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Happened again, I was changing route to go to the alternate (first time was a to/ga). Not sure if it is the fiddling with the FMC (which is what you do when you change route unexpectedly) that causes the problem or if it is a navigational issue. This time I was changing route, fix, changed few things on the main panel and bam! lost control of most functions and the FMC stopped responding. It could well be a hardware issue who knows...but at the same time i do play with the FMC quite a lot during a "normal" flight and this doesn't happen. Feels to me like is something with having disrupted the original route. However, doesnt happen every single time that i change the route (not that i change it that often by the way)

I don't have an answer sorry but thank you for letting me know this is an option by posting this, I always have to adjust everything every time which is annoying unless i start from a saved previous flight (save after shut off) but unfortunately these files get corrupted sometimes and can do funky things. Starting with a fresh flight has always been better at least for me on Win 10

When do most pilots turn off A/P in real life when they want to manually land, at what precise moment during the approach? i'm sure this depends on what's best from a safety standpoint and only the flying crew knows better but let's say you have clear skies and no wind and perfect visibility can a pilot decide to go manual even before intercepting g/s if he wanted to just for the fun of it? is that even an option in an airline? I pretty much do as per tutorials but i wonder if that is standard policy

I think most people here use TOPCAT http://www.flightsimsoft.com/topcat/

and this makes perfectly sense but i'll be damned if i can find more than 1 bgl file for this....driving me nuts

Sorry not strictly a PMDG 737 problem although there is one parked at the finger. i was hoping to pick on your profound knowledge and ask you if you know what causes that weird texture flickering by the walls of the airport. I hope you can see the video. It's like FSX is trying to overlay two different afcad files for the same subject... https://youtu.be/-5OJPQFeT2c thank you

Ok, i think i got it now. Thank you all. No i don't have autorudder set to ON. I actually never really had too much of a problem landing with crosswind, I only wanted to know how are you supposed to do it.

ok, sorry guys i am confused now, how do you just "turn the plane in to the wind"? what i am talking about here is a manual landing (no autopilot) with crosswind, i know i have to keep that runway between my legs but the wind pushes we off alignment so i need to put the nose to wind to counteract but if you don't use the rudder what do you use? did you imply the rudder trim knob as opposed to the pedals? or did you just imply to use the yoke but that would lower my wing making it a slipped approach and that's a no no on a 737 apparently.....sorry i am a biologist trying to have some more fun

But that's exactly what i am referring to, don't you make use of the rudder to do both things you mention? rudder for maintaining a crabbed (not slipped) approach and again rudder for final alignment....?

I dont mean to steal this thread for another topic but i always wandered how are crab approaches done? isn't the rudder used extensively in that situation?

Food for thought here http://www.boeing.com/commercial/aeromagazine/articles/qtr_4_07/article_05_3.html I think i am starting to understand why I was getting penalized although I was aiming for OPT but i need to check on this by flying a few more times. See I had chosen a CI in the FMC AND I also did choose LRC at the same time. Seems like you do one OR the other...still unclear on this..... Anyway, I did both and I do wonder if this why I was getting conflicting instructions meaning being penalized while aiming for OPT.

mostly because I don't know yet how to use it. I thought LRC is used every time you do a very long flight but clearly that is as simple as that. I just need to do some more homework. My point though is that I was not on ECON.

mhhhh....next time I will check but i was actually on along haul going from Hawaii to KSAN and i was on a LRC CRZ not the ECON....

I just landed at KSAN runway 27 and doing it at flaps 40 was much better than my last landing in the same airport and same runway

I am trying to understand why i would be penalized if I descend to an OPT altitude from an altitude slightly above the MAX. Example, i am on FL370 and the FMC is telling on the CRZ page that my OPT is 344 and MAX is 369. If I STEP from 370 to 344 I am shown a penalty of 6,%....shouldn't i get a GAIN instead? am I misinterpreting the concept of OPT? isn't it referred to optimal fuel use? ps on another note if i want to add a pic to a post here i am asked to have on a URL....is there a specific website where to upload pics so i can put them here? thank you