I think some other guys experienced the CTDs too. At least that's what I understood from their posts. I'm also in that club although my main problem is to grab the nature of the beast. From what I can tell, it's not a single key press or operation which seems to cause problems, it's more like filling the PDCS with data and actually working with the modes leads to e.g. a CTD.

I even had a BSOD lately and I can tell you that I haven't had those things on my machine for a long, long time. So I'm sort of cautious now when it comes to the PDCS and I think that 'oh, lets not press too many buttons' attitude is what I've read in the posts of others.

I wouldn't call it unusable since it actually does compute things and doesn't blow up the PC on the first key press, but I wouldn't call it stable in the current state. So I agree, receiving a CTD or worse when actually using the PDCS isn't what a sim flyer is dreaming about. Ending a flight in mid-air with a CTD because you wanted to look up the go-around EPR surely isn't fun and much worse than 'just' some wrong values.

Did you discover some pattern to trigger a CTD yet?

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In that case, you are right of course. However, the OAT fields don't cause a crash here, so that's my point on the unclear nature of the beast. � I've used them in the small tutorial and 'my' CTDs and that BSOD happened in other modes. http://www.captainsim.org/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1335209812

I guess we both agree on not trusting the PDCS in it's current state. � I think that the data of others would be helpful too, so perhaps they join in on this thread.

well... the thread is already a bit older but I experienced it also. Tried to use CoolP's tutorial, but the moment I entered temperature (in Fahrenheit) and pressed the <ENT> button, FSX crashed.

Ive normally finished the flight by the ive finished entering data in the PDCS, well in truth i dont really use it.

Never had the CTD thing but can only ever get it to compute the take off EPR, just does nothing at any other time. I don't bother with it anymore. Just use the nifty rules of thumbs provided elsewhere in this forum about the 737. I find i have enought other weird program behaviour with the 737 as it is, like the electrics all selected on and then a screen change and they all are off again.

I use the wonderful V-One gauge, the tweaks and the EPR charts which makes this great aircraft very close to operating the real thing. IMHO, a lot more fun than using the PDCS. I don't think we will see a fix until CS releases a major update.

Have fun,

Nathan.

Has someone deleted my last post here?

Most probably there was some kind of error.

I have remarked how absurd it is the fact that CaptainSim does not support multiplay mode.
I have not been noticed about this before and this is the third airplane i have bought from CS.
By the way, I am still waiting for a promised new version of 727 base pack to fix its inumerous bugs that was never launched.
I have said before and repeat now: CS is disapointing...
737 was may last product bought from CS.
It is time they show up some respect with their customers.
It is unacceptable to buy a FSX aircraft that cannot fly in multplayer mode.