That’s exactly why I buy PMDG in the same way I buy a Galaxy S22 over another android brand, I don’t buy it to use every single function available, but its there should I need it.
Same with the PMDG, I brought it for the expansion of what I have learned (the hard way) over the last two years on the A32nx and using the amazing systems in place that makes these machines a work of art, right down to… I mean… Auto-landing in zero vis…
I rush my flights with the short time I have and dont do half… any of the procedures that you guys do in real life, but when you do it so many times and when you have time on your hands, mixed in a wee bit of boredom… its great knowing that I can do all of those procedures to spice things up.
And the EFB, yup it was a feature promised and marketed, not only, as you mentioned, provides actual real world procedures we brought it for, along with being more efficient with various other tasks, such as weather and ground services, it also keeps PMDG on that level of high fedality that it should be and is marketed for
Mate, you definitely said it much better than me:grin:
I’ve been also flying msfs for the last wow 25 years… eeek… you also know your old when you google image a band of your generation…
blink-182 pics in 2022:hushed_face:
I gave two flying v bombers for fedality of any sort, as long as it would follow the magenta gps line in FSX by selecting nav mode… thats all it counted…
Msfs 2020 was such a step learning curve, but a steep learning curve for the good and for the better of my passion and the… expensive growth of my hobby in all regards.
Within two years, from learning vor to vor and buying, for the first time in my life… third party pay ware aircraft from not being a fedality snob of any kind whatsoever (brought the CS777…) to now really appreciating the finer things to what a quality product brings to my experience to the extent of not wanting to touch, what are nice products in the form of Carenado C337 (what I own) and the such, that dont showcase any form of high fedality examples such as starting a engine without doing x,y,z or not showcasing the emersive drag that a landing gear retracting on the C337 should feel.
But there are things I don’t care for, like emergency test handles and the like, which aren’t exactly key things that I need to do at this stage, as I don’t feel any value to creating a emergency situation when I just want to fly. But are there as part of the product I buy, in this case, BAe and PMDG
I did my first go-around today. That was straightforward but once I was in the hold, I realized I had no flight plan to get me back for a 2nd approach. Legs / Route had nothing. What’s the correct procedure to get you set up for the STAR and ILS / RNAV approach?
From the Hold, you then setup your approach again. In the sim, you just exit the hold when you’re ready, usually with something like a DIRECT to your initial approach fix. With VATSIM or in real life, you’d do whatever the Approach/Tower/Departure controller(s) tell you to do after you announce the go-around.
Welcome. I don’t know if you need to have your aircraft configured a certain way in the FMC or not to get it to show but I do know clicking that CTR button will change the display.
No need to type. Copy paste the point you want to fly to to the top of the legs page. Click on the point you want to fly to. The point name will appear on the scratchpad. Click again LSK L1 to paste it on top. Then EXEC.
I’m no expert on this and I’m still learning but what I’ve found out so far is the NWS by default is set to the same as the rudder input, if you go into the CDU you can separate this to tiller and rudder and set the tiller to a separate input in the MSFS settings. I’ve got my rudder pedals set as the rudder obviously and the twist grip set to tiller for the NWS.
As for reverse thrust, I couldn’t get the PMDG 737 to accept the normal reverse thrust command like other aircraft do but if you map a button to the command that decreases the thrust (F2 on the keyboard) it will close the throttle and engage full reverse thrust. I also had to assign a button to disconnect the auto throttle (it can be the same button if you like). Also be aware that MSFS spells auto throttle as autothrottle in some settings so search for both.
That’s where I’m struggling Snail. After a go-around, my legs page is completely empty except for the holding point. So I don’t see my final approach fix (or any other waypoint from the original course) present to cut-n-paste.
BTW, out of curiosity, what’s the average amount of go-arounds that a pilot in your airline would encounter on a yearly basis?
I’ve got a question regarding the MCP settings, I believe that on take off you set the initial speed to V2, this is usually somewhere in the region of 138 or so, but you normally take off with flaps 5. As you climb out with VNAV the aircraft initially holds at this speed until it starts to accelerate.
This speed is below the safe speed for the flaps 5 settings and occasionally my speed drops off too much and I get the stall warning. The autopilot seems a bit dim witted to me and reacts too slow to avert things like this, is setting 138 knots or so and flaps 5 the correct thing to do at takeoff?
Depends on how you have it set and configured in the FMC as well. Typically for Southwest it’s v2+20 or 15 so if I take off with 138 V2 my initial speed at 1000 will change to 158. If you have it set for either VNAV or LVL CHG it will hold that speed until you reach your acceleration height which can be configured in the FMC. So an example would be 138 takeoff and then 158 from 1000 up and I have my accel height set to 3000 so after 3000 it will go to flaps up or 250.
If you don’t have your accel height configured you’ll stay v2 until you hit it before you accelerate. This is typically overridden and most departures probably use LVL CHG where they can just manually flip the speed themselves.
Maybe this has been asked before. Much to learn about this thing A thing that i have some issues with is to start up this thing cold & dark when it’s dark outside. The overhead panel is really dark and it’s really hard to see. Is there any lights that i can turn on in the cockpit that makes the overhead panel more bright at night? Or is it like that? I need to use the flashlight right now I know about those light switches that lights up the labels of those switches but that doesn’t make those switches brighter.
I also know about the light to the left of the pilotseat. But it’s really hard to set propperly.
(brought the CS777…) to now really appreciating the finer things 
to what a quality product brings to my experience to the extent of not wanting to touch, what are nice products in the form of Carenado C337 (what I own) and the such, that dont showcase any form of high fedality examples such as starting a engine without doing x,y,z or not showcasing the emersive drag that a landing gear retracting on the C337 should feel.
A thing that i have some issues with is to start up this thing cold & dark when it’s dark outside. The overhead panel is really dark and it’s really hard to see. Is there any lights that i can turn on in the cockpit that makes the overhead panel more bright at night? Or is it like that? I need to use the flashlight right now 
I know about those light switches that lights up the labels of those switches but that doesn’t make those switches brighter.