FlyerC3

Take a look into the IXEG interface documentation, you can find there a list of the datarefs. Second thing would be to install DataRefTool to find out the datarefs for all the activators used in the plane.

What you hear there in the cockpit is the trim mechanism, trying to keep the airplanes attitude correctly. Switch off AP and it will be gone, but then you have to do the work alone.

Thanks for your immediate reply. Tested it and this is, what I found out. I use the IXEG_Failure script to induce random failures, but it was not active at this flight, therefore I don`t understand that this happened at all. I could not create the situation again, thus I was not able to test things with gear lever down. With gear lever up, manual extension of the gear does not work. With gear lever in OFF, it works as expected, independent of hydraulic the pressure. Would have helped to read the complete sentence in the QRH : in the NG manual gear extension can be accomplished with landing gear lever in ANY position. However for standardization with the CL the lever is placed to OFF. Strange wording, but yes Achim

Every now and then I encounter the issue, that the right main gear is not going down. Ok so far, but : - It is always the right main gear, never one of the others. Is the failure perhaps modeled only for this one ? - I did not succeed so far in extending the gear manually. QRH says, this is possible in every gear handle position by pulling the manual extension handle, but never ever I could extend even one of the gears. Is this function modeled at all or am I doing something wrong ? Can anyone please assist here ? Thanks Achim

The question concerning compatibility with WINCTRL PFP3N still is an interesting one. I got all the keys running, but there is no output to the display, what sadly makes it of course unusable with the 733. Anything that can be done to help us out here ?

quite understandable, but still a pitty

Since I am still practicing certain tasks e.g. handflying the aircraft on short trips without programming a route (see tutorial flight) loading the same situation again (and handle it better this time ) would be a big benefit. What do you think ?

Hi I need some help with datarefs. VOR/LOC and Glide Slope Captured are shown in the PFD. Can someone help me with the respective datarefs ? Thanks Joachim

Yepp, I watched your video and it went well flying that this way

@Jan : Thank you for the link. I assume IRL the pilot first manually goes into the circle due to the existing rules and then relies to the automatic ? With my 733 I joined "somehow" the circle and used timer and heading mode, but that keeps me quite busy especially when there are still other things to do during descend, since mostly the hold gives me additional miles when I was late for descend for the one or the other reason @mjrhealth : no, I am using SI because of the very good voice interface, the astonishing AI model behind and the availability, that VATSIM et al. cannot match

Is there a fix entry point for the HOLD, i.e. as shown here always LETKU ? Or can I enter the ring any place convenient for my situation ? And what about the turn radius, i.e. is it a venial sin to overshoot when speed is to high ? And one more : I assume,the FIX is alway the begin or end of the leg ?

Hi all I wrote a small LUA script to fly a hold starting at any chosen point. As you can see in the picture, it already works quite well. I haven’t compensated for wind drift yet, therefore there still may be a shift. In my script, I specify the heading of the leg as well as its duration in seconds. I set the bank angle to 25 degrees. The speed is manually set to 215 knots, and I define whether the turn should be to the right or to the left. In principle I allow any reasonable altitude and of course altitude changes. The picture also shows a defined hold nearby, which seems to have a different size. Less bank angle ? Higher velocity ? So I would like to ask, what instructions does ATC issue when they clear an aircraft to hold ? And, by the way, does someone know how to write with LUA directly into the FMC scratchpad without "typing" every character via the keyboard. Thanks a lot

Ok, disregard, cannot reproduce this behaviour. I will watch it over the next flights

Hi I was handflying the DKB4H SID from EDDS to DKB by following runway heading until crossing DKB radial 228 and turning then to 48° heading. So far so good. A/T and FD ON, starting and climbing with TOGA and trying to follow the magenta elevation line. This line however sometimes jumped all of a sudden from about 8° to about 15° elevation and then slowly went back to below 10° und jumped again. Did this several times. What did I mess up here ? Has anyone else seen this before and a hint what I made wrong ? And by the way : why is heading sel announced, since AP is off ? Regards Joachim

Increasing the number of passengers ultimately does nothing more than raise the aircraft's weight. This can just as well be achieved by adjusting the payload respectively.