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Pity FSX/P3D doesn't have such amazing reflections

GOL do occasionally land 737-800's on a 1300m long runway though. That'd be a flap 40 job.

http://www.bom.gov.au/aviation/charts/wind-temperature/ for the parts of the world I normaly fly in.

Start it in the hangar cold and dark with the steps extended. Start her up and taxi to the gate and shut it down. Happy EngineerSim 2006 (Tow truck and brake rider not included) or slew it to the right spot at the gate

Nice little cross check. ie: 1: Prepare for your departure, get ATIS and clearances and stuff. Check the wind with topcat etc for V speed calculations "Hey look, runway 19, wind 180 at 10 knots" 2: Tower tells you the actual winds just before takeoff "ABC123 wind 180 at 15 knots, Runway 19 cleared for takeoff" "Hmm that didn't match, but it's still fine. Let's takeoff." or "ABC123 wind 280 at 30 knots gusting 45, Runway 19 cleared for takeoff" "hmm that REALLY didn't match at all! 280 - 190 = 90. That's all crosswind. aww this sux. or "ABC123 wind 340 at 30 knots gusting 45, Runway 19 cleared for takeoff" "hmm that REALLY didn't match at all! 340 - 190 = 250. 240>90. A bunch of that is tailwind. a 30 to 40 knot tailwind is out of limits. We might need to say no to runway 19! Why didn't they give use 01? what's going on? I want no part in this crash waiting for a place to happen! Let's say no, and run our numbers again or double-check if they want to change their runway."

PMDG JS41 PMDG MD11 PMDG B744 Leonardo MD80 Feelthere E135 / Feelthere E145 Wilco E170 / Wilco E190 Qualitywings RJ1H Already in the FSX hangar and running fine A2A P28A A2A C182 A2A PA24 Realair LEG2 Realair BE60 Razbam SW4 Majestic DH8D PMDG B737NG PMDG B777 Aerosoft A320 Already in the FSX-SE / P3D hanger and operating well Majestic DH8C iTG B717 FSlabs A320 Aerosoft A330 Qualitywings B787 PMDG B744v2 Awaiting release. Xplane has a fair way to go. Especially in the "Fully functioning FMS/autoflight" department. I'd list aircraft that fit that bill as: IXEG B733 Specifically I'd put the Rotatesim MD80 in a "Still has plenty of room for improvement" category still well short of the 2008 Leonardo Maddog MD80. And from "Best to worst", IXEG B733 Rotatesim MD80 Everything else Xplane has to offer. It's good Xplane finally has 1 plane in the "Good enough to list here" category. all my opinion of course! (disclaimer: PMDG B744x, Level-D B763 and Aerosoft A320 are in my "Almost aren't good enough to list here" category, along with the RotateSim MD80) The Wilco/Feelthere products have missing details, but I find the experience of flying them close to on par with Aerosoft's A320, so if Aerosoft gets a mention, so should they. RealityXP GNS430/GNS540 and Flight1 GTN650 push the GA products well into the "very interesting indeed" category.

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Born in Sydney, Live in Melbourne. Still visit Sydney pretty regularly.

Isn't computer programing a marvellous thing I'm guessing some combination of airport altitude, runway heading, latitude/longitude or something is at fault?

You're posting in the 737 forum, but I know on the 777 you also need to turn the radio transmitter on, otherwise it simulates them being 'off' by locking the radio to 118.00 I don't believe the 737 does this though.

Deleted FSUIPC.ini and reassigned everything from scratch. Everything back to normal again. ... now to reassign all my unique profiles again. Spent a good 2 hours on Sunday doing exactly that, Got about halfway there For those reading, FSUIPC.ini is in the (Where FSX is installed) \Modules folder. There's a file called FSUIPC.dll and FSUIPC.ini. You may need file extensions to tell the difference (or just click on the file and see the full name/type).

The NAT expiry times tend to co-incide with airport curfew times with a fair bit of leeway. If an aircraft were to enter an expired track, it's arrival time is going to be 2am - 5am at the other end. In this case, the flight plan would be rejected by the system and a "non-nat" flex track would need to be filed. When ATC receives the flight plan, it will receive the notification via computer, which would check Estimated departure against the requirements for NAT expiry and accept/reject based on this. When an aircraft calls up for clearance, a slot time will be provided. A takeoff slot (Takeoff between time x and time y) and a NAT entry slot. Aircraft that miss the slot times significantly (+- 10 mins at takeoff, +- 3 mins at NAT entry) may be required to adjust their flight plan. This may be mach number, altitude, or even an entire change of the NAT - "Recleared direct abc then NxxWxxx NxxWyyy etc") Aircraft will sometimes even file off the NAT structure for other reasons while the NAT is valid, usually due to ETOPS restrictions or RVSM capability issues. In those cases the flex track requested is required to be clear of any NAT, not crossing the structure and keeping clear of it by a number of nm. ATC can modify the cleared routing if required, and this procedure is covered in the video I linked above.

