Tom

can i have some help please

thanks in advance.

I have been flying the a320 family for a while now, and have managed to learn its systems and characteritsics, also kinda smooth landings. But in the 738 my landings are so hard, no matter what I do. I flare 30ft agl just like in the airbus, but the aircraft behaves much differently.

Question one would be: are the Vref speeds set automatically by the aircraft? ( I mean with flaps 30 I always get around 150kts(+5kts wind correction or even more) and this seems a lot)

Question two would be: when do I stop trimming? So basically when Im established and disengage CMD, do I just input by force, and not trim? ( In the bus it stops the autotrim in LAND mode (400ft agl))

So yeah, I think this could be the reason why the aircraft behaves so weird when flaring, because I word not allowed up the trim of it + high approach speed.

But I only have about 80hrs in flight simming, so if someone knows better or even the answer to my question, I would greatly appreciate that.

Cheers, clear skies!

I am writing this request for help here first rather than requesting support or opening a ticket on PMDG's forum, as I've had good experience of responsive and helpful replies when I've needed to ask for advice here before.

So, since the last PMDG update (3.0.112) my 737-800NGX, after seeming to load perfectly into an airport, is completely invisible except for the external lights. I've tried reinstalling the 737-800, but no change. I also installed Boris's sounds, but it is invisible both with and and without them, so I doubt it's the sounds that's doing this.

Any tips, hints or other advice anyone has, especially those who may have had similar issues with a PMDG plane, would be very gratefully received.

Thanks in advance!

Thanks,

AG

I'm trying to redownload my B-737 800 from PMDG web

Problem is that they ask for authentication code which is sended to my email.

I received authentication code, but system ask me to demand new authentication code, system accept no one, I'm close to become sick or crazy

Many tks in advance for help

Floren

I am running Prepar3d 1.4 on a 3 monitor set up Eyefinity - I have the PMDG 737 NGX working all fine and I have just installed FS2Crew to use with it.

Slight problem is that I need to switch to the 2D cockpit to get FS2Crew working - when I do I get no panel and then when I switch back the mouse just flickers and frame rates drop. I know that there are many posts about this and that changes need to be made to the panel.cfg file - I don't really know how to do this. Can someone perhaps send me an updated panel.cfg file to copy in so I can use the 2D cockpit without these issues? Or give me instructions (basic and simple please!) to change the settings so I can get this working?

Many thanks

James

Order number: 168757

    I have the B737 600 & 800.  When I am landing, I am getting all the altitude & minimums callout twice.  I have them turned off in the simulation options but turned on in the aircraft options.  I tried to reset the option to default with no success.  Any thoughts?  Thanks.

Pat

I also questioned the flaps because the speed tape only shows UP, 1 & 5, even though I'm close to VRef on approach and should be landing with 30 degrees.

I didn't see a warning light and eventually the sound ceased, but I it occurred and ceased again later on.

Any thoughts?

Thanks..

Was suggested that I use CLR key but no luck.

It may be that the problem will clear when I reset for a new flight.

Kevin Kyle

i am flying the pmdg 737 for msfs for about 1 year now. i have about 500 flying hours. but i have a problem 

when i start up de plane in cold and dark configuration the n1 and n2 already have numbers. i thing when loading op at an airport my n2 is already at 29% and n1 at 3% don't know the exact numbers. after lots of lying suddenly the n1 and n2 are not at zero! whit only the battery and grnd power on. 

i was looking in the ground maintenance page in the CDU, i saw a "reset eng egt" function. but that didn't do anything! i bought the pmdg 777 a few days ago. but i have the same problem already!

is it an maintenance problem? or is are something whit my airplane codes?

i really want to make my flight sim as realistically as possible! but something like this can really bothers me!

thank you already.

with regards 

Max Acherman!

I am using active sky.

PMDG has a setting for weather. Live or sim.

Which one will use Active sky weather.

What if active sky is using historic weather.

Does it really make a difference anyway ?

PMDG planes comes up with invalid entry for flight plan.  Having to manually load plans.

Navigraph not connecting unless I go through Simbrief.

First of all i want to congratulate PMDG and HiFi for the outstanding work with the Active Sky next and PMDG 737ngx, two amazing products which brings the sim experience to a whole new level of realism. 

although i have a question considering Active Sky Next windshear warning and the PMDG 737ngx windshear warning. As we all know they dont sound the same, and in this video 

Cheers!

Nicko 

https://youtu.be/ocOBFH5rOqo?t=750

When I am in landing conf , With flaps 25, 30 or 40, the red lines above and below the speed indicator are very close together, with the bottom one at 150 or 160 and the top one at 180 or so.

In this way the plane stalls easily.

The speedbrake is not set.

Do you know what is the problem?

Regards

After the glideslope was held correctly up to about 500ft AGL, the aircraft suddenly started to level off and slowly but surely left the glideslope. The course was still held. The glideslope was not left frantically or anything. It just very slowly stopped holding it. I then switched off the autopilot and was just able to land manually.

What I also noticed beforehand was that at some point after the ILS was established, a small yellow text box appeared below the FMA and to the right of the ILS display in the PFD. Unfortunately, I couldn't read exactly what it said and it went away again after a few seconds.

I can't understand why this happened. I have now flown at least 50 approaches with the PMDG 737-900 and this has never happened before.

/edit: Could it be that I was simply going too fast?
How does the PMDG 737 react if the selected speed on the MCP is too far away from IAS? Is the speed then accepted and the glideslope maintained, or does the autopilot automatically leave the glideslope at some point to reduce the speed?

Regards

Lukas

Thanks 

All I can find online is that the 600 is a smaller aircraft with a shorter range.

Would I be disappointed with the 600?

Thanks

I recently bought a T16000M FMC HOTAS for msfs. I've set it up as best as I could for my fitting but with PMDG 737 I'm getting the weirdest bug.
I've mapped "Hold throttle reverse thrust" to a button so when I hold it and move the throttle forward reverse thrust engages. The issue is - it just won't disengage. When the plane is slowed down I get the throttle to idle and let go of the "hold reverse" button. Afterwards the plane stops and when I want to taxi the throttles are completely unresponsive. I can't even increase thrust on keyboard or by clicking the throttles with a mouse. What I can do is go full reverse thrust again and that's it.

While taxiing in reverse sounds very interesting, it's not exactly what I want to do. Anyone has any idea what I can change to fix this?

Just have a little question about the ISA DEV / QNH entry in the FMC's forecast page. I am not entirely sure on what are correct values to enter here.

So I was flying in to LOWI today. Weather was: wind 160/8, temp 18, QNH 1019.

As far as I understand from the tutorial flight, ISA is 15C at 0 ft ASL, correct? Ryan explained in the tutorial flight how to calculate the ISA tempature for other altitudes. The formula for this is: 15 - ( (altitude / 1000) x 2 ) . So in this case, airport elevation was 1900 ft, so: 15 - ( (1900 / 1000) x 2 ) = 15 - ( 1.9 x 2 ) = 15 - 3.8 = 11.2C. So ISA for 1900 is 11.2C 

ISA DEV = actual air tempature - ISA tempature = 18 - 11.2 = 6.8C. 

So, ISA DEV = 6.8, rounding that up makes it 7C

Not sure if this is correct...


For QNH I just assume I've got to enter the local QNH level of 1019 HPA?

So then for the ISA DEV / QNH field I enter: 7 / 1019.

Correct?