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Just an expression to say they will be buying it!

This product is about simulating the real version of this aircraft. As such, I can't ever see something like this happening.

Hi all. We'll start this new forum off with a section regarding the FMS and autopilot because that just happens to be what we are working on. If you have any questions about the FMS/AP, this will be the place to post it. The FMS is still a work in progress but we are toiling on it every single day and things are coming together well. One reason we have taken a long time on the project, besides doing it in our spare time, is we really want to get the FMS 'right'. We expect our 737 to see heavy use on VATSIM and it is critical that users be able use the FMS reliably, especially for any change ATC might through at you unexpectedly. With our IXEG pilot guru, Captain Jan Vogel being a current, real-world airline pilot, nobody knows better what we absolutely must get right in order to recreate the pilot experience. For the last few weeks, we have been working on route editing features. It is surprising just how complex things can get. In all cases though, the FMS needs to be able to process your input, even a mistake or a change in mind and generate a flyable route. Below is a little video that showcases some of the route editing features of our FMS! NOTE: DO subscribe to our YouTube channel if you want to be informed of future videos! Also, if you're new to our YouTube Channel, be sure to check other videos by Jan! If you have seen any of Jan's videos, you know how good they are for learning! -Tom Kyler

The current distribution now includes 32-bit and 64-bit Linux plugins. So...all 5 Linux users can now rejoice.

Here are two comparison shots, the first one from the cockpit of the IXEG 737, the second one from the cockpit of the default 747-400. Location is EDDM. As Cameron said, your mileage will vary, according to system properties, but this should give you an idea... Cheers, Jan

What, you are not on the list yet??? How do you expect to receive your plane in 2016 then, we have a backlog of many hundreds of planes, and we can only manufacture like 10 a month! Viele Grüße, Jan

Not quite, though my previous response wasn't correct either. Having done some further research, I realise that the "standard" ATC language for a country is that country's official language - so French, Spanish, French etc. are standard if the country uses them as its first language. However, any communications in English must be responded to in English, so you can reasonably assume that any ATCO at an international airport will be able to respond in, and understand, English. Going back to LFPO, this means that French is totally legitimate language when flying into there, however you don't need to know any French to fly there; if you start speaking English on frequency, someone will be able to reply in English too. As far as I can tell, this wouldn't be expected of languages other than the host nation's and English though - E.G. you couldn't fly into Orly and speak Chinese on the radio and expect someone to understand you.

Thanks tkyler. Your way of handling this problem is perfectly understandable and well communicated. I just wanted to add another aspect why people may stick with some provider. Also, for one reason or another, some people will hold their investment. Like I said, I will be one of them. For this reason and also because I want to support addon vendors that add good to our community. Right now I am a bit confused about that aspect, but I hope this will be clarified over time as well.

The problem is with the navigraph inconsistent format. The fix needs to come from them. We began with navigraph...used several iterations of the data and its only recently that we are seeing this borked set. We use a format that is common to existing products so there is NO reason you cannot use navigraph. You just need to understand that some procedures may not show up in the CDU during procedure selection. This is not our issue to "code around". We are shipping with Aerosoft's data set because it is currently the most accurate and it is formatted correctly. If you want to swap out to Navigraph, you certainly have that option. We will try and get a dialog with them to get an IXEG published and will voice our concerns, but they have been slow to respond so there is no telling when it may happen. Just know that we do want both sources available to customers. -tkyler

You could still try manually tuning NAVAIDS and maybe just using the FMS to give you info on them? That would probably still give you a good hands-on experience. FMS isn't a necessity to fly the 733 I'm sure, though obviously it helps a lot!

You can switch layout on the fly...

Update 20/11/2015 Another productive week Updated all the sounds (internal an external) and they sound amazing! Soon Ill upload a short hop showing the current status, but definitely getting there. Also, had a chance to work on the night textures. It's not 100% complete, but I'm satisfied with the result