I'll take another look. Having a "Yoke axis" assigned to "Deploy spoiler" certainly is how it is acting. Oddly, other aircraft (737NGX for example) is not displaying this behaviour, suggesting that there isn't any spoiler axis associated with yoke in the FSX Default settings. Maybe a yoke axis got a spoiler axis in FSUIPC though. I think I'll try: 1: delete all FSUICP control & calibration profiles. 2: Check if the issue happens still if so 3: Delete FSUIPC entirely 4: Check if the issue happens still if so 5: Delete all control assignments for all FSX axis assignments entirely 6: Check if spoilers deploy with any yoke action. 7: re-assign yoke only 8: check if spoilers deploy with any yoke action. If all that works out, I'll reinstall FSUIPC and carefully 1 axis at a time and test each time a new axis is assigned. delightful hours :(

Recently I was trying to add some FSUICP axis assignments to my Saitek Throttle Quadrants, the idea being that as I move across my fleet of addons, it is sometimes useful to have 2 engine throttles and 1 spoiler (777, 737NGX, Maddog, A320 etc) and at other times it is more useful to have other assignments (ie, 1 throttle, 1 mixture and 1 prop rpm for A2A C182, 2 throttles and 1 axis running both prop RPM's for the Q400, 3 throttles for MD11, etc) and found that you could assign "Aircraft specific" profiles through FSUICP. So I assigned the settings I wanted for my DH8D, worked perfect. P28A Cherokee, perfect. C172, C182, MD11 all working perfect. Now by using the default axis assignments, I had 2 throttles, and 1 spoiler axis on the yokes. Of course the Lancair Legacy has Prop RPM, Mixture, Throttle and a "Switch" for spoiler (it's either up or it isn't) but of course the clash between FSUICP and Default axis happened and "Mixture" was now a speedbrake and mixture. Mixture full rich? - spoiler open. So Deactivate the default axis. Easy. Now to make a spoiler axis for the 777 and 737. Unfortunately, now with the FSUICP axis assigned and FSX one deactivated, the spoiler axis for the 777 and 737 stopped being an axis, and started acting like a switch. The spoilers were either up, or fully deployed, with an activation point just below the "spoiler retracted" position. Move the handle an inch, FULL SPOILER. move it back the width of a human hair, SPOILER RETRACTED. I actually flew it like that a little while before I got sick of it, and decided to delete the FSUICP profile, and go back to using the default FSX assignment for spoiler. AND NOW not only does the spoiler not work at all (Spoiler is fully retracted regardless of the position of the Saitek Quadrant lever position) I'm getting a full spoiler activation when I turn the yoke left or right more than about 80% of it's travel throw. Moving the yoke left or right past 80% of travel causes full spoiler activation, including animation of the "Spoiler handle" moving to the fully aft position in the cockpit. This occurs airborne or on ground.Moving the yoke back to centre does not retract spoiler. Moving the Saitek lever through its full range of travel does not retract the spoiler (it moves slightly in 'spikes' while the lever is moving, but snaps back to full open spoiler as soon as the lever stops moving, regardless of position) The only way to retract the spoiler in this condition is the "/" key on the keyboard. Does anyone know why this would be or have any advice? I'd also be up for completely uninstalling FSUICP if need be, although I'v got lots of useful stuff in there regarding wind smoothing, VAS monitoring, etc. I'm sure I can set that up again if need be. That said, I've removed the profile I set up for the 777-300ER, and never actually set one up for the 777-200LR/F and the issue is happening there anyway.

