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Ok cool...I couldn't get your video to work btw.. I would like to know more about this as well.

It might sound daft...but are you sure you haven't just got the auto rudder left on in the flight sim settings....both p3d and fsx have it. I have found by mistake that leaving this on can make it very hard to land?

Long state. Watch out for doors left open. :smile:

Thank you yes I realised, in the shower the obvious answer to this. After a good nights sleep, it seems obvious now. I was just practicing circuits and tracking the 112.15 VOR at EGJJ. I was doing things different to normal. The A/T stays on which was probably what I was mixing up to the CMD.

The trim button disconnects CMD A, yet I can't see any assignments under the controls., in the p3d control settings. It has only just started doing this, but I am not sure why? Is this something I'm doing wrong with the NGX, or p3d? Many thanks Jools

I think you are still meant to land in the touchdown markings. But I think you can use the displaced area for take off. More of a general aviation question than PMDG.

It's really good when it works. That's the trouble with flight sim. You need a plug-in to make the cameras work they way they're meant to. I wish it was default.

https://s32.postimg.org/3r23edph1/13906883_10153621604127016_2616599571460570223_n.jpg I got it today...I'm pretty delighted with it. Btw no need to improvise, those screws on the top of your Saitek Yoke are there for a reason. I can still see the result of the PMDG radio stack changing without having to use it in flight. It works really well as it would with any addon.

Ok look into this, or possibily improvise. There mut be an additional frame work that saitek do?

Thanks... I had to fly the plane and I couldn't just turn up on her runway without saying hello. So this radio stack looks like a box basically. I just have a desk. How to you make it rigid like the pro yoke. Is it a g-clamp of some sort?

Good point. Fly first and explain later. I guess 'get-there-itis' is a condition that flight simmers can often get more easily. Part of the problem I think. :Money Eyes:

Cool great, Ok this is what happened. I manged to get onto the localiser at EGSS, clear weather must of been about 7 miles out, and I thought to myself, speed is good, flaps were about 5 at this stage at about 170K, then slow to 160K by 5 DME. Reported localiser established to Essex radar 120.62, and then they asked me to report to tower 123.80. However unfortunatly I was now hand flying without the A/P, but didn't arm tower 123.80 on stand-by (my fault). I was planning to hand fly the localiser. So I had to pan down to the radio stack and put the frequency in. I started to panic by this stage and found it hard to put the frequency in using the dial to tune. (The dial split into two, the upper half and lower half.) By then I was too late and was starting to get too high to land. So I didn't want to land without permission. So just went around and flew the runway heading cleaned up then put the CMD A on and swaped the comm 1, to go back onto Essex radar. By then I had a bit more time to put in the tower frequency. I could get vectored again and do a safe landing. I know flying IFR solo isn't really what is done in a 737. I did try the first FS2Crew, and you could commard with your voice the comms and navs. But I found it a bit buggy, or if you made a slight mistake, you would confuse the first officer. I found that I was relying too much on him and not learning about the airplane enough.So I stopped using it. Maybe it is better now? I understand there is a newer version, which is a lot more comprehensive, and you can omit some off his responibilities.FS2Crew V2 (or what ever it is called)? So I did remember the saying Aviate, Navigate, Communicate. I did try and sneak the frequency in and it didn't really help my cause. But I went around and didn't want to land without permission. I think I may well buy the Radio stack, it would help a lot. Thanks 777cap and Simbio for your advice.

I find that the soley 3d cockpit is brilliant,but it is very hard selecting a radio comm. You have to admit the comm1 2,nav1 2,are a bit fidderly to use.It makes online ATC very challenging. I ended up missing a approach, and getting very distracted by the having to select the radio. Even the close up radio view, is difficult to use. Has anyone used the Saitek pro radio stack, low and behold it has all the radio comms and nav frequences? And even Adf. Does this work well with the PMDG NGX? How does it plug into the pc? if people think it is ok i might get it tonight? Thanks jools

Thank you, I will have a look when i get a moment.

Ok I might give this a go another time. I could not remember where the exe.xml was, I looked in the LM root but didn't see it in there.