TheArcane

I want to add to the praise - besides the systems depth and complexity, the flight model is *chef's kiss*. My first landing with it was the best first landing I had with any plane, and I didn't just disconnect at minimums, I flew it in manually from like 1500ft. It was stable, responsive and well behaved. It was far from butter, in fact it was probably quite firm, but I felt I was in control. I was recently very disappointed with the Q4XP, it seems whenever I disconnect AP on landing in it, the plane tries to spiral out of control and kill me, and the throttle response feels erratic and very difficult to control the speed (never had this issue with the Majestic in the old FSX). The Challenger feels a lot easier to control on landing in comparison. I feel in real life it should be opposite, since the Challenger is smaller, more slippery and a lot more powerful in terms of power/weight, but I guess here the difference in the flight modeling is evident...

I'm no expert, but to the best of my knowledge there's no need to plug in your cruise altitude in advance, since VNAV cannot be used for climb. I only fill in altitudes for descent once I'm in cruise. You should see that filling in a descent waypoint calculates a profile for you based on your current altitude. If TOD is a few waypoints away, you will also see that your current cruise altitude will appear next to all waypoints before TOD. There are several videos on YouTube where you can see more details. This video by Philipp Ringler from LR is probably the most in-depth: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2chCP1XObek Michael

Hi, X-plane 11.26, TBM 1.0.8. Did a short flight today. Went up to a cruise altitude of FL180. When I started descent I noticed that the altitude on the PFD was stuck at 18000 and not going down. Standby altimeter was working fine. I recycled pitot heats, checked the circuit breakers, nothing seemed out of order. Tried aux static, didn't help. Airspeed readout was fine all along. Managed to land, powered down, checked the payload page to make sure I didn't forget to take anything off, checked the maintenance page and saw there are absolutely no malfunctions anywhere. There are also no random failures active. I then turned the aircraft back on and saw that it was still showing 18000. A screenshot is attached, as well as the x-plane log file and the TBM flight log file. Thanks a lot for your support so far! Log.txt log_181027_091419_LFMN.csv