Normal operation of Takeoff mode Suggest reinstalling lol

A friend and I flew down to Wollongong a little while ago, and we spoke to a couple of the people down there about the arrival. Additionally some news organizations have been doing some pieces about the event. Audio of the discussion with the HARS guys can be found at

Albion Park. (o) Usually termed Wollongong (YWOL, NDB is WOL)

The 777 FMC is not broken, however the magenta line is. Let's have a look at SEBBY8 chart to find out why. You are missing 1 thing. 1: An Air Traffic Controller to tell you to turn left/right to a specific heading after you contact LAX Departures/approach. You need to takeoff, and climb on heading 250 (NOT LNAV!) and pass the 160 radial of SMO below 3000ft. Then Wait till the controller tells you to do something, and then do that thing that the ATC tells you to do. If you can't get in touch with them before you are 15 miles west of LAX. you should track direct to SLI and continue your flight from there. Before you go and do all that though... watch this video.

Holy... how could I forget that! 2 pilots in 1 plane, on vatsim, Skype for communications with your other pilot, FSinn for communications with ATC. Either pilot can be in FS9 or FSX, doesn't matter (Except scenery alignment at gates/taxiways etc) Set up Skype's "Push to talk" button backwards so it becomes a "Push to mute" button. Use the same key for FSinn's Push to Talk. and now you have the best fun you can have while connected to VATSIM in my opinion. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CI1cAML00eU

Isn't the only products missing the FS9 737 (-800/900 and -600/700) and the Beechcraft B1900? Everything else for FS9 (747 & MD11) is on sale still, and the 737 has a good replacement in iFly. I'm guessing Carenardo's B1900 is FSX only though.

Here's an interesting incident that happened earlier this year that may be tangentially related. http://avherald.com/h?article=47196b94

For FS9, I think the following products are best. (From someone who no longer uses FS9, but knows people who do) PMDG MD11 iFly 737NG Project Tupolev Tu154M with KLN90B (free! and possibly more detailed than the aircraft below - Harder to install/use/fly though.) PMDG 747-400 Level D 767 I don't have an opinion on Turboprops or GA however.

04N90 06N90 08N90 10N90 12N90 RAB 0490W are waypoints too. but they are in the Southern hemisphere.

Here's the SIGWX charts of the area of interest. Just the odd towering thunderstorm up to 50,000ft. "Kate" isn't just some guys wifes name either.

There are only a few aircraft that come out of my virtual hangar on a regular (weekly) basis, and which I miss when I haven't used them for a while. 1: A2A Cherokee. I fly a PA28-181 Archer II with a friend of mine on occasion and we made a repaint of the actual aircraft we fly. Flying it around on Vatsim is a hoot. Also A2A just made an amazingly detailed immerse add-on that is a joy to experience. Even the ground ops. Using the A2A model has even let me figure out some details of the real aircraft, like the location and operation of the air vents (which are always hard to see when you are sitting in the front seat with your leg jammed up against it) and the location of some more obscure switches. 2: Majestic Q400 DH8D. It flies so differently to anything else in FSX. A very hands-on aircraft, and a huge amount of systems detail. And the framerate hit is just so minimal! It's the only FSX addon which truly shows Pilot Induced Oscillations and inertia. The only other product that does this that I know of is the $490 PSX Aerowinx 747 simulator used in WorldFlight's "QF25" full sized full motion simulator. 3: PMDG 777 (-300ER & SP1c). I really enjoy flying this bird with it's electronic checklists. All the configurable options via the CDU just make it a joy to fly. The ability of the sounds to continue playing when you click outside the simulator (Feature it shares with the Q400 above) make it just that little more immersive for the early stage of setting up a flight. I love planning a big PFPX flightplan and making it ALL come together, wind forecast uplinks, EET's, ETOPS, and so on. It's the cutting edge of what's doable in FSX. 4: PMDG 737NGX - Even though I love the 777 slightly more, due to it having a little more polish (many sounds stop if you click outside the sim, even with Flight1's SoundStream running) the 737NGX is just a staple of medium-short haul. There's just something great about pulling out a 737, and popping off for an hour or 2 on Vatsim. You can fly a real world flight number callsign, at the real time, on a real route, with real people providing ATC and nearby traffic, and it's an absolute hoot. aand that's my current staple. Number 5 is not in my "regular rotation", but I do very much like the RealAir Beechcraft Duke. I like it more with the RealityXP GNS530 Unlimited installed, and if I didn't have the GNS530 in there, the #5 spot would have gone to the PMDG JS4100. PMDG Jetstream JS4100. Great simulation. Those engines are always needing lots of TLC. The FMS/CDU is basic but does the job ok, and there's something "Solid" feeling about it. I love the removable passengers & bags feature (tied to the loadsheet). I used to fly it quite alot. And then the Q400 arrived.