Dan208B

As a real-world airline pilot, if you're going for realism, this whole discussion is a bit silly, I would just throw away whatever this FSCaptain program is if it has a problem with climb rates. There's nothing unrealistic or even not smooth about a high climb rate.

What is this scenery?

How about anything in Alaska Airline's route structure in the State of Alaska? Some great flying all around. The best scenery is in the Southeast part of the state, ORBX makes some addons and another guy makes one called Tongass Fjords that are very realistic. http://airwaysnews.com/galleries/13857.jpg

Good afternoon, I'm just curious if I can find a posted change list prior to running the installer. I have made several changes to my NGX setup including a couple sound files and a NavData update. I'm curious about the change list in general and also whether running the new installer will delete these changes I've made or just update what has changed from the original installation. Secondly, perhaps I'm just a little slow and haven't seen it, but I can't tell whether I am supposed to uninstall and then run the new installer for the NGX or just click the "repair installation" option. Thank you for any info anyone can provide! Daniel Sallee

Actually the raked wingtips are very efficient. The split scimitar winglets however give a considerably shorter wingspan. If you look at the P-8 Poseidon (essentially 737-800 with -900 wings and lots of other small differences) it uses raked wingtips. This wouldn't work so well for airlines because apparently a 737 with raked wingtips would not fit in some of the current parking positions worldwide side-by-side with another one, and the split-scimitar are close enough on fuel burn they went with that option. A little background, the split-scimitar winglet was actually designed by Aviation Partners, Inc. (As were the original 737/757/767 winglets). For a long time they were an after-market option and now are integrated into the initial factory-built aircraft. Boeing now works in conjunction with Aviation Partners. The split-scimitar winglets on the NG are a kit that adds to the existing winglets. The 737 MAX will have a slightly different winglet design where it's not an additional kit but an entirely redesigned winglet that is slightly more efficient. Can't speak for international carriers, but United is a HUGE customer for this and is retrofitting all of the 737NGs. Alaska Airlines is another customer with the same plan.

Not a request, but just curious if split scimitar winglets have been considered in any future service packs for the NGX. I understand this would involve some minor FDE updates though, so perhaps it's a bigger project than is worth the effort. On that note I suppose it could be left unchanged with the written understanding of that, similar to the 747-8 update only being a model/FDE update and nothing more.

I've been having an odd problem lately, when starting up FSX is brings you to the main screen to select everything you want for the flight. This screen seems very prone to errors. The main problems I have are CTDs when trying to select weather, and very long loading times when I click on an airport waiting for the runway options to load. Whats odd is that once I'm in-game I never have problems loading any of this stuff. Anyone else have issues along these lines? I had this start happening on my old PC with FS9 after I had it for a long time as well...

I'm having a weird problem when descending with VNAV. If I let the aircraft reach top of descent and start down on it's own in VNAV, everything works normally and the power reduces to idle smoothly. However, if I use the "descend now" function, it will start down slowly and reduce power a little bit like it's supposed to, and when it catches up with the VNAV profile and captures the path for a steeper descent, the throttle mode switches to "hold" and will overspeed if I don't manually reduce power to idle. Perhaps I've missed something, but I believe it's supposed to retard to idle at this point on it's own. Any input would be greatly appreciated!

This is happening to me on other saved panel states, not just C&D.

Do you have the position initialized? It won't give you v-speeds if you don't have that done.

What 777 is this?

Where is this goose repaint from?

ATP AMEL, Commerical ASEL ASES, 757/767 Type Rating, EMB 170/190 SIC Type rating. Happily employed flying. Why do I sim? I'm a geek and I love it. I fly pretty specific routes with my airline and it's neat to check out the world. I love the ability to go somewhere new before I actually fly there, and to fly retro equipment no longer around.

That's the big plus to Boeing aircraft. They are designed to have pilots in full control. The aircraft will not deviate from the altitude set in the Mode Control Panel unless it's changed. Typically in cruise, vertical speed in an option as well as remaining in VNAV and after the MCP altitude is changed, the new altitude will pop up into the scratchpad in the MCDU (FMS). Copying that new altitude into the altitude box on the cruise page will initiate a FLCH climb in VNAV.

What weather settings did you use to get the ground fog to look like that?