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Hi there, Just want to raise a issue with the FD switch. So, once landing and parked at gate (imagine it as turnaround state) with the ADIRS still in the NAV position this FD button can be switched on and off fine. However, once the ADIRS are switched off, if you also witch the FD off, the FD then cannot then be switched back on until the ADIRS have realigned again, where as in the real airbus you can witch the FD on and off regardless if the ADIRS are in NAV or OFF. Wondering if this can be looked at, its not a biggie, however if its off and you're doing your flight plan, it creates a dotted green line rather than the normal solid one. Many Thanks, Perry Marshall -
I see some crazy stuff for sale on eBay but this is somewhat jaw flexing. You could technically LIVE in your ultimate sim! I'd make it a snooker room with small bar and home theatre. What would YOU do with it? Asking price 30 LARGE (UK slang) https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/176560985308 -
Can somebody help me,after install PMDG, the cockpit of plane looks not as standart. what is wrong with my plane?sorry for my english and thank you
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Hello guys,would someone help me please to fix my issues? I receive always in every view, flashing artifacts and black vertical stripes, especially in clouds and in turns day and night. What could this be? Any suggestions? THX a lot, with kind regards Tommy -
Dear pilots, just i quick and short question. Does anybody now, where i can change my "standart zoom" for example in the VC, or for the wingviews?? At prensent i have to change it by my own, by clicking to the view example: VC and change it to 40, or all wing views to 50.I want to change it, so that i have always the zooms i´d like to have, without clicking everytime for new...
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I have a problem with my NGX (v1.00.3057). I do not have any cockpit sounds (EGPWS, TCAS, Fire bells, Cautions, switches clicks etc). Other sounds (engines, wind etc) are OK. And its only with NGX. There is no such issue with any other aircraft (including PMDG 744X). My Windows playback device is set to stereo, as it is stereo. In FSX sound device is default (and switching to other options does not help). And when I go to sound options on aircraft's FMC/CDU it says 'device: none' and when I click it, there are no sound devices. I can't think of anything else to fix it. Clicking 'Q' twice does not help either. I have an onboard sound card(Realtek ALC 892).My PC:Asus M5A97 ProAMD FX-4100MSI R6850 Power EditionCorsair 8GB DDR3 1600Win 7 Pro x64
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Hi,i Have the overland 747-400, the model is perfect but the VC is not working. is kinda clickable, and the LCD displays are black, and the whole vc is filled with a kind of brown color.I thought about showing a picture of the VC but i don't know how to do it.Please Anyway to make the VC work?
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I've compared the cockpit sound of the NGX (the WAV-file) to some video clips I have from some 737NG cockpits.One of them where the aircraft is just finished with one flight and preparing for another I find that the sound of the NGX does match.But of the other clip where the aircraft has been shut down for a night stop (video clip included) I find that the sound do not match. Take a look on the video clip and listen Regards Stig HaraldNorway
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had my worst flight ever. all started with nice weather at coffs harbour YSCH. programmed everything nicely for my trip to YBCS. All went well when during the climb at approx. FL120 suddenly the copilot PFD quit working. Just said MAP (how funny! possibly a remindfer) in the middle. Then I a horn went off. checking for sign of malfuntion I just saw 1 red light on the overhead: the EQUIP light was on. nothing else. but no enough. checking the FMC failure section in an attempt to cheat I saw that the passenger oxygen masks were deployed. Tried to service them while sinking at a rate of 4000ft and 300 kts overspead but the masks deployed right away again. same time the first real warning popped up: FLT CONT. aha. finally something to work with. latest now I realized that elevator and rudder hardly worked. they only allowed minimal input and I had to use manual trim to slow down the descent and try to level off. only A/T still worked. anyway, when sort of level at maybe 8000ft I pulled the QRH and skimmed them for FLT CONT. amazingly I found nothing in the index. had to use the search function to look for it to find the LOW PRESSURE warning. Which however was not on in my case. Anyway, long story short. Flaps