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The CG is not given in the ground service pop up menu, but has to be set (default is 20% MAC). I think HerrSchwarz's question is more pointing at "what CG would be realsitic for a GW of X tons". To illustrate that, I have emptied the aircraft of all payload and fuel to demonstrate that the CG still points at 20% (unless you change it - cf attached screenshots). If I remember correctly, this was already discussed during development phase - there's a thread about load mgmt somewhere, concluding that IXEG will not take care of the load management, since this is normally not the pilot's job. Remains the (very valid) question what is a good value to set... The CG is not directly depending on the GW. When the aircraft is empty (no fuel, no PAX, no cargo) it does have a distinct EW and CG (which is individual per aircraft, not by type, so usually you get this information alongside with the aircraft from the manufacturer). Adding fuel normally changes this in a characteristic way (since fuel is normally always distributed the same way when fuelling - wing tanks first and balanced, then center tank). So fuelling to an amount of x kgs should always result in the same CG (as long as there's no other payload). As soon as you change the ZFW (i. e. add PAX or cargo), the story starts becoming interesting: normally the CG impact is calculated based on seat row population and assignment of cargo to the FWD and AFT cargo compartments. Since you don't have most of this information (neither the neutral CG, nor the fuelling impact nor the redistribution of PAX and cargo), you cannot calculate the correct CG (even if you have a load mgmt software for a 733 at hand), you can only set the CG to something convenient. Something resulting in a TO trim of between 2 and 5 (i. e. valid TO trim range) is technically ok - just keep in mind that the CG is travelling forwards during flight (fuel is being stored behind the CG), so if you already take off with a very low CG (e. g. 4%) you will have a very "heavy nose" on flare... The proposed standard value (20%) is well chosen by IXEG - althoug you will rarely have such a nicely balanced aircraft, this hits quite the middle of the allowed TO trim range.

Geneve (LSGG) to Genoa (LIMJ). Photo Mesh built using g2xpl with European OSM Data. Come watch a live stream on Twitch here Cheers, Josh

Hi all, next hot fix will feature an AC pack volume slider for those who prefers a comfortable but unrealistic sound environment.

I'll be working closely with Tom and the team to optimise things like this. I might have to add "Worker Threads" to Gizmo64 so we can do the heavy lifting stuff outside of the game loop. Thanks for your patience while we figure it out... First we'll get it working, then we'll get it working faster. Optimisation is definitely at the top of my list over the near future.

Hi, all of this is correct - no wind calcs yet, so you need speedbrakes in a strong tailwind situation... This WILL be fixed and also the DES NOW button. Thanks for the report and your patience, Jan

Yes. Use the Aerosoft Airbus Export. Just add the required folders manually, and copy the fpl thereafter. Gesendet von iPad mit Tapatalk

I assume this roughly translates as "Sir, I think that may be a non-standard method of attempting to remove a waypoint..." Love it!

Hi everyone and thanks for the nice words - we are reading these posts with a lot of joy and some anguish.. . I am really sorry if your initial experience was not a pleaseant one and the whole team is cranking right now (like I have never seem them in the last few months...) to bring out the first update - with many more to follow! Cheers, Jan

The tail looks challenging, I'm just starting a 4 day rotation back on work so may not be able to finish it within that time-frame, if anyone would like to finish it more quickly, I'll be glad to send you the PSD file so far...

Hi, I would just like to say a big thank you to IXEG for letting me fly there wonderful 737-300 ( that's what it feels like im doing) In between all the bug reports and small issues I have flown for several hours now. Fine tuning my X-Plane to get the best performance. I have flown many circuits, routes, approaches and landings each one feeling like I was flying a living breathing airplane. I love FSX and a certain other 737 and J41 ( maybe IXEG can do a turbo prop ) I love the FS2Crew and VOXATC experience makes it feel part of living environment but I have now been spoilt with the feeling and flight model X-Plane and IXEG give me. Feel very bored in my FSX planes now! Great job Thank you Tony

Ok I've found the solution : plugins, then xpuipc+, then joystick functions, then joystick button assignments and then select clear Many thanks for this wonderful product ! Gigi

This is my first experience with Gizmo and it's been great so far. The fixes in this round really made a big difference how the plane "feels" and the ground handling seems more like what I would expect - a little inertia feeling when you first start to steer, but definitely turns on a dime like Jan had described previously.

