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Try to give some power on the throttle before turning on the generators. I've read somewhere that JRollon said to give some power on throttle before when generators are turned on, as the engines may stall because of the load and catch fire.

Thank you so much @danhenri

@Cameron, @sundog Can you please clarify, do you mean that redrawing really occurs for every degree of latitude and longitude change? If that is true, i.e. flying a STAR for ESSA would in the most extreme cases cross about 3-5 degrees of latitudes and longitudes combined. Also i.e. flying a from EFRO to ESSA which many may did in the Santa Flyin in VATSIM: 1 EFRO 0 66.561667 25.830833 11 OLNOP 0 66.18861099999999 24.705278 11 XONTU 0 65.940556 24.076667 11 VERAG 0 65.125528 21.987083 11 KETEL 0 64.199111 21.197222 11 ROSMO 0 63.699611 20.794222 11 VALAK 0 63.418611 20.574167 11 DEDIT 0 63.25825 20.450611 11 GALPI 0 62.846944 20.140278 11 BODRI 0 62.415 19.824167 11 SIPRI 0 60.845611 18.751722 3 HMR 0 60.279306 18.391583 1 ESSA 0 59.651944 17.918611 This flightplan crosses atleast 13 latitude/longitude degrees at a 475nm distance excluding the SIDS/STARS for departure and arrival airports. The mean time value for crossing these borders would be about 5 minutes if flying a tube-liner, hence a redraw every 5 minute. At a descent which may take about 20-25 minutes would give about 4-5 redrawings. I do state that this is indeed frequently, and I hope you have some type solution for this in your upcoming version?

Impressive shots!

Haha! The last accident I had was when flying with a DC6 from northen Norway to a skiing tourist place between Norway and Sweden. At a cruising altitude of FL13, I did descend and approaching the airport from the opposite of the runway. There was really bad weather, the airport had high elevation, and the clouds where low. I knew there where higher mountains surrounding the airport, and I was quite nervous if I would deviate too far. Turning right to intercept the ILS, I did the mistake to be too fast and high. So trying to reduce speed, extending flaps more, and diving steeper to catch the glideslope, everything went wrong. The V/S speed wheel flipped out on me (bug in the PMDG DC6) and the aircraft was suddenly descending 4000 fpm, I tried to correct and then entered an oscillation of ups and downs, trying to balance the V/S. I began to see the ground infront of me, and in panic I turned off the autopilot, and trying to balance and trim the aircraft for a go around. The V/S still going up and down. Of course I did forget the go around procedure, but in somewhat way, I was only to catch a short glimpse of the procedure paper until the paper flew back and I could not reach it. There was something about turning left and thereafter again at some point turning left and intercept a NDB, but I did not remember the altitude and length. Luckily, I had the NDB dialed in already, so I decided to ascend as high I remember it was safe, about 7000 feet and do the turn. I was lucky though, and did the approach again. Coming in too high again, but I balanced out the aircraft alright. About one nautical mile from touch down, I noticed that my engines where not well. There was fire in all of them! Extinguishing the fire, no engines left, I succeeded to land on the runway. My passengers where not happy, and I kept the cockpit door closed until they where evacuated and transported far away. I filled in the incident report that I forgot the open up the cowl-flaps. The engines where overheating with no cooling.

I did not answer this poll, but I think VNAV and autothrottle removes the fun of the game. In theory, you would only start up the airplane, lineup the runway, activate the autopilot. After you landed you deactive the autopilot. Of course there is more too it. I currently try to concentrate on airplanes which is not too automatic, just to have something to do when in cruise. Currently my favourite airplanes are: * Felis Tupolev 154 and * PMDG DC6

Practically no, it is all about programming. Creating different executing threads for purposes. I.e. I was in a similar problem when developing my Android app. Loading up or searching the database did take time and freezing the application. I did solve this with redoing the interface between database-handling and front-end mechanic. Though this required a remake of the code (but it wasn't too entangled and complicated in stage of development to do). Handling the database was managed in its own thread and instance, and communicating with the frontend where via messages (like SMS on a telephone). Almost like running two apps in one app. I guess this gets rather more complicated when running under X-Plane, and of course if this approach would be utilized now, I think much code has to be rewritten.

A new game is born, "Coffee landing race": * Watch the coffee under landing as long as you can while not crashing.

