Same here i reported this on the forum, restarted sim , no FSLTL or even TCAS, imported simbrief flight plan and metar data
Went to adjust clock and total freeze, this all at gate, something very wrong
EFB is the only thing working , might try not touchibg the EFB and see what happens
Oh another thing sun shades work , but thats it
Weird ???
Edit: went back in didnt touch the EFB at all all buttons switches work
This at gate
Install the Navigraph Hub and periodically check. It auto-detects your installed airplanes and offers AIRAC updates. You can also leave it running in your Windows tray area.
Did a long flight last night in the 737-800 but this time dd not touch the UFT at all
Imported simbrief, used navigraph on upper menu, had FSLTL, luke air tool and had full TCAS on TA/RA
No problems with freezes at all gate to gate
Now this was only one flight but it very much points to the update of the UFT causing these issues, im just wondering if everyone is using the UFT is experiencing freezing cockpits?
So I sort of did it again but I think I’ve figured out the problem. I toggled reverse thrust too fast.
Someone can correct me if I’m wrong here. I read somewhere (maybe on this forum?) that the reverse levers in the real aircraft have a gate that they can’t go past and engage until the nose wheel is down. So, in my case, that would match what I think I did: try and engage the reverse thrust before the nose wheel was down.
Toggling pulled the levers up to the gate (I could see that in the sim) but I’d advanced the throttle to increase reverse thrust before it could go past the gate and so the sim ‘missed’ the control input. Halfway through the landing roll, I moved the lever slightly and, voila, reverse thrust came to life.
I might also be completely wrong.
That did the trick. Thanks for all the help guys!
Well, I made a 3+ hour flight yesterday and did NOT have any cockpit freezes, KBOS to KTPA. The only difference was I did not use any AI traffic injection into the sim. Normally I use FS Traffic to populate my departure and arrival airports, and in each case where I’ve had a cockpit freeze, it’s been at my departure airport, at my arrival airport, or - in the case of my aborted Honolulu - Los Angeles flight - it was as I was descending into the generally crowded SoCal area.
Anybody any clue why my FMC is not accepting FL200 for the cruise? Neither FL240? It always sets it at FL250. Never had that before.
Maybe your flightplan could have an airway or waypoint that has a hard limit at FL250? Go through the legs page to see which one it is and also check navigraph/simbrief for clues there.
Thx. I was convinced that wasn’t the case, but was wrong. My arrival has a fixed altitude constraint of FL250. Thx!
Spent 3 hours flying from KSEA to KBOS. One of my more enjoyable flights. 15 miles out of BOS, just getting everything set for the landing and the GD sim freezes. Highly irate, what a waste of my time.
Well for me last days no more screen freezes. Only 2 other issues popped up:
I haven’t had any problems at all on my last three flights - a 3 hour 4 minute trip from KBOS to KTPA on Friday; a 2 hour 42 minute flight from KTPA back to KBOS on Saturday; and 1 hour 20 minute flight form KBOS to KDCA yesterday.
Every time i stumble upon a real life “737 cockpit takeoff/landing” Youtube video, i praise PMDG for the sound effects job they did with this product.
I wonder how the FTSIM+ CFM pack compares if anyone can chime in…
FTSIM+CFM pack is awesome, I recommend it, it worths.
I was interested in FSTIM+, thanks for the recommendation. Which membership tier needed in order to have access to the 737 sound pack?
It looks like it’s in the basic tier, though I had to search for “737” to find it. I don’t have it installed myself - I like the PMDG sounds. Personally, I joined the Patreon for access to the 787 sounds, which are excellent.
These guys do some good work. I’ve got their upgrade for the CRJ, very impressive. I’ll have to check out the 737 sound pack.
Why would you need that? PMDG use recorded sounds from the real airplane and full simulators. Whenever the real pilots in the PMDG forum detect differences they provide real sounds and comments on the correct volumes and logics and the PMDG folks are constantly implementing them. I spent 20 minutes in the real airplane recording the changes in sounds with every imaginable pack, trim air, recirc fan switch position imaginable. I also recorded the sound coming in from the vents. There is really no need to use 3rd party sounds. I just checked the FSTIM+ pack. You can’t hear the engines like that from the flightdeck in a 737. You can barely hear them. In a real flight deck, 90% of what you hear is the wind at speed and the air from the equipment cooling and the packs. The sound from the engines at normal regimes is just a barely noticeable low frequency rumble and a little whine when the airspeed is low and the wind noise isn’t high. The 737 has a noisy cockpit mainly because of its boxy windows, the vortex generators near the radome and the windshield wipers.
Good to know. As i said i love the PMDG sounds in the cockpit. I was just curious.
Of any part of the simulator, sounds are by far the most subjective. Most simmers seem to prefer an aircraft to sound as they experienced it. So, like it sounds in the cabin because few simmers have experienced how things sound from the flightdeck. They also seem to want sounds like flap motors, even if they are not audible from the flight deck in many aircraft.
PMDG is highly reluctant to give in to that pressure. Even though what is delivered does not always meet the customers’ expectations. I have my sound setup like this, as I like to fly as if I wear a noise-canceling headset, like almost all pilots do. This comes closest to my personal experience on actual flight decks wearing a Rugged Air RA950.
I am not a fan of the built-in headphone simulation.
