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I will probably pick it up in Seattle, do some patterns and then take it offshore to do some undisturbed serious testing (beginning easily and progressing through different recovery procedures - single engine flight, stall recovery, ...)

Not really... some of the failures described are specific to the 737 (F/O course selector, airplane symbol), so it doesn't make any sense trying to transfer these questions to a 'bus (and btw: I assume you thought about an A320). CRT failures can occur on older models, though. Concerning the obvious method for AG estimation: descend until your radar altimeter tells you

I definitely agree - particularly since some developers even don't publish reference data required to do the calculations or write a third party tool to do so. "Use a real world FCOM" is seen far too often as a simple and quick resort to escape the discussion (I'm not referring to IXEG here, though - we'll have to wait what they provide with the v1 release package or upon request before judging). Well, the problem here again is that a sim pilot covers at least three real life roles: dispatcher, load master and pilot. PFPX was built to support the dispatch tasks (one can argue how well it does this, particularly when comparing with other solutions like SimBrief), but not the tasks of a load manager or ramp agent. Maybe it's really time to start a community project to build a more comprehensive solution covering all roles (perhaps combining an EFB with load calculations and route planning capabilities). It's a complex task though, taking into account that specifically fuel and load calculations have to be implemented individually for each single aircraft model.

Well, this is why I consider Vantskruv's suggestion not bad at all - outsourcing the CG and ZFW calculation to an external tool (as automated as possible, maybe even with some random patterns) would be closer to reality than any in-sim plugin, since it's not part of the pilot's job, but a needed information. I wouldn't object to a community contributed tool for this purpose either...

Better don't call them "sharklets", or Jan will get crazy ;-) (this being the term Airbus is marketing their version with...) Gesendet von iPad mit Tapatalk

Will it be compatible to other X Aviation products, most notably the Saab? And even more important - will it be possible to keep this compatibility? (just wondering if both always use the same Gizmo version etc.)