mrvoyager

They make trimming be smoother, more precise.

Well I have found that the manual lever for trimming is smoother than the buttons on the wheel, but so far the only way to use the lever is to physically click on it, not good to fly with.

I wonder if there is a way to trim the pitch by using the manual lever by the throttle control using button commands? I find that the lever trimming is smoother but I cannot find a way to link this to the joystick buttons.

Yeah guys, I am afraid to say this, but I think I simply had to calibrate my joystick. I think this was the problem, that I was moving the stick and it was making the elevators jump and this was interacting with the autotrim, hence no smoothness. It is not perfect, but the dynamic improved a lot. I am still trying to get the hang of manually flying this bird, but its a lot better now, I am starting to enjoy it.

I've been doing circuit after circuit trying to figure it out, but its just unstable, I never achieve smooth transitions, I don't even know what it is. I think its that the autotrim reactions are just not in sync with the aircraft aerodynamics, it needs some further refinement. I actually preferred the first version that came out, no autotrim, but I can't get it back. I simply hate it to be honest, I don't even fly the airplane that much because I mainly just do circuits, I usually don't do routes. So I mainly fly the 737 and a320, but I really love the advancement made with the 777, I like how it looks a lot, the other simulations, but its just this annoying autotrim, its just not smooth, and I expect smoothness when it comes to such an advanced and large aircraft. The jerkyness I have to engage in to stabilize the airplane sometimes feels like I'm flying some faulty cessna.

Is there a way I could configure the pmdg autotrim parameters to make it smoother or at least try?

I'm not an expert, I'm just saying, autotrim could probably be much better, smoother.

Why can't the 777 have a similar autotrim behavior to the MD11? In the MD11 handflying interaction is so much better, I get smooth transitions from climb to cruise, smoother turns, smoother descends, the autotrim is smooth, steady, and stable in the MD11, and the odd thing is that its a much older aircraft. I know, the flight characteristics are not the same, but still I think the 777 should have a smoother autotrim so that handflying would be better. If it was done with the MD11 then it can be achieved with the 777.

I am trying to find some software that has good window views and maybe some additional effects like sound effects for FSX, something you would likely see in these realistic FSX videos, but not simply the templates they include in video editing, something you can use in FSX.

That's right, that is exactly my point. I wonder if it flies better with P3D, probably not thou.

I installed the optional 22 KHz sounds and I didn't like them, some effects and sounds stopped working. How do I revert to the previous sounds?

Well ok, I have no credentials to say its made wrong. The simulation is made right, what I meant was the actual aircraft, the actual boeing 777. I believe it was better to either incorporate a full autotrim fly-by-wire system that would adjust positions similar to an airbus, either that or the better option, to just not include an autotrim feature.

I have my name, do I have to also include my last name? What I simply mean is that when I make a turn, the vertical speed goes down, say from 0 to -500 when banking to 15 degrees unless I raise the ailerons. The autotrim is not enough to keep the plane on the 0 vertical speed level. The other thing is that there is an interaction, sometimes conflicting, between what I am trying to do with the pitch and trim and the autotrim activity, so the flight path is not very stable. With the ngx, I make a turn, raise the elevators a bit, and with good precision I can trim it to stay level.

Is it possible to turn the autotrim off so its more like an ngx? I find its behavior annoying when manually making turns. I don't like how it interacts with my own pitch and trim inputs, it makes the aircraft a bit unstable and not very fun. My opinion is that it should either behave like an airbus or like a boeing, and not something in between in this regard.

Also, I found that I just prefer the ngx because I feel that since it doesn't have this weird autotrim behavior by not having autotrim at all, I can actually fly it much better with smooth trim adjustments. I which I could deactivate the pitch autotrim for the 777.

Is this aircraft a newer separate version of the ngx? I feel it has better wing and paint resolution, and I found has a better smoother handling. I also noticed that the wing ailerons kind of move smoother, similar to the 777, with more frame positions between movement positions. I also noticed that its the only pmdg aircraft that gets its aileron movements recorded with FSrecorder.

This is what I expected but its not happening. I remember when I first tried the er with the sp1 the autotrim was more responsive. Right now, when I make a turn, the vertical speed will start to go down unless I pull the stick. After I pull the stick I must keep it there, otherwise it will start to fall again. Also the autotrim feels unstable, it will start to go up and down along the way so I have to be compensating for this, specially as the thrust starts to change. I have another question, is the fbw marker on the speed tape a separate measure from the manual trim setting? I know the trim changes the fbw level thou, but I think they might be separate values.

Right, but I now have a question, are you supposed to constantly hold some elevator pressure when making turns? This is what I am getting, that the autotrim never fully corrects the elevators to hold altitude during turns, it doesn't compensate for g-force and power thrust changes.

I am using FSrecorder but in the replay the aileron movement is not showing. Is there something I can do to get those movements recorded or do I need another program for this?

Oh so you mean the joke has to be centered before trimming the pitch? That's odd, I guess this is not the case for the real 777. I have the areosoft airbus and I like it a bit, mostly the clinical look of the cockpit and just how easy it is to control, very responsive autotrims, but that's about it, its not as well made as the pmdg simulation. I guess the joke about the airbus saying retard when landing is because the plane is so easy to handfly that its like it was made for retarded pilots and even the airplane itself knows it hah.

What do you mean by maintaining the joke centered? How would you do this while turning? I just noticed that you can stimulate the autotrim by letting go of the joke after holding it back while making a turn. So before I would start a turn and pull on the elevators to maintain altitude but the autotrim would not simply raise the pitch to maintain the angle, unless I then let go of the joke a bit, so when the pitch angle goes down, only then the autotrim would move enough, but usually I have to raise the ailerons a second time so that the autotrim corrects again, so its kind of a lazy autotrim where I would have to kind of shake the airplane a few times so the flightpath is not very smooth at times, but other than that it works well. I just wished there was an option where the autotrim would be airbus like, where when you made a turn the vertical speed would be stable. I guess this is what you mean by getting the joke to be centered. What is your setting for the FMC deadzone?

I would like to know if there is a way I could increase the level of autotrim activity in both 777 versions. I am not very good at manually adjusting and maintaining the elevator levels during turns so I would like more of an airbus feeling to the pitch adjustment. I know it has some pitch autotrim thou.

Which one is a lower easier setting, 8xSQ or 8xS?

I have the order number and email, but not sure about what password should I use, if the current one or the one I used when I made the order, which I don't have right now. Or I guess the problem might be because the order is inactive and it needs to be reactivated by PMDG? Thank you.

I think the problem is the video card driver. Can you tell me which version do you use?