Christian S

Expect SP2 medio 2031. After all, it's PMDG we're talking about.

Yeah. I always retard them as soon as I start my decent.

I like to have the plane capture the g/s in APP mode and disengage the a/p when I'm at around 1000ft AGL and hand fly the landing. I was landing at EKCH 22R yesterday and as soon as I landed I got a "NO AUTOLAND" warning and TO thrust was engaged. I didn't have the volume loud enough to hear the engines properly so by the time I realized what was going on so I could turn off a/t, it was too late. Is this a bug or is there a reason this could have happened? (I am 100% certain I didn't accidentally touch the TO/GA switch)

Ah. I was in the wrong frame of mind. I was thinking of "Route 2" as "Leg 2" when it's really an alternative route you can keep on the ready. Thanks!

This is something we do on a multiplayer server where we basically land, turn around and fly to the next destination. No gates or anything But I'm guessing the "Route 2" functionality is there for a reason even if it isn't normal practice. I'll try turning off the FD's and ADIRU on my next hop.

Can anyone point to somewhere in the manuals or tell me how to use the Route 2 to set up the next leg of a route? Specifically, I can't get it out of "Approach mode" after landing the first leg.

That's what I tried (and what I've done thousands of times in the NGX), but I swear it didn't work. But that was about an hour ago and I had just left the runway. Is there some location/time limit restriction on setting up a new flight? But thanks a lot anyway

I was thinking of doing some airport hopping, but the FMC seems locked in approach mode after landing. If I press "INIT REF" all I do is get to the approach page, VNAV won't work etc. I tried putting my next leg into ROUTE 2 and activating it, but that didn't help either. I've tried browsing through FCOM's too, but couldn't find anything. If anyone can help me and tell me where to find this information in the manuals I would really appreciate it

I was thinking of doing some airport hopping, but the FMC seems locked in landing mode after landing. If I press "INIT REF" all I do is get to the approach page, VNAV won't work etc. I tried putting my next leg into ROUTE 2 and activating it, but that didn't help either. I've tried browsing through FCOM's too, but couldn't find anything. If anyone can help me and tell me where to find this information in the manuals I would really appreciate it

The site is from 2010 and the video on the upper left is "Coming Soon". Where have I heard that before?

Not at all. Waiting is messing with my head

So Rob says he's "SO winning this" and inadvertently gives us 2 major clues! By saying he's so winning he's says that no-one has guessed the right date yet. That means none of the dates mentioned are correct, but it also means he knows the actual date. That makes it a simple task to extrapolate the answer based on earlier suggestions. There are some obvious wrong answers since they're in the past like: - UK Mother's day, US Mother's day. Maybe a T7 isn't what every mother wants for Mother's day? - The guy who mentioned 18MAR because he read it on Wikipedia was probably the unluckiest guy in history when he found the only mistake on the entire site. - A few people suggested a FANCON release, but others wisely noted that if it was released at FANCON then everyone would be going home and thus ending FANCON prematurely. - "May the 4th...be with you" - Then you had the "conspiracy theory" concerning Air Canada's 6 planes, Delta being the 4th letter of the alphabet etc. Nice try, but no cigar. - On 24MAR someone said "In 5 weeks" and that it would coast $29 and a box of glazed donuts. I'm glad this didn't happen. Who would work on service packs and customer support when the entire PMDG team died of overweight, diabetes and cardiac arrest?! - And so on... Even though they're wrong it still makes a lot of sense to use these suggestions in my extrapolation. I'm using a polynomial function to the 9th degree so past dates are still very useful. Also someone had a MASSIVE GUT FEELING that it would be 31MAY. I've weighted that guess more than most of the others. A lot of people have tried to cover their bases with August, September, Q2, Q3, this year, early next year. Those guesses don't count of course, but allow for further adjustments in my polynomial function. "The second I buy something else to pass the time" doesn't really help much due to "Human factor". Someone suggested that it's always Mother's day somewhere. That isn't actually true, but there are a lot of them. Guessing a range disqualifies them from the contest, but Rob has obviously taken the time to check the dates of the Costa Rican Mother's day (15JUN), Thailand (9AUG), Luxembourg (9JUN2013/29JUN2014) and about 7-8 others still to go this year. Otherwise he would have said that someone had guessed the right date, but were disqualified for suggesting more than one. Even more dates for my extrapolation, though! Then you have the specific dates that Rob indirectly says are wrong: - "At least 1,5 more month with this Engine thingy" posted on 14MAY - 06JUN - 07JUN - 10JUN - 12JUN - 20JUN - 22JUN - 30JUN - 4JUL - 5JUL - 7JUL - 10AUG - 20NOV - 17DEC Someone also suggested "before 17SEP" so they wouldn't have to choose between the T7 and GTA V, though another person wisely stated that GTA V would be great in-flight entertainment. "September to spite me when I'm on holiday" might actually motivate PMDG to postpone until then. I'm pretty sure the people saying that they won't have time or money if PMDG wait more than 10-14 days will be heard, so it won't be released in the next 10-14 days either. Even though PMDG will want to cater the pessimists, they'll want to prove the guy wrong who said that the down-ramping of release info meant it was 12-16 months away. Yet antother useful hint! By now the answer is so obvious that I'm not even going to post it. Just send me my prize and I'll be on my way.

When important things are still moving along, an imminent release sounds pretty unlikely. That makes it easier to stop thinking (dreaming) about whether she's coming today or not