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Doublechecked, we "hardcode" the year to 1987, as there is no "year" function in X-Plane. I think we chose 1987 because that is the last year that I had full hair and a six-pack for a stomach! Cheers, Jan

Hi everyone, I am back from vacation and will go through all of the reports that came in over the last two weeks (I did manage to answer a few on my smartphone) in the next few days, catalogue and reply as warranted. There will be a next patch, of course, and fortunately it does not seem like we have any "must fix immediately" candidates in there. Our number one priority is the "gizmo soft crash", of course - we still have a few of those lingering, but I don´t have any good and solid reports, unfortunately. If you want your gizmo-crash to be fixed for sure, please include surefire steps (a video works best!) on how to reproduce it. The usual "there I was, flying the XYZ STAR into ABC airport..." unfortunately rarely helps, as even minute differences in performing the flight may or may not produce different results. Thanks for everyone´s patience, Jan

Hello, After all, congratulations for the IXEG team. The aircraft flights perfectly in XP11. I couldn't find just one bug for noW : never seen this before ! May I make a suggestion for future adjustments : Would it be possible to have the instruments more readable in daylight ? especially for those one With red figures. Once again, thanks a lot for this update : another "coup de maître", as We say in french, for IXEG. Daniel.

I think he means this:

Me? Flight KRNO? to KSFO with XP11 real weather - not entirely sure about the reflection setting I think medium to high. Don't think your pictures look that different though, maybe except for the distance to the clouds. I'll try to reproduce it this weekend.

Yes, i switched it off, first time i read about it. Long time ago. And kept it off. Oliver Gesendet von meinem SM-G925F mit Tapatalk

I have created an entry to look at the sound volume. We had a discussion about this before, its not an easy fix. Cheers, Jan

Poweer is right. Aileron trim is RARELY used on the 737 - as it limits your available aileron travel (which you may need in strong crosswinds). So if the plane constantly banks, you need to find out why (and rectify that). Small banking tendencies can be countered with the rudder (even though that results in a bit of uncoordination). The correct trim procedure, however, is like this: Fly straight and level, make sure N1´s and wingtank fuel levels are the same. Maintain wings level with aileron, stop any turning tendency (yaw) with rudder-trim. Then use aileron trim if needed. For more than one unit (see top of yoke), make a maintenance entry. Jan

Hi, we tried to keep the radar and terrain display accurate in colour and capability. The radar is masked by terrain, can be reflected by terrain, and can be subject to "overscanning" (icy tops) and underscanning. Update frequency is similiar to the real one, but we don´t model attenuation. The terrain return is a poll of X-Plane´s dsf elevation map, colour coded as shown above. Cheers, Jan

Hi Ian, thanks for the feedback! I will see what we can do about the clickspots. The yoke movement times have been subject to much debate - the real yoke can´t be moved nearly as fast as the joystick can, it simply takes time to move the flightcontrols, even for the hydraulics, and the yoke is always "in sync" with the flight control surfaces. This is great for the pilot, as it reduces "overcontrolling", unlike on the Airbus´ joystick (I deliberately avoid the word "flightstick", here), where you have no idea how far the ailerons really are when flying in gusty conditions. Really annoying and dangerous. I feel that the yoke response time in our model is pretty much accurate - I have done lots of "flight-control-checks" in the real one (every flight), where you move the yoke through the full travel, and it definitely takes a second or more to move it from one full stop to the other. It also needs to be said that X-Plane´s turbulence model is way too excessive and I NEVER fly with real weather on for this reason. The speed and frequency of wind speed and direction shift is just plain unreal and way overdone, and I have been working on a profound portfolio of videos and documentation of real-world cockpit footage to present my case to Austin. He likes "fun and exciting", so its always a battle to "tone something down". We will see. Cheers, Jan

Laminar is still tweaking the XP11 flight model (as expected) and more changes are announced for XP v11.1. So we will revisit when things stabilize. M

Well if you don't mind the extra plugin better pushback does an amazing job. Just tested it out and I am really impressed https://github.com/skiselkov/BetterPushbackC/releases It just looks awesome with the IXEG. Seems like a match made in heaven

18% feel more realistic

I have Talk with the AirFMC Support Team on 14 July

Hello Jan, ok, no problem. Thanks for your confirmation that it actually is a bug. Regards Jens

Hey, so i tested this out. The Disable downwind ILS was disabled i attempted to retry the approach and it did work with no problem. All seems good for now

BIG UPDATE! So I realised that I modelled the fuse off a badly drawn 3-View cad supplied by Boeing on their website (Which I'm almost certain is the same CAD FlightFactor used too)...so the fuselage is redone and retextured (third times the charm ;_; ) and I'm going back to my trusty old -200ER. So here is the brand new fuselage with new PW4000 engines too!!