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IGEX 737 From a few days ago, flying around Manhattan to land at LaGuardia. Rob

It´s time to give a big compliment for Jan´s PDF and Video tutorials which comes with this plane. After my first spontaneous flights, I flew the Tutorials step by step and learned in every flight more and more about the "hidden" features of this plane and the spirit of flying the classic B737. Forget the FMC and the LNAV-VNAV-Autoland flights. I think, it was much time invested in these tutorials but I hope, there comes more. Danke Jan. Chimo

Received this email today from Tanguy. Awesome photo, so I thought I'd share it (with permission) I'm a B737 pilot with more than 1500h on B737/300/400/500W and wanna congrat IXEG for the amazing product you created. Im Very impresed with the fidelity. Still some minor bugs and fix but its awesome. Attached is a pic for you guys. Kind Regards! Tanguy

Just sharing my landing

These are the recommended settings for the sliders. Also make sure that your NULLZONE is big enough to cover any SLACK/DEADBAND in your hardware, or you might experience twitchyness during taxi on the ground and the aircraft banking by itself in manual flight.

As someone who's lived on the PMDG side of the fence for awhile the FMC errors are something I haven't seen before, but as an amateur programmer, I know where they come from and that's the mass mystery of "users". You think you do something solid and good in one section, only to find out that once it's in the wild, it wasn't as solid as you hoped. Overall, the FMC has been fine for me, until I start yanking it around, like changing approaches and STARs in flight, stacking commands before hitting "activate" and "execute" and other allowable but not normal things to do. Overall, $75 user for a clone of the Smith FMC is not what I expected nor what I received. Here's what I got: * A 3D cockpit that's beautiful to look at AND easy of the FPS * A sound set worth a price of it's own. I mean, a show of hands here - who else leaves the windows open during start and taxi just to listen to engines? * A flight model second to none - maybe the FJS 732 - but wow, what a fun plane to fly on vectors to final in crosswind! * An FMC that can get me from point A to B in most cases out of the box, with demonstrated commitment to improvements * An engaged dev team that is genuine in their concern and enthusiasm, not walled off in a castle on a mountain top Not only will I continue to buy from IXEG and X-Aviation, I'm looking forward to giving them more money for even more Boeing content... $75 = $30 for the base plane, $30 for the FMC and $15 for the sound set. When you think of it that way, isn't this a bargain?

Oh, I suffer marriage! Just kidding... (in case my wife reads this!)

Takeoff for visual approach practice at KSAN after I RTFM Was way too busy to take shots during final. Flo

That's normal. The only way out of APP mode below 1500 feet radio is cycling BOTH Flight Directors, i.e., both FDs to off and then back to on. That or hitting the TOGA buttons on the thrust levers to start a automatic Go-Around. As a side-note: A Dual Channel ILS approach below 1500 feet is a very "unique" autoflight system situation. The rudder pedals will be backdriven, for example, so the pilot feels what the AP is doing to the rudder. Usually the rudder pedals are not backdriven. Of course you can also get rid of all automation, take over and hand-fly the visual procedure into runway 08. More fun!

Flicker on the slave's throttle is fixed. If you start cold and dark, don't use the GPU (APU is ok). I miss a couple of datarefs..For the slave, the GPU appear, but, the avallable annunciator stay dark. Nothing i can do without a help of the devs. smartcopilot.zip

What, and pass on my secret tricks??

Had it happen once before, however, I don't have photo scenery or IXEG 737. I just sent the crash info to x-plane when it requested it and rebooted. Such is the nature of computers! Work great one day, the next?...who knows!

We NEED a force feedback yoke/joystick. Thrustmaster- heads up.

For reference. Battlefield 4 bugs forum; 798 index pages and growing. http://battlelog.battlefield.com/bf4/forum/view/2955064762159285271/ These guys have thousands of people, hundreds of millions of dollars budget, entire buildings full of talent all working in one place together to bring you products that are still full of stupid annoying bugs. We are a small team of about six people spread all over the world working in our spare time and up until release we were entirely self funded. Thanks to those with the patience and vision to support us in what we're trying to do.

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Not really. See the first comment in the video by Jan. Anything further would be potentially included in the "not in 1.0" list, which is freely accessible in these forums (I have not watched this video in full). I also notice they are running 1.0.0 and not 1.0.1 Judging by the comments I've read by the guy behind this video, I'd say he's extremely pleased with the product. This was a comment he just made elsewhere: "I love it. So much so I've chucked away 3 days of editing the 777 Cadet Course (which you know, pays the bills) to get Jonny in, do a flight and then edit it all up. And not even a crappy fast edit but with many of the bells and whistles of Airline2Sim full fat course! I've got some suggestions that would make it easier to use, but I'll save those for the forum..." That said, I'm interested by your word of "our." I cannot seem to find a purchase record for you, or a matching activation. Could you please provide your order number? I also note you have signed up with a fake e-mail account. I have a hunch as to who you are, and the troll vibe is strong in this one based on your only three posts here.

Torp to Hamburg

They should put jan and jonny together (smartcopilot if it's fully working by then). I'll sign up for jumpseat that day!

