JD396

I've never really been impressed with the 777 data for TOPCAT. I quit using the takeoff and landing calculations and started using TOPER for takeoffs and ballparking it on landings. The 737 and MD11 data seems pretty good to me but the 777 data is kind of garbage, IMO.

Is it just a specific gate? Does the next gate over have the same problem? EDIT: Never mind, you said it loads fine everywhere else in your first post.

I normally engage it when the SID gets boring to hand fly, and disengage it when the STAR gets interesting to hand fly.

I don't have P3D so I don't know what's changed in this regard, but in FSX I always have crashing disabled because of strange things like this that happen with scenery, particularly when loading up big things like the 777.

You raise a really good angle on this kind of issue, which goes way beyond aviation to pretty much any safety-related field. From a management perspective, if you want people to do their jobs right, you can't really come down on people for self-reporting mistakes that they recovered from. I'm a CDL trainer and one thing all of my trainees hear from me is that doing your job safely is not about being perfect, but rather about being able to quickly recognize and recover from mistakes when you make them - and you WILL make them. Avoiding problems is great, but it's not always possible. The safety gods don't care if you're on day 1 or year 40 - no matter who you are, if something happens you have to react properly.

Check out FS Kneeboard, I think I had that at one point. Charts and some checklists and stuff like that IIRC.

A watched pot never boils...

I think RSR made that post, and then the entire dev team went to Antigua for six weeks and they haven't worked on ANYTHING

Me too, and then I read them.... Hence why I didn't start another thread on the topic.

http://www.avsim.com/topic/490558-split-scimitar/ http://www.avsim.com/topic/486667-split-scimitar-winglets/ http://www.avsim.com/topic/484937-model-only-split-scimitar-winglets http://www.avsim.com/topic/413703-split-scimitar-winglet-modeling-on http://www.avsim.com/topic/445990-pmdg-737-ngx-split-scimitar- http://www.avsim.com/topic/443791-blended-winglets/ http://www.avsim.com/topic/441199-panc-alaska-737ng-with-sharklets/ http://www.avsim.com/topic/435622-737s-with-split-scimitar- http://www.avsim.com/topic/435771-split-scimitar-winglets/ http://www.avsim.com/topic/435770-split-scimitar-winglets/ http://www.avsim.com/topic/416798-split-scimitar-winglet/ http://www.avsim.com/topic/415262-split-scimitar-winglets/ http://www.avsim.com/topic/397286-new-winglets-for-the-737ng/

A day on the PMDG forums just wouldn't be complete without

Normally, I start with a panel state I made myself - started from cold and dark and ran the Electrical Power Up procedure (FCOM SP.6.1 for the NGX, SP.6.2 for the 777), then saved it. Then I can just load that start at the Preliminary Preflight Procedure and go from there. Especially with the NGX I like to string several flights together and so then I'll usually just save the state and shut the sim down at the point where the real-life pilots would get up and go find some crappy fast food in the terminal. Did you replace the painfully annoying beeping in the 777 with "Good morning, Kyle"?

Well, you can guesstimate it based on fuel rules and how airlines load up planes like the 77W for long haul flights. At any rate OP said to take a long haul flight and compare it to the PMDG 777 to see how mind-blowingly bad the wing flex was on landing. So I did! Wow! What an oversight on my part! I re-ran my simulation and turns out OP is right:

I was just out at LAX spotting last Friday and thought I'd re-create this pic I took in FSX. Leon, would you mind explaining to us how distractingly unrealistic the wing flex is again?

I dink around with liveries a lot so I'm going to keep an eye on the state.cfg's from now on. I might write up a little batch file or something to clean them up. I'm halfway shocked I haven't come across this problem before -- but then again, I probably did have it in the past and just didn't notice. I only caught it the first few times because of something blatantly obvious in the configuration (KGS/LBS or the side-by-side displays in the NGX). It's funny... you'd think after modding the bajeebers out of every version of MSFS from 5.1 onward, it would stop surprising me. MSFS never fails to amaze.