Graeme_77

Non-persistent mode was not intended for that sort of use. It starts of with enough fuel to go flying, you can add fuel manually using the Refuel Truck 2D screen, but it's not intended for any sort of "serious" flying where a precise fuel load would be required.

Non-persistent mode was not intended for flying anything you'd want to keep. It was expected to be used for the first few start attempts, and maybe trying different approaches etc. There has been a lot of confusion and misunderstanding about this mode, with people thinking it's some kind of "easy" mode - so there's a reasonable chance non-persistent mode will be removed from the product in a future update.

The engine cool down should be based on real elasped time, not sim time. So if you close X-Plane for a few hours, the engines will have cooled (and potentially ice accumulated on the airframe depending on conditions), but if you just change the X-Plane clock forward a few hours and restore state, the engines will not cool. The intention there is that the state saving is to allow flights to be paused, X-Plane closed, then flights resumed. It won't force date and time on reload to allow some flexibility (like - "Hmm, let's try that LOWI approach again, only at night").

"Pressure altitude" is the altitude on a standard pressure setting, i.e. what the altitude would indicate if the QNH was 1013 hPa. https://skybrary.aero/articles/hot-and-high-operations

OK, I'll check with the developers to verify if that's a visual check the hand signals should be looking for. It's been suggested most ramp crews would be very unlikely to notice the door handle, but will check if it's a bug or design behaviour. Thanks for reporting back.

It's being investigated with the help of the project consultant pilots. If the FMS should show VFR only airports, then I'm sure a solution will be possible. The concern is having a total worldwide set of every little airfield could be less useful, as real aircraft databases are often a smaller subset of the full thing to minimise "clutter".

D-ATIS is only available for airports in the USA, there isn't a source of D-ATIS information for the rest of the world. However you can use the terminal wx request, to pick up METAR and TAF for all airports. The oil quantity is only "full" or "not full". Use the "press to test" then wait to see if it's full or not. When topping up the oil in the engine (left and right via the black knob above the switch panel, look at how much the oil in the sightglass drops - that's how much oil the engine needed.

No, not necessary for the IRS to be aligned, it's just a radio link. If you find yourself somewhere with no VHF datalink, you will need the GPS system to be working in order to utilise the Inmarsat datalink, as the antenna inside the vertical stab/tail has to actually steer to track the satellites, but this is a bit of a fringe case. (And yes, it's simulated too!)

That's understandable. If the product doesn't suit the kind of simulation you are interested in then it's great there are other addons that suit your needs better. Simulation isn't a game of "collect them all" - some products fit some people, others don't, and it's great to have variety. Regarding the failure system, some of the testers and consultants have been working on training scenarios, including handling notes and extracts from the abnormal procedures for the aircraft. The intention is to develop this over the life of the product to use the failure system to train sim pilots on Challenger 650 operation, just like real life pilots are trained at recurrent simulator visits.

No problem at all. It's normal to have these sort of questions when the simulation is so detailed. The study screens really help you learn the aircraft - fuel system and bleed system especially - there's a lot of documentation in there.

Can you please grab a screenshot of your view angle. I've tested this and the only way to make it misbehave is with an odd view angle. In this position I'm pulling the switch to the UP side and it behaves as expected. In this pic I'm pulling the lever towards the top of the screen, but because of the angle of the view that's interpreted as a down movement. These are fairly normal XP manipulator things, but would be good to see your view to understand the issue properly.

I can see the same effect on my system. Will try and track down the issue further.

Can you show the flight controls page on the MFD please when this happens again? Also, you're going to need to fly way faster than that!

Tell me about it! But cheaper than the real thing by a substantial margin ;-)

It does, yes. Also that's the fuel door you're talking about, don't put electricity in there ;-) I've marked some of them on the pic. Close the main cabin door, check the doors status page, say hello to passengers, play the PA.

It would be very low priority right now as it's a whole custom navdata system, and there have been no other requests. I think it's about €30/year for the Nav Data alone. I subscribe monthly for Nav Data and worldwide charts, which also work on the 650 MFD.

I understand, thanks. I've answered this now on your other thread, but using FAA CIFP data is not supported. The bulk of testing was carried out with Navigraph data and X-Plane stock data.

At the moment this method of working is not supported - the Challenger 650 FMS has a complete navdata processor to avoid having to deal with limitations of the X-Plane navigation API, but the FAA CIFP data is not supported.

This is expected behaviour. The other shut off valves require fuel pressure to open them, with no fuel pressure they will remain in the closed position. The tail tanks are servo controlled, so will open with no fuel pressure. They will also time-out after 30 seconds and close if fuelling has not commenced, at which point a reset of tail and aux SOVs is required. Try opening the refuel truck 2D panel, then pressing Start. You can also read all about the refuel system on the Study, Engines, Fuel System screen, and select Refuel system at the top left.

Looks like I have similar behaviour. Thanks for the report, will pass to the developers.

Please see the additional information added to this topic today for a clear explanation of the issue. There is a minor bug in the release version, a workaround, and corrected behaviour implemented for the next update.

Issue confirmed and logged for review.

Is the FAA data installed into Custom Data, or Default Data? If you don't mind please post a screenshot of your custom data and resources\default data in X-Plane

Green range is for takeoff only. At higher speeds nose down trim is expected and normal.

That's very close to what I've been doing, what our SMEs recommended and avoids FCP inputs when hand flying - that's the reason why that procedure is described in the Takeoff section.