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  1. Just me doing some FMC route testing at my local airport ENGM. One SID and one "point merge" arrival.
    4 points
  2. Other airliners for X-Plane have had click/drag controls that have been terrible to use and that's maybe why people are crying out for scroll wheel. However, the click/drag on FlyJSim's 727 and 737 is pretty good and shows if you get it right, there is no need for scroll wheel operation. Try setting the altimeter on the 732 Twinjet, it's silky smooth and really easy to get the setting you're aiming for. I fly X-Plane and FSX, and one of many great things about X-Plane is being able to quickly zoom in and out of the cockpit with the scroll wheel, combined with the right mouse button for panning - you can't do that in FSX. Where X-Plane aircraft have implemented scroll wheel support, the end result is when I'm trying to pan and zoom around the cockpit I sometimes grab a scroll wheel control by mistake and end up changing the speed selection or altimeter baro setting when I actually wanted to zoom in to read something. Honestly, having one physical control/movement doing 2 completely different things is really bad HMI design. So, good on IXEG for sticking to their guns, let people try using click/drag and if some people really, really need to have it work like an FSX aircraft then implement scroll wheel support as a switchable option. Also, as my profile photo shows, I've had a quick flight in a 737NG fixed base simulator - trust me, dialling in a big heading change with a quick spin of a mouse scroll wheel like you can in FSX aircraft is not realistic and a scroll wheel doesn't allow the range of movement or accuracy of the knobs in the real thing. My mouse scroll wheel only moves about 9 detents before I have to lift my finger and start again. So, how can I dial in 120 degrees heading change with one movement in the PMDG 777? Well, the answer is I can't. I can try, but I might dial in 107 degrees, or I might dial 144 degrees - I have no way to control how fast the knob turns in response to the scroll wheel. It's nonsense but it's all FSX has to offer. X-Plane is better than that.
    2 points
  3. We have some code in place to switch the plane into a flyable state if you use X-Plane´s "position onto final" buttons on the local map. There is another way I use to "set myself up" wherever I want, either at a 10NM final or at 37.000 feet mid-air: Spawn the plane on the runway. Set up flaps the way you like. Use the local map to position the plane, set the desired altitude and airspeed. Click close. Now the plane is where you put it, raise the gear, turn on the autopilot and autothrust and click ALT HOLD. Now you can take over from there... As far as more screenshots and video is concerned: They are coming. We are pondering to release the videos I am making to accompany our written tutorials. There will be at least 6 of them, and I think we will space them to lead up to release. That being said, we won´t really start posting them until we have a "finished product" and what is remaining is documentation and packaging. Our beta testers will also be free to share their impressions before we release, so there should be a flurry of media in the timeframe before release. Cheers, Jan
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  5. Will this aircraft have dual independent FMCs, apparently a requirement for oceanic operations?
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  7. The Best Testteam is not a 10 Head Team. The Best Testteam is a Team with more above 200 Headteam So relese the 737CL and let yous Test the Plane and your work. and i say you, The Community find more issus if you want ;-) So lets Go Start the Payment of the Plane now
    1 point
  8. This is correct. Our 737 will have only one FMS, just like most of the Classic 737´s out there. So it´s just one computer connected to two control-display-units (CDU´s). If the one FMS fails, you loose it all. Therefore this (our) model would not be allowed to fly in the North Atlantic MNPS airspace. That being said, I can guarantee that our FMS will not fail on you during the transatlantic flight, and I will not rat on you for taking the trip with just one FMS, either. If you want to take the trip "full realism" you have to take the detour out of MNPS airspace, maybe top off the fuel in Keflavik, then over to Iqaluit or Gander. Depending on the headwinds... The challenge is actually in getting this setup working. You can enter stuff on two different "keyboards", but need to keep tabs on each one, update information on both...its not trivial. You can have the LEGS page on both CDU´s, and both pilots *could* be editing away, that stuff makes a programmer drink too much coffee... Having two or more FMS computers is easy. You just say "we have 5 FMS computers". Thats it. They all share and sync information (kinda like a raid 1 harddisk system). All computers have the same information. Unless all 5 fail, nothing happens (except for the error message that they failed). Jan
    1 point
