Ray Smith

Many thanks for all the helpful tips. R

Hi Getting a new PC with Samsung EVO 970 M.2 1 TB installed. I have three other 500Gb Samsung SSD drives. One of those three SSD drives will be for the Win 10 Pro 64 bit system Any recommendations on where's the best place for P3DV4 and Add-ons? Thanks Ray

Just got the QW787 and oh how I miss FS2Crew!!!!!

Hi The OPS Manual says:: NOTE: DUE TO TECHNICAL LIMITS IN THE PMDG 747, FOR COMM 2, YOU CAN ONLY SET STANDBY COMM 2. YOU MUST THEN USE THE SWAP COMMAND TO MAKE THE FREQUENCE ACTIVE. As an alternative procedure that allows you to set both COM2 and COM2 Standby using the normal commands the following can be done: On the Captain's side: 1. Select COM 2 Receive - not MIC (COM 1 MIC and Receive can be left as is). This then allows the normal commands to work on both COM 2 and COM2 Standby. 2. Deselect COM 2 Receive on completing changes to the frequencies. Hope this of some help. Ray

Hi All I'm having trouble installing the 8i expansion. I have a Windows 7 Pre 64 bit OS with a 7i processor and 8Gb of memory. I've tried all the permutations of compatibility without success. I've run it in safe mode and even with the virus protection software turned off, but still it won't install The process starts by InstallShield showing the progress of the initial extraction of files, then the install stalls and nothing is displayed. It shows about 10% of CPU used and about 40K of private memory but nothing happens even if left for some considerable time. I have the boxed version of the 747-400X and did a de-install and a re-install without problems, but this didn't help the install of 8i either. Below my signature is the Windows error reporting log which points to the failing module. I have raised a ticket with PMDG but there's not been any resolution and wonder if anyone out there has ideas about this? Any help would be much appreciated. Ray Smith Windows error reporting log: Fault bucket , type 0 Event Name: PCA2 Response: Not available Cab Id: 0 Problem signature: P1: PMDG 747-8i for use with PMDG 747-400X.exe P2: 12.0.0.49974 P3: Setup.exe P4: InstallShield P5: Macrovision Corporation P6: 200 P7: -1 P8: P9: P10:

Applied the change in the 737NGXOptions.ini file and all seems OK.

Problems still exist. I did - 1. Complete uninstall then install of SP1D of PMDG 747 NGX base and expansion pack. 2. In FS2CREW enable voice control (got the error message about needing SP1C mentioned above) 3. Loaded FSX and PMDG 737 (a) All loaded correctly - PMDG Cold & Dark 4. Selected FS2CREW from the FD after PMDG fully initialised received error - SDK ERROR After the error I tested this in flight and, as expected, FS2CREW does not function correctly. I did the uninstall and install twice. Once using PMDG remove function and once using the Control Panel remove program function. The results are the same. Regards Ray Sys: Windows 7 Pro 64 Bit