Nixon

Hi I remember seeing a post by scandinavian13 giving exact instructions for removal of both the 737 and 777 before reinstalling. I would be grateful for a link to that thread or for the exact instructions to beadded to this thread. Thanks in anticipation

Hi I have had no problems with the Operations centre until the start of this week when I also got "There was an unknown error downloading the list of liveries" I raised a ticket about this in the early hours of Tuesday morning and am awaiting a solution. I have reinstalled the 777 base and expansion pack all as Kyle's post pinned at the top of the General forum. I left the folder entitled "PMDG operations centre" in place. I am now wondering if I should have removed this file? If so I will reinstall the 777.

Thanks Kyle. Could you please tell me where I can find the fix that you mention?

Hi I have the same problem but in FSX original in both the 737-700 and 900 with the side by side display. It only happens on the Captain's side. https://www.dropbox.com/s/uv56ba5nqyf7ous/2015-3-26_22-42-34-856.BMP?dl=0 and disappears when display is clicked on as below https://www.dropbox.com/s/ys1rorav2z4lwpt/2015-3-26_22-42-43-49.BMP?dl=0 Should I submit a ticket?

Hi I too have had the same problem re the caution lights for fuel and anti ice. I uninstalled the 737 expansion and then the base pack. I didn't delete any other folders as I had noticed in the read me file under UNINSTALL NOTES the following in block capitals "DO NOT MANUALLY DELETE FILES FROM YOUR MACHINE". I have now read this thread and see that it's suggested that we should manually uninstall files. Please could someone from PMDG clarify the official position especially as the above quote is printed directly above the EULA.

I have followed this thread with interest but have not posted before as fortunately I don't have problems trimming the PMDG 777. I have an Elite yolk which has a strong spring and this makes it easy to find and remain at the neutral point. I previously had a CH yolk with a far weaker spring and on changing to the Elite yolk I immediately found it a lot easier to trim all my simulated aircraft. Therefore Rob I think your idea to mess about with springs etc could well be worth the effort. It would also be interesting to know what yolk Kevin and Martin use?

Kyle you know the answer so what is the point of making a post seventeen hours after the topic starter has said he has resolved everything and in fact an hour before stated that "did not realise that"?

I thought this topic was about PMDG 777 stab trim issues so can we please return to the original topic. Too many threads get hijacked and mainly by the same people.

I just looked on the BA site and you are right, you can buy tickets from Antigua to all three destinations.

Recently I have been flying from Gatwick to Antigua as BA 2157. After Antigua the plane flies on to one of three destinations which are Tobago, Punta Cana and St Kitts. Tobago and Punta Cana are approx 400 NM from Antigua. St Kitts though is only 65 NM from Antigua. I assume that you can't board the BA 777 at Antigua and just fly to anyone of these destinations therefore the St Kitts hop is only part of a longer route. Yet in my view it still counts as a flight. When I have the time I intend to do this short hop! My question is does anyone know of an even shorter 777 passenger flight?

The only time I have had this happen in the PMDG 777 is landing at Manchester UK the other night. The weather was very poor ( I suspect in real life they may have not attempted to land until things calmed down a bit). The A/T was in hold mode (I have the A/T in the PMDG override when in hold mode). I moved the throttle forward and the speed still decreased for a little while and then as the engines spooled up the speed increased slowly. I disconnected the A/T and set the thrust to give me a Vref speed plus around 12 knots. I put it down to the large engines taking a while to spool up and also as I think the IAS was partly increasing and decreasing due to the weather and at a greater rate than the A/T could spool the engines up or down. That's why I disconnected the A/T and flew with the higher Vref speed.I didn't attempt to keep exactly to the vref plus 12 speed but adjusted the throttles once it was obvious that the speed was increasing or decreasing by about 4 knots. I have no idea if what I did is the accepted way to deal with this but it leads me to think that you may have had a similar thing happen to you and therefore it's unlikely that it's hardware related. Finally I used to live in Hong Kong and I know that Chek Lap Kok airport can have very bad down draughts from the hills on Lantau island immediately to the south of the airport. So I think that you would have at least as bad conditions as my Manchester landings. I'm old enough to have experienced landing many times at the old Kai Tak airport and even just as SLF it was always fun especially when on finals as you could look out and see the TV's on in the adjacent flats.

