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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

First of all I find myself in a position where I must retract on certain posts . Just had time to look at the web page selling the ixeg 737 and i notice that it mentions down near the bottom of the page that manuals and tutorials are included in documentation --- call me old fashioned but i would be looking for these under " manuals " and or " tutorials " ------ i have spent most of my time since I converted to X Plane flying the 172 VFR --- I used to fly jets IFR when I was using FS98 and FS X --- in FS 98 ( may be wrong with the edition number it`s son long ago ) we had something like EFASS and Plan G and you could fly the flight plan including SIDS and STARS using the AP and it was something I got used to --- but in X Plane it was different and I did venture into IFR in X Plane on VATSIM and I found myself floundering and with not enough time to enter a new learning curve and never enough time to fly the hours that I used to fly -- so -- I went back to VFR and the 172 and mostly on VATSIM I was flying circuits . The ixeg 737 has come along at just the right time for me --i have a little bit more time now to relearn ----- and now i have the need for manuals and tutorials whereas I didn`t before --- let me say that the ixeg 737 is absolutely stunning in every way possible --- and I am hoping that the patch has fixed most of the teething problems although I am reluctant to download and apply because of my experiences last week . I hope that they can sell 25,000 copies which is $ 1,875,000 --- that would really put them in business and god knows what they could do then ----- don`t know --- is 25,000 overstretched --- they do deserve to sell that number because it is easily one of the best FS AC ever produced ! FMC --- I didn`t realize that you have to use the slash key to enter the OAT ie \ 55 --- but i understand that you don`t have to use the + or - key so i don`t know how the FMC knows whether the OAT is plus or minus . I couldn`t confirm the v speeds --- and then I did something which enabled me to do so --- don`t know what it was that I had not entered ---- probably an incorrect wieght or something -- will persevere with this and report back when I know what I did wrong . Route --- was entering egcc to egll --- unable to enter HON so had to miss that fix off ---- will try to find out where I went wrong with that one and report back if I find out what was wrong . There are some very very good videos on YOUTUBE now ----- there was one by Osamah Alabdullah ---- I think he was flying out of a german airport ( think it was Munich ) and much of his flight was at night ----- he was asked on YOUTUBE what the scenery was but answered he would post another video about scenery next week --- does anyone know what the scenery was because it was stunning ? I am still annoyed about being charged for the Mike Ray Download Manual --- I would have eagerly paid more for a hard copy if they had refunded but to buy a hard copy now will mean that I have paid far too much --- even if they had charged me for an upgrade it would have been ok --- anyway -- I will think twice before I buy form them again . This is what I have done --- I opened up the tutorials and copied without the pictures manually to save printer ink and paper and printed on something like half the pages ---- could I help by posting these pages or would that be infringeing copyright ? What I may do is to issue a tutorial in list form like i did before by using Mike Rays tutorials --- they are on the org site somewhere . It will be a quick guide with a sample route . I must spend more time learning how to enter fuel etc etc --- I think i have got the route thing sorted --- oh yes ---- how do you enter a hold in the FMC if asked by ATC to hold when for instance you are near your destination . Saw a video yesterday --- a TBM being flown to airport in Florida for an annual check and some ---- and I sat there thinking how much I miss RW flying --- so --- thank god for X Plane and the ixeg 737 --- well worth the 6 years wait ---- HATS OFF TO IXEG AND THE TEAM ---- Jans tutorials are excellent although a closer view of the FMS would have been helpful when entering information !

Hello Jason, I just wanted to let you know for my youtube videos I use open broadcaster and here is the link https://obsproject.com/download . I chose to use the studio version which I don't really know that the difference in the other one. But I use 64 bit instead of 32 bit. I have a three monitor setup, frankly if you go over here to my youtube channel at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-YCIlaLw8a4FntliETiWBg?view_as=public and you will see a video that shows my home cockpit and how my system is setup. I use one monitor for the Internet. I use the center monitor for X-Plane and the third monitor is where Microsoft excel is along with open broadcaster. Now im running a GTX 980 TI video card which keeps the frame rates up and the eye candy that I want. And even with that video card, X-Plane can run it into the ground. It's just amazing how software is always ahead of hardware it seems. Hope this will help take care and best of luck to you. Dion PS: Oh in keeping with the theme of this topic I better put another screen shot in here so here it is. https://goo.gl/photos/pxfdTTKSyEEhbgUbA

Top Gun gonna get sued by Boeing...

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

Or I can do a video of a crappy landing, and you just do everything completely different.

Reading about the art of t/d with the 737 might I suggest something: It would be great if Jan could produce a couple of landings where he also records his joystick(throttle and stick/yoke) movements. that would be really awsome and might help newbies and veterans get better at landing this beauty

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.

