Had a nice flight from LEBL->EGPK this morning. Beautiful morning in LEBL, but quite thick wet and grim into EGPK R12, weather in sim was just like it was outside my window (not that far away). Perfect flight though. VNAV descent superb as usual and autoland on with that murky an approach.
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For me quite the opposite. The TO performance calculations were the last piece for my complete 737 experience. I don’t care about other features like Simbrief import and for pushbacks I use GSX that does a very good job. They’re both great addons but also different planes and I tend to use PMDG 737 more because I simply like flying Boeings better than Airbuses.
I have just finished my second flight with the latest PMDG 737 build and everything works great (both were -800’s). One happy chappy here.
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Someone else wrote that they are having the same problem but fixed it by removing the MSFS software completely and then reloading it. Separately, PDMG send me a procedure to just remove and reload all the mods related to the 737. Sounds like it might be easier to follow the first option, but it gives me a good bit of trepidation (i.e. that I’ll lose addons, etc.). Can someone educate me on the procedure to reload the game and give me a heads up as to whether I will screw up something else if I do?
I had a slow day today so during my lunch, I planned and loaded up a flight in the -800 from KBNA to KPSP, taxied out and took off, climbed to cruise and then let the (virtual) FO and autopilot handle most of the rest until descent and landing. Four and a half hours, more or less, and the longest real-time flight I’ve made in a good while. BTW, the RNAVY into 31L at Palm Springs is breathtaking.
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I discovered today that the problem was with the pilot and copilot addon by nicottine. There was already an update on flightsim.to. After installing this everything is ok now.
Coincidentally I just an hour ago flew in to KPSP tonight in the maddog md83, I’ve done r31 before and it is a nice approach, but first time for me tonight was the big 360 deg looped descending approach over the mountains into r13 an absolute wild, must try approach. Scenery is amazing around KPSP, it has to be said.
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Excellent find. Will give it a try.
Just out of curiosity and waiting for the marketplace rollout, does the tablet use only Google Maps? I would assume something based on OSM to be more natural in the sim. Didn’t Google prohibit the use of its map data in commercial applications?
No. You can switch to Navigraph’s existing map options and they work great. In fact, when you use Navigraph maps and zoom in close enough at an airport, you get very useful info like this - you can zoom even further to see gates/ramp locations, intersection designations, etc.
Also, Google prohibits commercial use of the map data WITHOUT A LICENSE. Navigraph no doubt has a commercial license and part of the monthly fee we pay to access their charts and services includes their cost to access Google Maps commercially and resell that data to flight simmers as part of the services Navigraph provides.
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Alright, now I see why there’s google maps. I wasn’t aware that the map function requires Navigraph subscription, rather than a simple moving map that many GA tablets have used.
3rd flight with the EFB, decided to use the performance calculator for the first time. I was flying out of BOS to the west coast. RWY9 was in use according to Flight Aware. My gross weight was around 168K. Kept getting error messages that max gross weight needed to be ~ 155K. Couldn’t figure out what the issue was until I realized that RWY 9 is only 7,500’. When I selected 4R (which is 10K), the error cleared and the EFB was able to calculate all my data. Impressive. I was thinking the EFB had a bug but in reality, it was doing it’s best to try to keep me out of Boston harbor.
On a related note, I always assumed the FMC itself had functionality to flag if your selected runway was too short.
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I was just wondering if anyone is having a problem inputting your simbrief alias into the EFB ?
I put my navigraph id in which it accepted and saved, but i cannot download my flight plan
Now i have read that you have to put your alias in but as soon as i do that the screen goes all weird like a major artifact and the sim all goes black although i can still here the sim though my gpu fans spin down and it CTD
I have checked my gpu and ram and they are fine in benchmarks, so i am at a bit of a loss to know whats going on , probably an add on is causing this
I havent reinstalled the 737-800 yet as its a PITA just wondered if anyone else had this issue?
Yes it needs alias(name) not simbrief ID (number). Not had an issue and my simbrief name is waaay to long.
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ps. make sure you don’t have an extra space copied at the end of the user name I did and it didn’t work.
Ok thanks will try that and let you know how it goes
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This is what i get as soon as i put my alias in the sim just artifacts see pic
This when im at gate, really strange, the escaping out screen goes black and it CTD
Im going to try the 737-700 see if it does the same
Is this on the SU14 beta or SU13. No issues for me. Looks weird though. Maybe also try a reinstall of 737. I’ve only used the 800 and not seen any issues with simbrief user name in EFB & I’m still on SU13.
I’m on SU14 and the only issue I’ve run into is the same one affecting pretty much everyone - all Assistance options in the sim reset to Easy with every launch of the sim and have to be reset to whatever you normally use. The PMDG 737 itself runs flawlessly (see above re my 4-1/2 hour flight yesterday).
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Its on SU13, i uninstalled and reinstalled the 738 but it kept all my settings so i didnt remove everything as it seems, everything else on the efb works except the simbrief username which causes it to glitch and crash like it does
I might disable it or just use the other functions
As im done with getting it to work
I can still import from the fmc so will carry on doing that 
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Do you have a Simbrief username with non-standard non-Latin characters? Another question: have you tried with any mods or third-party utilities removed and an empty Community folder?
If you don’t have a non-standard Simbrief name and you’ve tried with an empty Community folder and it still crashes your computer, you should open a support ticket with PMDG so they can investigate what’s going on.