Thanks I have now found it. My mistake I missed it on my initial look yesterday. Once again thanks for your help.

Bryan thanks for that. It partly answers my question and it would seem sensible for the fuel temp to be amber when nearing that temp. Silly I know but it's just bugging me that I can find no mention of the indication turning amber when the fuel gets very hot.

I thought that and that's why I looked at the manuals and was surprised that I couldn't find that in them.

Hi The other day I was on the ground a OMDB Dubai preparing to fly the 777-300 ER to Manchester EGCC. The outside air temp was 43 degrees celsius. The fuel temp was also +43 degrees and the fuel temp was indicated in amber. After take off and as expected the fuel temp slowly dropped. When it reached + 41 the temp figure then turned white. Out of interest I have just checked FCOMv2 chapter 20 where under the title fuel temperature it says the following "The temperature is normally displayed in white. It is displayed in amber when the fuel temperature approaches the fuel freeze temperature entered on the flight management system CDU." There is no mention of the fuel temperature being displayed in amber when the fuel is very hot due to the ambient temperature being very high. I was wondering which of the following is the case: FCOMv2 applies to earlier 777's than the actual version simulated by PMDG or It's a bug in the simulation or finally: It's some other cause.

Hi The other day I was on the ground a OMDB Dubai preparing to fly the 777-300 ER to Manchester EGCC. The outside air temp was 43 degrees celsius. The fuel temp was also +43 degrees and the fuel temp was indicated in amber. After take off and as expected the fuel temp slowly dropped. When it reached + 41 the temp figure then turned white. Out of interest I have just checked FCOMv2 chapter 20 where under the title fuel temperature it says the following "The temperature is normally displayed in white. It is displayed in amber when the fuel temperature approaches the fuel freeze temperature entered on the flight management system CDU." There is no mention of the fuel temperature being displayed in amber when the fuel is very hot due to the ambient temperature being very high. I was wondering which of the following is the case: FCOMv2 applies to earlier 777's than the actual version simulated by PMDG or It's a bug in the simulation or finally: It's some other cause.

Kyle At the end of my last post I typed the quote below for two reasons. The first being there is little point in us both making the same points over and over and the second; to let you know that despite our differences I free acknowledge that you have a considerable aviation knowledge base.

Kevin Thanks for your reply. It's a pity that this has become an issue. From my point of view I was answering the original posters query re a step climb of 4,000ft being shown on his FMC. I didn't want to enter into an explanation of RVSM airspace, I just wanted to help the original poster. I think it would have been possible for Kyle if he so wished to have explained RVSM airspace in a more diplomatic way. I could say more but as I said earlier this is now wasting all of our time.

Kyle I think you ought to improve your compression skills because from your reply you don't seem to be able to grasp what am saying. I therefore can't see the point of repeating ad nauseum what I have already written. I could, like you do with other people, make many assumptions about why you decided to post here after the query had been satisfactory answered. I will not because I don't know you nor do I wish to be rude. What I will say and I have said this to you before is that you can come over as an arrogant know it all. No one not even you is right all of the time. A while ago you said that I didn't like you. I presume you made this comment because I disagreed with you. In fact you quite often make comments in that vein.For someone who seems to pride himself on speaking bluntly I find it surprising that you appear so sensitive to perceived criticism. Maybe if you spent less time at your keyboard (a view based on your nearly nine and a half thousand post in just under eight years) and more in the real world, you might become a little more empathetic. I will finish by saying that recently you appear to have toned down your response to what in your opinion are misguided or wrong posts. Yet here you seem to revert back to your old ways. In my view if that's the case it's a pity as in doing so a lot of the interesting and invaluable information that you do post tends to get overlooked. Therefore let us stop this here and hopefully you can then spend your time passing on more of your deep knowledge of aviation to us all and at the same time maybe you too will also learn a little from the others who post here.

