Posts that are unsigned will be quietly removed without comment by the moderators, so to make your life easy- we recommend enabling your forum signature so that you never need to remember. We do so because we feel that forums in which users must engage one another personally are generally warmer, more collegial and friendly. This is one of the few rigid rules that we enforce regularly. You took the time to be here, we want to get to know you. We do this in order to keep conversations personal and familiar. Since 1997, we have asked users to sign their real name, first and last, to all posts in the PMDG forum. PMDG NGX and iFly NG are very recent by comparison.1) SIGN YOUR POSTS. However, bear in mind I started this cockpit business a long time ago, and have until recently used Project Magenta throughout (I now use a mixture of PM and TSR software, plus my own). If PMDG had done as iFly have done and produced a cockpit builders version with all those modules separate from FSX then it would have actually been possible, and might then have been more acceptable. There are 8 screens in a real 737 cockpit - admittedly I have only 7 because there's no room for the lower centre DU (I can show its content on the Upper DU) - how would I drive those from the NGX? It isn't on!Įven with the SDK allowing mapping of outputs and controls (events) allowing most inputs, it wouldn't be possible to drive the PFD, ND, EICAS and CDU screens properly from their software. It doesn't need one because I have real instruments. The aircraft I use has NO panels whatsoever, no virtual panel, no 2D panel. The NGX is an all-encompassing self-contained sim, with excellent cockpit graphics. I am just curious, you, having such a terrific home cockpit, why you dont fly the NGX? Taking off and landing are two of the pleasures in flying airliners. Take off using manual control to target N1, as also does happen frequently for real. Program a button to operate the FSUIPC "throttles off" control, and either press that at the same time as TO/GA, or even add it to the actions for the TO/GA button (maybe press =throttles off, release = TO/GA?)ģ. That's going to be pretty close to reality.Ģ. Push to 40% and watch it stabilise, as you should before pressing TO/GA, then just quickly push it all the way up before actually pressing it. There are three alternatives I can think of:ġ. Shame that the NGX doesn't have some sort of sensitivity setting to allow for throttle jitter. I suspect my CH throttles are not what they once were and I will just have to live with not increasing power from idle before selecting the TOGA. At 40% the throttle jitter is signifiant. If, however, I increase the power to 40% of N1 before selecting theTOGA (as we are supposed to do) the autothrottle engages and then immediately cuts out. Any jitter however will result in values being sent. FSUIPC does not send anything from the axes to FS when the value isn't changing. However, you should be able to get away with simply parking your throttle levers in a well-defined stable zone (eg a good well defined idle zone or a max thrust 'dead zone' at the top end) when engaging A/T. If the PMDG cannot operate its autothrottle correctly when such FS controls are used then the only likely way is to revert to the normal AXIS controls with no reverse zone, and use separate reversers. The only way FSUIPC can provide a reverse zone on a throttle axis is by using the THROTTLEn_SET controls - because there are no other controls with such a facility. So I'll assume you mean A/T cuts out anyway. The latter should simply push the throttles to the set N1% as far as I know, just like any other autothrottle change. Sorry, I've no idea what difference PMDG makes between normal autothrottle and its control of throttle for TOGA. (My F2 key appears to be dead and I do not know how to breathe life into it.) I would much appreciate knowing if there is a FSUIPC or other fix for this or is my 737 flying to be limited to long dry runways. The problem does not occur if I calibrate the throttles with FSX, but then I have no thrust reverse. My CH throttles calibrate fine for thrust reverse with FSUIPC, but the autothrottle disengages as soon as TOGA is engaged.
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