kittyatyi

I love this topic!

Thanks for your input, will give it a try.

I am wondering if anyone has experienced this, it happened two me three times during the past two weeks and for now I can surely say this has something to do with the FMC 3D popup window On all three occassions I opened the 2D FMC panel on approach in order to be able to focus on the ATC but at the same time, see all the essential info such as waypoints and stuff like that. Otherwise I never use the popup FMC. And suddenly, the little transponder window of Squawkbox turns white, the for a few seconds the whole FSX window turns kind of whitish, transparent, similar to when something is loading, loading and no response - and finally, FSX exits, giving me a "fatal error" message. Never ever has happened before, only since I fly online (Squawkbox) and the 2D FMC panel is open.

I strongly agree with this - nothing distasteful for me either!

I didn't, unfortunately:-(

"A needle-in-a-haystack" Well said, it is, indeed:-) I don't know if it matters but I was using Active Sky Evolution for this particular flight and ASE was set to feed VATSIM weather. Unfortunately I cannot even describe how things led to leveling out at FL280 because I was not in front of my PC. But, even when pressing the Altitute Intervention button, the plane refused to climb, and the FMC sent the Unable Next Altitude message. The only way I could climb further was to select VS mode (and probably Flight Level Change could have worked too).

Good to know I am not the only one. This occassion was the first time for me though.

I can accept this as a reason as I see no other reason that might have caused the plane stop climbing. The strange thing is that it leveled at exactly 28K feet, not 27645 or 28517, but FL280. Just to add, however, when I switched to VS mode - leaving VNAV - and commanded to climb further, the NGX did climb.

6K feet 9K feet 12K feet 18K feet 24K feet 30K feet 34K feet 39K feet 44K feet 49K feet BAVAS 300@24(5) 301@24(2) 302@24(-6) 304@31(-19) 304@34(-32) 303@35(-47) 293@35(-52) 285@35(-56) 279@29(-53) 260@17(-58) 4119N 357@16(4) 359@16(2) 005@19(-9) 355@23(-22) 349@24(-35) 346@25(-48) 338@23(-51) 342@22(-52) 340@14(-51) 001@05(-54) BANAL 206@07(4) 204@07(1) 207@07(-10) 211@10(-25) 232@13(-38) 235@21(-49) 236@23(-48) 240@18(-47) 241@16(-49) 236@10(-53) Ok, so the OAT was something betwen -35 and -48, let's say -41.5 or so.

Hi all, Don't know what happened... Prepared for a routine flight. Everything set up as usual. FMC and flightplan set. Performance initialization complete. Both flight directors on, A/T on, 35000 selected in the MCP, no altitude restrictions in the FMC. Takeoff as usual, no issues. After passing 10,000 I turned off the landing lights, runway turnoff lights and switched off the seatbelt sign. I then "left" the plane climb on its own in VNAV and LNAV mode, and I went for a lunch. When I returned, the plane was flying level at FL280. No altitude restriction in the FMC, no nothing. The altitude selector was set to 35000. Why did it stop climbing at FL280, I have no idea. VNAV and LNAV were still on, they didn't disconnect. I then clicked the Altitude Intervention button, but the FMC responded "Unable Next Altitude" - don't really understand why. The flight was from LPPD to LHBP as per the below flightplan: LPPD BAVAS 4119N BANAL ARMED UM430 RETEN 4410N UN866 KORUL UN460 LEBRI OLERO UM616 DIDRU KUKOR UM729 TUROM UZ613 INTEG UL603 OBEDI UL605 STEIN UP978 VEBOS LHBP When I returned to the "cockpit" the plane was approaching the the waypoing 4119N where it should have already been at FL350... The payload was around 90% and I loaded 16496 kg of fuel. Weight is the only thing I can imagine to be a reason why it stopped climbing. Does anyone know what really happened? The takeoff weight was approximately 74500 kg. But I did flights similar in both distance and payload and never experienced anything like this.

Me too, and I hope there will be a United Airlines repaint available, so United flights to Hawaii can be simulated.

Thanks for your input, I believe I can live with these possible miscalculations, at least until the ERs and/or BBJs come out. I hope it will happen soon! Hint, hint, PMDG, deliver them fast:-)))

Hi all, I just couldn't resist the temptation and committed blasmphemy. Really wanting to fly a real world PrivatAir route from Zurich to Newark, I modified the aircraft.cfg file of the 737-800 Winglet version by multiplying each fuel tank capacity by 1.5, thus resulting in a total capacity of approximately 30K kg of fuel. Now, the 738 really has an intercontinental range. I loaded only 56 pax following the cabin layout of PrivatAir (C56), and added some cargo according to this: - 20 kg after each passenger - plus 1250 kg other cargo Cargo evenly distributed in the two cargo compartments. I then did everything as usual, loaded the flight plan, performance initialization and the rest. Everything went fine, did fuel calculation as per the second tutorial, using the FMC. According to this method I needed around 25K kg fuel in total, including reserves. No issue since my fake BBJ2 has a fuel capacity of over 30K kg. Okay, everything's cool, no overweight, everything seems to be perfect. The fuel indicators display the actual (increased) values. I took off, and at the moment I am climbing through FL290. Those of you who expected some action, like crash or whatever will be disappointed now - all I want to ask, what are the side effects of what I did to the tanks. I know that it's absolutely unrealistic to have this fuel capacity, but other than this, what other factors of the simulation will be affected? By what other means am I now flying an unrealistic aircraft?

+1

Actually your ultralong flight inspired me to plan something similar. Okay, not that long but still, long enough, almost 2700 NM. I will be flying the Privatair 737-800 and depart Munich [EDDM] for Muscat [OOMS]. I wanted to do it tonight, departing 2345 local time so I could sleep a bit after reaching cruising altitude and returning to the "flight deck" just before the T/D... but my bride didn't want to "fly" so I had to postpone this one for tomorrow, flying in daylight:-) Despite I couldn't "depart" under the night, at least I did set up the FMC to see if at all the -800 is capable of doing such a long flight with the amount of passengers I planned to put onboard. I added 64 passengers, and for each passenger, 20 kg of baggage, plus 1250 kg other cargo. Based on the fuel planning described in the second tutorial, 18491 kg of total fuel is required including reserves, which means it is indeed possible to do this flight. So, now I am off to bed but tomorrow there's this nice, long flight, approx 7 hours, Munchen to Muscat:-)