Kevin I presume you have read all of this thread and will have seen that I have stated twice that I was not defining RVSM. My first post said this I mention RVSM solely because it is the default setting and therefore replacing it with a zero will solve the original posters query. I mentioned 2,000ft to show that the pilot can input whatever step he wishes. If I had been defining the term RVSM I would have clearly stated so and I did not. In fact I actually said "RVSM or something near that (not by my FSX computer at the moment)". I think you would agree it would be nonsensical to try and define a term when I wasn't 100% certain of the how the term is written. I would be grateful if you or Kyle could actually point to where I say am defining RVSM rather than assuming that I have defined it. I answered the original query to the satisfaction of the person who made it only for Kyle to then jump in with his "almost" remark. I then politely asked him exactly what he meant by that and also why he felt the need to virtually repeat the rest of the post. His reply was in my opinion rude. Especially his last paragraph Thanks to Kyle's input this thread has gone on far too long and I will therefore close with this Kyle quote which is a rather sweeping statement especially as he repeated most of my "wrong" post in his reply.

Kyle my post was in answer to the above quote and that is why I wrote 4,000ft. As I clearly said in my last post I was not defining RVSM. Therefore I haven't posted incorrect information but instead I have answered the topic starters query and he has kindly thanked me for doing so. I of course don't need your permission to post. Whilst I think you posts in this thread are rude and unhelpful I certainly wouldn't tell you not to post, because I believe in the freedom of speech and the exchange of ideas.

I am glad it helped David Kyle why "almost"? I was answering the specific query of the topic starter where he refers to 4,000ft. I was not defining RVSM airspace. I don't wish to be awkward but am at a loss as why you also felt it necessary to repeat what I had written especially as the topic starter had said that the issue was now sorted.

On the Perf Init page in the FMC next to the bottom right line select key the default input there is RVSM or something near that (not by FSX computer at the moment) If you leave RVSM there the FMC will work out when it expects your gross weight to be low enough to climb 4,000ft and will therefore at the appropriate waypoint show the increased flight level. If you replace RVSIM with a zero the FMC will not increase your flight level. You can also type in say 2,000 and then the FMC will when you are light enough indicate a flight level 2,000ft above your initial cruise level.

Jim Thanks for your prompt and useful reply. I have been away from my computer all day so unfortunately I haven't yet had a chance to follow your advice. Regards Nixon

