PMDG 747 tutorial Powering up from cold + dark

[metalskateboarder965]

My panels still won't turn on!!! It's the same with my md 11 it doesn't work :(

[pilotdrummer95]

@metalskateboarder965 Make sure you follow the tutorial to the letter! This is important. However, it may seem that your computer is having compatability issues with PMDG issues in general if the MD-11 is affected as well. Does your computer meet the requirements for the addons?

[saitekrumblepad]

Great vid......just 1 question...i keep getting yaw damper lwr and yaw damper upr error showing,i have googled my a**e off trying to get the solution but nothing....any advice.......... thanks

[pilotdrummer95]

@saitekrumblepad mmm... Have you tried following the tutorial again? Also, make sure that the HYDRAULIC PUMPS are set to auto.

[ashtatye]

done a good job of exsplaining the cold an dark startup,thanks,paul

[pilotdrummer95]

@ashtatye

Thank you Paul!

=D

[mick19411]

Hi, thank you for your quick response. When you say load up the Cessna 152, are you referring to PMDG add-on? or FSX default, thank you again for your help, I was in the air training Corps, back in the 50s, did some flying in a chipmunk and twin-engine Anderson, good memories. Michael.

[pilotdrummer95]

@mick19411 I'm referring to the default model. PMDG don't do Cessna! :)

I was in the Air Training Corps to until about a year ago. I really wanted to focus on my schoolwork for my exams.

Thanks

pd95 :)

[mick19411]

Hi, I enjoy your video tutorial 747, I have PMDG 747 installed into my FSX, there is only one problem, I load the PMDG 747, when I go into load flight for cold and dark- KPAE, it is not their? all the other programs are loaded in their, do you have to download cold and dark for 747? As a add-on, and if so where do I find it, hoping you can help, thank you. Michael. PS keep those videos coming.

[pilotdrummer95]

@mick19411 You can do this another way if this should fail you.

Load up the Cessna 152 and turn everything off... even the battery. Then load up your PMDG 747 and you should then have a Cold and Dark cockpit.

Try uninstalling and reinstalling too.

Thanks for your kind words

pd95 =D

[mrpropilot1]

how do u get external pwr 1 to work

[pilotdrummer95]

@mrpropilot1

You need to select EXTERNAL POWER to be available in the PMDG menu. By going into ADDONS or PMDG then selecting EXTERNAL POWER to be availiable at gates.

Hope this helps

pd95 :)

[FlyingPilot04]

@pilotdrummer95

I have the same problem with my 747.

Where can I select this option "EXT Power available at gates"?

I know there is a PMDG menu but there is nothing with ground power....

[pilotdrummer95]

@FlyingPilot04

It is probably available to you in the GROUND menu or something like that. Have a look through all of them until you can find what you are looking for =)

[mrpropilot1]

hey wen u load up from cold and dark u get external pwr 1 there i cant get that any thoughts of y if so plz let me know i really need help from u

[decinormal]

Yes. Sorry, I didn't mean to make such a big discussion about that small point. Perhaps we use different logic but the result is the same. Thank you.

[pilotdrummer95]

@decinormal That's ok. I'm glad we have got it sorted!

[decinormal]

Part 1 I always load PMDG 747-400X Cold & Dark - KPAE with the Load button in the Free Flight options screen, as you did at 1.11 minutes in your tutorial. My point was that it doesn't matter what you were doing before, whether it was a completely different scenario, or just started FS, as in your tutorial, PMDG747-400X Cold & Dark KPAE remains the same.

[pilotdrummer95]

@decinormal Ok, well this is how FSX is meant to work. The load flight button will load all your details from a previously saved flight. There is nothing abnormal here.

[decinormal]

Part 2 For example, PMDG747-400X Cold & Dark KPAE uses the Boeing 747-400 GE so, even though, at 55 seconds in your tutorial, you chose Boeing 747-400 PW. I believe that, when you loaded Cold and Dark, you actually ended up with the Boeing 747-400 GE.

[pilotdrummer95]

@decinormal Mmmm.... I can't remember the exact details of the tutorial as I made it so long ago. But these are just minor details and so they shouldn't really be worried about.

[decinormal]

Yes. This is on FSX SP1 in Windows XP SP2. The saved scenarios seem to be completely self-contained so, even if I have just exited a flight in a Beech King Air over Friday Harbour in a midwinter blizzard at midnight, the Cold and Dark is still the PMDG 747, with in-house livery, parked at Paine Field at noon on a sunny, autumn day. Also, I use the standard Cold and Dark to create Cold and Dark at Heathrow, for example, which seems a more useful starting point.

[pilotdrummer95]

@decinormal

Mmmm... I think you are loading up the saved flight from the actual FSX LOAD FLIGHT menu. To get a cold and dark in any 747 you must select the aircraft first, then in the actual flight go to the ADDONS menu ---> PMDG then LOAD PANEL STATE. From there click on COLD AND DARK AT SEATTLE (don't worrry about the SEATTLE thing). This should get you set up.

Thanks

TJ :D

[decinormal]

I mean that, even when the Current Aircraft is the default Aircreation Trike Ultralight, when I load Cold and Dark it automatically loads the PMDG 747 with in-house livery. I don't have to pre-select the PMDG 747. Does your version not do that?