As of today, the UHD Mesh Scenery v1 series has a new region: Japan The main differences (and improvements, compared to HD Mesh Scenery) are: High resolution DEM elevation data. Based on the AW3D (© JAXA) 30m data, and where AW3D has holes, filled up with SRTM 1sec (30m) data. Latest landclass data based on the "AVNIR-2 high-resolution land use land cover map 2016 February release (version 16.02)" (© JAXA) Massively increased mesh density ... by roughly factor 2.5 to 3! This is not only beneficiary to the better representation of the higher res DEM data, but also - once more - improves landclass and forest detail! Because of this, the "UHD Mesh Scenery v1" Scenery is very heavy on hardware resources and will only run smoothly on modern, higher end PCs. Its very important - before even considering a download - to have at least 16 GBytes of RAM and a modern / powerful GPU! Detailed infos and download links are here: http://www.alpilotx.net/downloads/x-plane-10-uhd-mesh-scenery-v1/ There is also a "release video" on youtube, to give you a impression about what to expect: If you are - only - looking for comparison screenshots, here are the official ones accompanying the release of UHD Mesh Scenery v1 - Japan. Just follow the link to my Google Photos album: UHD Mesh Scenery v1 - Japan (most screenshots in the first part of the album come in pairs - they are comparisons between UHD and HD quality! The first of each pair is HD, the second UHD - but there are also caption for each picture to make this clear)

We made some progress on O'Hare airport! Enjoy

First of all, the aircraft is more efficient, faster and consumes less fuel at higher altitudes. So, for descends, the FMC will try to keep the aircraft at higher altitude as much as possible computing a valid descend profile that does not violate any procedure constrain, neither aircraft/commercial descend rates. XXXXXA means the aircraft must cross that waypoint at that altitude or above. It means, you are not authorized to descend more than XXXXX. But the aircraft can cross much more higher actually if required. XXXXXB means the aircraft must cross that waypoint at that altitude or below. It means by the time the aircraft arrives to that waypoint it must be already at that altitude or even below if required. XXXXX (in bold) is a hard specific restriction, the aircraft must cross that waypoint at that specific altitude, not lower, not higher. That being said, if you are 31000 and next WPT is 16000A the FMC knows it can not cross that waypoint below 16000 but any altitude above. By the rule of higher if possible is better, the FMC will cross higher than 16000. How much higher? depending on waypoint restrictions ahead. The farther away next restrictions are, the higher the FMC will cross because it has no need to descend that much yet. By contrary if you are 31000 and next waypoint-1 says 16000A and next waypoint-2 is pretty close to waypoint-1 having a hard strict 15000 restriction, then the FMC will cross waypoint-1 quite close to 16000 because it has to continue descending to 15000 in a short distance to meet waypoint-2 Hope you have the idea. note: please note during descend the aircraft may be flying undesirable higher than the vnav profile due to lack of DRAG. Watch your FMC messages and watch your VNAV descend profile on the ND. The FMC will let you know how you are regarding the target profile.

A hotfix will contain all previous hotfixes. In addition, an installer will always grab the latest hotfixes on initial install.

FYI, I ended up reinstalling the 737 and then reinstalling the hotfix. All is good now.

