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Important information on the latest Gizmo and it's new features in this video - MUST see!

lol that's a mild case of smoke in the cockpit. Here's what a major smoke event looks like.

Hi Steve, thanks for the nice words. I skipped (well, skimmed over) your paragraph on VNAV, the green circles, and altitude restrictions because it is not really implemented yet and doesn´t work like it should in the real plane. Please resort to basic airmanship when planning your descents and use basic autopilot modes for now. This is actually the way the 737 is flown in most cases. Improving VNAV is on our agenda. VNAV will not honour the flap placard (maximum) speed during the descent - it will only honour the "lowest maneuvering speed". So if you are in a segment where VNAV wants to fly 250 and you extend your flaps, bad things happen. But if you are in a segment where VNAV wants to fly 160kts and you don´t extend your flaps, you should see the 210/FLAPS and the plane will not slow down below that. Again, this may not always work right now. It works the other way during climb. VNAV will always fly either its desired speed, or current flap setting placard speed -5, this works pretty well, already. The "B" you are talking about is actually a "all segments lit" and signifies a placard speed reversion. The autothrust kicks in and reduces power to stay at 230kts exactly. It will not try to fly a "safe" speed, it is just a pretty crude reversion mode to avoid ripping off the flaps. 230 is the absolute maximum to fly with flaps 1, it is better to extend flaps to 1 when you are well away from this placard speed. I recommend 225 for very heavy weights (>53.000kgs) or 215 when below that. You are right, you need to exit VNAV to exit the speed reversion mode, so just click FL CHG, dial the MCP SPD down by 15kts to get out, then click VNAV again (if you rely on using it during the descent). I am not covering these mechanisms in my tutorials, because they are way over the head of most users and would just confuse people. In 10 years of flying the real 737 I never triggered a speed reversion, that is the goal, here. Wait until speed diminishes and you are safely below the placard speed - and watch for VNAV misbehaving, with the imperfect implementation we have it COULD accelerate again after passing a certain waypoint. On the manipulators sticking: You need to have the manipulator on your screen (iirc) to release it - if you grab it, then look away, you can´t release it. The mouse-view works the same way, if you move the cursor off the screen, it "sticks". I agree this is not ideal, but I think it´s an X-Plane limitation. Hope this helps, Jan

Dear Charlie, sorry for not responding so long. I took two trips with little time inbetween them. Yes, I can still send you a test version of the plugin, if you like. We have another user in the Netherlands and he reported it working fine. Send me a private mail, so I can pack it up for you. Jorg