  9. On the pax door issue, it could be a bit difficult to text explain. So look at this video starting at 00:47 for the clic spots to close it. it is quite easy. In the views issue: 1. you can use preset saab view panel to move around quickly (walk around->internal->flashlight view) 2. or you can preset your own shortcuts using xplane quick views feature. I do have a quick view set to the cabin so i can handle cabin matters. I been on the saab 340 many times (My brother in law is a real life 340 pilot) and yes, you can take off on MIN configuration specially if conditions are given. You are not fully loaded, you are at or close to sea level, enough runway length, etc. But it is not recommended at all, because your climb rate reduces and if you miss an engine it will catch you too close to the ground. on the cargo door (walk around->pos9->cargo door view) you clic on the handlebar to rotate and unlock you clic centered on the door panel to open (it will lift up) you clic centered where the door panel should be behind fuselage and above to close it you clic the handlebar to lock edit: provided a reference for the saab preset view for the pax door operation
    1 point
  10. There are a myriad of things we want to do and have no argument against putting a lot in. There really isn't a request we are not aware of or haven't heard of, and perhaps agree with. Most of these what I will call "convenience items", scrollwheel, shared copilot, hardware integration, replay, saved situations, etc...they MIGHT be doable. It is difficult to answer the question TBH because we are not currently looking at / focused on those things. We have given ourselves an imperative to get the product out with as much "accurate functionality" as we can muster. The INTERFACE to that functionality and conveniences thereof....we'll really have to wait until after its released and we can turn our focus to those items. The ability of the software is getting so vast now that what we CAN do is increasing faster than our resources can keep up. The paradigm of having a super complete product is more difficult than it used to be. We certainly need a minimum amount of course and our idea of a minimum amount is a lot, but its not all. Ok, given all that jibber, "mid-flight" scenarios have their challenges mostly due to x-plane's own simulation engine. At the instant you reset the state, about a gazillion variables are getting intiialized and not always in the correct order, meaning some variables we try to read at startup/reset aren't ready yet...and this can be enough to cause havoc. So while we have the means to control start state of controls on our end, we do not have the ability to control start state on x-plane's end. There are probably ways to code around this, but it won't be looked at for a bit. The request/desire for the feature is duly noted though, even with us. Flying complete flights to test approaches isn't the most efficient use of time at the moment. -tkyler
    1 point
  11. Iceland flight. Alabeo c404 Titan Steam DLC scenery
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  12. we hope so. And what we mean by that is, if there is a published hold as part of the route (the magenta route), then the FMS / AP will draw/ track it, BUT we do not have entry sectors into the hold calculated/drawn. So if the entry angle is particularly challenging and you are traveling at a high speed, it might be difficult for the AP to hold the line and get you into the pattern as the angle changes abruptly in the absence of a calculated entry path. That being said, a direct entry should be the most reliable. About a year and a half ago, during flight testing, I flew into a hold when we were developing the route tracking code....flew round and round a few times, then exited and said, "Ok, the foundation seems to be good, we'll tweak it after we get the more important parts in".....and that still holds true for published holds. We are getting to that phase where we will look at the published hold flight performance but its still in line behind a few other milestones. -tkyler
    1 point
  13. We just today finished a "save/load route" feature into the FMS CDU so you can save your routes. The format is proprietary and we are working with a few flight planning resources to provide our format (*.ixg), however, we are going to try and implement the import of other formats...notably .fpl and .fms, if we can squeeze it in in time. Ideally, you'd just copy all your flight plan files into a folder we provide and we'd be able to read them as long as the file names were unique (no LAXSAT.ixg vs. LAXSAT.fpl), etc. Right now, its all about time. We will keep moving just as rapidly after release to keep adding in features. If anybody wants to send me their .fpl file from PFPX, we can certainly give it a try. -tkyler
    1 point
  14. I don't know. I am putting in 12 hours a day, do not have another job in sight...this is it until this thing is out! If its not December, it will be as fast as possible on the other side of the new year.....I'm not slowing down and I can not tell you at this time that it will NOT be December as we are on a very productive pace. We'll know more in a few weeks. If 5 more days past 2015 are required to add much needed stabililty, then we'll take the 5 days rather than ship a product with a known bug. We're close, moving fast and we'll let folks know in a few weeks where we are. -tkyler
    1 point
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