NZFF

I finally tamed the beast - all those months of fighting with the PMDG 747 and coming THAT close to uninstalling it on countless occasions, I finally figured out what I was doing wrong. Naturally this required a test flight.

I'd left the 763 in Perth so that seemed as good a place as any to start from, and coasts are always nice, so off to Darwin I went. The plane behaved flawlessly I'm happy to say. The only thing I did wrong was not putting the clock back to start earlier, taxying in the dark is not my favourite activity

As you can guess, I ran out of daylight ... Almost got away with it, but not quite.




















Cheers
Gary

Gary , that PMDG 747 never fails to please me , Brilliant screens

edit :a recent FSX Darwin airport has been released , may need carrier it in from Auckland , alas ... an ATLAS cargo will do

My flight arrived next morning , damn i really love this PMDG 747





Freeware Anthony Lynch scenery on payware Orbx , ideal long range flights from New Zealand

Awesome screenies guys! I especially like the front 3/4 angles.

I haven't had enough time set aside to get stuck into the PMDG 747 yet. Will definitely be doing a few trans Tasman flights when I do.

Nice sceenies Gary. Pleased to see you got it sorted out. What was the issue that you had difficulty with?

There were a couple of boxes ticked that shouldn't have been so the autopilot couldn't control the pitch, and I wasn't clued up enough to realise that just because autothrottles are armed and VNAV / LNAV were active it didn't automatically follow that the autothrottles were actually doing anything.


Gary

Sorry to steal your thunder here Gary (I love your 4th shot from the bottom, sunset approach with the heavy 744 wingflex!) - but wow Ian, the autogen in your Darwin screenshots looks so dam realistic. Is the entire FTX coverage area like this, or only selected photoreal areas around the big international airports?

Yes the key to flying any glass airliner in a basic mode is to:
1. Know how to drive the MCP (mode control panel).
2. Check for the FMA (flight mode annunciator) readouts on the ADI and understand what they mean.
Once you are proficient at that it is breeze. Naturally if FMC equipped a thorough understanding of that is essential too but it can still be flown without an FMC via the MCP.

Trolly wrote:

QUOTE (Trolly @ Jan 10 2009, 03:34 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

the autogen in your Darwin screenshots looks so dam realistic. Is the entire FTX coverage area like this, or only selected photoreal areas around the big international airports?

The entire FTX is like this with autogen , and its heavy , over the big cities it s a frame hitter serious ! Darwin is comfortable and you can , i guess you can run this airport without FTX , im pretty sure it has an enchanced photo wrap . I like this scenery for the absolute area it covers , temptation after Gary,s flight just added to it .

Got this yet?

http://library.avsim.net/esearch.php?CatID...amp;DLID=132850

NZ255 wrote:

QUOTE (NZ255 @ Jan 10 2009, 08:23 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Got this yet?

I have followed all of Ant,s addons , installed , have them all

Oooh, stunning - One day I will install FSX..