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  • Birthday 10/22/1964

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  1. I'm certainly no expert, but the advice I've read is to not install any software while overclocked. I overclock to 4.4 Ghz for FSX only with no problems on any FSX aircraft/addons including PMDG T7 and 737NGX. Good luck!
  2. On this subject, is there a way to trigger 737NGX failures remotely from a networked machine or even another machine somewhere on the internet? Could be fun times making your friends sweat.
  3. EDDM hand flying practice ILS 26R OVC300 1/4SM.
  4. Hi Graham, Thanks! Actually, I'm considering a loop over the top so I can hit Asia, Australia, and New Zealand. Then I have to decide between a left turn or a right turn for either South America or Africa after flying over (or is it under?) the South Pole.
  5. Hi Dennis, I managed to have at least some tailwind component during most legs, however, nothing really big. I am glad I had tailwind on the PGUM to PHNL leg. I had Wake Island in mind if fuel started to look like an issue for actual winds different than forecast. I think the best tailwind I had was around 75 knots across the pond on the last leg KBOS to EGGD. With the winds aloft that I was seeing, it's either "the way it was" or I don't have something tweaked right in AS2012. Winds were surprisingly light over the Eastern Pacific, but maybe that's just the way it was on that day.
  6. === Executive Summary: I flew the PMDG 737NGX around the world over several months and it was a great learning experience. === Following completion of tutorial #1, and in an effort to better learn the airplane, I embarked on a round-the-world tour back in October. Life seems to limit my sim time so I take it when I can get it. My brown Labrador died last year and my wife doesn't understand, so I share my story in this forum. The trip started and ended at Bristol, UK (EGGD) with the following legs: Bristol (EGGD) - Bayonne (LFBZ) Bayonne (LFBZ) - Zurich (LSZH) Zurich (LSZH) - Innsbruck (LOWI) Innsbruck (LOWI) - Milan (LIML) Milan (LIML) - Rome (LIRC) Rome (LIRC) - Athens (LGAV) Athens (LGAV) - Cairo (HECA) Cairo (HECA) - Mumbai (VABB) Mumbai (VABB) - Bangkok (VTBS) missed to VTBD Bangkok (VTBD) - Phnom Phen (VDPP) Phnom Phen (VDPP) - Saigon (VVTS) Saigon (VVTS) - Manila (RPLL) Manila (RPLL) - Guam (PGUM) Guam (PGUM) - Honolulu (PHNL) (lots of time to study FMC operation during the barely legal overnight flight) Honolulu (PHNL) - Los Angeles (KLAX) Los Angeles (KLAX) - Raleigh (KRDU) Raleigh (KRDU) - Boston (KBOS) Boston (KBOS)- Bristol (EGGD) Route planning was done with the help of vataware.com and simroutes.com. I usually selected the top route for the leg. With the exception of Zurich, Innsbruck, Milan, Athens, and the missed approach into VTBS (more on that later), I selected the route based on destinations I have travelled to either personally or on business. The first leg started in the morning, cold and dark, and each subsequent flight was gate to gate with short turns. KBOS to EGGD ended with a complete shutdown. The exceptions to the visited places rule were due to my grandmother used to ski and chase men in Zurich, Innsbruck has cool mountains and good approaches and is a common topic in this forum, Milan is in Italy, and I had a hankering for olives which took me to Athens while I was in the region. The missed approach at VTBS was because FSX does not have VTBS in its default database. This approach was in instrument conditions. On failing to receive ILS, I was forced to go missed over to VTBD (the old Bangkok International). VTBS did not exist when I visited that region as a youngster and I didn't recognize that as I planned the flight to Bangkok and basically selected the wrong airport. It was VTBD where I had been. I turned on random failures somewhere between Mumbai and Bangkok with a random rate of one failure every five hours. I had some pretty benign failures along the way (loss of RA on one side, Loss of a DME, low HYD fluid). There was a more exciting failure during PHNL to KLAX (right hand door seal problem about 2/3 of the way to KLAX that never progressed to a pressurization issue). The failure that required some digging in the QRH (to no avail) was a DC Bus 1 Fail on the last leg back to Bristol about the time they were serving the croissants, non-fat yoghurt, and OJ/Coffee/Tea (1.5 hours out). I was able to troubleshoot all the advisory lights and fly accordingly, but was unable to figure out how to make things return to some level of normal. I couldn't find anything that specifically addressed DC Bus 1 failure. More study is in order. ASE and (following its release) AS2012 real world weather was used throughout. Time of day was maintained from the original flight (park at gate, save flight, start next leg from the same file/time of day as previously saved). Flight was done in 1x time. If not sitting at it, I was within shouting range of the computer at all times while the simulation was running (lavatory simulation, printing appropriate plates, checking WX, etc.). I used Radar Contact along much of the trip and actually finally figured out how to pick up where I left off if I saved mid-leg (be sure to point the appropriate part of RC at your FSX flight plans folder so .RCD files get saved in the right place). Now if I can figure out how to get a pop-up IFR clearance...but that's off topic and I believe not in the current version of RC. I may start flying online soon instead of just observing. I experienced no problems with the PMDG 737NGX addon during this tour. I completed this world tour last week and have since hopped over to EHAM to start tutorial #2.
  7. In line with what Matias said, why not shut down and then set some random switches/config and save as a panel state? Repeat several times naming the panel states differently, then walk away for awhile so you forget what you've done and then load one of those panel states.
  8. Also, if you go with the NH-D14, make sure your memory will fit under it. The Noctua website has a compatibility list and a drawing that should help.
  9. Try this.http://forum.avsim.net/topic/347080-which-one-is-hotfix3/page__p__2093464#entry2093464
  10. I'm no expert, but when I get throttle spikes it is usually because two things are mapping the same throttle axis. If you are using FSUIPC, make sure controls via the FSX controls menu are turned off on the appropriate axis. I have also gotten throttle spikes when two devices are mapped to control the same throttle. Disable the axis on one of the devices if this is the case. I don't see preflight complete either, but that might be something you are used to from another addon, which I do see on another addon. Not an expert here either, but the PMDG simulation of the FMC is what the real thing does and perhaps the real thing doesn't give the preflight complete message.
  11. Yes, it is a game. A game where the lives of 162 passengers, 5 other crew members, and 3 cargo containers full of Intel i7 processors depend on you to deliver them safely to their destination.
  12. This is hotfix 3.http://downloads.precisionmanuals.com/file_library/PMDG_737-8900_NGX_2922_Hotfix.Zip
  13. This will fix magnetic variation. Easy to implement.http://forum.avsim.net/topic/336155-magnetic-variation-updates-for-fs9-and-fsx/
  14. Worked here too. Thanks, Steve. Now I need to modify my trouble ticket....
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