SouthportGuy

I will investigate that and give it a try. Thanks!

Because there would be a danger of it becoming self-aware and Judgement Day would be upon us. Didn't you see Terminator?

I use a gaming laptop (see specs in my sig) and during my flight I notice two things: When I open the ATC window the text won't show up most of the time. Sometimes the ATC window won't open at all. When I try to run GSX, when the menu opens the text is gone/not visible. Also noticed that AI traffic is often mostly not visible (all I will see are the AI vehicle tires running along the ground). This happens a lot of the time. Before I purchased the 777 I got some fair warning that it may push the limits of my computer. But since I don't run any other addons (weather, airports) that the sim should work ok with PMDG. I guess the only addon would be GSX and may be the straw that is breaking the camel's back. When doing my flight, in VC everything looks great. Flight is smooth, cockpit looks great. weather looks great. Half the time pressing F11 to see outside view results in not seeing any of the exterior textures of the 777. Just wondering if it's a matter of a few adjustments or something that required reconfig.

When entering the route into the FMC, When I select my departure runway it then shows the available SIDs. Why is the SID that a tool like Flight Aware suggested not available on the FMC screen? Here is the route I was given: AVSEP2 SSM YQT GOVIT GOVIT6. For for runway 33R AVSEP2 doesn't exist as an available SID. And runway 33R is the active runway.

I believe you need to take specific steps to uninstall from your old computer. Then install on new. If you check your PMDG manuals and instructions it talks about it.

Got it.Thanks. Will give it a try now.

Since I'm very new to flying routes I have a question. I'm used to flying IFR with atc giving me all of my vectors. How would ATC be interacted with in a situation like the PMDG tutorial where the routing is "calling the shots" as to altitude/vectors? I'm so used to ATC spanking me for any wrong moves I make with heading and altitude.

I'm viewing your youtube tutorial and I've hit a snag. In Airnav.com, for airport CYYZ scrolling to the bottom to show the Instrument Procedures it says "There are no published instrument procedures at CYYZ."

(Context: I've been flying FSX for a year almost everyday. Used to direct IFR and VFR flights. Now I'm a newb to PMDG and using routes properly.) I really enjoyed the PMDG tutorial for flying to Dubai. The step by step instruction on how to program the route into the FMC went fine. What I'm having trouble with is practicing finding my own routes and then entering them properly into the FMC. When I use a tool like Simbrief to save/copy/paste the route file, when loading the route into FMC something goes wrong. "Do I have the SID selected properly?" I ask myself. Is the SID connecting properly with the route? So I'm not sure how I'm able to really know if the route I've entered is valid and will work. If the flight is IFR and you don't yet know what runway the ATC at your dest will assign to you, why am I asked to enter the STARS at the start of the flight if I have no clue what runway I will receive yet?

I've managed to find the solution to the other problem I shared in post #5. Instead of saving the route (rte) file to the 77 flightplan folder, I saved the pln file. It worked now. Thanks!

Some more help please. I used Simbrief to create a flight plan and then saved it to my Flight Plans folder in PMDG. I then went into the sim and tried to load the plan into my FMC. The FMC says the plan is not in the database. What am I doing wrong?

Thanks Guys! I'm off to give your suggestions a try.

Is a product like PFPX required for users to use the 777? I have successfully flown the tutorial 1 flight to Dubai. Now I want to create my own flight. But when programming the departure entry and route entry it seemed that I need to be able know the desired airway and it's name. In the tutorial, the airway is told to you in the instructions. Now I just need help in knowing how to find research the airways/routing options and how to pick them properly. For instance, I'm trying to fly CYYZ to CYWG. Edit: Very sorry about not signing the post. I wil edit my profile so that I will have a signature right away. Apologies.

Yeah, As I replied to you in the other forum, the flaw was in my startup config. Cause I had the king air in the cold and dark as my default some time ago.

That worked! Finally!!! I appreciate the tip. So gratifying to hear the engine fire up without having to use ctrl+e. Thanks Bjoern.