Hi Josheph, thanks for reproducing it - I just tried, and I see the same thing. However - I also see this effect on the default airplanes (tried with the Baron).... SO: 1.) Don´t set weather like that (its REALLY unusual to have CAT II ops AND thunderstorms) 2.) File a bug with Laminar Research Good luck! Jan

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.

Tried to reproduce, but lightning works fine with the default X-Plane weather. Can´t fix until we get more info.. Jan

Quick thinking, James. I think we have modeled the alignment process not working when the airplane is moving. Without engines, the plane shouldn´t move much, unless the ramp is slopey. But I have also seen users that started the engines without the hyd-pumps on, and never realised the brake accumulator was depleted. That being said, we look into improving charging of the brake accu during reboots - right now a gizmo-reboot won´t recharge it, so you would either have to run the B hydraulic pressure up, or reload the aircraft... Jan

Ansett Australia 1991 IXEG 737-300 View File Ansett Australia 1991 IXEG 737-300 Submitter yukonpete Submitted 05/01/2016 Category IXEG 737 Classic Livery For Click Here For Aircraft X-Plane Version(s)

China Eastern old livery (B-2699) for IXEG 737C View File This is the old livery of China Eastern Airlines for the great IXEG 737C. China Eastern, one of the three key airlines in China, still operate 5 737-300 in real life, all of which belong to Wuhan Branch of CES, mainly operating short-haul flights inside China. Unfortunately these 733s will not have the new livery of CES introduced in late 2014, so they are still wearing the old "tri-colour" livery with the old logo. Installation: Simply unzip the folder to the "liveries" folder inside your IXEG 737C main folder and enjoy. Known bug: Due to the wing file unable to have different signs on different wings, the Chinese figures as well as registration numbers on both wings in real life cannot be achieved. Looking forward to your comment and feedback. Thank you. ShaneMontoya Submitter ShaneMontoya Submitted 05/02/2016 Category IXEG 737 Classic Livery For Click Here For Aircraft X-Plane Version(s)

Qantas ( 1995 ) IXEG 737-300 View File Qantas ( 1995 ) IXEG 737-300 Submitter yukonpete Submitted 05/01/2016 Category IXEG 737 Classic Livery For Click Here For Aircraft X-Plane Version(s)

Thanks for the free vid A2S, I liked it. Who wants a dry video of someone reciting checklists that you can get out of some POH. At that point you're better off just getting the manual. Different people have different learning styles and I appreciate the way you guys present. Most airlines have slightly different procedures and equipment so nothing is as cut and dry as that detractor would have you believe. Their vids cost about as much as a pizza, if you're spending 75 bucks on a virtual aircraft why not get a video or two to learn how to fly it and get some enjoyment from it?

With some limited experience in development, this approach makes perfect sense...and also explains why you have a legacy of best-in-class X-Plane products attached to your name going back longer than most of us have been old enough to buy beer. If I could offer your newest outfit, IXEG, one constructive suggestion, it would be to have a larger and longer beta period. I know the population of users who know the plane well enough to avoid giving spurious bug reports, while at the same time deviate from normal operating procedures enough to find new ways to break your plane, is not huge. But certainly it could have been bigger or longer to compensate for going for complex and complete implementation from day 1. That seems like the natural adjustment to make in the development plan, I would think. Of course I also know there are unique financial and other strategic pressures involved in picking a release date. Certainly the product is better for prioritizing fidelity over expediency. The ideal scenario of a best in class simulation with no major bugs on release would likely have required months more time that perhaps you did not have because of these pressures. Of all possible alternatives to that ideal, you chose the absolute next best thing...which is releasing a product with the best simulation (and potential for nearly complete fidelity in the future) with a few bugs. Further still the team has demonstrated a commitment to fixing issues quickly.

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

Hi Peter, the ability to save them was removed, but you can certainly load them. You can make them with a simple text editor, or dedicated output software. I think its explained in the docs. Jan

nice job captain

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

Ben, Keep it up. Without your videos, I'd still be groping around in the dark with The Mighty Dash. (Not that groping around in the dark isn't fun--as long as it's with real cabin crew, not fake flight decks) Best, Marshall

what airport is this one ? looks nice Thanks

Hi Benjamin, Sorry you are experiencing frustration. We're very dedicated to the product and will get your issue resolved as quickly as possible. Thanks!

Dedicated to Jan.... LSZH-LEMD

Found this while searching for FCOMs and other PDFs for the -300 http://www.boeing.com/commercial/aeromagazine/articles/qtr_02_10/pdfs/AERO_FuelConsSeries.pdf Great article on cost indexes direct from Boeing... Steve

Until the release, please enjoy

Outside the aircraft is fine!