It keep hanging up first at file number 20 then 54 then 64 ,I rebooted x-plane every time and finally it worked I think my wireless was dropping the signal

Here you go. http://forums.x-plane.org/index.php?/files/file/32554-titan-airways-livery-for-ixeg-737/ Hope you like it :-)

Hi gents...welcome. I've been a bit too busy to come play with you guys but will at some point. Once we get a few more features in and this things stabilizes, then I'll poke my head in here and we can discuss if any extra datarefs are needed. Thanks for jumping in. -tkyler

Wow! I have been simming since mid 80s, and all these years I have dreamt of a desktop experience as immersive and realistic as this! Thankyou! You are about to define a totally new level of standard to the community, this release will be the "milestone of the decade" ! Not surprised, there is some premature behaviour, - after all its giant a piece of software fresh from the mill. But you seem to be well prepared and put all effort into solving the various issues. What a fantastic team! As for now - I am more than happy and thrilled just getting to know the aircraft, doing startups and taxiing while listening to the incredible soundwork and feeling the insanse realistic movement of the model. It really does remind me of the real thing. If attachments could be physical, you´d be catching cold beers and champagne out of your computers. Congratulations!

I second Cameron´s advice... we hear your complaint with the noise level - I hate to say it, but I feel it is spot on, especially in being really bothersome . And engines are NOT the most prevalent sounds in a jetliner cockpit, I know that most users (sitting in the passenger cabin) have a different experience...Maybe some other 737 pilots can join in on the discussion and share their view? Currently the sound-level sliders aren´t working very well - the "cockpit" slider is also reducing the engines sound - we will fix this. So soon you can turn down cockpit sounds, while retaining loud engines. We are discussing making "realistic AC-noise" an option, so you can turn that lower if you need to keep the noise down in your house... Cheers, Jan

I have had no issues. A couple of tech failures, but I haven't checked to see if random failures is on. Was a nice challenge anyways. I want to thank the IXEG team as well. The attention to detail is fenominal. Great to see the coffee bouncing about in the cup! I love coffee. The master caution annunciator looking kind of loose is great as well. Very dynamic. Plus, the controls finally move along with the A/P (other a/c look so static). The engines take a lovely long time to spool down. The sound is fenominal! Really immersive. I was parked, with the cockpit windows open, messing about with the CDU, and noticed something about the sound changing. Turned out that something indeed changed in my right bleed air system. Can't remember exactly what it was but the air was going right overboard (isln valve closed). So yeah. That's what I heard. oooh and and the CFMs look great as well! I was quite amazed to see through the spinning fan. The click n drag is nicely tuned, the pop up menu works great, checklist is in the right place for me to quickly grab. Flight dynamics are awesome. I could go on for thousands more words trying to describe how nicely immersive this 733 is. Even though I noticed some people are reporting issues. Some of them, IMO, unreasonable, taking the complexity of this product into account. I think you guys did a brilliant job. Thanks! I'm a total fan.

I registered to say thanks for this wonderful aircraft and speedy update. It handles so much better in the taxi phase now. You guys really have 'completed' XPlane for me with the 737-300, amazing job, well done. Looking forward to future updates and enhancements.

Brussels Airlines View File To install simply drop inside the Liveries folder. Submitter scubajuan_new Submitted 04/27/2016 Category Heavy Metal Livery For Click Here For Aircraft X-Plane Version(s)

A new cold and dark tutorial for the IXEG 737-300 Classic, this one is done by a rookie! https://youtu.be/hxa8eHSY6uQ

Normal, happens when throttles at idle in the air with certain flap configurations.

Heya Ben, I just did the very same thing, didn't adjust the course knob for EDBC lol, my excuse this time ......... sorting food Still, i'm getting there now So much fun it's scary ! After food i'll take a gander the site in detail I know now what i was doing wrong, amongst many other things i guess lol, i was trying to add a 'via', so of course this stumped me until finding how to choose a sid Dohh !!! All thanks to jan and his vids Well i love to learn, so it's just a case of keeping at it until it's second nature, rome wasn't built in a day as they say Thanks Tony EDIT : I am doing EGLL -> EDDF, so far so good she's following the route, getting to like the scenery instead of battling dials/gauges/switches Almost at EDDF now, so i'll keep my fingers crossed Tony

