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INTRODUCTION
01OCT08
DO
NOT
DUPLICATE
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PMDG MD-11
Note: If you do not select this item, and then you press the Autothrottle
button while the airplane is taxiing, you may lock yourself out of the lower
power range, causing the engines to appear unresponsive to the throttles.
If you do this, press two times the autothrottle disconnect key command
that you have selected to disengage the system and silence the warning.
The Autothrottle system on the MD-11 is somewhat more aggressive in
taking control of the engines away from the pilot. You can read more
about how the autothrottle system operates in the SYSTEMS manual.
Flight Simulator tells me I am critically low on fuel:
We have modeled the PMDG MD-11 fuel system very accurately,
including the fuel manifold behavior.
Flight simulator sees this fuel manifold as a very small fuel tank and
assumes that since this tank is nearly empty, and throws this erroneous
message on your screen.
To prevent this, go into the AIRCRAFT menu, REALISM settings, and de-
select “Show Flying Tips.”
How should I set up my joystick/yoke to work with LSAS?:
With LSAS active on the MD-11, flying the airplane by hand is merely a
matter of setting the desired pitch and roll, and allowing the airplane to
manage things from there.
The yoke on the airplane has detents that make it easy to keep the yoke
centered in pitch while adjusting roll and vice versa.
Doing this with most flight simulator hardware is not quite so easy, so we
recommend giving yourself a null zone to work with, and setting the
NOTE Some airlines arm the autothrottle by pressing the
AUTOFLIGHT button during taxi out. We recommend that you don’t
press the AUTOFLIGHT to arm the ATS until you are aligned on the
runway. No need to do so, and it will save you from this situation when
taxiing.
Also: Keyboard throttle control (e.g. F1) is not affected by the joystick
control options and will always override ATS. So in case you get the
locked throttles during taxi, pressing F1 might also solve the problem.
Once throttle position commanded by F1 goes below a certain limit the