PMDG General Forum

I am flying the NG 900 into Charlie Bravo weather theme with massive t-storm clouds and it's pouring suddenly at FL330. Is this possible? Rain at such a high altitude?!JonathanP.S. It just stopped as I entered clear air. Phew! But, still, rain at this alt ?

this may be dumb, but,Have any of you all ever burned out on FS?I don't know if is a true burn out, but, I know I fly verry little anymore. I am excited about the 747 that is we are soon to get.Just for some reason, I get off the ground and about 30 mins later I am off my PC. Perhaps it's due to me just flying off line?.I truly love the 737, and the lurning curve of it all.But perhaps I just need to fly online more.?I tryed flying online, and have been in many VA'S, but just cant find the one I fit into the best yet. And to be honest I am not always the easeyest person to get along with :

Dear PMDG,Will RTOW charts, similar to the ones for the Level-D 767 simulator, be provided by the upcoming B744 and MD11? It would be great if something similar can be made for the 737NG as well.Many thanks in advance.Best Regards,Sunny.

I have double bitmaps with the 738/739 panels with backlighting. For example, all the text along the top of the MCP is doubled. See the attachement.Doesn't happen without the night lighting and doesn't happen with the 736/737 panel.Thought I'd ask for ideas to fix before an uninstall.Thanks,Jim Harnes

Virtual and Real Worlds MergingPosted: Thursday, May 19, 2005 - 14:31The line between real world aviation and virtual world aviation is starting to blur, causing the two to combine in ways not seen before. A recent example of this comminglng occurred when EL AL Israel airlines cooperated with VATSIM Israel (VATIL) in a first training session of its kind. Pilot trainees from El Al, along with their tutors, actually visited the homes of VATIL members for first hand experience training in the virtual environment. The goals set for these training sessions were 1) To practice normal 737 procedures. 2) To practice ATC communication in a realistic environment. 3) To practice air…

To free up some resources this is very important with ati cards so it gets rid of some terrain blurs and the text and airline name and paint lines don't shake or dance on the exterior texture. Theory behind it is the textures are presently 32 bits without mips while on ati cards whatever texture has no mips it will not alias it, therefore saving it in dxt3 with mips helps alot.So if you did which textures did you convert from which folder??Thanks!

One of these dopey questions I've always been meaning to ask since I discovered 737NG...Sure, the manuals need to be precise, but they are secondary to the plane!!CheersTim

Simple question (I hope)about using the top down view Shift }. When I zoom out, the view suddenly rotates by 180 degrees and this is most confusing especially trying to orientate myself at an airport I'm not so familiar with. Is there any way of stopping it from doing that please.

How do i stop the program for loading Ariac sid/stars every time i load my aircraft i wish to do this manually...regards robin

How do you get the Navigation Display to show "Wind DirectionSpeedArrow" underneath the "Ground Speed True Airspeed" indications?Thanks

I am experiencing an ugly clipping error with my newly bought 737-800/900 VC: I can see through the panel above the mode selector (top left just below wiper). How do I get rid of this? Unfortunately I have also updated the 737-600/700 so I have to spoilt products now.Best,Sascha

I purchased the B1900D when it first came out and I really enjoy it. I was just wondering what features are changed in the 1900C and is it an upgrade or a worthwhile new addition?Thanks,

Hello captains,Does anyone know how to get the landing lights to look like the one in the pic.thanksGideon.

Hello,I have a couple problems going on here.I remembered from when I first installed the 737-600/700 nearly two years ago that I had to do something special when I format my computer. I could not remember what to do or where it told me what to do so I searched this forum. I found that I had to use the removal tool and that is what I did. Now, when I re-installed the airplane I found what I had originally read and I realized that I never performed the transfer registration as indicated in the install notes. Is there anything that we can do so that I don't have to re-purchase the airplane?Here is the second part of the problem. After installing the PMDG airplane when …

Okay I am sure that the wrong program here is the load manager for the 737 NG.When I completely UNload the 737NG, I get a ZFW of some 17k, but the freeware 737 fuel planner available on AVSIM has the base empty ZFW of the NG at 91k."Okay", I thought, may as well put this to the test.So I start FS9 and load the empty NG and use the FMC and -- whalaa -- 91k.Is there a reason why the load manager has the wrong weights? For the longest time I was calculating my fuel based on the load manager's weight readouts and always wondered why in the heck I kept getting "insufficient fuel" messages in my FMC when i thought I was calculating fuel correctly. Now I finally know why.From …

Hello, recently purchased the 700 and 800 series 737 programs. I notice the ability to save the location for the defalt start up A/C, but I notice the FMC data and MCP data is lost. Is there any way to save all information?Thank You,JM

I was curious, are you guys going to simulate different guage readings for each engine? as far as i understand, the readings differ slightly for each engine, some may be the same, some are not. not absolutely nesessary but would be a nice touch.adam k

I did a search and found nothing on this but today (after not being in the PMDG 737-700 in a while, since I spend most of my time in the PMDG 737-800) I noticed that I was only getting 6 frames per second. I then went and turned everything down and still got 6 fps. I was becoming worried that my new computer was having problems so decided to get in the PMDG 737-800, but the opposite happend and I had 20 framerates which was looking for Any help on why the NG got poor FPS, but the -800 had great fps?ThanksChad Moore

I just purchased a New computer and when I try and fly any of the PMDG aircraft (737) The screen is jumpy like I was on an old PC or something. All other FS aircraft are working fine. The New PC is a Dell P4 3.0 with 1024mb Ram ATI Radeon 128 Video. Can anyone help me?Gary TrammellPro Rodeo Announcer

I just got the 737 600/700 it's great. But is their a way to make it so that when you select the 737, nothing will be on when flgiht sim loads the aircraft? Thanks for all replies.

I was wondering, will the new 747 be compatible with sim rates of up to 4x if not 8x? Just wondering because the developers of Level-D 767 had to include the compatibility in their patch because of people complaining they could not do long flights. One reason, and I agree, is that alot of people do not have time to do long 12+ hour flights. Thanks!!!John McGinnisOmaha, Nebraska

Hey,I just checked out the 747 update, looks like it's going to be pretty awesome!! I'll definitely be getting it.I had one question - Will there be a Pan-Am livery? As far as I can tell, they never owned a -400, but I can't think of a 747 without also thinking of Pan-Am. It would be pretty awesome to fly some old Pan-Am routes in a -400.Just curious. Thanks.-stefan

Just a quick question. When should I descend with VNAV and when with LVL CHG? I figured that it should be LVL CHG all the way, but then, maybe it should be VNAV when the T/D has been passed and the FMC "wants" me to go down... And another thing.. How come my EICAS always says "CRZ" when I

There seem to be quite a few errors in the SID/STAR file for London Heathrow(from the 0405 cycle). When attempting to input EGLL as the Origin airport on the FMC Route Page, the FMC reported the following errors:EGLL err: CPT08 unknown, thenEGLL err: BNN12 unknownOn checking the SID/STAR file for EGLL, I found that both CPT08 and BNN12 were defined as NAVAIDS. I assumed(not sure if I'm right, though?) that these navigation entries should be defined as FIXes, and so I defined CPT08 accordingly, using the paper chart for SID CPT 5J When I reloaded the sim, I found that CPT08 had gone away, but I now had uncovered anothered error, LON02, as well as the remaining BNN12.Has an…

Hello,I'm using your fascinating 737-800/900 addon, but I fail to start up the engines properly, so that I can engage the autothrottle later on.If I start them up, I cannot engage the Autothrottle system any more.Do you already know about this problem?Please, could you give me some advice how to fix this problems.Regards,Peter Nikolaus