No worries Adam

I have tested my PMDG 738, I flew the ILS into Heathrow Rwy 27L on full manual and didn’t have any issues, she actually behaved quite nicely however the yawing motion is quite bizarre, again this comes down to the flight dynamics. I found the 5° bank to the live engine helped appreciably.

The key to flying this is not to get low & slow, you are really limiting your options then, because you will be near or past Vmca and you will need alot of power causing a further asymmetric force.

No the yaw damper is there to prevent “dutch roll” which is a stability problem.

Adam, the problem with flight sim is it’s ability (or lack of) to “accurately” depict true flight dynamics, you should be able to maintain a desired flightpath even with 1 engine inop, the normal issues come as you slow down, basically as you approach Vmca (minimum control speed in the air) the forces needed on the rudder to keep straight increases greatly, if you go below Vmca you will run out of rudder authority. There is, or shouldn’t be any issues with slowing to Vmca in planes with hydraulically actuated control surfaces but as you can imagine in a light twin such as a Seneca you will not be able to hold the aircraft straight at Vmca for longer than a minute or so.

Try flying the ILS manually using the Flight Director and maintaining 5° angle of bank towards the live engine, keeping straight with rudder.

I’ll boot up my PMDG a bit later and test it out. It should be possible.

Dean

eu

If you log in to Avsim and do a search in the file library for PMDG Tutorial you can download a couple of great ones which covers the FMS.

Alternatively have you got access to a microphone? if so great, if you also have MSN messenger or Skype (which is free) then we can connect and talk on there and I will talk you through setting up the FMS & autopilot step by step, I’ll even show you some tricks with the Flight Director which is a great peice of kit, I’ll have you flying ILS approaches in manual mode all the way down to the numbers from 10nm out 😉

Let me know

Dean

This has to be a record, this thread is 4 YEARS OLD 🙂

Please read the CoC regarding the resurrection of old (or in this case, jurasic) threads

Dean

DANGER!!! Vacuming inside a PC can build up a big static charge and zap ram and or processors I have been told.

Beter to use canned air products that are designed for the task. While cleaning, check the fan in the power supply as well, had a couple of those go over the years, that will give you trouble as well.

That’s all well & good CS but if the crap was embedded like it was in the sis in-law’s PC no knd of air canister will get it out.
And yes it is always wise to earth anything that you are putting inside your PC, even your hand 🙂

biggles

Try this, switch off your PC and then take off the cover to your PC.
Check inside and ensure your processor fan and your processor itself is free from a dust build-up. You may have to take the heatsink & fan off the processor to get to the processor. If you look on your processor you “should” see some cooling fins” (dependant on processor type), just ensure these are fully free of dust. Then do the same with your graphics card.

Give that a go, it may work, it may not. But my sis in law’s PC kept switching off after 30mins or so, and after I had vacuumed it out it solved the problem

Report back to us and let us know

Dean

Hello eu

Well I’d imagine there’s alot more I don’t know than what I do know, I think I have been lucky where the questions asked just happens to be the ones I know about, however I would imagine that luck will run out sooner or later 😉