I use the default 737-900 profile through SimBrief and have never had a issue with insufficient fuel. Sounds like it could be an issue with the third party profile. What sort of distance are you trying to cover?
The issue with equipment being removed through different liveries is due to the aircraft profiles set for the aircraft from the livery creators. Some of the liveries are authentic especially those of (Jviation) to replicate the actual aircraft and their respective equipment.
To add or remove the items and functions you want in the aircraft you can do so through the FMC and “PMDG Setup” Select “Equipment”.
The flight was from panc to kpdx and simbrief calculated around 26200 pounds off fuel. I rounded that up to 27000.
As for the liveries. That’s good to know. I only thing that i cannot explain is why the downloaded liveries from flightsim.to would also change the downloadable liveries from the ops center.
I just completed a flight that required 19,358KG of fuel which equates to 42,677 Pounds and I did not get any issues with fuel. These levels are way above of what you required. I would definitely say there is something wrong with the SimBrief profile you are using for the 737.
I am unsure of liveries changing the default liveries that come from the PMDG Ops center. I have not had this occur either and have a large number of 737 liveries from flightsim.to. The only thing I can imagine happening here is you are possibly downloading liveries with the same Aircraft registration as the default ones provided by PMDG and there is some sort of clashing happening.
I will delete and update the profiles when i have the time. After that i will re-test.
I found out what the problem was with the liveries. One of the liveries (i think the star wars one) overwrote the equipment of all the other 800’ers. The liveries from Jvation where all fine.
Strange things were afoot with my flight today, I wonder if any of these issues happened to anyone else?
Ive been flying the 737-700/-800 for years now (first on FSX and now MSFS) and had no issues with the operation any of the aircraft until today. The aircraft flew fine last night and I have not loaded anything new since then.
Was flying from LGA-YOW. When first loaded the -700 the yoke was hard left, and I could not click on any switches or anyhow, plus the battery switch looked corrupted. Tried the -800 and the same issue persisted. So I restarted the sim, all seemed to work fine after that.
Next, while descending on my approach into Ottawa (CYOW), the autopilot just stopped working. Disengaging and reengaging did nothing, although the lights for the buttons lit up. Was not able to control the autopilot at all, so ended having to hand fly the approach.
Next, when trying to shut the aircraft down, the engines would not stop, and I was unable to turn on the APU or even hook up ground power.
Sorry for digging out this old response of yours from a while ago but it still doesn’t work for me (I haven’t had a chance to fly and try it out since then) and just want to know if I’m doing something wrong or if I maybe just misunderstand what you are saying…
So when I take off with AP and VNAV off, and reach the acceleration height, the FMA still shows N1 and TO/GA (with V2 in magenta above the speed tape), and it remains like that forever until I take a manual action. Only when I actually press the LVL CHG button then I see MCP SPD on the FMA, and now it also displays V2+20 in magenta about the speed tape.
Did I misunderstand what you said, or is this the expected behavior?
Had all the above issues the other day except for the issue with the yoke being hard left.
I accidentally bumped the “Pause” key on my keyboard when leaning over to grab my coffee. I realized straight away and pressed it again however from this point on I had zero contol of anything on the aircraft apart from my Honeycomb yoke and throttle. Neither were showing input on the sim either yet were moving the aircraft.
Luckily I was 15 minutes away from landing and conditions were good. I was able to hand fly the aircraft into land and taxi to the gate. Upon reaching there nothing worked either.
so I could hand fly the aircraft, but in the sim even the throttle levers would not move, or any of the switches. However, I still had full manual control of the aircraft.
All settings are stored per livery. If you install a new livery the best thing to do is copy all settings from your favorite livery to the new one. This can be done in the CDU.
Currently having an issue with the 737-600 FMC trying to do the tutorial flight KPDX - KFSO already done this once without issue. Departure adds fine but when I go the the arrivals index the only approaches available are RNV 01 and RNV 19 and they are the only 2 runways available yet I’m looking for ILS 28R. No next page available it’s showing page 1/1. Did a repair and reboot in the aircraft but still the same issue. Any ideas?
The PMDG doesn’t pull from the simulator. So even though the sim nav data gets updated, the PMDG is separate from that. You need to make sure PMDG is updated.
Not sure if this has been mentioned already but i can’t help but notice the lack of animations on the wing views in flight. When checking controls are full and free on the ground I see the control surfaces moving on the wing but in flight I don’t see any movement (from wing views or wxternal views). Is this for a particular reason does anyone know?
Just jumping in here. IIRC, the tutorial flight is designed to work with the vanilla 737-600 and does not require updated navdata (like Navigraph). The aircraft deliver with an older AIRAC installed (can’t remember which) and the tutorial was written to work with that version. I don’t believe PMDG require their users to have the latest navdata in order to use their products.
No they don’t. But it could cause issues if the data in the PMDG isn’t matched up with the data in MSFS like for VOR’s, ILS’s, etc… If the ILS data in the PMDG is different from that in MSFS or the airport you’re landing at, you can’t use it. Someone correct me if I am wrong here.
