PMDG General Forum

I have a new video that I've posted on Youtube. It's kind of been something I've wanted to produce for a while but just never got too. Over the March break I was able to worked on it. I wanted to use the equipment at work to produce a short video of me flying the PMDG 747 on flight sim. Oh and the reason for the widescreen look is, that is what I see when I'm flying. For all you 2d screen flyers, this is why I fly in VC all the time. I Hope you enjoy it. I had to break it down to two parts as Youtube does not allow video's over 10min. The whole thing is 10 min 37 sec and 6 frames. Part 1 Part2

When the 737 is on an intermediate short layover between cities to refuel, drop off and reboard, how much of the plane is shut down? I know the engines are shut down and the APU or ground power is used, but are the overhead and major systems left on to make for a quicker departure to the final stop? Thanks. Tom

I am not able to enter oat/temp and T/R altitude on the FMC's N1 Limit page.How come? Any solution?Best Rob

Greetings all I am desperate for some assistance, my fs9 has slowed down completely with sturdy game play I think this is due to some sort of a virus within my computer although I did a virus scan nothing gets picked up has anybody else experienced this similer problem and know how to rectify this annoyance, I really do not want to rrestart my computer to factory settings as this would mean I will lose alol the data files for fs9 that I have anxciously built of the years, all your assistance will be much appreciated, thanks.http://www.precisionmanuals.com/images/for...argo_hauler.gif

OK - I have to give in and post. I searched and tried and tried and I can't figure it out.One time it works, the other it doesn't - ILS approaches. Working FMC flight plan, ILS approach selected in FMC, frequency confirmed as correct and active in NAVRAD, and LOC needle won't fill in, it just will not track it - G/S will fill in and track sometimes, but LOC will not. And it only happens 50/50 - everything looks ok - I can't find anything wrong. Happens for both straight on approach and at an angle, high and low altitude. I don't have "Allow G/S capture before LOC" selected in the PMDG menu" All are straight approaches aligned to face runway head on from major distance.Any…

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Just a quick question. Have just rebuilt my PC after 3 years and FS2004 is humming along nicely. I even get decent frame rates in FSX now. I had bought 747-400 QotS in Oct 05 for FS9 and reinstalled it maybe twice in the interim when I changed certain components. However, I tried accessing the url on my order and I get the message How do I go about reinstalling the excellent product? I've tried contacting PMDG by email with no luck - yes, I've checked my spam folder and there's nothing there either.All the bestjj

Sometime ago I remember a posting on changing the payload config setup of the BBJ due to the increased range/fuel capacity from the standard 737. Does anyone remember that or point me in the right direction?Thanks Richard Churchill

I posted this note in another forum, but was wondering if anyone had an explanation.Basically, there is a big difference between the way the PMDG, LevelD, and other engine fan blades spin in FSX, and how they used to spin in FS9. In FSX, they look like they are shaking back and forth. More of an agitating (washing machine) look, than circular spinning.This is very noticeable on engine shutdown. Rathar than a nice decline, and spool-down effect they "shake" until they just stop dead. In the FS9 version, you would see the gradual spool-down, and the fans spinning gradually down until stopping... even windmilling a bit.Is this just an FSX "feature", or is there something…

Hello AllI am sure this has been asked before but I cannot find a reference on the Forum. I want to make realistic flight plans and export/import them into the PMDG 747 FMC. I used to know how to do this, but it has taken me 18 months to finally upgrade my computer to run FSX with PMDG 747 at a nice pace. Can someone help me out or point me in the right direction. I had to buy a second copy of the PMDG 747 due to the fact that the upgrade of my computer caused the gauges to all go dead

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This is just an FYI for those wanting to use the Garmin GPS500 in their 747-400x. You definitely don't need the Garmin for this great addon. But I find it usefull on occasion just as an additional informational resource while flying. I don't have charts and I hate popping out to the map screen for anything.1)you'll need to tweak the panel.cfg's in BOTH the PMDG747-400/Panel folder and the PMDG747-400/Panel.vc folder. Once you've found those two .cfg's BACK THEM UP! Copy em to your desktop, rename them to something like panel_ORIG.cfg and then put em back. 2)Open the panel.cfg in the PMDG747-400/Panel folder with a text editor and scroll through the section under "Wi…

Hi ladies and gents,I have searched this forum but much to my surprise could not find any discussion about this topic.As most of you know Topcat is a very fine software available here: http://topcat.ofplan.net for those of you who haven't heard of it.Now, Topcat as an Acars tab which apparently can be used in conjunction with some small apps available at http://www.hoppie.nl/acars/Question: has anyone tried it? is it of any use? and how does it fit into the PMDG 747-400?Thanks for any commentRegards.

