Trim in CDU not updated by CG - takes CG from Ground Services menu

[dr_nerdrage]

Hey,

thanks for the 1.0.3 CG / Trim fix.

• CG now adjustable on the TAKEOFF page. Trim updates accordingly.

Unfortunately, it seems to take the CG value from the ground services menu.

The CG entered on the TAKEOFF page does not affect the Trim setting and has no effect. Changing the CG in the Ground Services menu however does change it on the fly.

(CG entered on the PERF INIT page has the same effect.)

[Litjan]

You are right - this was a last-ditch effort to get this into the patch and there has been some confusion about what the right behaviour of that page should be. For now enjoy the fact that the TAKEOFF page will always show the correct trim setting - a luxury that the real pilots don´t have .

Jan

 

[Tim013]

Didn't think this was important enough for a thread of it's own, but I did my first low light flight last night, and the trim indicator was not visible.  It's there during the day, but at night, it's not there.  Trim works fine and all, just no indicator what it's set to.  Of course this is only crucial for takeoff, then after that, it doesn't matter, since we trim to effect.

Tim

[Litjan]

Tim, the trim indicator is not lit - it depends on ambient light to be seen. Make sure you have enough light in the cockpit to see it - I think in the real plane there is some backlighting somewhere in the control stand that sheds some light onto the trim indicator...

Jan

 

[Tim013]

OK.  I'll look at it again.  It wasn't completely dark when I was checking it out.  I ran the trim up and down to see if I could see it, and to make sure it wasn't hiding in plain view as well.  I'll look again on my next flight.

 

Thanks,

 

Tim

[Tim013]

So, I checked again, just to make sure I wasn't going crazy.  The captains background light knob below the navigation flight display controls the lighting over the throttle quadrant.  The pointer is not visible at night.  Turning the light to any level of brightness changes the lighting on the entire throttle quadrant area, but not the indicator.  If you zoom in on the green "take-off" area to the point where the green area fills the entire computer monitor, then you barely see the trim indicator.

Personally, I just think it's missing a light map to be able to be seen as the background light know is adjusted at night, since the rest of the throttle quadrant level of light can be controlled by this switch, and it is part of the throttle quadrant.

This is of course very, very, very, minor, in the grand scheme of things, but as update items begin to dwindle, it might be worth a few minutes of time to adjust, somewhere down the road.  In the mean time, using the "flashlight" in X-Plane is a very simple work around before taking off at night.

 

Thanks again for putting out such a fun aircraft to fly.  Everyone appreciates the thought, and level of detail that has been put into the model, and systems.

 

Tim