Robau777

Hi all, i compile the flight planning for Bluegrass Virtual Airlines. Each year we hold an event called The Great Australian Air Race (GAAR) each February some may know or heard of this. Thiis coming September we are planning a rally flying from England to Australia to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the first England to Australia won by pilot Ross Smith flying a Vickers Vimy. Our rally will be following the route or as close as we can using today's airports of the Vimy. During August, flight plans will be made available for perusal, with a short timed test flight in your chosen aircraft and registration, more information on this at a later date. All simulation platforms are included and you may fly any aircraft of choice be it freeware or payware suited to your sim. There are three flight plans available for the rally so you may select the plan that is best suited to your aircraft type. For simplicity we shall call then A, B and C. Flight plan A has been developed for those that choose to fly a slower shorter range aircraft or limited computer time for flight simming. This plan has non compulsory intermediate airport stop overs called sectors , so you may fly the sector and return later to fly the next sector when convenient until you complete the departure / arrival leg that the Vickers Vimy flew. Plan B is the actual departure / arrival direct ports of call as flown by the the Vimy with using today's NDB, VOR/DME as your navigation aids. Plan C is for FMC equipped aircraft using waypoints, and upper level airways for your navigation. Once your test flight and registration is completed you may fly the rally and submit your Pireps any time up until December 20 2019. For those interested in flying this rally more information shall be forthcoming during the coming months or leave a note and I shall do my best to answer. Thanks for reading Rob

I am looking at purchasing the Aerosoft Twin Otter Extened to run in P3D v4 and Windows 10. Windows 10 is not mentioned on the product page of this aircraft, will this product run properly with W10. Thanks Rob

Hi All Unfortunately I do not have the computer knowledge to create and run a Virtual Airline. As we know, the PMDG new B747 is very close to release. The B747 along with the DC-3 are the two iconic aircraft that changed the world on how we travel by air. For many years we have had DC-3 Airways, a very successful VA with many pilots and great interest. I would like to propose that a similar VA be formed for the B747, do we have anyone interested in forming such a VA ? Naturally it would not be just for the PMDG 747, but for any 747 that you may have in your hangar. I would be glad to help with this project in any small way that I can. Your thoughts please. Regards Rob

Thanks for all your help and suggestions. I found that the problem was with my throttle quadrant, some how it had got out of sink and would not bring the engines back to idle even though the levers were right back. Re calibrated and now all is good. Regards Rob

Thank guys for your help so far but I think I should change my user name to Capt Dummy. Okay, I am flying in the Trike over Friday Harbour, engine purring away and enjoying the scenery and have put the big tick in the default flight box as suggested, but I would like to be sitting in the 737 at gate 40 YBBN with the aircraft powered by the APU. So in FSX I moved the Trike from flying over Friday Harbour to gate 40 and shut down the engine, went to the change aircraft panel in FSX to load the 737 and it loads at gate 40, that's fine but while waiting for the 737 initialization to finish, the 737s engines have spooled up from displaying zero to enough power to send me rocketing through the terminal building, across the car park and ending up in some field, so while this " journey of a life time" is going on, I am madly on the breaks and shutting down the engines to stop. Help please. Rob

Okay, please be patient with me. Aircraft I know, my career spanned from the Constellation thru to the 747, computers, I know how to turn them on and off. Firstly, where do I go to post my full name and then I will do my best to give you as much information as I can about my problem. Thank you

I tried as suggested then shut down my FSX, came back later in the day to do a flight and the sim once again did what my original problem is. I just about give up.

Hi to all. I am trying to set up the following so that when FSX loads, I start all my PMDG 737 NGX flights this way. I wish to have the aircraft parked at YBBN (Brisbane Intl, Australia) Gate 40, with the APU running. In real life you would call it a transit stop. I position the aircraft at gate 40 and go through the shut down procedure by the tutorial until the aircraft is being powered with the APU, all goes fine with that, so now my aircraft is in transit at the gate. I bring up FSX to save the situation, enter a name, tick default flight and save and shut down my flight sim. The next time I go into flight sim my 737 is at YBBN, Gate 40 as I had planned, but instead of the aircraft just sitting there and powered by the APU as I had planned, the park brake is off, I had left it on, and both engines start to spool up, I had shut them down as per procedure, including fuel pumps with just the one fuel pump running for the APU, and an annoying beep....beep....beep. So, what am I doing wrong or what am I not doing. Thanks for any help. Kindest regards Rob