Each time that I bring up FS9 I get a warning- " PMDG737.dll- potentially incompatible AC or Software" '"Do you wish to load this module or not" Should I delete this from the modules section or not, if I say yes or no to the question it seems to make no difference to the AC it is rather a nuisance. Any advice welcomed. John. Cypilotx(

I find when I fly back-to-back legs I am unable to clear the event times numbers logged from the first flight. After leg #1 I clear out the DEP?ARR airports from the RTE page and then enter in the new DEP/DES and initialize ACARS again with those airports. The event times still show the previous leg and if I go ahead and fly upon arrival those old event times will still be showing. I have tried manually deleting them and receive an INVALID DELETE message so I am running out of ideas on how to make this work.

Captains,I seems to have a bit of a problem with my new PMDG 747X wings. If i select a wing view (right of left doesn't matter) it seems that the outer part of the flap is always pointing down on both wings. I discovered that there is also a problem when i lower the flaps. Some part's of the flaps doesn't move at al! See the pictures below. Is this a common problem and does someone knows a fix for this?http://www.joszwaneveld.nl/stuff/wing1.jpghttp://www.joszwaneveld.nl/stuff/wing2.jpg

General question..I've heard different things from different people, some say it's ok, some say it's not... Would an airline pilot use asymetric thrust on a 744 to ease turning in some circumstances, perhaps turning at the end of a runway for example to taxi back along the runway to a terminal. CheersCraig

Hello everybody,I have a PMDG 737-800/900 pack. I don't have any problems with 900, but I just can't install any liveries to 800. First, I installed a Pegasus Airlines livery. After that I downloaded more but I couldn't install any of them. Texture info of each livery exist in aircraft.cfg and the texture files of each livery exist too. I reinstalled the plane, but Pegasus Airlines livery was still visible in FS9 menu, i opened it, the plane was looking just gray. I can't install liveries which are not exe too. Could you please help?Thanks a lot.RegardsN. Mehmet Y

With out problem I installed PMDG-747 X. One item is in question. When I opened COM panel radios are not on, including Transponder and Timer.Did I forgot to click some switches??Please advise.Sanal

Dear PMDG Team,i have to buy a new monitor but what resolution will your products support in the future (737NG2)(MD11??)almost all TFTs are widescreen make it sense to buy a 4:3 TFT?? with best regardsJ

Hi all I just finished upgrading my computer for FSX--what a treat! New Guad core --4 gig of ddr3--ATI 3870x2 Etc---the sim is working like a champ---BUT My new PMDG 747-400 has a problem, I flys great and looks great but when I start to operate anything on the instrument panel, all of the Glass screens go blank.Anybody have any ideas--otherwise the sim is working perfectlyCheers

Wouldn't it be nice....http://www.gillesvidal.com/blogpano/cockpit1.htmRegards,jack

AVSIM FS2004-Flight Plans library: Procedures based on FAA Digital Aeronautical Information and Terminal Procedure Publications. This collection includes 66 locations: KABQ KATL KAUS KBDL KBNA KBOS KBUF KBUR KBWI KCLE KCLT KCMH KCVG KDAL KDCA KDEN KDFW KDTW KEWR KFLL KGEG KHOU KIAD KIAH KIND KJAX KJFK KLAS KLAX KLGA KLGB KMCI KMCO KMDW KMEM KMIA KMSP KMSY KOAK KONT KORD KORF KPBI KPDX KPHL KPHX KPIT KPVD KRDU KRNO KSAN KSAT KSDF KSEA KSFO KSJC KSLC KSMF KSNA KSTL KTPA KTUS PANC PHNL PHOG TJSJ. Few changes are listed in detail in the enclosed "Cycle 0803 Revisions.htm" file. For PMDG 737NG/747-400/747-400X.

I want to be able to turn my instrument landing system(ILS) on manually in the FMC but cannot because I don't know how to swqitch to manual or how to even go about it. If anyone has any idea please help as soon as possible. Thanks

Can anybody tell me what is the play with AES re the new environment? The web site still states that it will not be developed unless ways can be found, etc.Cheers, Richard