PMDG General Forum

Hello there,Still a question about the MD11 I would like to solve.Sometime, on your flight plan, you have to use low en-route airways you can't fly above certain level... It's very current in France.So I'll have to maintain an intermediary FL untill I enter the high altitude airways.Is there a way to instruct this plane to do so... I tried entering two FL in the init page but the FMS chose itself the point where the plane is going to climb... may I set this manually elsewhere ?What I tried is to set a FL190 then FL230 along my route which did not work. Other way was to just set FL190, then set 230 on a point but other waypoints after the altitude restriction still at FL1…

I have just upgraded my pc to quad core intel processor 2.66mHz, with an nVidia 9800 GTX video card - 4MB ram and an ASUS mother board. Loading up FS9.1 I get mega FPS with all the default aircraft - but only get 1 FPS with the 737NG and 6 or 7 with the "Queen". Anybody got any clues whats going on?RegardsJohn

Ciao to all,I do have the latest AIRAC on the PMDG..For instance I have LIPZ scenery made from ISD Project years ago....For RWY 04R the PMDG FMC gives a certain ILS freq and Heading...but on FSnavigator I've another ILS freq..so my PMDG will not intercept the one that's on the FMC but I must manually set the one reported by FSNAv...How do I solve the problem?ThanxxxFS2004PMDG 737/747

How do you increase / decrease the range of the EFIS? Currently it's on 10 miles wich I find a bit to short, especially on aproaches and finals.Philip Schmidt. :D

Hello,First with a passenger flight with 2/3 of passengers + 19 tons of fuel, I got a TOCG at 31.4% if I remember correctly. I got a "CG OUT OF LIMIT", where can I find CG limits somewhere ?Second, on my last approach, I set a slightly higer VAPP than suggested but FMS but when in final, the FMS still use the first computed VAPP, not the one I set into the FMS.Thanks for your help.

Hi guys, we are on the way back to good old Germany. You can watch live pictures captured every 10 seconds on http://www.vacc-sag.org/sagtv.php?pid=813974We departed at 1009Z with a ZFW of 159.9 tons, fuel of 82 tons. Flight time will be appr. 0824hrs. So the FMX ETA is 1905z at Cologne.Think about that I am not all the time in the Cockpit, which means, that the picture will show the same stuff for a longer time. Long haul means: Long time nothing to do, luckily. After I had some Fuel tranfer problems, surely made by myself, I will watch the behaviour of the fuel managemant system today.The cockpit crew is giving the first meal in the moment, we are climbing up to FL320 …

Hi,Could someone please inform us FS9 users (while we wait) if there are visible airstairs and cargoloader on the MD-11, just like the B747? Staffan[/font size] http://www.scandicair.com/images/banner_sa_2008_s.gifFlightsimmer since 1987Intel Core 2 Duo E8600 3,33GHz FSB 1333MHz LGA775, Asus P5Q Intel P45 ATX DDR2 PC6400 800MHz 4096MB, Asus Nvidia Geforce 9800GTX+ 512MB DirectX 9.0c, W XP Home with SP3, E171FPb Flat panel monitor 17"Samsung 750GB SATA HDD 8MB, Samsung 250GB ATA , Maxtor 120GB ATA, All 7200rpmLacie 250Gb Extern HD, Cooler Master ATX Chassis, 550W Power supplyBlogg: http://blogg.passagen.se/primeaviFiles: http://library.avsim.net/search.php?CatID=...&am…

In the 747X and 767X FMS there is a page telling you (among other things) the current headwind component.Is there any equivalent for the MD-11? I can see that the FMS adds +5kts to vRef for vApp, but it doesn't seem to make any automatic allowance on top of that for head/tail winds on landing.Tim

Hey guys please tell me im doing something wrong iv set the fms to perfection set the flaps thrust and stab trim but once iv taken off and on the climb out i switch the controls overs to the autoflight system with prof nav and fms armed, but for some reason it quickly climbs at like 30 DEGRESS nose up and like 5000 feet per minute and it like basically stalls its self my mates having the same problem too any ideas???.Paul

I was flying the 744 Freighter from PANC to KILN a distance of about 2,500 nm, about midway into the Flight at cruise the Aeroplane began to swing violently from side to side around the longitudinal axis, then the airspeed went off the Gauge,it then began to lose height and drift off course. There wasn,t any Chop nor any unusual Weather Conditions, when I cut the A/P and brought it back under control everything was ok for an hour or two and the it started again,, I,m at a loss to explain this as this is the second time it has happened in FSX. The pre-flight was normal ,Fuel and Cargo were loaded through the relevant PMDG Loaders, there were no FMC Messages re the Trim etc…

Hi,I'm having a fantastic time with the MD-11, its a real gem.I do have a few issues though. I'll go through the proper support channels, but I wanted to cross-post here as well so that other users can confirm the issues. The problems listed below were encountered after loading a saved FSX flight with its associated panel state. I'm not sure if these issues exist when loading a fresh "free flight" or not... I haven't had time to test.1) The L/H landing light illuminates when rotating the FGS Panel light knob to any position other than OFF. The light itself is still retracted, but the effect is visible.2) The upper and lower red beacons do not flash despite switch position…

Hi,How?? :DBest regards,Robin.