Callum. This Log.txt looks like its from an X-Plane session where X-Plane did _not_ crash out to desktop... If you get another X-Plane crash we need you to go straight to the X-P folder and make a backup of Log.txt and GizmoLog.txt Both of these files are over-written with fresh data every time you start X-Plane. That said; There is nothing that stands out in your log file this time. I have seen people having issues with w2xp scenery packs. Not sure if you have any of those. Thanks for the report, please let us know if it happens again. br.

Thanks Ben, Please know i am in no way trying to knock Gizmo, I just know that here are the facts in my own little world. FlyJSim 732, using SASL, I have zero issues using my arduino based interfaces reading and writing to over 200 FJS specific Datarefs. I load the IXEG 733, instant 10-15FPS increase!!! Awesome, so yes Gizmo is efficient in that term. But, will not handle one of my interface cards without a crash. So in my lack of knowledge I blame Gizmo. I know it's not fair but its all I got. Again thank you so much for putting the effort in to help the minority of users. Rob

http://www.lmgtfy.com/?q=how+to+write+a+bug+report

Central Charter Airlines for IXEG 737 Classic View File Livery of "Central Charter Airlines" based in the Czech Republic. Enjoy, and thank you for downloading. (Please rate and review if you like it) Submitter SpeedBirdNam Submitted 05/02/2016 Category IXEG 737 Classic Livery For Click Here For Aircraft X-Plane Version(s)

attaching your xplane log.txt file after the crash would be a good starting point. And yes photo scenery hits hard on resources.

You are wrong, though Jan

That is a good practice to trim the bird as required for smooth flight. Its grueling, when a pilot fights against the forces on the column. Pulling, or pressing constantly to be able to keep the profile. So, I kindly advise you set and use the trim wheel. It will be your best friend during all virtual, and real flights as well.

AeroMexico Classic View File AeroMexico Classic fictional livery Aeromexico never used the classic 737, only the NG. I would like to thank Mateo Peo from MB Liveries and Niilo Mrikalla for their invaluable help and contribution. Simply drop in the liveries folder and enjoy If you like it please rate, and if you MUST use part of this livery for your own work, please give credit where it belongs. Submitter scubajuan_new Submitted 05/02/2016 Category IXEG 737 Classic Livery For Click Here For Aircraft X-Plane Version(s)

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Well, nothing is impossible Jan

Thanks, gentlemen - we are working on the bugs as we type, and have already stacked up a nice load again... Not sure when we will do the next fix, so don´t quote me on this ,but I am thinking more days rather than weeks. Jan

Hanging around at Molokai My FO hanging out of the window (enjoying the view) Check captain missing the flight This runway is short and bumpy! Very funny for approach practicing (I cheated, got there by the Let L-410 ) Just got off - that's something for low GW, flaps 15 and full TO thrust... Molokai showing its rough side Molokai hiding behind SkyMaxx Pro

ohhhhhh, its an issue with soundmaxx, I unabled this plugin at this moment, and the strange sound is away. yes, when I able soundmaxx, the strange sound comes back. I uncheck airport sound, then the sound mistakes went away. problem solved.

I'm sure Jan will chip in here but I'll tell you what both my 737 and 777 guys recommend which is autobrakes out once you're down to taxi speed - so 25kts there or thereabouts. Also you may be taking a high speed exit, so perhaps a bit higher. Taxiing in the sim is a lot harder than in real life, albeit much easier in X-Plane than FSX as the ground drag model is a lot better.

This is definitely one of the areas I was on the fence about. I have wavered back and forth over this, and totally see your point. I'll shed some light on why I went the other way. When I would get a description from Jan about how the FMS behaved....I would assess the workload to implement. I could "block off that feature", toss out some INVALID message" to the user when they tried it....and be done with it. NO gizmo crashes risked, etc. The problem was, that IF we wanted to implemented such a feature in the future, then it had to be wired into existing functionality....and the wiring generally proved to be extensive enough that you just could not leave the feature hanging or effectively block it off....it was either, "put it in now, or risk too much effort adding (motivational problems) it in". So, we really wanted to make this thing as real as we could....and so we just had to say, "lets go for it"....and we did that in so many areas, we just couldn't test all the permutations resulting from the extra options and functionality. THIS is what I refer to as the "rite of passage" or "pain of childbirth". ...and why I say this couldn't go any other way. IF we want a super accurate FMS, then we just have to put it out there, see what users do that we did not, and fix it. Take the punches....and one day, the bruises will heal and we'll have this wonderful thing we envisioned years ago...and it will be good. So keep punching, we'll keep fixing and get there.....but its Sunday, no fixing today Family time. -tkyler

