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This would happen if the turn knob were not exactly centered. Click on the silver hole cover above the turn knob between the indicator lamps to force...

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Pieter, this is a user to user forum and it's a good place to ask for help from other sim pilots and run something by the crowd to check if something...

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OMG, are you trolling or are you serious? Do you realize the difference between 0.90 and 0.89 Mach? At sea level (where the difference is greatest)...

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I 'should' be rich by now.... LOL

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Emi is spot on regarding the slower speeds providing increased descent angles. Simulator pilots think going faster results in a faster descent, but it's...

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Many decades ago when I was a young Captain in the AF, I was out on the Offutt AFB Localizer trestle (a wooden platform at runway end where the ground...

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You have it exactly correct. In addition, there is an emergency inverter on the floor behind the pilot under the equipment rack that is connected directly...

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Quite! The Sperry A-12 is a marvel of 1950's engineering. The operational amplifiers and servo amplifiers are all tube (or valve for my British friends),...

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Good question. Perhaps you didn't notice PMDG updated the AC functions recently.... we all had it wrong initially. Inverter 2 powers FO instruments...

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Full name on posts here please.

Not sure how to help, PMDG has nothing to do with ATC. Not sure if you mean an external ATC program or the...

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Hello Ferry, please note the forum rules we agreed to when joining require us to sign our full name on all posts.

Using the trim with the...

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Rebooted at 2025Z and still no update in the MS Store.

EDIT: But wait, there is more: FS was not in the available update list, but when...

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1850Z in Texas, I'm not seeing an update available in the MS store or in-game. Guess it takes more than a couple of hours to propagate through MS cloud...

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Perhaps you could review the propeller...

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I down loaded a couple of hours ago and getting deep into it. Quite nice.

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Only use carb heat when you have symptoms of carb ice. Temperature alone is not enough for icing to occur, humidity is also required. I am only referring...

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I rarely fly above the TA so setting the kollsman on the altimeter is simply a B press. I've never cross checked the altimeter with an external program,...

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The only thing I use FSUIPC7 for is when using ADE Airport Design Editor for MSFS and it is required to be able to locate the aircraft from in-game into...

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I think the tool tip blue man nonsense is on by default for the XBox crowd, you can get rid of it by changing the general options > accessibility >...

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Welcome to the PMDG forums Fred, note the forum rules we all agreed to includes signing our full name on all posts.

The Sperry A-12 needs...