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Is this accurate Jan, I just tested it and you do need the spoilers armed. Below are the conditions for auto brake for a -800, spoilers don’t appear to need to be armed, how does a -300 differ and are all conditions simulated in our sim? Cheers The autobrake will engage upon landing, when the following conditions are met: (i) The appropriate setting on the auto brake selector knob (1, 2, 3 or MAX) is set; (ii) The throttle thrust levers are in the idle position immediately prior to touchdown; and, (iii) The main wheels spin-up. If the autobrake has not been selected before landing, it can still be engaged after touchdown, providing the aircraft has not decelerated below 60 knots. To disengage the autobrake system, any one of the following conditions must be met: (i) The autobrake selector knob is turned to OFF (autobrake disarm annunciator will not illuminate); (ii) The speed brake lever is moved to the down detent position; (iii) The thrust levers are advanced from idle to forward thrust (except during the first 3 seconds of landing); or, (iv) Either pilot applies manual braking. The last three points (ii iii and iv) will cause the autobrake disarm annunciator to illuminate for 2 seconds before extinguishing.

10 kts is fine, but don't use more than about half deflection for the turn or the nose wheel understeers. This happens in real life, but shouldn't happen at such low speeds. It's easy to handle once you know the limits, passengers like it as it's a nice gentle taxi, bit of a pain if you land at the polderbahn in Schipol though! Real life

Is that flight not a kind of moving target, and will need tweaking as Laminar make their own tweaks? Just wondering out of curiosity. I don't have it ticked, and I presume that's the reason for my fairly firm landings with 1.3

NO... after 2 years I read 1.3 and installed and went for it, will read the docs when my passengers life’s depends on it!

Do PBD waypoints work now?? Never checked, that would be great if they do!

Yeh, maybe too loud, but when I went very far from the aircraft, the sound was the same volume. But today as I move away from the aircraft, the volume lowers done until you can't hear it at a few hundred meters, which is fine. But listening too it now, I think it was the internal sound of the packs air flow that was playing in external view. Today it's the usual APU whine.

This bug has gone, sound is normal now on this mornings flight! Will continue to monitor it.

To confirm same bug here, Beta Gizmo, left bus off, but only on the 2nd connect to GRD power.

Patch is a full version and uninstalls the previous version anyway, just install it and you are good to go.

I use the FLT GRD switch every flight, I did forget once and got cab alt alarms bells. I’m pretty sure it’s not on many checklist so perhaps a memory item? I just wonder at what point is the switch set to FLT ( after engine gen come on), and back to GRD after vacating the RW? Cheers

Good to know, then I won't bother changing it! And while you are still awake, maybe more of a procedure topic.... Did you move the rotary switch for AC to show the power output from the sources, the switch is just above the galley power on / off. I move it to APU power or Ground power before switching to that source, but often see it's just left in one position in real life. Also, in the air con panel, bottom right of the overhead, do you toggle the switch between FLT and GRD during each flight, I also don't see this being used much and wonder if it's just left in one position (located just under the cabin alt setting). Cheers

Sorry for the hijack, I often wonder about the turn around state. Is the overhead exactly as you would have left it according to your company SOP Jan? I often see just 1 fuel pump left on to feed the APU, and the engine bleeds off during turnaround. Of course, these are from various youtube video's, just wondering out of curiosity.

Make sure you have HDR enabled in your graphics settings. I fly HDR off, 16x aa during day time, looks good and great FPS. At dusk and night, HDR on and x4 aa for great great FPS. X8 can reduce Frames but x4 creates a few jaggies, but it’s dark, so you don’t notice them!

That’s the file I used to copy but forgot this time. It gets overwritten on the patch install. Not sure if there are other pref in the file which should be overwritten so I’m happy to setup my views again

I know in the past it was the same, and I asked Jan what file to copy to paste it back in but I forgot to do it. Shouldn't be hard to prevent that being overwritten I guess.

Have a look a bit higher up in this thread, it's to be expected.

Yeh, that's a pain, you wait for the install to start, but the prompt asking you to confirm to uninstall the old version goes into the background! I done all that, and near the end, there was another prompt to restart the pc. I did, then I ran the installer again to be sure, and it uninstalled, installed, but there was no restart prompt this time. The restart prompt was from the installer, the same window and graphics style. But like I said, it only appeared the first time.

In external view 1, the APU is pretty loud, as expected, if I press free roam and move 1 or even 2 km away, the APU sound does not reduce and is still pretty deafening! I can't work out if it's a setting on my system, or a bug. Cheers

I mean custom views, ie. control 1,2,3,4,5 etc to set my view of fmc, overhead, console etc. I ran the new installer, it uninstalled the old verison, installed the new one. Funnily enough, it said I should restart my pc to complete the install, something I don't recall seeing before. Then when I started, the views were not setup. It only takes 5 minutes to do though. Not sure if it's a fault from my side or with the installer.

Update working well for me, views got overwritten, I wish the patch didn't overwrite that, but no big deal. Next flight, Sumburgh to Edinburgh, then a cargo flight down to RAF Valley....hint hint, really look forward to a Cargo version!!

Aliens!!!!!! You have enabled clickspot markings in your XP options, search for the option in the keyboard commands "toggle of visualization of clickable cockpit area", on my install the key is "n".

Ah ok, but when you see an option for smoother and better performance in XP you have to try it! Anyway, look forward to flying it again later, first flight, Edinburgh up to Sumburgh. I would live stream it but I’m a bit rusty.

Hoi zäme! I just installed this wonderful ac again this morning, first test shows no left hand pop out menu, nothing showing on the ND or HSI etc. Deleted Gizmo (was version 20.xxxxxxx?) and found version 18....no working like a charm. FYI, I googled Gizmo and I think I went to the official site, that site has a bad link to the latest version, and I couldn't find archive of versions there. I found version 18 by clicking a link in Threshold news about a Gizmo release from 2018 and it linked to a dropbox. Maybe worth checking the official website. Congrats on the patch!

It's nice to hear, but I still can't taxi as the brakes come on, and the lights don't work correctly if I fix it. Major updates are good, but small patches are needed also.

Ok, thanks for the clarification.