Understood, but very few can develop software like this, so we don't get to pick and choose. I do have a 'theory' on this whole situation, I may blog on it shortly...but I don't back down nor feel any embarassment. We have endeavored to move to a new level of detail, not just in the subtleties of the FMS, but in a lot of other areas also. Every additional level brings exponential detail to tend to and the more you chase, the harder it is. Many programmers have said what you said; however, I would say, "But you are not doing this now are you, we are". Please understand that I don't mean that to be derogatory, but rather than until one has given this a try, really have no clue how difficult it is given this market we are in. What? Maybe 5 FMSs developed in the 30+ year history of flight simming? It is easy to sit on the other side and tell us how its supposed to be done, but at the end of the day, (or a few months from now), you will find that we..... not any other programmer.... are the ones who got it done, ergo, we figured out how to get it done...and Gizmo plays into that. I do not dismiss the complaints or bugs, I know they are there, they frustrate me too; however, it is my contention that this is the way it had to go for several reasons I won't get into cause they're my own opinions.....and though some disagree, I will re-iterate that here in a few months, this thing will be humming along, you will have paid no more money and you will get support for many years to come, in addition to new functionality, all for the original 74.95 price.,...no cost for new liveries or such. When the dust settles, IXEG will have produced a next level aircraft....and we will be quite proud of that achievement. In addition, we will continue to support you and every other customer to ensure you get your monies worth for many many years to come! -tkyler

Not sure if you struggle to set an altimeter, that the ixeg 737 is the easiest way for you to start.

Hi, I have done a first small complete flight (1 hour about) with a copilot, from cold and dark. Nils, you can eat your shoes. Cristiano, you can kiss me. One problem though, at some point the left CDU was unable to display the leg page. Probably a bug of the plane, not of smartco. I have done improvements of the configuration file : Don't use any axis for speed brakes. Only use mouse or buttons. If the master have an axis for the tiller, it can be used during the push back. From master to slave, fuel and payload are synchronized (at least starting cold and dark). Now doable after the connection. Also, always by master only, wiglets and gauges (in Preferences) are synchronized. The access door of manual extension gear does not work. (as guards). Each pilot have to open it. Remaining problems : Guards and gear door, i suspect a sound problem. Only devs can do something (smartco is on their to-do list) Spring loaded switches and knobs (APU, trims, clock), something is doable by the devs, as such switches and knobs works properly with the Saab. They are driven by 2 datarefs, one for the state of the button/switch, one for their movement. Some non implemented features we found during the flight : In plan mode, step on the right Leg page does not work. The Clock buttons (non animated) of the MCP are tied with the CHR button of the clock. Not sure, but buttons of the MCP launch the timer for block to block and in flight time, the CHR launch a separate timer. The month/year display 87. The hold/run/reset switch of the clock does nothing. A second transponder code is not stored. The switch ½ on the transponder panel only change the display ATC 1 to ATC 2. PS: what is the use of: ixeg/733/misc/my_weapon1_x, 1_y etc? Nils, please, go and test/improve it, easy if you have a lan with 2 computers. Claude. smartcopilot.zip

Thanks for the detailed bug report. We'll be sure to take your extensive feedback into account when improving the product.

But... I don't think it was ever meant to be a PROFESSIONAL COURSE video. It's just two folks talking about a plane, just a "first look at an addon X" type of thing. So, I see where you are coming from, but it's like taking a bite off an apple and saying it's nasty for not being a grape.

Haha, was it taken too lightly for your liking? Personally, I think it was great! No cold, mechanical voices telling me to flip that switch to get fuel pumps running. As I said previously it was not only informative but also a joy to listen to, becuase it sounded like two friends just bantering about some interesting topic with each other. I would love if they did a full course like they had with Q400, becuase it seems like a superb thing. So I would say that it's on the contrary, it was executed spot on.

I'm happy to announce the release of v1.0 of the Let L-410 for X-Plane 10.45+ with 3D cockpit. After nearly 6 years of bumpy development and a long beta testing phase, the Let L-410 is here. This is the point where I say "stop" for v1.0. You never really can finish a plane. Still, there are awful lots of things to do. But let's leave those for v2.0 You can download the plane from http://x-plane.hu/L-410/ FEATURES: Detailed 3D cockpit Built-in Garmin GPS Realistic engine and flight model (~95% matching real data) Instrument and cockpit lighting Yoke can be hidden Basic anti and de-ice system Custom engine sounds Custom engine startup Checklist for XCheclist All basic instruments are working, you can either fly RNAV with Garmin or NON-RNAV (VOR2VOR) flights with the NAV instruments. Bugfixes, of course, will come after release, so I'll keep updating this version. PROMO VIDEO https://youtu.be/ZEpOkoPd9t8 TUTORIAL FLIGHT https://youtu.be/XihlwN_t610 THANKS I’d like to thank all the support and feedback I got from various people while developing this plane. The project took a long time to finish - with breaks - but it worth every minute. I’d like to thank Imre Kurucz, Attila Kotan, and Tibor Kokai for the images, videos and the support they gave since the beginning. There are a lot more people who gave inspiration and encouragement to finish the Let L-410, cannot name them specifically, but sometimes their word gave me the last push. Big thanks to the beta testing team: Tamas Eibel, Karoly Molnar, Lars N. and Gyorgy Buki CONTACT Follow the further development at http://bit.ly/1VUCwvj You can post your feedback here at the forum, or send me an email to mihaly.alberti [at] x-plane.hu Twitter: @xplanehu

Dedicated to Jan.... LSZH-LEMD

Outside the aircraft is fine!