PMDG 777

I'm the proud owner of the PMDG 777-200LR and 777-300ERX. All was working fine until the new update. After following the installation instructions I began to experience FSX crashing to desktop when I used the "REQUEST" uplink as before to get my flightplan onto the FMC. I uninstalled the entire thing and reinstalled without the update to troubleshoot the thing and everything was working fine again. I then made sure that all the steps to install the update were as they should and again the problem occurred. I am in need of guidance with this issue. The updates were obtained directly from the PMDG website instead of the Operations Center because of an installer issue.…

Hi there! I manually downloaded and installed the SP1b ubdate for the T7 basepack. But when I open the operations center, it keeps telling me that there is a newer version for the 300ER available: Why is that? Thanks in advance!

Apologies if this has already been answered. I've recently made a livery using the paint kit. I've got a small hiccup were the registration number doesn't show inside the VC. I've saved the texture file as a DDS DXT5 and it's located in the correct folder. Is there anything special I need to do to get the texture to show up in the VC? Thanks, Tim

Hi there! I manually downloaded and installed the SP1b update for the T7 basepack. But when I open the operations center, it keeps telling me that there is a newer version for the 300ER available: Why is that? Thanks in advance!

Hi can someone please educate me on what is EGT in Boeing 777 ENGINE displays ? I keep reading a normal engine starts before EGT reaches its maximum limit (a red line). But what is EGT ? what does it stands for ? and how does it affects the engine start ? (sorry for dumb question, not a real world pilot :/)

Hey, ...no sound from the GPU outside,but a file exist in various: PMDG_777_GPU_ext regards Jürgen

Good day all, I have been searching all sorts of websites and maybe its just me but i cant find anywhere the dimensions of the throttle levers, pitch & trim Speedbrake and Flaps lever, not the whole qaudrant just the actual dimensions of the parts sticking out the qaudrant, i hope im not confusing someone here now. I know there are people in the UK, USA etc that make these slip on's for the saitek throttle qaundrants, but im in South Africa and here its pretty expensive to import these items, so i would like to make my own, and because this is the PMDG B777 forum and i know here are some RW B777 jocks hanging around maybe they would be able to assist with dime…

Hi there With the new SP1 everything seems to work nice and smooth here - that is however, until I reach approach to any airport with the AP engaged and the FMC has reached the end of route stage (leaving out RWY and STARS from the FMC). From here I always let the ATC guide me trough with direction and altitude settings to the runway of their choice. I do this through turning the still engaged AP setting buttons according to directions from the ATC, at the same time reading out the flapspeed settings from the FMC, etc. A completely normal routine which I have got use to through the years with both the PMDG 777, other 777 and 767 aircraft. But with the new SP1 (long…

Hello guys Im reading a lot of things about the DES forecast page, it's a very précise descent adjusting speed and im scared to configure it without error... I make a simply example, in this case why DES forecast is configuring like that? assuming im doing a short fly with a CI to 320 ( 9000 12000 18000 24000 30000 34000 3116+11 3112+05 2615-08 2917-18 340933 361644 Following the Kyle's vidéo, but im little noob in english, in understand better when it is writen B)

Starting FSX, I kept getting R4.CSV-File missing! I have reinstall the T7, and I still get this! Any Ideals? Ron Whaley

Can we get a clean virtual cockpit option? The small white marks on the yoke, below the standby lcd, and a few other place is bothering me. Can we have a clean virtual cockpit option, straight from the factory?

As a comparison, the flight was planned using PFPX with both re-dispatch and without it. Without re-dispatch, we would have been released with 92,888 kgs. Using re-dispatch with initial release to SBAR, we are released with 88,322 kgs, an avoidance in fuel costs to British Airways of around $4,500! We are given GVAC (Sal, Cape Verde) and SBRF (Recife, Brazil) as our alternate airports, using an ETOPS of 240 minutes. With a take off weight of 313,020 kgs, QNH 1005 and V2 of 185 kts, our initial altitude will be FL310, with successive climbs to FL330, FL350 and FL370. Our cost index will be 120, and our resulting econ speed .833M. We are expecting an overall tailwin…

Hello, When I first installed the -300er the external camera worked correctly with the proper eyepoint and all. However, a few flights later I noticed the eyepoint has shifted becuase I used to be able to see the wings of the plane as well as the direction the nosewheel was pointed. Now, all I see are the shadows of the nose/wings. I saw some people used ez dok for their views, however I am fine with the view of the main panels. This problem I am describing is for the 2d pop-up view when you hit the cam button. I loaded the -300er at night and engaged the camera lts and i could see no difference.. How do I get the viewpoint to where it doesnt change and mess u…

I planned a flight at 34000. Upon checking the legs page before TO I found that page 2-3 the FL had gone up to 38000(why?) But , as planned I set the MCP to 34000. After some cruising at 34000 the TD appeared on the nav. display. I reduced the MCP to 3000. However, when passing the TD it did not start to descend , even though the path deviation indicator came up showing no deviation. After quite a few miles it did start to descend and all went well.It seemed as if the TD started as if I had chosen 38000! I decided to repeat the flight putting in 34000 again but as it came up with 38000 in the legs again, I set the MCP to 38000. I got into cruise at 38000 but I h…