Hi again Jim I would be grateful for some more of your expert advice. Following on from my problem with FSX crashing as the home screen loads (thankfully now sorted). I am now having trouble closing FSX. I have found the following under Windows logs> Applications: - <Event xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/win/2004/08/events/event"> - <System> <Provider Name="Windows Error Reporting" /> <EventID Qualifiers="0">1001</EventID> <Level>4</Level> <Task>0</Task> <Keywords>0x80000000000000</Keywords> <TimeCreated SystemTime="2014-07-29T17:45:44.000000000Z" /> <EventRecordID>35344</EventRecordID> <Channel>Application</Channel> <Computer>Nixon-PC</Computer> <Security /> </System> - <EventData> <Data /> <Data>0</Data> <Data>AppHangTransient</Data> <Data>Not available</Data> <Data>0</Data> <Data>fsx.exe</Data> <Data>10.0.61472.0</Data> <Data>475e17d3</Data> <Data>unknown</Data> <Data>unknown</Data> <Data>unknown</Data> <Data>unknown</Data> <Data /> <Data /> <Data /> <Data /> <Data /> <Data /> <Data>0</Data> <Data>296c1068-1748-11e4-88c6-1c6f65c72276</Data> <Data>1</Data> </EventData> </Event> My computer is as follows CPU i7 2600k o/c to 4.2Ghz Win 7 64bit FSX SP1 and 2 Water cooled 8Gb RAM NVIDIA GeForce GTX 570.0 Below is pasted details of my current FSX config file // This file was tweaked on Dec 03, 2011 at 05:51 GMT using Bojote's automated FSX Tweaking & Tuning Service // Your 'original' fsx.CFG file was backed up at http://www.venetubo.com/fsx/ac6296c91c8c6af07c4a52dfd58cb8e9/backup/fsx_backup.cfg // This file is optimized as follows: 4 core(s), CPU speed 3, HT 0, GPU 4, PREF 2 // You can visit Bojote's FSX Tweaking & Tuning service at http://www.venetubo.com/fsx.html [DISPLAY.Device.NVIDIA GeForce GTX 570.0] Mode=1920x1200x32 TriLinear=1 [bufferPools] RejectThreshold=131072 [VirtualCopilot] VirtualCopilotActive=0 [sOUND] AmbientUI=1 AmbientUIMusicVolume=-6.000000 PrimaryDevice={DEF00000-9C6D-47ED-AAF1-4DDA8F2B5C03} SOUND=1 SOUND_LOD=1 SOUND_QUALITY=2 UISound=1 VoiceDevice={DEF00002-9C6D-47ED-AAF1-4DDA8F2B5C03} SOUND_FADER1=0.390000 SOUND_FADER2=0.500000 SOUND_FADER3=0.500000 SOUND_FADER4=-0.460000 AmbientUIMusic=FSX01 [slewTextInfo.1] AirSpeed=1,5 Altitude=1,3 Heading=1,4 Latitude=1,1 Longitude=1,2 [AContain] LabelColor=FFFF0000 LabelDelay=1000 ShowLabelAirline=0 ShowLabelAirlineAndFlightNumber=0 ShowLabelAirspeed=0 ShowLabelAltitude=1 ShowLabelContainerId=0 I also found this logged this evening and highlighted as an error in Windows Logs>Application: - <Event xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/win/2004/08/events/event"> - <System> <Provider Name="Microsoft-Windows-User Profiles Service" Guid="{89B1E9F0-5AFF-44A6-9B44-0A07A7CE5845}" /> <EventID>1530</EventID> <Version>0</Version> <Level>3</Level> <Task>0</Task> <Opcode>0</Opcode> <Keywords>0x8000000000000000</Keywords> <TimeCreated SystemTime="2014-07-29T17:33:55.012095100Z" /> <EventRecordID>35317</EventRecordID> <Correlation ActivityID="{0330BC50-F800-0002-42AA-BFB74EABCF01}" /> <Execution ProcessID="948" ThreadID="936" /> <Channel>Application</Channel> <Computer>Nixon-PC</Computer> <Security UserID="S-1-5-18" /> </System> - <EventData Name="EVENT_HIVE_LEAK"> <Data Name="Detail">5 user registry handles leaked from \Registry\User\S-1-5-21-1565919213-2169512276-2614069692-1000: Process 548 (\Device\HarddiskVolume2\Windows\System32\lsass.exe) has opened key \REGISTRY\USER\S-1-5-21-1565919213-2169512276-2614069692-1000 Process 548 (\Device\HarddiskVolume2\Windows\System32\lsass.exe) has opened key \REGISTRY\USER\S-1-5-21-1565919213-2169512276-2614069692-1000 Process 548 (\Device\HarddiskVolume2\Windows\System32\lsass.exe) has opened key \REGISTRY\USER\S-1-5-21-1565919213-2169512276-2614069692-1000\Software\Microsoft\SystemCertificates\Disallowed Process 548 (\Device\HarddiskVolume2\Windows\System32\lsass.exe) has opened key \REGISTRY\USER\S-1-5-21-1565919213-2169512276-2614069692-1000\Software\Microsoft\SystemCertificates\My Process 548 (\Device\HarddiskVolume2\Windows\System32\lsass.exe) has opened key \REGISTRY\USER\S-1-5-21-1565919213-2169512276-2614069692-1000\Software\Microsoft\SystemCertificates\CA</Data> </EventData> </Event> I don't know if the above is useful but I would be grateful if you could advise me on the best way forward. Thanking you in anticipation Regards Nixon