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No, as Jan just stated as a pilot, and I as an engineer, overall the effect is really good as we see it, but might need a *slight* adjustment.

I go from about 3 degrees pitch to 6 degrees pitch. This is a change of 3 degrees. If you are coming down on a -3 degree glideslope and want to go to a 0 degree flightpath, this is the minimum amount of degrees that you need to change your pitch to enter level flight. Plus you need to another degree or two for a short time to "decelerate" your sinkrate. This is called the "break". It is not a "significant" rotation, it is the minimum needed on any aircraft to change the flightpath by the corresponding number of degrees. Just like Morten said above: It could be that the Zibo is an .acf file that was never saved on the newer XP-version, so the new pitch-down does not take effect (Laminar has implemented an opt-in model, you need to resave your aircraft for the new aerodynamics to take effect). Otherwise I do not see how the zibo mod would not be affected. Last but not least - if we had a chance to "deselect" this nose-down effect, we still could not do it - without it the plane would lift off by itself during the takeoff run. In fact we had an artificial "nose down" effect before XP11.10 to avoid the plane rotating early - its effect was limited to "on ground", only, though. If you want to go and harass Austin to "soften" the effect, please be my guest - I would not mind a small reduction, but overall the effect is realistic and needed for the airplane to perform correctly during takeoff. Jan

No, this is a different feature. It allows you to synchronize the maintenance state of the aircraft between two computers. The purpose is to enable things like FSE groups to cooperate in the use and maintenance of a single persistent aircraft. Another possibility is if you own multiple computers with X-Plane installed, you will be able to keep all copies of the aircraft synchronized. Ultimately, the idea is to teach users that even if you're not flying the aircraft, somebody else might be, and therefore when you get it into your hands the next time, you need to perform all the proper checks, tests and watch out for faults that you might not have caused, just like you would in the real world. No more of the "I know it's gonna be fine, because it was fine the last time I flew it". Well, you don't know how the previous pilot treated the aircraft, so you better make sure you take that detail into consideration.

I am really not sure what the problem is for you folks experiencing lack of elevator control or "sucking down" effects - make sure that you have upgraded to the latest version of the IXEG 737 (1.21) and the latest version of XP11. I have made a little video to show that things work perfectly fine on my end - with plenty of elevator authority remaining during landing. Cheers, Jan