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As I am currently not at home for some weeks, so I can not provide you with my panel.cfg. Sorry. In the xls, just enter your surround screen resolution and the values will be calculated as described. The calculation will only give you new size values. You have to do the modification of the position by yourself. The position is your personal preference.

Hi Stefano, although this is for the 747-400, maybe this helps you out: You probaly need to adjust the original panels and their sizese to match the 737 but this could easily be fetched from the panel.cfg file. Furthermore, PMDG is providing different panel.cfg files for different display situations, e.g. 16x9 - at least for the 747. They are located in the simonjects/airplanes/<aircraft> folder. You best do a file search e.g. for „16x9“ Best regards, Holger

You are right - that‘s what I use. I put the simulation in slew mode (Y key) once loaded and wait until the aircraft has initialized.

Try setting the simulation to pause (Y key? I am not in the simulator right now) once you have loaded the aircraft and before it enters the initialization. Regards, Holger

I have read in some posts, that people wanted to know, how to customize the size of their panels if they have a custom screen resolution. PMDG has provided different panel.cfg files for differen screen situations, e.g. 16x9, 4:3 etc., but what if you have an odd resolution like e.g. 4160x1024 in case you are using NVIDIAs Surround? As I had to do it again for the new PMDG 747-8, I thought I will share it with you. Using the download link below, you can download a simple Excel-File that will do all the calculations for you - for the 747-400 and the 747-8 (just use the right table in the Excel file). A little howto is included. If you have some questions, please let me know. https://www.dropbox.com/sh/skvx6eqekg2bw95/AACeJ4ubporMpWt08vsToMe-a?dl=0 Have fun, Holger

As always... the problem is usually in front of the Computer ;-). I just fired um the sim just to check and there we go: Autorudder was set. No idea why.. Disabling this option and everything works as ecpexted. What a cool Aircraft! Thanks for your help. Holger

I am trying to master some engine out takeoffs and according to some books I read (e.g. Mike Rays 747-400 pilot handbook) I would expect the slip/skid indicator to give some advice. However, it seems that the indicator is always centered. Even when performing an engine out approach (three autopilots active) and then disconnecting the autopilots below the minimums will always show the indicator centered - but of course I have to give a lot of rudder to successfully continue the landing. Is it correct that the slip/skid indicator is always centered or am I missing something? Best regards, Holgrt

Thanks a lot for your help. Ok - there should always be at least one crew member in the cockpit and monitor the things while the other one takes a short break on longer flights ;-). I guess I will go with Kyles second advice and let my compute take care of the FUEL TANK/ENG to prevent fuel imbalances in the future. Greetings and thanks for the prompt feedback! Holger

On my flight from KJFK to KSFO, I suddenly received a FUEL IMBALANCE message on the EICAS together with a TANK/ENG message. After cleaning up the TANK/ENG message, the FUEL IMBALACE remained. Reading the QRH and checking the EICAS fuel page did not bring me any further on how to proceed. Any ideas how to resolve this issue? Thanks, Holger

One thing that helps me to get over the initialization phase of the plane being in the air is to directly go to slew-mode (keycommand "Y" in my sim) and stay there until the aircraft is fully initialized.

Just re-download the Lesson 1 zip-File again. The zip conatains both, the P3D fxml and the FSX flt-File.

It seems, P3D is using a new file format for saving its flights: fxml. I just have uploaded an updated zip for Lesson 1 that should contain an legacy FSX flt-file besides the newer P3D fxml file. It would be great if you could try to load Lesson 1 with this update. If it works I will convert the files from Lesson 2 as well. Just let me know.

Just in case anybody likes to use this excellent Type Rating Course written by RSR himself with the new PMDG 747-400 QotS II, I have re-created the saved flight situations for being used with P3D v3. They might work with FSX but I have no chance to try. For now, I have created the files for Lesson 1 and Lession 2. Each zip file contains a brief howTo that explains where to copy the files.I will upload Lesson 3 and Lession 4 as soon as they are ready. You can find the situations here: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/cl0wydugqsy5chn/AADhq7aKhm-8lTW4NyACDSCXa?dl=0 The Type Rating Course could be downloaded from the PMDG web site under "Documentation". https://www.precisionmanuals.com/pages/downloads/docs.html If you encounter any problems using these flights, please let me know and I will update the files. Have fun and happy flying! Greetings, Holger

That's what I meant - maybe someone has already done that and could provide that saved flight situations.

On the PMDG website there is an excellent type rating course for the 747-400 - dating back to FS9 in 2006. I guess this tutorial works perfect for the new Queen of the Skies (747 is a 747 ;-). However, this course comes with a couple of saved flight situations that probably do not work e.g. P3D. Has anyone probably already "converted" them to P3D or would it be possible for PMDG to provide updates so that this excellent tutorial could be used again? This would be great! Best regards, Holger