Litjan

Thanks for the report, we have done some work on a similiar problem (where you have a sharp kink in the route), but this looks like something else... I will see if I can reproduce it on our 1.1 testbuild... Jan

Good find, guys! Added to the list. Jan

Ah, ok - I didn´t know that - I thought it was a live taping of the actual event. I would say let´s see if it resurfaces with the new turbulence model in 10.51r2 and on, and then we can take a look. Thanks, Jan

My wild guess as to the most promising cure would be: You need to invest in some capable hardware. Cheers, Jan

Ok, had a bit of time to look at the video: Something unrelated to turbulence is going on. The speed cursor is stuck at 250, yet the magenta speed bug on the EADI is close to 340. The FMA is boxed all the time (it should stop after 10s). The vertical page says ACT CRZ - indicating the plane is in cruise mode, not in climb mode.... Not sure what is happening, haven´t seen that myself. Jan

Yes, please make sure you updated to the latest XP beta (10.51r2) An excerpt from the patch note for that 10.51r1: Turbulence reduced when using real weather. Cheers, Jan

Don´t quote me on that, but you may be able to simply move the folder over to the new installation...The activation is validated "per machine" - so there is no need to validate again, I think. Jan

It will PRIMARILY be released for XP10. That version is what we officially support. We expect the plane to work in XP11 and will certainly work fast and hard to make it compatible (if it should not be) - but XP10 is the prime base simulator for 1.1 Jan

Hi, I am not sure if Cameron is fully back up to speed yet after getting hit pretty hard with hurricane Matthew (think he evacuated). There might be a backlog of support requests due to that... Hope to see you up and flying again soon, Jan

Hi - I think you will see XP11 a bit sooner than 1.1. We fully expect the 737 to "just work" with XP11, but you never know, so we will want to test it briefly against XP11, especially since 1.1 isn´t quite done yet. It is just entering final testing, which we expect to last a few weeks. Cheers, Jan

Woah, that sounds like quite the ride! I fortunately haven´t experienced anything like that, and without a video of it (to see what modes you were in exactly) it is very hard to reconstruct what was going on... If you can recreate the experience with distinct steps to take so I can reproduce it, I would be very interested to hear them so we can fix that happening. Thanks for the report, Jan

Here is a shot I took while descending with 300kts IAS (which is recommended for a windmill start) with engine no.2 shutdown. You can see the N1 and N2 values are not 0, but instead very much what I would expect to see in the real aircraft. Hope this helps, Jan

No, we are not using a full external model for the engines. We are simply tweaking the thrust values according to altitude and Mach no, the EGT during startup phase and the fuel flow to be in line with the real engine. So almost everything else you see (oil pressure, temperatures, windmilling N´s etc.) are default X-Plane. There are no immediate plans to change that - even though some people are obsessed with having these things right after scrutinizing countless youtube videos, most real pilots would not be able to tell you what the oil temperature at cruise or the windmilling N1 at 300kts would be. It is possible to windmill-start the engines at the correct parameters in X-Plane, and that is all I care about for now. It would be great to have a high-fidelity simulation of the whole engine, but right now the time/benefit ratio is prohibitive. Cheers, Jan

There is on some models, but not on the one we portray. Cheers, Jan

There will be no 1.0.8 - the next version will be 1.1. And I don´t think it will have the holding function in 1.1 - but we eventually will get it. Jan

Good find, lanmancz!

Hi Vitaly, I am afraid you are right. VR is the future, with some obstacles to overcome, of course. Austin loves to be the guy that goes against the flow - which can create great opportunities if everyone is running just because everyone else is running. But it can also lead to disaster if everyone else is running because there is a lion on the edge of the forest... He has some good guys on his team, though, and I believe as VR becomes more mainstream and initial problems are overcome, that X-Plane will go that way as well. Here is thinking of that lovely afternoon with beer and a great view on the Kreshatik , Jan

Exactly right. And even if the FMS "thinks" that you are somewhere else, both vertically and laterally, this does not affect the airplane at all. You could program in a flight from Beijing to Hanoi and then fly from San Francisco to Seattle and the plane would just fly perfectly (although you would need to disregard all information on the CDU´s and fly VOR-VOR). The FMS is just an "aid" - but not a required device like the FMGC on the Airbus fleet. In fact it is perfectly legal to fly the 737 with the FMS (and even the AP!) totally failed.Sure, some restrictions would apply (RVSM, RNP-1, CAT I only). It may also be an interesting fact that it is not legal to base your fuel estimation on the FMS - it is purely an additional information device. So even if your vertical path is totally haywire, as long as you fly the vertical profile in a selected mode and verify that the magenta line makes sense (no huge extrawide turns due to erroneous radius calculation) you are fine. Jan

The only workaround I could think of would be to hit the "reboot gizmo" button during flight. This should reload the current location database. Of course you would need to regain control of the airplane (AP defaults to OFF), but it can be done. I do it all the time, the plane is still at the same location and you just need to enter the rest of your flightplane while you fly on HDG for a few minutes... I would recommend practicing this first instead of flying for 5 hours and then messing it up. We are still working on enlarging the size of the loaded database for one of the next updates. Jan

Keep in mind that some people reported that sort of problem with one of the last windows 10 updates, too... Jan http://www.avsim.com/topic/495112-x-plane-is-very-jerky-windows-10-and-driver-issues/ http://forums.x-plane.org/index.php?/forums/topic/107858-windows-10-update-not-playing-nicely-with-xp10/

To tell you the truth, handling a multi-restriction arrival is not the strength of our current iteration FMS... The real plane does handle that a bit better - and we are planning to get there. To save yourself the frustration for now, do what real pilots do - don´t try to micromanage your descent with the FMS, but do the math in your head and fly the airplane, instead of having it fly you. This may sound like a lame excuse, and I understand that simulator pilots are obsessed with the fully managed flight - it is my fault that we have built the plane with the real pilots priorities in mind, and not the simulator crowd. We fully plan to flesh the VNAV part out in the future - but rest assured, if you get 100 real 737 pilots into a discussion about what VNAV will do during the descent, 98% will sigh, roll their eyes and twitch their shoulders up . And I was one of the 2 remaining ones that had at least a vague idea... Fly, don´t code! Cheers, Jan

Yay, waterboarding in Guantanamo Bay! Can I get that with all-inclusive? A bit of a spoiler, but we have fully custom: TCAS EGPWS (+GPWS) - no man-made obstacle look-ahead, though, due to lack of database in XP. running already on our 1.1 testbed. We are just waiting on some more features to be done to make it a worthy "full" updated, instead of a hotfix. There will also be a new gizmo version to accomodate the new MacOS, and too many other texture, sound and other fixes to list right now. It will take another few weeks, though - this time we really want to test the **** out of it. Cheers, Jan

I would be surprised if this had anything to do with our 737 - and if so it has nothing to do with the bug that Tom fixed (the plane not following the magenta anymore) Cheers, Jan

Yep, enter a new cruise altitude and if you dial in that altitude on the MCP before EXECuting, the plane should even fly a cruise descent (with -1000fpm) to the new altitude. Cheers, Jan