Hey guys after days of frustration, I think I have potentially solved an issue that has been bugging SP1 and my 300ER. Since upgrading to SP1/300ER I have not been able to complete a whole flight from start to finish, without FSX crashing. I have never experienced this crash before, even after doing 12 hour hauls pre SP1. I have tried rolling back drivers, removing my overclock, removing bloatware from my motherboard manufacturer company, increasing and decreasing page file sizes, monitoring virtual memory usage. Nothing working and so I figured I'd just wait it out. Now I am not sure how much of you experience this issue, but I have seen a couple posts on Facebook site…

I was flying from DFW to ORD. I had set up the fight plan on PFPX, which gave me the route plus RWY 28R. I requested the route on the FMC. When the route loaded, I received a message saying Rwy 04L/04R was not available. From that point on I could not load in any arrival information for KORD. There were no STARS and no Runways. I flew the flight expecting Radar Contact to give me the vectors to RWY 28R, which it did, but I could not Unpark the ILS frequency for 28R. The FMC said it was INVALID DATA. Any thoughts?

I just downloaded the update through the Operation Center, and afterwards it said there were livery data or something not found. Then I selected the option to delete these textures, and when I restarted everything of the 777-200LR was gone. I only have the -200F and -300ER. I can't select it in the Livery Manager nor in Livery Downloader. The 777-200LR folder is still in the Airplanes folder in FSX, but without all liveries and when I open the aircraft.cfg file, the file is empty.

After installing the SP1b I recently flew from LPPT to EGLL and encountered the following problems which are reproducible on my computer at least. I then reflew the route without ASN and cleared the weather same result. I reflew without FSUIPC the same. I created a new short flight from LEBB to EGLL starting from free flight, choose 77L, airport, runway, clear sky then Flynow, no default panel, then request the route, enter fuel, etc. same result as follows: OCK4B STAR to RWY 9L, we are to cross KATHY at FL180 and HAZEL at FL130, I assume it is a continuous descend path. 1. Flight progress normally until at KATHY , VNAV will hold the plane level with cruise power…

Does anyone know what ETOPS category United's fleet of 777s are authorized to fly, such as 120, 180, etc.? Thanks, Rob

I have had this issue for some time now where I can not go direct to any fix or marker on the FMS. It seem after I input the flight plan and and begin my flight I can't change any fixes or RWYs or VORs on the flight plan, it seem to lock up. I thought maybe it would be fixed in the updates SP1/SP1b ,But that is a negative. What can possibly be causing this ? I just want to be able to fully use my FMS. I am very familiar with how to operate the FMS ,However not being able to change way points in route is frustrating .

Hi guys ^_^ First i have to say im very happy with the new T7-300ER, beautiful plane, cockpit and wonderful librairies too B) I flew 2 twice with it, one with active sky, the other on ivao network.The weather radar work fine with active sky but if i shutdown active sky he doesn't work with the weather of ivao network.If someone is using the T7 on ivao, please tell me what parameters do you have. Happy flight !

Well, I crashed. Had a very uneventful flight (ACA832 CYUL-EBBR), but on approach to Brussels, I was greeted with intense thunderstorms that made the airspeed surge from almost stall speeds to overspeed. It was quite joyful. Well, the speeds went around a lot, and I disconnected the AP first, and then the AT because I was nearing stalls, had the shaker a couple of times - still, no windshear warning. I should have called a missed approach. I didn't. Right over the runway, I was stuck in a massive, extreme downdraft, impacted the ground gear first at 1600fpm. Crash detect might be off, I know what that means. It hits me because I try to be a safe sim pilot, I…

Hi, Since a couple of weeks ago I'm experiencing extremely long loading time with the B777-200/F and even with the -300ER version. I've tried different situation: -weather; -scenery (default scenery vs FSDT/AS scenery) -with and without FTX Global and Vector; -daytime (from sunrise to night). I have already tried to re-install the whole product (not FSX. I've installed it just a month ago and there are just a bunch of sceneries). This only happens with the 777. I've tried with the AXE (not so heavy model, loading time: 1 min), Majestic Q400 (1 min), PMDG JS4100 (less than a minute), PMDG NGX (3 mins.) Quality WIngs 757 (1 min.) At the moment, I'm loading a…

I originally posted this in the FSX forum but I figured it would get more exposure here since what I am talking about is pretty much exclusive to the 777 right now and the PDC / Route request feature is unique to very few aircraft at the moment. "Hey guys, with using SimBrief or PFPX when creating a flight plan and loading it in the 777 flightplan and wx folders, when requesting it through the CDU I am noticing something. The route loads fine and PERF inti etc. However I am noticing that the DEP rwy is not being inserted into the FMC, no flight number, most ALT restriction on the STAR are not present and I have to reselct the SID and or the STAR to get the correct…

Hi all, I have been having issues installing the 777 300ER update released on Aug 8th. So I went ahead and uninstalled the 777 300 ER, removed any remaining folders pertaining to the 300ER, restarted the computer, re downloaded the 777 300ER from PMDG. After re installing, I opened the operations center and there it was again. I checked the current version and it was the old version. It shows that I have an update "again" but It will not let me install it. When I click to install it, it reverts to the page that I have no notifications. I did successfully install the 777 200LR update but when I flew the airplane, shortly after takeoff, the computer crashed …