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This is asking me to activate my product -- it's the same computer I've had since I bought and installed it 3 years ago! I searched and found my old activation code but I get this error: "ERROR: flxActCommonRepairLocalTrustedStorage - (50044,71013,1)" My only option is to click "OK" then it asks me for my activation code again. I see PMDG has stopped supporting their products -- anybody know of a way to activate it? Is there a registry entry I can do manually?

This is asking me to activate my product -- it's the same computer I've had since I bought and installed it 3 years ago! I searched and found my old activation code but I get this error: "ERROR: flxActCommonRepairLocalTrustedStorage - (50044,71013,1)" My only option is to click "OK" then it asks me for my activation code again. I see PMDG has stopped supporting their products -- anybody know of a way to activate it? Is there a registry entry I can do manually?

This is asking me to activate my product -- it's the same computer I've had since I bought and installed it 3 years ago! I searched and found my old activation code but I get this error: "ERROR: flxActCommonRepairLocalTrustedStorage - (50044,71013,1)" My only option is to click "OK" then it asks me for my activation code again. I see PMDG has stopped supporting their products -- anybody know of a way to activate it? Is there a registry entry I can do manually?

I'm like you, I keep the instruments on a second monitor below my "outside view" monitor. I don't know how else you can keep a proper instrument and outside scan looking through a VC on a single monitor. Either you can't see your instruments and have to unrealistically tilt your whole head down with trackIR with its visual lag like you're flying drunk, or you have to be at a zoom less than 1.0 which completely distorts your distance and speed perception (at least compared to a real life view). Maybe this explains all the people online who can't fly an assigned heading, can't line up with the centerline, and land nosewheel first at 200 knots. That this topic keeps coming up I think shows how many serious simmers rely on the 2D cockpits. Carenado's stopped making 2D panels too and it keeps me from buying their newest aircraft. It's really too bad. Hopefully somebody will make a 2D panel addon for this!

Arjen, you are forgetting the purpose of this forum. THERE ARE NO BUGS IN THIS PRODUCT. This product is perfect and there can be no improvements.

You should check out the open source flight simulator at flightgear.org. I'd think it would be a whole lot easier to start with their code and add the features you want, than redoing everything they've done completely from scratch. I think they've had 50-some programmers and over a dozen artists contributing to it for the past 10+ years. It would take you at least the same to get just to their level now.

There are a number of discussions about the CI in some of the real-world pilot forums like airlinepilotcentral.com that you can search through. It seems to vary quite a bit by airline (because of different fixed costs) and current fuel price. One guy from the old Continental said they were required to adjust it to reach their destination at the scheduled time. A Delta pilot said theirs at the time was CI of 12-18, but then they would change it to 60-70 for the descent. Another pilot said they only used CI for the cruise and manually overrode the climb and descent speeds. Apparently though it is captain's discretion ultimately. I can see where you're running late and normally might put in a high CI, but if you're in a busy corridor (like the NE united states) and you know you're going to be ATC restricted to 250 knots pretty much the whole trip, might as well save fuel and put in a low number.

I also see this, pretty much always. Temperature inversion is pretty rare in reality, but I always get it with ActiveSky. Temperature goes way up as I climb. The freezing level in Active Sky is always way above what I see in real-world weather forcasts like on aviationweather.gov. It's just weird to fly around in far north U.S.A. in the middle of winter, where ground temps are at 0 Celsius and Active Sky is showing +15C at 20,000 feet.

This is really, really picky. I hit wake turbulence crossing the threshold while landing in a light aircraft behind a heavy, me 7 or so miles behind. Wind was coming a little from the left, relative to my direction, so I should have hit the LEFT wing's vortex that would have been blowing left to right with the wind. The left wing rotates clockwise so I should have been pushed to the right. Instead it flipped me to the left! But it was awesome anyway, and nice to be woken up like that on a calm approach and have to suddenly fight for survival!Oh, and I'm referring to Active Sky Evolution.

I was at ZLA but left the agency for a much better career (in ATC software).You're right, 3-4K climbs do happen below 10K feet, but I was talking the much longer climb to final altitude once above 10K. B738's will do 1500fpm (Cactus) up to 2500 (Southwest) but in no case anybody does 4000 fpm like with the default PMDG. So it's clear all airlines are doing the derated climb.Also I forgot why we are arguing here, so maybe we're actually on the same page on this. Not trying to cause conflict... cheers!

You'd be surprised how consistent it is. And as a rule of thumb, around 2000 is much, much more typical especially in winter than the 4,000-5,000 fpm this sim will happily do way up in the flight levels, which I have never seen on a B738 in real life. (That would really be memorable, and would probably cause the Mode C readout to show XXX because the system would assume it's a bad mode C!) Actually, my license says "INSTRUMENT AIRPLANE" so that would make it IA, not IR, wouldn't it? Or Instr. Airpl.? Or Instrum. Air.? Geez, who cares. Calm down.

Yea but you're mixing real-world with FSX here. With PMDG and FSX you get lots of unrealistic oscillations, and violent pitch changes because of the unrealistic upper wind changes and the limited CPU time the PMDG FMC has to control things. So in FSX land, yes it's best to turn autothrottle and especially VNAV mode off frequently to keep the flight smooth.

I suspect every real-world airline must mandate their B738 pilots fly in the derated CLB-2 mode (on the N1 limit page) because that's the only way I've found to get this PMDG aircraft fly more like they do in real life (around 1800-2000 fpm in the climb). And it makes sense, it probably results in less maintenance cost.Go to flightaware.com, click on Live Flight Tracking/Browse by Aircraft Type, and you can see a whole bunch of real-world B738 vertical climb and descent profiles.Interesting how they're all around 2000fpm and not the 4000-6000fpm the PMDG VNAV will do by default. So I think you should always select CLB-2 to be more realistic.

No, we don't use appendix A at all in ATC in the U.S, Those are theoretical values, not real-world performance characteristics. I think they use those for the computer to X-out the altitude on the PVD if the Mode C exceeds it (to indicate a bad Mode C).