Anyone flies it? Before buying, it was like 'meeh, it seems boring and ugly'. But as I felt I wanted to fly other things than western aircraft, I thought what the heck, I'll buy it. I do not regret! The aircraft is hell of a fun to fly and master. I think this is the most fun aircraft yet to fly, and the goodies to play with feels like a never ending learning. I did first fly with the KLN90B, and learned how to fly SID:s and STAR:s with it. Then I went flying VOR to VOR navigation, as it is more rewarding. Now, I will try to learn the NVU, which is rather complicated as there are no manuals. I basically can handle it, but understanding its ins and outs is more of a detective work. It is getting more complicated as you can choose to use magnetic or true headings, and right now I am quite confused, as it seems more complicated than what it looks like if only navigating with the NVU. And I'm not sure how to connect Skyvector true tracks with this one (magnetic headings, true headings, great circle headings and so on without good pedagogic documentation makes you wandering in fog). The flaw with this airplane is the lack of deeply descriptive manuals for the systems to understand them fully, and I am not of yet know how deeply everything is simulated. But despite that, I'm feeling very rewarded flying this aircraft, it is really awesome.

I'm quite interested why VOR:s are aligned to magnetic north, and not true north. What is the purpose? I am not a pilot or navigation expert. So I do not know if I am right here, but I think the positives of having all VOR:s to true north is: * You have a static system that do not change * Navigation between VOR:s will not be a problem, where i.e. the 180 radial of one VOR is the same as the another VOR. (There are no changes of radial when tracking from one VOR to another). * No need for service and adjustments. * The pilots will be more aware in magnetic variances in current areas.

It is not IXEG:s responsibility to add turblence to the simulator. It is the weather injector itself. If I remember it correctly, you get only turbulence if using NOAA plugin or X-Plane default weather. FSGRW does not provide turbulence.

How did you install the NOAA plugin? I do remember I had some problems with this plugin not able do download METAR data. Installing from Joans updater plugin did solve it for me. http://x-plane.joanpc.com/plugins/insim-plugin-updater

Shouldn't these calculations be threaded? Is it not possible to do that within Gizmo/X-Plane?

I'm guessing here: * Preparing Aircraft - NAVIGATION lights * Before startup or pushback - ANTI-COLLISION lights * Taxi - TAXI and left and right RUNWAY TURNOFF lights * Crossing/entering runway - STROBE lights * Before takeoff - Inner LANDING lights to ON, TAXI lights to OFF * Climbing FL100 Transition - Turn OFF inner landing lights and left and right RWY TURNOFF * Descending FL100 Transition - Turn ON inner LANDING lights and left and right RWY TURNOFF * Approaching runway - Extend and turn ON outer LANDING lights * Exiting runway - Turn ON TAXI lights, retract and turn OFF LANDING lights, turn off STROBE lights * Approaching gate - Turn off TAXI and RWY TURNOFF lights * Shutting down engines - Turn off ANTI-COLLISION lights Wing and logo lights may be set whenever if it is dark.

Cameron, thanks for your unofficial sneaky opinion on this matter. I love this aircraft but it needs to be somewhat updated.

Really nice! I did not believe it would work this fast after release. Though I've not tested it, but hopefully later on there will a flight with a copilot. It would be a blast!

Damn cool!

And can you set the default settings to be the most realistic (so I do not screw up everything, as I usually do... )?

Or just remember how much fuel you had from last flight would be cool!

It would be nice if sound filtering earphones would be simulated. I guess they filter out some of the dangerous noises in aeroplane cockpits. If I remember it correctly, FlightFactor 767 does it.

What!? Is their a coffee in the cockpit? I need to fire her up again. Anyway, as this is a thanks thread, I just want to give BIG THANKS to IXEG for a great aircraft, even though there is some quirks here and there.

I was not prepared for CTD:s with a following error reporting, and therefore not able to give a good report. Also, as it was the first time of flying and having several CTD:s, I just wanted to fly and get the feeling of workings in the aircraft. About the sound, I read somewhere else that Litjan responded about the subject, so I guess you know already about it.

The speedbrake works for me. Note though that the commands at this time reversed. Have tried retracting the speedbrake? (retracting is extending in the current state)

First flight I did get several Gizmo CTD:s. Second flight more CTD:s, even the AP did not work (even heading mode did not work). Just for that I did reboot the airplane in air and started it up while loosing altitude. I didn't expect it to be this fragile. I don't know why IXEG decided not to release an open alpha or beta to really get the bugs filtered out. People expect otherwise an almost failsafe simulation of the aircraft. Oh well, IXEG will iron out the bugs, but I guess it will take time. I whish IXEG all the luck.

If you really want a nice aircraft on Linux I would recommend the FlightFactor 767, it is a very nice aircraft. I run X-Plane on Windows mainly because TrackIR does not support Linux, though you can use other software using the TrackIR hardware, but it is not as smooth as TrackIR on Windows, which makes it irritating.