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Navigation Alignment Problem


Diego Vasquez
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Diego Vasquez
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I am having a problem where my PMDG 737 is not being able to flight straight... I'll try explaining:

I noticed it first when doing an autopilot ILS landing, it was approaching the runway at a different angle and the runway itself seemed to be on a different position on the electronic displays. When I touched down, I had to turn the airplane to actually follow the rwy heading.

Later I noticed that while navigating, the nav path seemed to be drawn with 15 degrees difference with the aircraft heading.

On another occasion, I was overflying the airport with a fixed MCP HDG and you could see the airplane was literally following a different direction from the ground movement.

I checked the Simulation settings and yes, I have Gyro Drift disabled, this has happened on different airports, even while at cruise altitude.

A few screenshots:

 

Here the interesting part is, I was obviously not aligned with the runway, but the Aircraft was flying straight supposedly aligned with the ILS beam!

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Here the aircraft is trying to capture the LNAV line, it is kind of following the flight path but without touching it and on a different angle:

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Another example, the Aircraft allegedly flying straight, ILS captured, but it is NOT headed for the runway. On this specific flight I allowed it to go all the way in and it hit the ground misaligned, short and to the left.

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Any ideas?

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Diego Vasquez
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I just flew 3 short trips using the 737 Experience both with VOR navigation and vasFMC, worked like a charm (except the wacky 737Exp APP mode, no surprises there).

So I am [Mod - Happy Thoughts]uming something is wrong with the PMDG itself...

Really, nobody has had similar probs?

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