Jetstream96

Go to PMDG website, login (create an account if you don't have one) and create a support ticket.

Yes, let's ban that flappy wing airplane from FAA airspace!

Thanks, that makes sense now. I only knew that on 737 you can enter the airport and gate number to get the position from navigation database. It's very surprising that none of the pilots noticed the issue on the ground. With the wrong input I assume the routes won't even show up on ND, unless it's in plan mode.

Do airbus pilots really need to enter coordinates manually? If that's true then the problem is FMGS being not automated enough.

The approach is not easy since you have to navigate purely visually along the valley. I've flown once in the 738 and it was an intense experience. The missed approach is extra interesting. You have to fly over the airport and turn left into a valley, then make a 180 deg turn back over the airport. Sounds pretty crazy.

Yep I now understand the chart. Thank you.

Thank you for the diagram. But maybe it's max takeoff weight? Because with 20 tons of payload, A320 cannot takeoff with full fuel tank, but it can land with 7+ tons of reserve fuel, which should not be a limiting factor.

I saw the chart below in A320's airport planning manual, and there is one thing I am curious about. The green curve can be divided into 3 segments. The first one is horizontal, which makes sense because there is a max zero fuel weight limit. But why the second and third segments have different slopes? My guess is that with payload less than 16 tons the aircraft's optimum cruising altitude would hit its limit (41000 ft). Therefore the aircraft can no longer cruise at its optimum altitude so fuel savings are less significant. The same chart for other aircraft types are very similar as well. I am wondering what's the correct explanation? (Source: pdf page 150)

Yeah I do agree the price tag for the high quality addons are definitely justified by the time and resource put into the development. But for some people like me the extra features are just so rarely used. I am quite interested in watching some videos of people flying in the FSL A320 to learn some cool stuff, but whether to buy it or not is entirely another thing.

It doesn't have to be expensive. I've been simming for 7 years and a $30 joystick + payware aircrafts is essentially what I ever needed. Don't overlook the amount of freeware created by the community.

So you said this is a recreation of the flight when the location of clouds are so incredibly obviously incorrect?

Are you trying to load a previously saved flight plan into FMC? Maybe the runway identifier got changed so 10C no longer exists. What the airport btw?

I don't use default ATC at all. It gives me more headaches than realism. Maybe addon ATC is a solution for you, but I am not sure since I don't use them either.

Hmmm, never touched anything other than the NGX and Aerosoft Airbus in like 5 years.

Yes it does that in FSX, but only slightly noticeable when close to the runway. Actually it is quite straight forward mathematically. Deviating to the side making you father from the antenna, so you need to be higher in order to stay on the GS. i.e. (GS height) = (distance from antenna) * tan(3°)

ROC or ROD are pretty trivial to understand anyways. What else can they mean when 500fpm appears in the same sentence. Come on.

"Long haul" aircrafts definitely can and do fly short haul flights. Here in east Asia it's normal for 777/747/A330s to fly 500 nm legs. Some airlines do not even have "short haul" planes, like Cathay Pacific, Singapore.

That's very interesting. I didn't know an aircraft overflying the localizer can cause such signal deviation.

There is really nothing better than BlackBox's Airbus series at the moment. I don't own one but judging from reviews and Youtube videos the quality isn't nearly as good as Aerosoft A320. It's probably better to wait for Aerosoft A330.

That was ... interesting. lol If the "speed reference selector" can be used to manually set the v-speeds. For example you can rotate the outer knob to V1 and select the desired speed using the inner knob. Same goes for Vr, V2, etc. Only when it's set to AUTO, the v-speeds from the FMC are displayed on PFD. For more info you can check FCOM v2, page 593.

I'd say PMDG NGX. Personally I think it's more fun than 777 because you can fly to many interesting airports with a 737. For example Innsbruck, Kathmandu, Paro, and Corfu, etc. You simply can't fly a 777 into some of these airports.

Did you set the speed reference knob to AUTO? It's next to the autobrake selector.

Are you sure you selected the correct arrival runway in PFPX? I am using an older version of navData but from what I can see BASET3 arrival is only available for rwy 06/07. This might explain the strange route you saw.

Sounds like you didn't program the FMC correctly. Can you post some screenshots and what you did in each step? That would be helpful.

Maybe just disable "automatically check for updates" and do it manually every a few month.