juan0511

Hi all! Happy to see all the good news about development and the upcoming update. I wanted to ask if you are you planning, maybe in the longer term, to animate the balance tabs on the control surfaces (precisely in the ailerons and elevators), as shown in the following picture? Thank you for your hard work! Your aircraft is a work of art, it's really great to see its moving forward . JM.

Jan, Morten, thank you for your replies! I've been running some tests, flew up to FL370, down to 350, then up again to 370, down again to 270. Speed was mach .80. The first time the vertical speed went to 6000 ft/min and stayed there until it reached 350. Speed went up to mach .82. The second time was worse, this time I enabled the data output window (see screenshot). It was at 7600 ft/min for maybe 6-7 seconds then stayed in the 6000s until I told it to go to 370 again. EDIT: I did three more tests, same altitudes, two times starting at .80 mach and the last time starting at .75 mach. This time I let the aircraft reach the selected altitude, all three times the result was the same. At first the descent rate goes to 7500+ for a few seconds, then 6000+ and finally it manages the descent properly, keeping the dialed in speed. When starting at .80, it will momentarily accelerate to .82, when starting at .75, the speed raises momentarily to .78 mach. Hope this helps.

Hi, this happened to me as well 3 times during the same flight (ZFW 44.48 tonnes, fuel 8.0 tonnes) until I switched to V/S mode for descent. The ATC was making me descend gradually: From cruise FL370 to FL350. Speed was Mach .80, there was a pretty strong headwind of around 90kt. No turbulence. As soon as I pressed LVL CHG the descent rate went to 6000ft/min and had to keep the speed in check with the use of speed brakes. I was then cleared to FL240, when I pressed LVL CHG this time, the same happened. But this time I believe it was a lot more than 6000ft/min, judging by the rate of descent seen in the altimeter. When the mach speed warning fired, I leveled off manually. I tried once more, I was at FL290 or so, but the behavior was exactly the same. At this point I began using V/S mode. I've seen the descent rate go up to 4750 ft/min (on NG 737s though), but always keeping the airspeed in check, even if flying at high speeds before applying LVL CHG. I hope you can take a look into it, if there's a specific test I can do to help, please let me know. Keep up the good work, this plane is a delight to fly! Definitely Xplane's best!