NOTE: This is my candid opinion and version....and I present it as a form of "history for the curious from Tom Kylers perspective". I am quite sure others' perspectives will differ. Any attempts to argue these points in this post will result in a rapidly locked thread. The finer points of some of the high level statements below are best left buried here. Such points can only be dredged up over many hours of spoken words and beer. In the beginning was x-plane.org. It was a true dotorg, non-profit and for the community. In the early days, it subsisted on sales of coffee cups and T-shirts to cover some costs. It grew at a nice pace. Over time, the ownership changed hands a few times. The org became THE place to share x-plane information, scenery, aircraft and such and many of us were regular contributors to add-ons and knowledge. The current owner saw this value and purchased the org several years back and turned it into more of a business. He operates a store there and of course the forums and free downloads draws folks to the domain. There was no competition to sell x-plane add-ons at this time. (pre 2009) In 2008, I created a product for sale, the Mitsubishi MU-2, but before I sold it....I had very particular needs and specifications that I insisted upon as a vendor of 3rd party aircraft. I felt as though the x-plane add-on world, at the time, did not portray the kind of quality the rest of the flight sim world (i.e. FSX users) was used to and in order to draw more FSX folks to what x-plane was capable of, I felt we needed better products and better marketing. There were products being sold on x-plane.org and marketed as "the best of x-plane", but these products were getting insulted by the FSX community. I didn't much like that as I felt it was stifling x-plane growth. I had a dialog with x-plane.org concerning selling my MU-2 there but we could not come to terms to my satisfaction. I approached the now-owner of X-Aviation and requested he build a new store for my product and in 2009, X-Aviation opened its doors with the MU-2 as its sole product and built on a platform of high quality....the definition of which is, of course, subjective. We had been spreading word of the MU2 during its development through x-plane.org and when I didn't sell the MU2 there, it was seen as a bit of a slap to the ownership by some. But you see, for the longest time, the org had no such alliances with any commercial interests....but with the new ownership, the forums were now inextricably linked with the store. I personally viewed this as a potential conflict of interest given the spirit of the org and its .org domain. I made the case to switch it to a .com and I'd be satisfied, but did not like that the site moved forward under the guise of a "open" dotorg, given its link with the store. There were hints that the forums were only open to "supporters of the org business model". The forums became an advertising ground for the org store. So, when it came out that x-plane.org had competition, words began to get exchanged behind the scenes, feelings were hurt, X-Aviation and myself were deemed "arrogant" and narcissistic...and creating another store came across as "our stuff is too good to be sold on your site". Once feelings were hurt, then views began to become skewed and what is true gets lost to one's perspective, tinted by their emotions...we are all subject to this. To make matters worse, a few other developers came to X-Aviation to sell their products here and they were rejected due to a lack of quality...that really pissed off some folks too. Some of those folks now sell at the org store but one went back to the drawing board, upped his quality and came back to X-Aviation....so not everybody took the rejection in the same way. That person went on to be part of the LES team that sells the SAAB 340. So it was that in the course of words exchanged, some publicly, some behind the scenes...x-plane.org banned several of us from the org and we had no 'home' per se.....and so we created X-Pilot as a 'free' community. Again, by doing this , we further insinuated that the org was now a dictatorship and if you didn't support the leadership, you found yourself cast out.....Animosity flourished further. There were cases were innocent users would purchase my MU2 at x-aviation, post a picture of it on the org, unawares of the link between the forums and the store... and that users post would summarily disappear from the org. A few users got vocal about this and were banned from the org also. Those users inevitably came to the only alternative...and x-pilot started life as a band of 'outcasts' from the org...malcontents who complained all the time and bad-mouthed the org. Feelings of key developers and distributors really got hurt during this time in x-plane history. As with any breakaway, it wasn't pretty and we were scrapping for our place in the x-plane world against a juggernaut....so yes, we were a bit edgy at the time. These stories are buried here on x-pilot somewhere I'm sure. In the heat of battle, some folks were banned from x-pilot as well just to keep the peace. Both sides were stalwart that their 'ways' were justified. Only a few folks know all the facts and we all seem to interpret the facts differently. Time passed. Since that early beginning, X-Pilot and X-Aviation have grown steadily and healthily, fueled by persons that say, "we should do things X way"....while the org and its developers are fueled by persons that say, "we should do things Y way"...competition 101...and these ways are different and we don't agree on many things....and a lot of folks still have hurt feelings. A lot of us have also moved on, feeling that those early days are typical of any early business battle/growth and we are no longer at the same place we were then. Apologies by all parties have not been forthcoming over time though so bad blood still persists with some...not terribly unexpected, we can still remain civil though. I myself have sincerely reached out to everyone that I know I offended to apologize. To this day, I still harbor no ill-will, see the past as a struggle we had to go through to be where we are today. So, finally..... regarding the forums, X-Pilot was never intended to be a replacement for the file sharing that goes on at the org...sure we have a file library here, but it seriously lacks compared to the org and really only exists to give people with sufficient conviction an alternative to post their work. X-Pilot was created just so us old-timer outcasts could communicate. I would simply tell you that the owner of the org forums DOES own the org store as well and does not tolerate what I would term, "sending folks away from his site", so post no links to the outside world or competition for sure! I myself have come to respect his position, albeit reluctantly in the early going. The org is a fantastic place to discuss and interact with the community, get information and answers about a great many things. I will not tell you to favor one forum over the other, you should judge the merits of each based on what you expect and further receive from each. Each forum has a different 'tone' and the size/resources of each make for a different atmosphere at each. I WILL say though, that with regards to x-plane add-on development and operation, that x-pilot has a few folks with very deep knowledge who are unable to contribute to questions/conversations should they be put forth on the org only. -tkyler

Very nice, thank you!

Yes, the tutorials will be free, both written and video. But they will cater to the average simulator pilot, starting with a very simple flight-pattern all the way to more complex flights with full use of FMS and autopilot system. I am pondering the idea to make more in-depth and detailed videos, covering special aspects like approaches, abnormals, etc. at a later stage, possibly as payware for a small price. But the basic documentation and tutorials for this plane to get you up and flying from quick-flight to serious LNAV and VNAV are always free!