[pilotdrummer95]

@decinormal

Oh yes I see what you mean! Ok, so is your aircraft in the cold and dark config?? I haven't been on FS in ages so I'm a little rusty. It shouldn't change the aircraft?

[decinormal]

Sorry to be a year too late but I'm just now learning. I wondered why you first selected the PMDG 747 in-house livery then loaded the Cold and Dark. I just directly load the Cold and Dark and seem to get the same as you and with no bugs, by the way. Also, when I am not sure what something does, I go to the Jerome Meriweather website and get a quite detailed description of any feature on the flight deck. Also, the ITVV Virgin Atlantic video is really useful.

[pilotdrummer95]

@decinormal

Well I selected the 747 for obvious reasons; that's what the tutorial IS about. Also I selected the Cold and Dark from the menu because that's the easiest way to do things. People say there are bugs, but I haven't found any :)

Thanks and I will be uploading loads of new tutorials soon so keep checking out my channel!

TJ :D

[FSRyanair]

Nice tutorial!

You're a real world pilot?

[pilotdrummer95]

@FSRyanair

Nope lol! I wish I was though! I'm 15 now although I was 14 when I made this tutorial. Hope fully in a few years I should be doing this for real and not in a flight sim :D

Thanks a lot

pd95 :D

[FSRyanair]

@pilotdrummer95 ooh lol I thought you were older :p, Im also 15, also want to be a pilot, but im currently soarflying and busy with my GPL, so that's a beginning!:P I wish you good luck with following your dreams!

[pilotdrummer95]

@FSRyanair

Sounds good! What's a GPL??? And you too, good luck for the future!

pd95 :D

[BobbyJEL101]

so do those panels kick in after 7 minutes?

[pne333]

Hey pd95 another great vid :)

I was just wondering if you know how to walk around the cabin and cockpit which is what I am seeing in some other PMDG 747 videos. Thanks.

[pilotdrummer95]

Thanks for the kind feedback! If you want to look aroung the cockpit you can buy some addons which make it easier (DBS Walk-and-Follow, Track IR) or you can use the standard FS modules. You probably saw me use the standard FS module. What I did was I held down the SPACEBAR and moved my mouse around the screen. I find this a good way to look around the cockpit.

To look around the cabin and cockpit, you'll need to use your CTRL, SHIFT, ENTER and BACKSPACE buttons to explore this feature!

pd95 :)

[ProFlightSimMedia]

Just a note to you and your viewers:

The "Cold & Dark" saved flight that comes with the PMD 744X has a bug in it.

Do not use it.

Delete it.

If you want to properly start up from C&D, load the aircraft, shut everything down and save it. Use the new save any time you want to start from C&D.

[pilotdrummer95]

What bug is this? I'm unaware of this, and also it has worked with me all the time

[poppap911]

Hi there! I've followed all your steps then I got to the end. But I wonder why my Primary Flight Indincator still has no artificial horizon (the brown and sky colour) for me to look at. How can I turn it on so it will be like a normal PFD?

[pilotdrummer95]

OK. There can either be two possibilities to this problem. You either haven't turned the STBY POWER to AUTO however your EICAS indications would be blank as well.

So the only reason I can think of is that your IRS (inertial reference systems haven't yet fully aligned. I'll take you through the steps. Firstly you need to swicth them to NAV then ALIGN. At the end of 10 minutes the ND will say 0 mins to align, then you can switch the switch to NAV. Hope this helps :)

[poppap911]

Thanks

[poppap911]

Oh and another thing. What does the THR button on the autopilot panel does when we click on it?

[pilotdrummer95]

The THR button will automatically set the throttles to the set N1 power setting, which is set on the EICAS screens. You can see the power setting in green at the top of the N1 coloumns on the EICAS.

Hope this has helped and thanks for watching :)

[shaunwark]

hehe u sound like a pilot when you talk :D

[pilotdrummer95]

I know :-0 my parents keep telling me I shouldn't mumble like that but I just that's how all the pilots speak. LOL :-D

[xcantt0uchth1sx]

id mumble too if i had to say the same thing EVERY...SINGLE...DAY lol

[pilotdrummer95]

@xcantt0uchth1sx #

Hehe thanks lol :D

It's so tiresome when people don't even watch the video and then ask me a question which is obviously in the tutorial :S

Thanks

pd95 :D

[zwinkeltjuh]

Hello, i have a problem when i click on EXT pwr1 nothing happens, but apu gen1 and apu gen2 i can click on it and many lights come what you said but not when i click on EXT PWR 1. And when you start Flight Simulator you see on EXT PWR 1 button a avail but i not see that only at the APU GEN 1 and 2 button?

[pilotdrummer95]

Hello, make sure that stanby power is selected to AUTO and that ground power is selected in the PMDG options menu. As for your query about the APU lights on AVAIL when you start up your sim I think you may have to contact the support team at PMDG.

Thanks for commenting, and I hope this sorts out your problem. Remember to have a fiddle in the PMDG options menu.

[zwinkeltjuh]

Hello, i have change it in the meno and i can know clic on The EXT pwr1 and the light come on but when i go to my panels i not see my instruments work. So what i do wrong i follow your instruction and push the EXT PWR1 button and lok at the panel and than nothing going up? crazy but thank you for help me.

[pilotdrummer95]

Hello there! You now need to make sure that the stanby power is set to AUTO. This should hopefully resolve your problem and thanks for becoming friends! ;)