than before (and not even in accordance with the ini file)?Best regards,

Thank you guys a lot! I can't help noticing that you all are working into the early hours of Sunday morning ...

I think you meant 109.10?I just flew the approach in the Duke B60. It captured both localizer and G/S. I won't have time to fly a second attempt in the NGX today, but I will try tomorrow. Anyway, thanks for helping me :-)!

I flew STAR: STM1M and Transition: FSK. So inbound from BALAK, with R-092 as IAF. I made my final turn towards the runway at FSK, no holding, no procedure turn. This was how it was demonstrated during the course and how the FMC wanted to fly it, after entering the Approach, the Star and the Transition.

Well, that is exactly what I would have expected, but I don't know all ins and outs about Navigraph's AIRAC data. I could imagine that there is information about both the centerline orientation and that of the localizer beam. But just guessing, I have no clue.So, I could imagine that the AP won't do the job based on that discrepancy, leaving the PF with indications on the PFD but still making this approach something you have to hand fly anyhow.I will try this again tomorrow, but download the Navigraph charts in stead of using the charts provided by my FS club.Best regards,

This was my first approach on an airport with a localizer offset. On "normal" airports I never saw this happening. I guess it won't be easy to find another runway like that. This airport was chosen for a training flight by someone in our local MS FS club. Maybe the best thing to do is give it another try. I could also make some screenshots then. This time it took me by surprise.

Yes, I did.

Hi Captains,Today I made the ILS 25 approach on ENBO (STAR: STM1M Transition: FSK).The localizer has a slight offset to the left of the runway due to some hills in front of the runway. The ILS course was 264 degrees and I imagine that this is the value including the offset. But although both localizer and glide slope were indicated on the PFD, I couldn't establish on the localizer nor catch the glide slope. They were both annunciated as next mode (so in white), but that's were it stopped.On the ILS chart the course was 268, but I thought that the FSX info was just outdated and therefor I should use 264.Is there a reason why the AP won't engage in this situation? Is it because the course deviation between centerline and localizer? Was I wrong and should it have been 268 after all?Best regards,

Lots of possible reasons in that thread. I'll check them one by one. Thank you!

Yes, why? This was a first time in many flights. Only software change in the past weeks was installing TrackIR last Saturday.

Hi All,Just now I was flying from Suriname to Brazil in the 600. Weather was calm, no external engine. The plane was flying on AP in LNAV-VNAV mode and perfectly on course.When I approached my first waypoint the plane started to make small corrections from left to right to left and so on. There was no obvious reason for this behaviour, fuel tanks were balanced, engines were running normal. When getting closer to the waypoint the s-turns became slowly more steep and the course deviations were increasing as well. At a certain point I disengaged the AP and I passed the waypoint hand flown.Then, enroute to the next waypoint I engaged the AP again in LNAV-VNAV and everything went smooth from there on.Has anybody any idea what has been going on?Best regards,Herman.

This sounds really great, thank you Ryan!

Thanks Stephen, all clear!Herman.

Thank you Stephen. So if I understand you well, it depends on the Cost Index setting whether the NG will operate in Constant Mach or Long Range Cruise mode? The first being faster, the second more economic?Herman.

Hi Captains,When flying the NGX I noticed that de CRZ speed on the FMC is slow decreasing all the time. Does anybody know why? The only thing I can come up with (from my experience as a competitor in gliding contests) that the speeds for optimal performance are higher when a plane is more heavy. (That's why a glider takes water ballast on board as long as the thermals are strong enough to compensate for the extra weight). So I could imagine that, while the plane is loosing weight while burning fuel, the optimal CRZ speed (according to the Cost Index that is flown with) would accordingly drop.Any ideas?Best regards,Herman.

Great video, thank you! And what a cool guy (in black polo), showing the outside of the plane and doing the cockpit interview. And talking about great: Thank you PMDG for your beautiful VC, to me it felt as if the interview was taken in my living room :-)!Herman Nienhuis.

Hi Dan,Just this week I started reading your tutorial and yesterday I made a crude first version of a repaint of the NGX. Lots of details went not the way I planned, but at least I have something in the hangar now that at least starts to look like what I had in mind.Never used Photoshop before, never made a repaint.So if you are looking for a newbie beta tester I would like to apply. I too am unemployed but have a 30 years experience as software developper.Please let me know if you'd like me to join. Yesterday I already joined Dantrix.Net ...Kind regards,Herman.

Hi Dan,This is a really very helpfull tutorial. Thank you for all the effort you have put into it!I have been working with it all day. As all the links to images are missing right now it's a little hard. But I wonder what you mean by "a few hours". Will they only be available for a limited time? And if so, when would that be in UTC?Regards,Herman