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INTRODUCTION
01OCT08
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PMDG MD-11
PMDG MD-11 fails to load gauges and/or Virtual Cockpit:
This issue is identical to the one listed above.
Effects of Inflight Turbulence and Broken FS Weather:
Much has been written about the weather engine in Flight Simulator, and
the fact that it will occasionally change the current weather conditions so
rapidly that it has a negative impact on advanced simulations such as the
PMDG MD-11.
To help your understanding of what may happen: Flight Simulator uses
weather reporting stations to determine the weather conditions you
experience at your current location. In areas where the weather gradient
is changing rapidly, or in areas where the weather stations are dispersed
over a large geographic area, the result can be large sudden changes in
the wind velocity, wind direction, temperature and barometric pressure.
Such sudden and large scale changes are not possible in the real world,
but when they happen within flight simulator, they can cause sudden
under-speed conditions, overspeed conditions, rapid changes in bank
angle and “jumping” of the altitude displayed on the altimeter tape,
triggering an altitude warning during the cruise phase of flight.
We strongly encourage users to read the forums to learn and understand
how best to work with weather within Flight Simulator.
FSUIPC wind smoothing helps, as does Active Sky. Neither program will
cure the problem, but they do help!
Also- we
strongly
encourage you to disable turbulence effects within flight
simulator. They are no mathematically realistic, and provide disruption to
the realism of the simulation.
Some customers have asked us why they do not experience these
conditions so negatively when using non PMDG products. Quite simply,
we tune the flight model of our aircraft to maximize the performance
against the published flight model data. As such, our flight models react
realistically to the environment around them.
Flying the MD-11 is slightly different than other airplanes:
The MD-11 uses a type of automated flight control system to reduce pilot
workload when controlling the airplane by hand. This system is known as
Lateral Stability Augmentation System. It is, in effect, a method for easily
