It doesn't work. The PDCS calculates numbers from left field. The PDCS will also crash your sim. Wait for the patch.

Thanks guys,
Might have to give it some more thought. I have "the competitors" product, but am not too happy with the visuals, handling and repaints. I have read up on the user updated flight dynamics that a lot of people are recommending for the CS 737. Seeing that the EPR's are suffering from problems in the FSX modelling, are the N1's close? How do people here set their T/O and Climb throttle settings?

Thanks again for your replies,

Cheers Nathan.

Does the combination of these three mods bring the level of realism ( in those areas) for the 737 up to the same level that the Micheal2 mod did for the 727? For those who have both of these models with these mod's installed, I'd love to hear from you. The CS 727 hit so many real world 727 tables once the Micheal2 mod was installed.
Would like this plane but at this point I'm just not looking for visual entertainment with little substance behind it. Willing to do the installs if the results are reasonably close to real world data.
And what "other" problems are we talking about here.
Thanks so much.

Brian

Thanks CoolP for your assessment. The unresolved problem list among  other "lists" I've read (see "why can't you fix this plane")  leads to fundamental problems with this AC, and leads me to pass on this one. Strange that  CS waits for customers to develop fixes rather than do it themselves. There does seem to be a pattern here. If Bud and Paul were able to ascertain more relevant FDE, why can't CS, the developer do it.  Maybe they're not capable?  Perhaps their target market are those who don't care about such things? CS product positioning would suggest otherwise. I didn't spend any money here so I'm not upset, rather, merely perplexed by it.

I think I'm looking for a different business and product philosophy.

Anyway, your insight is much appreciated and valued.

Thanks again.

BG

After flying this plane for a few days and poking at the PDCS (which only crashes the game if you are mean to it and press the buttons far too many times, just be gentle with it and it's pretty well-behaved) I think the numbers it generates for EPR are "accurate."

If you use the FDE mod found on the forums here the numbers are pretty spot on for cruise (once level at cruise alt) and take-off (note that if you do reduced power takeoff for 80+ F you're looking at about a 1 mile takeoff roll ), but they're incorrect for climb and cruise when not at cruising altitude.

The problem with climb and cruise before you're in level flight are the fact that the FL and TEMP pages don't work correctly.

From what I can see, what the FL submode should do (note that this is conjecture having never actually operated one of these units) is automatically determine the optimum FL for the selected "speed" (ECON or LRC) based on gross weight which will then feed into the CRUISE page so that when you select CRUISE ECON you get the correct EPR for cruise at that altitude. FL MAN should let you set a FL for CRUISE MAN which would then calculate the correct settings for cruise at your selected FL.

The TEMP submode should automatically calculate the TAT (and TAS, and all that other stuff, but those aren't really all that relevant for what we want) which will then feed into the CLIMB page and thus give us the correct derated climb EPR based on TAT. You'll note that the CLIMB page always gives 261/.72 and 2.18 EPR for climb power, the speeds are probably pretty decent in any conditions, but the EPR is too high until the TAT drops below about -10C.

Again, these are my conjectures based on what it seems like this unit should do, not any actual experience having used one of these.

Although I tend not to use the PDCS for the same reason as CoolP, I have found that if I slowly and deliberately press the buttons, it can be used without an FSX CTD. The problem is that if you forget and press about three buttons in quick succession, the CTD is likely to occur.

It would be nice if... (1) The problem was fixed. And (2) the PDCS actually moved the EPR bugs to the correct setting for the flight mode.