Will it ever be?Just imagine the PMDG guys get together with other specialists like for instance the FTX guys and the Rex guys and the FEX guys and the UTX guys etc.(that's a lot of x's) what can happen?

Is there anyway that you can reposition the B747-400 outside of the marker to practice approaches without doing the takeoff and flying around to get there. If not is there a program I can buy to do this? Thanks Dave

In my past post http://forums.avsim.net/dcboard.php?az=sho...d=153061&page=2 I couldnt get the autopilot to turn on so Id figure I would just uninstall and reinstall the 747. I had updated to version 1.2. In the FAQs in the website it says to uninstall via the add/remove programs section of the control panel. Upon doing this when I click on remove I get a message saying that there was an error in the setup.exe. The other problem is I cant reinstall my base installer verion 1.1 becasue it says version 1.2 is detected. If someone could outline for me how to get this to work or any suggestions I would appreciate it. I have gone through and deleted all the files in aircra…

hi all. does anyone know how to get the 50% off of the new fsx 747-400, it says previous owners of the queen get this discount but i dont know how to get it. thanks for any help..rgds ken hanson

Hi Everyone,Great aircraft..one problem when loading up another livery or variant of the MD11 after a successful flight,the following happens.The new panel fails to load..any ideas?Best Regards Keith.

I was at FL370, reset both the MCP and FMC and did a Lvl Chg to FL380.My MCP Alt is now set at FL380 and the Crz Alt in the FMC is FL380 so why do I get a "Check Mcp Alt" warning when I try to go back to VNav?Edit:Ok, figured.Didn

i was one of many people suffering from out of memory messages and crashes to desktop at the end of long flights.that was until i modified my pc to a dual boot system using the 3 GB switch.now the OOM & CTD have gone.but we dont live in perfect world.when i start my pc with this modification and start fs9 ive lost the textures on the level-d 767-300 & pmdg 737-800ng.im using the pmdg 747-400 Queen of the skies for long hauls and the textures are okay.but i might want to use level-d 767-300 for a long flight and then what?ive got the latest drivers for every thing.so ive got the 3GB switch,the autogen file in fs9 renamed to autogen.passive.System Specs---intel E685…

Twice in a row, I've pressed the "Timer Button" (Far Left Main Panel) which resulted in a CTD Application/Kernel.exe failure.I pushed the button during taxi both times.Not much more to tell. Here's my setup:Vista Ultimate 64Q66004gb OCZ PC8500GeForce 9800 GX2Don't make fun of me, but I put a fresh OS and FSX install after the release. :)Installed Ad-ons:FSUPIC 4.0PMDG 747XPMDG MD-11FSX Acceleration PackModel MD-11F PWI'll try the GE model tomorrow, however if anyone has experienced the same or it's a known issue, please let me know.This will help me understand if I have a system problem or not.Thanks and Safe Flying!

Small request. Please make one big install file for all liveries. Installing one by one is boring.Alexander

Other than a OOM crash, I really didnt have any problems with this flight, and the MD11 gave me an awesome flying experience, so great job guys!However, once I pressed the APPR/LAND button Half-way between GIPOL and TRA/10, nothing really happend.Yes I where at 4000 feet and yes I had the ILS freq 109.50 set in the FMC RAD/NAV.Not that Im bad at visuel landings, but it would be nice to get it working.Ps. I accidently crashed into an aircraft because my A/T wouldnt turn off, (Sorry AirBerlin :( )Thanks in advance.- Philip Schmidt.

Hey i was just wondering if there was anyone who could do a repaint for the 747-400x in the BA landor livery or the BA olympic pride as i love ba and 747-400.Joe

Sorry guys,I know these questions have been asked before, but I did a search and couldn't find the answers. and lets face it, it's been several years now. :)I am doing a new install on a new computer. I have the 600/700 and also the 800/900.I found the original files that included the *.W02 files, but I also found a file "PMDG_737_THE_NEXT_GENERATION_V1-3.EXE".Can I use this v1-3 file instead of the original downloads? Or, do the originals need to be installed first and then v1-3?I also found the "Service Update Removal Tool", can anyone tell me what this is for?Hope someone will read this amid all the excitement of the MD11. :)Thanks,Don

Hello PMDG,This post is in reference to the MD-11. Without any information to go on in terms of flight/fuel planning, I am using the MCDU/FMC to assist in my fuel planning (I just love the FS Actions Menu!). What I'd like to see is a feature where the load manager can reflect the current loadout (cargo and fuel) in the aircraft. When I change my fuel via my trial-and-error planning, the ZFWCG and TOCG become incorrect and I get a warning to set these values to reflect my new fuel setting. If I were able to use the load manager to "read" the state of the aircraft, I would be able to make these adjustments.I realize that this is a kludge of sorts, but it seems to be the…