worked but gear did not, tried to fly to the next available apt YVED but I could not maintain a proper sinkrate for a belly landing and crashed. findings:1. what a great simulation indeed. I am flying heavy irons since PMDG's first NG + 747 + MD11 + (well, less heavy) J41.But I never. I repeat NEVER ran into a situation like this that I could not recover from a failure due to the lack of proper counter measures. Sad for the plane and passenger but actually great for me. 2. But what I also realized is that I am missing - for the first time - a cockpit layout telling me where which knob and button is. or did I miss this in the documentation? it is nice to have hundreds of pages of documentation but they have little to no pictures. don't laugh at me now. yes, pictures. as for dummies. plus why does the QRH not list a FLT CONT in its index? luckily I could use the search function but I doubt a printed manual has this. so I came up with section 9.7 about FLT CONTROL switch(affected side). . . . . . Confirm. . . . . .STBY RUD but I doubt that was the right thing as it refers to the LOW PRESSURE warning I did not get . Besides, I was not able to locate said switch anyway. Which refers back to 1, above: what a great simulation as I never had to dig so deep into any documentation to keep flying. alright. time for a restart I guess. second service. will try the flight again. Thanks, PMDG, for this experience which showed me that all my possibly hundreds of landings with your other aircraft at challenging places like LOWI or VHHX were just kindergarten compared to this NGX. -
I just attempted a cold Dark night startup. I was reminded of the guy who couldn't find his own butt in the darkwith a flashlight. That's it!! A Flashlight. Is it possible to create a flashlight that is mouse movement operated, to illuminate either the flight-deck, or outside doing a preflight walk aroundbefore startup? I have purchased all of the Manuals for the NGX, I've viewed the AoA lights lesson, and all I was able to start up was Background, and AFDS Flood lighting. The only clues I had after fumbling around was a magic hand appearing and disappearing to enable me to start the afore mentioned light Knobs. To further clarify my problem, I use EZE Dok with TrackIR, so any slight head movement fumbling in the dark causes more problems finding the knobs andswitches. All flight crew carry flashlights for such a purpose. As a matter of fact, it's illegal to fly at night without one on the flight-deck. I could have probably fumbled around for another 10 minutes. But seriously, it wasn't worth the time.As many of us try to make it as real as we can, we need a flashlight! What do you think? Can it be done? Is it necessary? Love this Aircraft Taurcan
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My dad and i have been sharing aircraft(particularly Carenado products) for a while now without any problems until recently. Something has been changed although i cant put my finger on what it could possibly be. Now when we share an aircraft everything works perfecly as it did before until i transfer control to him. When he takes control he can turn the aircraft normally, but he's unable to climb or descend. He can pitch the plane up and down, but it still remains at the altitude that it was at when he accepted control. i've searched everywhere i know to search and so this is a last resort. any help will be greatly appreciated! -
I'm tired of flying the PMDG 737 with only a joystick, so I've decided to splurge and build a whole cockpit. My budget isn't bad, but it isn't great either (let's say maybe... a few thousand dollars over the course of one year). Anyways, I want to begin my project by making the throttle quadrant first. There are two ways I can go about this (that I know of): Buy two saitek throttle quadrants and merge them together, which would give me six slots - 2 Throttle, 2 Reversers, 1 Spoiler and 1 Flap, plus six switches that I have yet to decide a purpose for < OR > Buy an Arduino chipset and Make my own throttle box, which might give me more room to customize, but I need to know: can Arduino chipsets support incremental controls like throttles, or do they only support simple on/off states?Do fellow simmers here have a preference over these two options for custom cockpits? Are there any other recommendations? Thanks, Leif -
Hi guys. I'm helping a team over at x-plane.org do a 3D redesign of the cockpit, and I'd like to know the exact fonts and their weights used throughout the cockpit. I understand the font is probably Futura but the Light version appears too thin and the Regular version appears too thick. I also get that the Condensed version was used for the MFD panel left of the MCP, and on all buttons on the MCP. Can I have this info, please? Thanks much.