Lol, read above, in the ground service pop up, Also trim value is based on Cg and not weight

Hi Philip, fortunately I get these weird sound "cracks" on my laptop as well - so there is a chance we will track them down. Working on it! Jan

Hey Tony, yeah you won't be going anywhere with LNAV and especially VNAV if the FMC isn't programmed right, hehe Here is a screenshot from project fly from yesterday. I was turning towards ILS Runway 24L at EDDF when the AP captured the Localizer and I forgot to turn the Course Knob for course 240. Plane turned left and I had to do a go around. All documented on project fly: It also serves as an online Logbook and you can see other users routes and track their flights. Good thing we don't have to pay for fuel to fly the bird Cheers

Hiya Ben, Well, watching jans video #1 LNAV and VNAV, err well, no wonder i wasn't mastering flight planning lol I was skipping a step hehe Now all seems good, just got to transfer the steps jan did into a flight i want to do, to make sure i've grasped all the method/sequences etc Then repeat/repeat/repeat until i can do it without idiot notes by me Simbrief i've used since january, have also other sites but i do like simbrief Read a post earlier with a mention of 'real world flight planning database', i googled and found it, so that's gone into my flight planning favs folder lol, seemed ok for a quick looksee project.fly i will try and find after food Take Care Thanks Tony

after few flights I must say , I love you Ixeg , I love the plane , the tutorials , the manuals , The great FPS that I can have with this baby , the fact that every button or switch in the cockpit it's functioning ..... Thank you !!!

Could we have a slider to increase the trim wheel servo, i can barely hear them lol xP

The growl comes when the fan blade tip speed goes supersonic. In other words, the bigger diameter N1 and and higher rpm the more growl. On the Classic CFM56-3 it starts about N1 90%+ I think, so you will not hear it very often in real.

They didn't add the opening cabin door yet because the cabin isn't fully done yet. It's just a basic cockpit, later they want to add a high res version. For now, you can cheat this by opening the window, going out of the window, close the window behind you, and then you can walk anywhere you want and set views on the wings.

Hiya's, Short vid of her in BA colours (colors lol) Medium SMP settings But still looks sweet until a new gpu Tony

No worries Cameron, and please pass on my congrats to everyone involved with the 737. They've done a magnificent job, she is a beauty. Really like that update system as well, it couldn't be any simpler.

It sounds like your machine is running very slowly. What kind of frame rates do you normally get when using X-Plane? Can you provide any more information about your computer? What kind of CPU? How much RAM? What kind of video card? If possible, try reducing your rendering options. This should increase your X-Plane FPS and the breathing room your computer has to perform its tasks. Giving your computer more time to complete its tasks should hopefully allow the HotFix system to complete its job.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQZIO1wnm08 I'm not sure you actually hear the growl, like when you do as pax, sitting near the engines. Check the t/o out in the vid.

A bit off centerline as I got a 14kts crosswind and my skills are a bit rusted Love the plane!

Airchild has one 733 for charter flights. www.air-child.com

Just to add to this. With the IXEG VNAV being not 100% finished, I would recommend using level change / Vertical speed for the Vertical profile. You can do this for a GNSS approach in the real world but you have to use the LNAV minimums as opposed to the LNAV/VNAV minimums. We also add 50ft to our minimums because it's a MDA not a DA. Temperature corrections also play a big part in GNSS approach's and caution should be giving to low temps because you will be closer to the ground than the aircraft thinks :-). Regards Craig

Yes, guys...the sounds are indeed loud in real life. I would strongly discourage altering files in this manner. If we make code only patches you are surely going to mess things up for yourself once updates are out. This is NOT going to be updated in the same manner we have done in the past with full re-downloads all the time. Again: I strongly discourage altering any files. You will almost assuredly mess your install up for future updates.

As for features left in or left out. I'll fly this bird without the computer. I carry my own.