Delta Virtual Airlines Water Cooler - PMDG and ACARS Recovery impossible?

Delta Virtual Airlines Water Cooler | PC Support | PMDG and ACARS Recovery impossible?

DVA11676
First Officer, B737-800

Joined on August 02 2013

""It is better to travel well than to arrive." - The Buddha"
Australia

22 legs, 20.7 hours
22 legs, 20.7 hours ACARS

Posted onPost created on October 04 2015 10:39 ET by Sanket Nayak

Hi all

Just had a 2nd crash to desktop with FSX:SE this week. frown

Both times i was on PMDG NGX 737-800WL. This one's about tonight's crash...

ACARS/FSUIPC autosave took me back to ~1800ft AGL... so with the PMDG 20second startup when I loaded the game back there was no chance with my skills of doing a non-crash landing...
I could not find an earlier auto-save.

Has anyone else experienced such a thing and is there a way to recover in the future without losing the flight?

Sanket Nayak

First Officer, B737-800

DVA10705
First Officer, B747-400
OLP

Joined on April 27 2012
Two Million Mile Club
Everett 500 Club
Millennium Club
DVA Ten-Year Anniversary

Kamloops, BC Canada

1,060 legs, 5,399.0 hours
87 legs, 356.0 hours online
1,059 legs, 5,397.6 hours ACARS
15 legs, 48.6 hours event
3,528 legs, 15,773.5 hours total
15 legs dispatched, 24.4 hours

Posted onPost created on October 04 2015 12:17 ET by Bill Gardiner

I can be a challenge with PMDG aircraft because of their complexity. In that situation you pretty much have to use slew to gain some altitude to buy time to allow the aircraft to initialize. Purists might say it's not realistic using slew but but a CTD is not realistic either--you have to deal with it. My process for recovering a flight in a PMDG aircraft is to load the aircraft on the ground, then use the FSX load flight and load the last or 2nd last flight that was saved in FSUIPC. Then once it's intialized I'll save the panel state, then use Acars to recover the flight. Sometimes Acars doesn't recover the panel state so in that case I pause the flight and load the one I just saved. Sounds complicated, and maybe it is lol, but there you go...

Bill Gardiner

First Officer, B747-400

DVA10723
Captain, B737-800
OLP

Joined on May 10 2012
50 State Club
Globetrotter
DVA Ten-Year Anniversary
Two Million Mile Club
US Capital Club
Flying Colonel
Carolina Club
Everett 1500 Club

Myrtle Beach, SC

1,547 legs, 4,986.4 hours
19 legs, 27.1 hours online
1,525 legs, 4,930.9 hours ACARS
2 legs, 4.6 hours event

Posted onPost created on December 05 2018 11:11 ET by Josh Martin

Bill Gardiner wrote:

I can be a challenge with PMDG aircraft because of their complexity. In that situation you pretty much have to use slew to gain some altitude to buy time to allow the aircraft to initialize. Purists might say it's not realistic using slew but but a CTD is not realistic either--you have to deal with it. My process for recovering a flight in a PMDG aircraft is to load the aircraft on the ground, then use the FSX load flight and load the last or 2nd last flight that was saved in FSUIPC. Then once it's intialized I'll save the panel state, then use Acars to recover the flight. Sometimes Acars doesn't recover the panel state so in that case I pause the flight and load the one I just saved. Sounds complicated, and maybe it is lol, but there you go...

Just to let you know Bill, this method worked perfectly for me!

Josh Martin

Captain, B737-800

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