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I have gotten very tired of waiting for cockpit and exterior textures on the 777 to load. The cockpit textures can take as long as 3 seconds to load. So I was messing around flipping from external to internal while taxing and noticed something peculiar. If you have spent a significant amount of time outside the cockpit and then return, texture loading (for me anyways) is painfully slow. If you switch from, say Locked Spot View to Cockpit and immediately switch back to external and then immediately back to cockpit, the textures are there 100% instantly. My question is why can it load the textures in less than a second there, but not otherwise? Hoping someone out there with technical knowledge can come up with work around possibly involving FSUIPC4. What I did for now is; assign a button in FSUIPC on my Xbox controller initial press is a left rear view and the release is the Captains cockpit view in all its glory. it doesn't have to be a cockpit view on the initial press, it was just convenient for the test. Hope this makes sense.
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Hello, can anybody tell how PMDG make that detail cockpit? I wanna make a A350-800-900-900R-1000-F Versions This is what i wanna know: What kind of software they use (example: FS Design Studio 3.5) how they create the model (.MDL Files) how they make a virtual cockpit that fully works If the software is secret (or other) please tell then the best alternitive. Thanks Hugo
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Just a few pictures of PMDG's 777, enjoy! -- A British Airways 77W loading up for the long flight to Tokyo - Into the sunset! - Dawn, on the way to Mumbai, I believe.. - Tail end of the monsoon season in India leads to some gnarly WX on arrival! - Another LHR gate picture, this time preparing to head out to IAD.. - This one's got some muscular arms, eh? :-P - A Qatari 77W awaits departure clearance out to Singapore's Changi International.. - FDX 77F loading up to head out to PANC from KIAD. - Different day, same airport. FDX 77F starting up @ KIAD - PAX grabbed a nice shot of the sunset as Qatari 6 heads out to LHR. - Great abs! :-D - Banking out of OTHH enroute LOWW. - Unloading @ Changi WSSS. - Outstanding livery by Steve Dra, in action @ EGKK - Bringing an EK aircraft home @ OMDB - Thanks for looking, I'll put up a 737 one in good time!
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Hi there please can anyone help me as every time i totally reinstall my 737 NGX and install any liverys my plane starts in a cold and dark with engines running and if i click anything in the cockpit it fatel errors. Also the 3 instruments next to the 2nd display are just black! HELP!!! -
Hi guys, I've been wanting to build an A320 home cockpit for some time now, but I'm on a very strict budget. Is it possible to build an A320 cockpit similar to a Jetmax system? This is pretty much what I would need: PFD ND ECAM Mini-overhead (http://www.fscockpit.eu/shopfsc/index.php?lange=2) EFIS + Master Caution+Master Warning Panel (Capt. Side) FCU and whatever else is on the captain's side of the MIP. How would I be able to do this? I'm not very crafty or tech-savvy when it comes to hardware. It doesn't have to be an EXACT replica, meaning I don't need the exact thrust levers or joystick (I'm using my Saitek throttles and my Logitech joystick) or any extras, like a pull out table. I just want it to be looking + working almost identically to a full size A320 sim. Thanks!
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Hi, I don't know if this subject has already been dealt with but in the past several days I have been trying to find a way to read the display offsets from the electrical panel on the 737NG. Unlike the ALT and LAND displays, there are no offsets listed in the SDK file for the 7-segment displays in the electrical panel. Is via PMDG 737NG offsets the only way to interface LEDs? Or is there an other way to read these numbers? thanks for your help in advance! Greetings, Wout
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Greetings! I have a perhaps clueless question about how to get a clock, any clock, into an aircraft that does not have a clock. I have been logging my flight times (start from cold/dark, taxi, take-off, land, taxi, shutdown) mostly using my wrist watch, just like a real pilot! However, I find that my flights are often interrupted by real-world demands (cook dinner, let the dogs out, let the dogs in, go to the loo) and it would be nice to PAUSE and have flight time stop as well. Some of my modus-interruptus scribbles can be pretty cryptic, particularly if I forget to note the start or stop time of an interruption. Some of my aircraft have a clock, some don't. Is there a utility app that can pop-up a clock with a keystroke? Hopefully this is an ignoramus question, and such a feature obviously exists. The Google did not tell me much, deviating into CPU clock speeds on the eighth entry... Thanks!
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The noise at the flightdeck is just too loud - cant hear vatsim....
