Eric_Parker

I always press-and-hold F2 until IAS drops below 60 knots. Just my way.

Flew the approach to Honolulu yesterday in the MD11 and the ILS lineup was offset to the right. So I went back today and flew the same approach three times with the same result. So I disabled the Add On Scenery so the sim would fly the default scenery with the same result. Then I tried three other airplanes and both Add On Scenery and Default scenery. Landings were spot on. The problem is only with PMDG aircraft. Interestingly, I had a similar problem with Captain Sim B777 except the airplane lined up to the left of center. Captain Sim came out with a patch that solved that problem specifically. Maybe PMDG needs another patch.

What are EFIS CTL and EFIS DSP supposed to do? I understand they should be off but what changes when they are "on"?

As I stated, FAA requirements specify Nav lights must be on when there is activity on the aircraft. That means if someone is in the aircraft. There are many occasions when the APU or External power would not be used immediately. Having flown in air carrier aircraft I know this is the case. Have you ever been in the cockpit or worked on a real airplane?

No good. I stopped flying this beast for months and tried it again yesterday. Same problem. Everything went ok except for the 360 the autopilot made over Coaldale until touchdown at SFO, Then the airplane started turning to the right as though it wanted to head into the bay. I had disconnected the autothrottle and FD on touchdown just like you said and that's when it went crazy. Won't slow down and cannot be steered. I have other CS products and 3 PMDG airplanes and none of them exhibit this behaviour. My favorites are the PMDG 747-400x and the CS L1011. I guess it is headed for the scrapheap.

I realize this may not be a big deal but the nav lights do not operate on only battery power. Since I haven't been able to find a wiring diagram, only schematics, I don't know how accurate this is. This would be the first airplane I have encountered that would be wired this way in my 50 years of aviation experience although I could be wrong. Yes, the nav lights will come on but only with external or APU power. Since FAA procedures specify nav lights on when an aircraft is powered up and the beacon light to be on when the engines are running, I don't understand why the airplane would be wired this way. Eric Parker

I have not found anything to be routine with this aircraft from CLS. If I click on the ILS button on the MCP, the airplane makes a 360 turn. If I select #1 autopilot, the autopilot emergency disconnect operates and no AP functions are available, it appears to operate backwards. Also, as probably has been reported in the past, the elevator trim is run full nose down at startup. You have to up nose up trim for quite a while in order to get an acceptable nose up condition. In general, it is a piece of junk. Eric Parker

[so I went to Philly on 9l turned the course inidicator off in the cdu, and I was still off center to the right of the runway,I paused for that second and was not centered on the runway when I was over it to make sure in spot view. The course number was 085 but the funny thing it never changedPlease tell me how I can correct this probelm s there something I have to download, I have sp1 and everything else is working fine.I will also try to correct all that white spae in my posts, reallly sorry about that, but please help e out,I am not the greatest with computers, and I am also disabled, 15 operations in last 7 years just to be personable, so I am a bit slow sometimes.] Just saw this post so even though it is old, I thought I should comment. KPHL 9L ILS localizer is off point by 1/2 degree in FSX Default Scenery . Not sure why but ADE9x can fix it. Eric Parker

I get my charts from Flightaware.com. Their charts come in PDF format and can be saved anywhere on your computer. To use those charts on an EFB, simply save the chart from the web page (do not open first) and then open the .PNG file using MS Paint. Save as .JPG and place them in the appropriate EFB folder on your computer. I use Navigraph to keep my airplanes current.

I have full administrator rights to the NGX folder and the FMC creates new flight plans. It is only revisions to existing flight plans that don't happen the way I expect. I have had the PMDG B747-400x for a couple of years and recently purchased the MD11 aircraft. There doesn't seem to be a flight plan problem with any of those airplanes. Only the B737-NGX exhibits this characteristic. I haven't exhausted all the options for this condition and plan to continue testing to determine if there is something in the way I handle flight plans that makes this unique. I have several other aircraft that use FMC's and they do what I expect. But different software manufacturers use slightly different protocols so the procedures are different.

I'm guessing, Major, you didn't read the post from top to bottom. And I must correct myself. The FMC doesn't clear the "confirm" LSK.

I don't understand everything I know about this airplane but the save function seems to be a blind operation. In other words, it does the "save" thingy but never clears the "save" LSK. Plus the "Exec" LSK doesn't clear either. And it doesn't seem to save a flight plan that wasn't changed from the original. So if you load a flight plan (which it will do from the PMDG folder) and modify it, then you can save it. But the saved plan goes into the NGX folder. If you load the changed plan from the NGX folder, it won't let you save it again unless you change it again. That's the way it appears to me.

Amen, brother. I set all my Flight Sim apps to "run as administrator." May be a slight overkill but it can't hurt.

Keep it simple. I never assume anything that is supposed to work automatically will work automatically. I turn the APU on using the APU button on the APU Panel. Then I turn the APU air button on using the Air Panel. After engine start, I reverse the order. At my age, if I don't follow the same routine, I always forget something. Also, use the warning lights and messages on the instrument panel. Scan the overhead panel to confirm there are no illuminated lights - anywhere!

You can assist the FMC in calculating fuel requirements by entering suspected upper winds forecast info into the Ret Data page on the FPlan menu in the FMC which you can get from SkyVector.com. Choose Upper Winds from the layers menu and the altitude from the little settings dialer. The fat lines are 50 knots, the skinny lines are 10 knots and a half line is 5 knots. The flags that appear in the upper winds display show which direction from which the wind is blowing.