crazy voyager

We did have the discussion, and I believe we concluded that in the US you don't have to say anything, however in the UK you have to request permission to fly quicker than the speed limit (when one is imposed) before doing so. If that's not what we concluded (with regards to the UK) I have probably not been banging my head hard enough against the wall

London likes to put on speed when it's busy, but it'll either be a quite high speed such as 300 knots, or if they're holding nowadays they use a system with which they will slow inbounds down earlier (so they don't have to go intot he holds for as long) and then they will instruct 250 IAS during descent. It's very company specific though what the ECON speed is, there is as far as I know no general rule.

It's been working fine apart from the DPI scaling, I tried to turn it down in windows but I strain my eyes if I turn it down (since the text is quite small at the lowest setting and I sit far away from the screens) so I had to turn it back up again. Apart from that it seems to be working fine though.

What did you do to fix them? I get the same error, dual screen setup, still works though.

I like the theory in another thread that maybe the install for some reason has become corrupt,e ither due to the download or something else. Because so far it seems reinstalling windows/fsx isn't helping?

You are now the second person I know with this issue that have reinstalled, in your case FS in the other case everything, and it hasn't produced any change. The theory about the 777 installation being corrupt is interesting so I might give a reinstall of that a go next week. It won't be today since I'm doing longhaul in the MD11 :wub:

I did get a slight increase from this (on the ground from 8 to about 10) which brings it closer to being flyable, but not quite there yet.

I do agree with you on that, however I haven't given up on finding some sort of link. Most users seem to get out better fps of the 777 than the NGX just off the box, but some do get considerably lower frames in the 777 for no obvious reason. I know one of the other guys with this issue was going to try a reformat and if that works I might go down that road, but at the moment I don't want to have to spend horus on reinstalling a program that works well with several other addons (including the PMDG NGX, MD11 and JS41). It might be random, and we may all just have to reformat, but so far I'm not convinced either way.

I have a similar issue, the NGX works fine but the 777 just won't perform at a level where I can fly it. I know there are more users with this issue (albeit a small group) but so far I don't know what the common factor is. I would say it's because we're both Swedish but someone else with this issue is English so that can't be it

Indeed, I've now ventured down the road of trying to re-twek my fsx but so far it's nto going well. I went back to a clean .cfg file, the trike gave me 3 FPS! Just shows how much tweaking FSX needs to work relatively well...

So far for me this has been a disappointment. The external model performs well but in the VC I'm happy if the FPS bumps up to 10! In the NGX I normally get around 20, so my system isn't exactly high end to begin with but it's worked well with the NGX, MD11 and JS41. This time however the sim is performing at a level which isn't satisfactory for flight, which is a real real shame :(

I see what you're trying to do but I don't really see the need? If I want to self position I can just self vector myself using the map as a guide. If I'm worried about terrain etc I still need to follow the published procedures and then this is no good. If you don't want to self vector this is a usefull trick, but it's not something I'm going to be using myself.

That's basically it, but as has been pointed out it's not really an issue until ATC start stopping climbs and descents, but if we do we should be clever enough to restate the QNH if needed. In the UK the definition of transition altitude is the level at and below which the vertical position of an aircraft is normally referred to as an altitude. It actually says nothing about the time the pilots set their altimiter to the QNH, and as long as they don't bust their levels I see no reason to care when they set it.

I have to admit my attention did drift somewhat after about 90 minutes but still a very nice preview. I did think about some comments but they're not actually related to the aircraft but more other (ATC related) stuff around it so I'll just leave it there and say thanks

Yes they can, but not withotu prior permission from ATC. Something that was established a few pages back. This now relevant to the area which I know ie the London TMA. And yes a pilot shouldn't accept a turn into a mountain but if I as an ATCO turned a flight into terrain during vectoring through me not following the procedures I would not only lose my license but also face legal charges so all the blame doesn't fall on the pilot.