Yes… I had those streaks too. Saw it during a flight.
Apparently when you start the engines they spout fire? I’ve seen it on a youtube. Not sure if there’s a switch to have them cleaned 
Yea… at night you can see little flames coming from the stacks during climbout. I’ll try to get a shot of that tonight…
The fire actually looked great LOL, I was landing during sunset and at first i thought it’s just a buggy reflection of sunrays.
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You can also go to the Livery Utilities page on the Ops Centre, select the aircraft etc, click on the Pan Am livery in the list and click remove. Then go back to the liveries page and install it clean. You might need to restart Ops Centre in between - can’t remember. A bit easier than navigating to the folders etc, but I’m sure just does the same job.
The remove wasn’t there. It said ‘Update’. And then the update failed.
It’s all minor stuff really. You can get rid of the liveries quite easily. They’ll get better at this. And frankly, I don’t fancy them, having to work with Asobo and the overall sloppiness of this sim. Really, I agree with PMDG (if you read between the lines)… it’s messy.
If you must 
BTW, the PMDG most recent update doesn’t like your superb PanAm livery.
Not sure if it needs a tweak from you or a delete/reinstall. PC not accessible at the moment so I can’t check.
TG
I definitely agree with you. I’ve been flying it like this and it really feels good getting it down after a successful navigation to destination. I usually plan in Little Nav and write down the navaids, bearings, distances and altitudes then close that down and just navigate via the paper and approach chart.
It definitely keeps most of the flight busy but I’ve never had so much enjoyment from an airliner before. I like to fly the same way with GA but the voyages seem a lot less epic without those fire spitting radials and that deep rumble! I don’t think I’ll be typing into an FMC again for a while.
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Man - I hate to report it… but MSFS CTD’d twice in a row. KTUL to KATL about 25 minutes after T/O and KMEM to KMSY - with about 20 minutes left of the flight. No AFE, no other add-ons, no pushback helper, no MSI Afterburner, no liveries.
I have an open service ticket with PMDG - wish me luck.
It’s Flight Sim. Very odd how the CTD events occur. I can go days… even weeks, without a hiccup. Then, a half dozen crashes in a row. Doesn’t matter what aircraft, or where in the world I am.
When I have days like that, I tend to read a book.
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Sounds very much like your CTD are “data” dependant , either where you are flying, or your Internet.
Based on some of the error messages I have seen recently since SU4, I am suspecting BING DATA as being a possible cause,
No proof… just a “Gut Feeling” based on observation.
I suspect it may be server related. It happens with Asobo aircraft as well as 3rd party models. There is little pattern that I can tell, even from the event viewer or looking at the reliability history. I’ve got background processes controlled as tightly as I know how.
It’s a study in frustration when it is happening.
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I had the same problem with the Pan Am livery. I deleted the folder in the DC-6 folder and the entry in aircraft.cfg. Then the op Center recognised it as uninstalled and I could reinstall it.
It’s on the liveries utilities page, not the liveries page itself. From the top menu, click “Aircraft and Liveries”, then “Liveries Utilities”, put the right things in the drop down that is shown on the left and you get this screen, with remove on the right. Select Pan Am Livery and press remove.
But anyway, you got it working, so no bother.
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Something strange is happening to my DC-6:
I started cold and dark and let the AFE do all the checklists. Then I filled up all liquids and made sure the main tanks are full. After starting the engines, taxiing to the runway (AFE did after start and before takeoff checklists) and taking off (with the AFE) it starts to get strange. The AFE says “Gear up” but nothing happens. Gear stays down. No METO power setting, nothing else. Shortly after I’m losing all power because my fuel is gone (after no more than 10 minutes with running engines). Again: The main tanks were filled up 100%. That happens every flight.
I was able to fly longer distances before but I reinstalled MSFS on a different drive and did just move my community folder. Maybe some strange copy protection? I’m gonna try a reinstall of the DC-6 later.
If I can’t solve it I will of course contact PDMG for support. But I wanted to share this because it’s just too strange.
The moving around of folders does sound suspicious. I’m sure the DC-6 is trying to maintain certain files on disk. And the paths might be in the registry. That gets all blown to bits if you start to move folders around. It’s hard to think up a scenario where these specific strange things happen, but I think a reinstall is probably your best bet.
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Another option might be that your engines need to be repaired? Read some people got stuck because all their engine stuff was showing red circles
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Yeah that was my guess as well but the Op Center managed to update the aircraft without any problems. So I thought it must work. I just reinstalled and going to test after lunch. Engine damage was turned off and everything was repaired btw. 
Something similar happened to me, I couldn’t get past the 30" manifold pressure on T/O using the AFE and it was b/c the AFE didn’t complete a previous before T/O checklist item - not exactly sure which one. The DC6 has a tendency to accidentally flip switches if you’re using your mouse to look around. I’ve heard random switches being flipped in the upper panel even when I’m not looking in that upper panel and there’s so many switches it’s difficult to figure out which one flipped until something goes wrong. Most of the time for me it’s one of the fire extinguishers and an engine cuts out.
It also might be a hydraulic issue. Check the hydraulic bypass lever, it’s under the flaps lever on the lower pedestal and should be in the down position on T/O and climb then up during cruise and back down during descent and landing. After your Before T/O checklist is complete check the Hydraulic Pressure, it should be around 2600 to 3050 psi. I think the this is a checklist on the AFE and they should verbally call out Hydraulic Pressure “OK” or something along those lines. I just spent a good 20 minutes looking for the Hydraulic Pressure gauge on the instrument panel and I cannot find it for the life of me so if someone else could jump in here and help me find it it would be much appreciated.
As for the fuel - that’s very strange. Are you climbing at all? What’s your speed and v/s? Are you manually pressing the gear/flaps? Have you tried to click the “Abort” button on the AFE and manually adjust for METO then climb power? METO is 48" manifold pressure you control with the throttle then 2600 RPM you control with the white prop lever to the right of the captains throttle control. Climb is 40" manifold and 2400 RPM.
Even at full power on a Wet T/O the each engine is consuming around 2,000 lbs/hr. At full fuel the DC6 carries 33,000 lbs of fuel. That’s a little over 4 hours of fuel, at 59.5" manifold pressure and 2800 RPM - assuming you’re just sitting on the runway letting this thing run. The higher you climb the more efficient you get. So 10 minutes makes me think the aircraft is dumping fuel. There’s a hatch on the floor in between the captain and first officer’s seats that opens the fuel dump levers. Open it and make sure none of these have become engaged by accident.
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The hydraulic pressure gauge is on the co-pilot’s side below the window and oxygen blinker.
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