Finally finished a flight! Here are some notes I took.

[rlawrence]

The title says it all. I was really happy to finally get one done.  I took some notes along the way for things that I noticed could be a bug. Maybe it's user error.  

1. I don't know if it's user error, but there seems to be a fuel balance issue. I was running the APU for very little time during preflight. It was no more than 15 minutes. After take off  the upper tank display took forever to run off the last 20 gals. I think it was more than 20-30 minutes. I did about 4 cross feeds in my flight to maintain fuel balance. Sometimes it was off by more than 300 gals. 

2. My arrival into PHX was PINNG1. The TOD should've been BNNKR @  FL280.  However the TOD on the nav display was between the TOD and the next waypoint as the image below shows. The FMS never told me to change MCP setting. I had to do the initial decent manually and then let VNAV back on for a 20NM or so.  I flew the rest of the arrival by hand. I felt I had great control and precision. Very little input was needed. This has not been my experience with another popular sim.

3 On arrival the PFD said that I was to the left of the runway and needed to turn right a few degrees. I was actually a little to the RIGHT of the runway and needed to turn left. 

4. I had the weather radar on, but it seemed to show the same image over and over again. Is this right? 

5. I pressed RTE DATA and nothing happened. Is this a bug or is it not a feature? Maybe I missed both. I've done a lot of reading through the forums and can't remember if passed across this.

 

Richard 

 

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[mmerelles]

6 minutes ago, rlawrence said:

 

1. I don't know if it's user error, but there seems to be a fuel balance issue. I was running the APU for very little time during preflight. It was no more than 15 minutes. After take off  the upper tank display took forever to run off the last 20 gals. I think it was more than 20-30 minutes. I did about 4 cross feeds in my flight to maintain fuel balance. Sometimes it was off by more than 300 gals. 

on your screen capture fuel balance is within limits. look at the engine gauges they are never pulling the same so fuel keeps going in & out. IXEG modeled them as the real thing, not 2 engines exist on real life that pull perfectly symmetric on any aircraft.

if you use APU for 15 mins left tank will have less fuel, to balance them you need to play with fuel pumps, it is not just about opening the cross feed. There is a procedure for that

 

2. My arrival into PHX was PINNG1. The TOD should've been BNNKR @  FL280.  However the TOD on the nav display was between the TOD and the next waypoint as the image below shows. The FMS never told me to change MCP setting. I had to do the initial decent manually and then let VNAV back on for a 20NM or so.  I flew the rest of the arrival by hand. I felt I had great control and precision. Very little input was needed. This has not been my experience with another popular sim.

VNAV is still under fine tuning, if you look at the PINNG1 charts (https://skyvector.com/files/tpp/1607/pdf/00322PINNG.PDF) it calls the aircraft crossing BNNKR between FL250A (or Above) & FL280B (or Below). However the FMC is misleading the procedure it as being FL280A, 280 or Above, thus being allowed to cross above 280 resulting on T/D calculated incorrectly.

 

3 On arrival the PFD said that I was to the left of the runway and needed to turn right a few degrees. I was actually a little to the RIGHT of the runway and needed to turn left. 

do you have a screen capture about this?

 

4. I had the weather radar on, but it seemed to show the same image over and over again. Is this right? 

What you means always on? on your attached screen capture the radar is clearly set to OFF. To display weather or terrain data on the ND you must turn on the radar first.

 

5. I pressed RTE DATA and nothing happened. Is this a bug or is it not a feature? Maybe I missed both. I've done a lot of reading through the forums and can't remember if passed across this.

not available yet

 

 

[rlawrence]

Sorry, I'm just now responding to this. 

 

I didn't get a second screen shot. I didn't want to temp fate and have the sim crash on arrival again

I did have the WX Radar on, but I turned it off before I took the screen shot of the above. 

I figured some fine tuning on the AP would be necessary. I didn't know if this was a bug or not.

I forgot the RTE DATA was not going to be included in the initial release. 

I will take a screen shot of the PFD on appoarch next flight, if it happens. 

 

Now that I've got the initial flight finished, I feel more confident the sim won't crash on me.  

 

Thanks again for the continued quick support and hot fixes. 

 

Richard 

 

[mmerelles]

2 hours ago, rlawrence said:

Sorry, I'm just now responding to this. 

 

I didn't get a second screen shot. I didn't want to temp fate and have the sim crash on arrival again

I did have the WX Radar on, but I turned it off before I took the screen shot of the above. 

I figured some fine tuning on the AP would be necessary. I didn't know if this was a bug or not.

I forgot the RTE DATA was not going to be included in the initial release. 

I will take a screen shot of the PFD on appoarch next flight, if it happens. 

 

Now that I've got the initial flight finished, I feel more confident the sim won't crash on me.  

 

Thanks again for the continued quick support and hot fixes. 

 

Richard 

 

 

if you are experiencing continuos hard crashes, most common root cause i have seen is:

 

-VRAM exhausted. Overloaded rendering/addon settings. Sometimes performance goes hard down badly, sometimes it makes the sim hard crash.

-Plugin conflict.

-1050beta is still on its baby steps and having several crashes if you are running it.