riftin11

Good morning,

I've had an issue where the Maddog doesn't calculate a T/D if the route has any discontinuities in the STAR. For example, yesterday I flew KATL-MBPV using the RNAV28 arrival in MBPV. I loaded the flightplan from PFPX, there was a discontinuity in the route symbolizing vectors- which I cleared, however the FMC didnt calculate a T/D, just listed an end of decent which was the airport itself. I had to descent with the DES DIR feature. Is this a bug or am I doing something wrong?

I'm having an issue with my cockpit night lighting, I'm not sure if I'm doing something wrong, or if this is a bug. My captains FMC keyboard does not stay backlit, all other pedestal lights are on and work fine, including FO FMC, however the captain's one is dark. Additionally, this is only in the VC, the lights appear on the 2D popup. Any help would be much appreciated, thanks.

Robert,

If its of any help, the wing droop seems normal during the 20 second initialization period when first loading the sim... then once its all initialized the spar becomes a rubber beam 

Just for the record, my first few flights were indeed KSFO outbound from 28R.

 

Harold Finch

Interesting... in my case departure runway is irrelevant, just arrival runway. Took of on 28R both times, OOMed selecting ILS07R at HKG, with a steady decrease over the flight, while wiht ILS07L selected my VAS held steady at 1.1GB

I have the same issue that I have on the 777 in terms of VAS, where there is a memory leak on certain runways - VHHH 07R, KSFO 28R. Its discussed in detail here: http://www.avsim.com/topic/477686-p3d-v3-fmc-memory-leak-back/

My first ever flight in the 747 was to find out if the same memory leak exists, I tried to do KSFO-VHHH landing on ILS07R - got an OOM about 8 hrs in, same as on the 777. Tried to do the same flight yesterday, but set the approach to ILS07L, and no memory leak, landed with 1GB VAS remaining. There's something PMDG code related that's causing these leaks, as I have them in the exact same scenarios, on both the 747 and 777, can someone look into this - more specifically that thread I linked above?

I'm also using the "good" driver - 376.33

Say you work for an airline, and you've got a 737, 757, 767 which are in need of repair, which one do you repair first?

I'm thinking you repair the 757 due to its load capacity and the fact it is versatile and can fly similar routes as a 737/767

I currently always start my NGX up in a cold and dark state, but I'm aware that pilots almost never enter an aircraft in a cold and dark state. I was wondering what is the most common panel state in the real world for a pilot entering the cockpit, whats on and what isn't?

Also, if there are any real world WN pilots could provide details, that would be great too!

So just to clarify, I currently have UTX and GEX, will FTXG replace both or just GEX?

First flight will be Delta DTW-ATL to get my feet wet with the plane

just ordered them!

Hi everyone!

I've been using my trusty Saitek X52 for the past 5-6 years or so, and I've never had any problems using the twist rudder on the stick, but I was recently thinking of buying the pro flight rudder pedals. I mainly fly the NGX, MJCQ400 and soon to be the PMDG 777, are the rudder pedals worth the $100 price?

Thanks

@riftin11

This is what you have been waiting for. I just uploaded it to AVSIM, So give it some time to show up. Also as I had another request via email to release a back of about 6-10 Southwest planes all ranging from old ones to new ones all weathered differently and all the old ones will have dirty wings and the newer ones will have clean ones, I will do this. I will also do the 2000th NG also in this pack. Also I have made the spinners weathered using real world pics of mine from southwest -700WL. Bump Maps are provided by Chris Hicks. 

Beautiful! I'm loving the paint, thanks a lot man!

Well I just uploaded my most recent paint Southwest Airlines 2010 Oshkosh (N948WN). This as seen in photos had a decal on the nose. It no longer has it but I have painted it with it. As requested I have made dirty wings like Southwest planes have. The request was for a different tail number and I will paint that plane with that tail number with the dirty wings but as I had this one sitting in the paint shop I decided that I would put the dirty wings on it to see how people like it. Please let me know by PM or email included in the read me file and let me know how you like it or think I could improve the dirtiness on the wings. The bump maps are provided by Chris Hicks. PS I found out how to paint the little air foil thing on the side on the engine so it is painted. I have also added the new WiFi sticker on the side of the number 1 door like Southwest is doing on the planes with WiFi.

 

Thanks,

Ian Besemer

Lovin the wings on that one Ian, fantastic paint!

How do these wings look?

Dirty!

They're looking awesome! Dirty just like they are on the old WN -700s!

I will do it. I know what you mean about the wings, I fly them a few times a month. I'm finishing up another SWA paint so give me some time. I think you may like the wings on the one I'm doing right now.

Awesome, thanks! I'll be looking forward to it!

Hi everyone, this is my first post here!

I'm a huge fan of Chris Hicks's Southwest NGX liveries, especially the "Dirty Luv" because of how realistic the wings look, WN wings are hella dirty if you fly them a lot. However, I was wondering if someone could do a repaint of N716SW, its one of Southwest's first 737NGs so it has a very weathered look.

Here's a video I took of that same plane landing in MDW

See how dirty the wings are? That's the look I'm trying to get in FSX, could someone possibly do a repaint of this bird with those dirty wings?

Thanks,

Yevgeniy Riftin