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The aerofly were good-thanks. I really haven't made that one out yet although I installed it some six weeks ago. Only flew it a couple of times and must say the models fly and handle very well but its not up to X-Planes standard or style--Basically I don't think there's much around that can touch it regardless of which angle you attack it.-- 'Dues where due's due' as they say--Cheers Pal-Edwin

On Saturday, for the tenth year in a row now, the Aerosoft-hosted annual German Flightsim Conference was held at the Oberschließheim Airfield, near Munich. The conference program included a very flamant introduction to X-Plane 10 by Frank Willfeld, Lufthansa Systems, former German distributor of X-Plane 6-9. Robert Randazzo from PMDG announced their product lineup for the FSX for the next years, and stated that there is not yet a final decision on which airplane will be first ported to X-Plane. After that, I had my presentation about high-quality X-Plane aircraft, and of course showed off the CRJ, for which the box-sales at Aerosoft started on this day. There will soon be posted more pictures over at Aerosoft Sim news, currently a few are already online http://asn.aerosoft.com/ These are a few of my impressions: Guess which aircraft that went on sale this day was the portrait of the conference? Hint: It is not an aircraft for FSX! Aerofly FS on display at IPACS. Mac version is out yet, and it looks awesome! Flight dynamics are actually "not bad" according to Austin Meyer who tested it on my Notebook. X-Plane-driven Diamond cockpit simulator, unfortunately they had an ATI-equipped PC driving the sim, so the lighting was buggy. But flying from this cockpit is definitely impressive! "Force X-Plane" Frank Willfeld and me, promoting X-Plane 10 to the FSX users. X-Plane 10 global and CRJ box for sale Late in the evening, after the official dinner, with some folks from simflight, Aerosoft, and Robert Randazzo from PMDG (in the center). Next morning, after having endless conversations with other developers (went to bed at almost 2:00am) and after being almost deprived of breakfast because of the stupid switch to DST at this weekend in Germany: Watch out for more photos over at the Aerosoft forums. Philipp

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Hi Japo, first the bad news: i am sure that there is a problem with the AP (i do not fly bad manouvers, and i always try to maintain speed as exactly as possible) - i did a lot of systematical testing to proof this. when you try the following first scenario: speed 330kn (10kn below maximum), vertical mode ALTS at 9000ft, hold HDG, then you initiate an 30 degree turn with the AP, the AP loses control over the airplane, when it should stabilize pitch after rolling out from the turn. second scenario: speed 330kn (10kn below maximum), vertical mode VS 0.1(very slow climb!) for climbing from 9000ft to 10000ft, hold HDG, then you initiate an 30 degree turn with the AP and in this scenario the AP has full control over the airplane, no oscillations - maybe it's not able to hold the climb-rate correctly which does not matter. so, why does the oscillation-problem only occur in the ALTS and ALT CAP mode and not in the VS-Mode? because they use different controllers! and the controller for the ALTS-mode doesn't work correctly, but the controller for the VS does. i used 330kn for better testing, but the problem also occurs at 300kn in some situations. now the good news: i found a solution (i like finding solutions much more than complaining about problems :-), which works pretty good up to 330kn. i changed the parameters for the pitch-controller: special/set autopilot constants/use custom autopilot constants pitch prediction: 2,4 seconds pitch error for full elevator: 28 EDIT: pitch response time: 3 seconds pitch rate: 5 degrees/second. since i found this values using my experience with configuring controllers by trying a little bit, and not using scientific methods, i am sure, there exists a better solution (which has to be computed from the aerodynamical data of the airplane), but this first approach works fine. i have tested this settings in different situations and could not find any side-effects.

More work this weekend. Hope to have a beta out in a few days. Ignore the Bridge. It's in the wrong place... =)

Dainty as a Damselfly