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1. Fly approach to EDDF, ILS07C.....execute missed approach to TAU VOR 2. Fly approach to ILS07C again...miss it again, divert to EDDK....missed approach there 3. Divert back to EDDF, ILS07C 4. Just before IAF, change arrival to runway 07C with 19NM runway extension waypoint and bank hard right to catch the extension waypoint and bleed some speed, then hard left to reintercept the leg between the extension waypoint and 07C threshold. VNAV calculations got a bit off during this little test, what with all the CDU shenanigans going on, but the FMS didn't crash....quite the plus. For normal flights without missed approaches, everything is performing quite well. VNAV calibrations continue. -tkyler

Finalizing the coastline alignment on Molokai before packing it up and starting work on PHMK and PHLU. ETA < 1 month.

Yea, we tried that already in the early days of development. Restarting XP every time you do a tiny change to see if it works is a great time saver.....

Hey, if I can get the FO seat, I am in : D

Folks, This product will be priced fairly and proportionately based on five years work and a team of people getting their compensation. We will not debate this here. The price is not announced, and no one will be holding a gun to your head to purchase it after the fact. The best thing you can do is vote with your wallet, and you'll surely be offered such an opportunity in a short time. If the price ends up being out of your range of acceptability then we all accept that and kindly ask you to appreciate our side too. Likewise, if the price is cheap enough for you to justify years of enjoyment (whatever that price may be) then we welcome you! That's all for this topic. There's no need to let it spiral over something not even released.

This topic wasn't worth creating it. Discussion about the price of a product that isn't even released.

The closure of a topic is not an invitation for you to open another with the same premise.

Where were you a couple of weeks ago?? I had a really hard time convincing the team putting me in there was a bad idea. Fortunately my camera all of a sudden stopped working *cough* ....

The next person who asks that question, you should respond "work Continues to Continues to continue" . And keep increasing every time.

Work continues to continue.

I definitely feel for you! Working on writing wrappers for making my C++ lib accessible in Python recently. You simply cannot deny the usefulness of a compiler when it comes to typos You may consider switching from Lua to C++?! Just kidding, enjoy killing those bugs!

I have done the mod. Also, there was a bug with the timers (TE buttons). Fixed. smartcopilot.zip

Well $90 will have me out of the market. IMO, no aircraft in X-plane is worth that kind of money.

Thank You tkyler for keeping us updated with the great progress,much appreciated.

If only there was a way for the community to help with this process. You might find some of us here even have development and software QA experience, and just might be eager to help. Rock on, IXEG.

That's great to hear! There's an idea for a few extra bucks: The Jan expansion pack- 15 versions of Jan, varying in age, hair, etc

Totaly agree. But lets not tell them that the price is not a showstopper

$60 - $65 dollars is about right, competitive with other high end x-plane offerings and consistent with the feature list that will not be there in Release 1.0. Any more expensive would drive away a significant market share and attract "over priced" comment.

So we'll not only need a paint kit for the plane but also for Jan himself. I can already see "VoKuHiLa Jan", "Afro Jan", "Dreadlock Jan"...

I asked the team to make me 20 years younger and have full hair again, but they were cruel enough to take present-day pictures .

I confess, I took a week off and went to Germany and Zurich for some R&R. Pressing CDU buttons 1000 times a day got quite old. I am back though and we are moving through the bugs we find reasonably well. We made good strides yesterday and today I am flying several missed approaches to test CDU entries during that phase when you want to refly the approach. Yesterday we tested short routes....like 25NM short with high cruise altitudes where you can't make the cruise alt but still have to transition the aircraft from climb to descent at some "intersection point" between climb and descent paths. So these really fringe situations must be explored as they can be entered and can crash the simulation if not accounted for. So we only have a few things left, but they take quite some time to test properly as we are all finding out. Its common to fly a 25 minute flight, discover a bug, fix the bug (sometimes a simple typo, other times not) and then fly the route another 25 minutes to verify and then try a similar route somewhere else just to make sure.....so 1.5hrs of time lost to a typo. (actually happened....had a dash instead of an underscore for a variable name). And if the bug is more severe...then it can take half a day or more to track it down due to having to monitor so many variables during a flight. Oh well, we keep going. -tkyler

Two New Videos........Very Impressive

Woohoooo!

No of course, I mean it is alive on our side of twilight zone.

Lovely Picture!

Progress report will be that they are working on it...lol

can we have an update please? it's been like 8 days...

Cameron mate, why spoil all the fun and reincarnate: most topics are not related, it doesn't really matter does it, chill