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I recognize that being in the flight deck of an actual B738, that it's going to be very loud, given all the running avionics. I totally get that. However, in the sim world, there's gotta be a way to somewhat lower the volume on the noise that continues to remain unchanged no matter how much I adjust the FSX sound settings. I have turned down the following: engine, environment (thunder, wind, etc.), and the cockpit (switches, buzzers, alarms, etc...) and it does not seem to affect this other noise that continues in the cockpit. I dont know if it's APU, packs, or what... but it needs to be lowered so that I can hear the VATSIM comms.... Any insight would be appreciated.. -
I have an issue with the default A321 cockpit. Whenever I download an Airbus addon which already has the default a321 cockpit installed, the 'roll bar' of the flight director never works. The 'pitch bar' always works fine but the roll bar is never active in any mode. Anybody know of any fixes for this?
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I thought I'd share my current project with you guys to both share my excitement and to also perhaps get some input from others of you who have ventured down the same path. I've decided to fulfill my lifelong dream of building my own home cockpit. I'm not going off of any plans whatsoever, this has been the product of years of looking at other folk's simulation setups and months of talking over designs with a friend of mine who's lending me a hand in the construction of this. I like going the "no plan" route because it gives me the opportunity to customize the thing to exactly what I am desiring. So, here' goes. Our first decision was that this thing needed to be modular and relatively easy to disassemble in the event that I should move. I was finally building this thing, I sure as heck wasn't going to want to leave it behind if we ever had to move. So, we came up with a plan that would include essentially 7 components. The 4'x8' base (on castors to make it easy to move around the floor should I need to do that), the back section which is structural, but also doubles as a convenient shelf, the seat box to which the seats will be bolted, the "desk" who's only real job is to support the instrument panel, but also double as a surface for keyboard/mouse when I need to do real work, the instrument panel console, the display assembly (which will also double as the front wall of the simulator, and finally the ceiling to help enclose the whole thing. All of these things will be bolted together with a few bolts which should give it strength but also allow for simple dissasembly. on of my concept drawings (I'm certainly no artist!): The base: The back framed in, and seat box built: a temporary "desk" to figure out spacing and measurements: desk is built, and front display wall is framed in: and this is where I'm currently at. My friend is working on the instrument console panel using MDF to built up a glare shield and the curved panel where the instruments will go. This is going to be made in such a way that it is easily removed from the cockpit so the thing can be used for other gaming or work purposes. I am planning on using a monitor behind the yoke, built into the instrument panel, to display the actual instruments. I've got a saitek radio panel and am considering other saitek panels, just haven't decided what I really need yet. Thanks for having a look! Jeremy
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Lots of news lately about X-Plane's current and upcoming 737 simulations, but I haven't seen much mentioned here regarding the upcoming virtual cockpit for EADT's x737 project. While the cockpit has been in the works for a while now, it's begun to take shape over the past several weeks and the devs have been sharing some eye candy over on the .Org. In case you've missed it, check out the screens below! Note: the most recent updates have stressed that this is still a way out since additional systems need to be implemented, so try not to get too antsy! Also, when the cockpit is completed, the project will remain donationware.
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Hey guys, My friend recently gifted me PMDG 737 NGX for my FSX and I just needed gps to get to know my position (not cheat. lol), So i went to the aircrafts panel.cfg to see which window to replace / create, then this is what i found: [Window Titles] window00=Main Panel window01=Lower Main window02=CDU (Left) window03=Aft Electronic Panel window04=Fire Protection window05=Forward Overhead window06=Aft Overhead window07=Overhead Lights window08=Lower DU window09=MCP (full) window10=Radios window11=Zoomed Left Outboard DU window12=Zoomed Left Inboard DU window13=Zoomed Upper DU window14=Zoomed Lower DU window15=Zoomed Right Inboard DU window16=Zoomed Right Outboard DU window17=CDU (Right) window18=Minipanel window19=Light Sensor window20=Logic I never knew that panel numbers exceeded 09, so can anyone please tell me how to open window10 - window20. Side Question: Some aircrafts use numpad key combinations and i dont have a numpad on my Dell XPS, anyway I could go around that? Thanks in advance everyone! Jack
