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I have been using a touchscreen for almost a year as an overhead panel with FSX so that I could emulate the gestures without using the mouse. Sadly since upgrading to P3D all the knobs only turn anti-clockwise (equivalent to mouse left click) but no longer operate clockwise ( equivalent to mouse right click) I really cannot see what the problem is but both PMDG and LM claim it’s got nothing to do with them, kind of blaming each other. The touch gesture software operates through Windows and it’s fine in any other program, including FSX, giving a tremendous sense of reality an immersion. It’s such a shame that nobody has come out with an answer yet ! I posted this many times in the last 14 months.

Well, it turned out to be a very interesting and educational conversation, so thank you all for your inputs. Meanwhile I went back to my books and discovered many details that I seemed to have overlooked, maybe due to the excitement of getting into the cockpit and fly. Now, having covered the basics well, I am reviewing all my courses and squeezing any additional information that slipped out previously. Thank you all Regards

I am not familiar with the implementation of such lights..... are we now talking about the real aircraft or the PMDG? At home, (I am away at the moment hence the laptop on FSX) I have the P3D laters version of the PMDG; am I likely to find those lights tin that cockpit by any chance? Or is this something that has been introduced only on later models of aircraft? Its funny how a simple domestic simulator can give very serious indications about real potential tragic events, thumbs up for PMDG. Having said so there are some functionalities yet not incorporated in the 738NG that might come useful if aiming to a full training such as the LGC (long range cruise option) int the cruise page of the CDU. Yes maybe I will but first I need to reproduce the problem at least a couple of times. Also FS2Crew has been behaving rather strangely recently on this setup (Different from my P3D at home). It seems to jump procedures and in some cases it doe not progress through the stages and needs nudging manually (that's when hi most probably forgets things). have known my FO to configure the plane for takeoff and forget turn the engine switches to continuos as well as the probe heat etc...

Wow .... well spotted ! .... its supposed to be taken care of by the FS2Crew but recently he his forgetting a few things like Engine switches .... Lights and so on ...... Thanks for that.... however it’s strange that the prssur. gage was showing normal readings and Iv'e just noticed that the altitude horn cut off stops the warning ..... so obviously the pressurisation must be obtained by the bleed air though the Air Con..... Cheers

Hello everybody, Being away from home and my P3D for a few months I have to make do with my Macbook Pro in Windows mode running FSX for my ATIS communication training before I enter the Vatsim world. Ever since yesterday tough, flying from EHRD to LOWI I have been getting this warning sound no matter what I do. It seems to be related to either the time lapsed from the beginning of the flight or indeed the altitude (normally above FL 200) All faults have been reseted in the CDU but every time I restart the flight and look in the Aircraft section of the CDU, I find that the brakes fault is active again. Don’t now if this is triggering the warning though. I appreciate your help so please leave a comment if you think you know what this might be. Thanks

Hi Guys, I had voxatc working fine up to the last time I used it back in April running on win7 64 on my MacBookPro Bootcamp installation. Last night, after loading FSX, it did not complete its initialisation so I tried to reinstall the software thinking some file had gone missing. It won't re-install returning the following message: InstallUtilLib.dll:CorBindToRuntimeHost [hr=0x800700c1]:%1 is not a valid Win 32 application The same message appears if I try to uninstall the application. Any advise is welcomed as I'm going to be away from my main simulator at home for months and I need to practice communications before I with Vatsim. Many thanks to all for any input you may have for me.

Actually I acquired the FS2Crew - PMDG 737 NGX Captain Set from FS/Pilotshop on 02/11/2014 So where do i stand with regard to P3D ? Cheers

It works with both the FSX version of the NG as well as with the P3D version as long as the Migration Tool is used to install. My question is, will we have to pay the full price for the P3D install version ? .. Or just a nominal upgrade fee ?

Hi everyone, My new P3D Sim is now up and running with a fresh hardware and saying bye to my old FSX and the beautiful PMDG 737 purchased some time ago. But, before I proceed with the purchase of the newer P3D version of the 737NG I have to solve a potential problem. I use touchscreen overhead panel for more immersion and training realism and it works fine in FSX, but when I tested the new system in P3D with the old 737NG , the "press & hold right click" was not responding so I am not able to invert switches like the retractable landing light or indeed any of the rotating knobs and they can only be moved to the left. (I was surprised to see the Fsx version working in P3D anyway) I have noticed though that all P3D aircrafts have a different approach to the cockpit moving parts; they use the "grabbing hand" mode to pull or push (and possibly also rotate ?). So If there is anyone out there using P3D with the genuine PMDG 800/900 (p3d version) could they be kind enough to confirm that all knobs and switches can be moved into any position with JUST the left click? If so then my overhead panel would be fully functional with just one finger. That would answer my question and I would confidently purchase the PMDG-p3d version with no worries. Many Thanks to you all in advance Kind Regard Mauro Andreini

I've checked all settings in widows and they appear to be identical to the other pc (still running FSX, BTW). For some unknown reason P3D does not allow "pen & touch" settings to work on any of the panels…. in other words one cannot use a touchscreen as it was intended to be used for. I have searched for days just to see if anybody else is suffering the same with no joy. Perhaps the new PMDG for P3D is implementing this?….. I was waiting for the x 64 ….. :wink: Maz As I was saying, it works fine in FSX

Hi Marc, I didn't know that you could choose an option for the touchscreen (never used one before) but I didn't change anything from the previous PC, if so, it must have happened spontaneously during Windows installation. I will check online how to enable / disable right click for the touchscreen even though I haven't seen anything so far. Thanks for your input. Maz

Hi Guys, Has any of you used a touchscreen for the overhead panel in P3D? It's just that with FSX I had it working just fine…. I could get the "right click" on knobs and switches by holding my finger on it for a couple of seconds. I finally had time to install my freshly acquired P3D on the new Sabertooth Z97 Mark1 Intel box CPU Intel 1150 i7-4790K Ci7 Box(4,00GHz) Noctua NH15 cooler 16 Gb Memorie corsair vengeance cmy16gx3m2a1866c9 ddr3 16gb(2x8gb) 1866mhz E-VGA - G-Force GTX 980 Touchscreen on HDMI all others on Display / DVI and I am only getting the left click function….. same touchscreen same OS… don't gets it…….sounds like different drivers have been installed … ? ?……….. Or could the overhead panel of P3D have a different script ? Any thought ? ? Cheers guys

So using a fresh 500 Gb SSD for just Win7 and P3d + add ons is not good enough? … Shall I go back to my FSX style with Win 7 on one SSD and P3D on another? I didn't think with SSD it would make such a difference… It would be easier to make images of the drive if all in one ….. Thanks

I must have gone mad ! you're right there, I was obviously confusing with EZ camera……which does as well as VOX Atc… sorry about the confusion and thanks for reminding me…….

Hi guys, sorry to drop in but I have just bilt a new superdupa pc for my transition to P3D an everithing is a fresh install. I followed someone advise and temporarilly used the FSX trick file in order to use PMDG on P3d …NOT ! ! … for the money (i shall purches it anyway) but so that I could have means to compare the two (as we know new stuff rarely works well on release). Well, my PMDG is perfect BUT ! ! FS2crew does not appear in the add ons menu. Have I missed something? Or does it mean that on top of the purchase of a new PMDG (I was waiting for the x64) I also have to purchese another FS2Crew as well ? Thanks Kind Regards to all