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Once those guys pay me what my Airline pays me, I will consider switching full time! Jan

Hmm, I have never seen this - there has been another report of someone seeing the CDU corrupted when the "ground services menu" is open with XP 10.50b5, but I have not been able to reproduce that, either. Are you upgraded to the latest drivers for your video card? Jan

Hi Max, yes, there are! I could teach you here if I had a few months of time...but since I don´t, I would suggest you do some google searching for keywords like "FCOM" "737-300", and so on. I think there are even some links flying around in this forum...shouldn´t be hard to find for an internet-savvy person, but of course reading "official" documentation isn´t really entertaining. Jan

That could be related to another problem we have with "conditional waypoints" not being in the right spot...we are looking at that.# Jan

Hi, the TAS at those waypoints is way too high to make the turn - we need to work on our "bypass" code to show that on the LEGS page, but for now try to enter 170/ for the speed at the first waypoint and see if the route draws then? Thanks for the report, Jan

Thanks Werner! Jan

Yeah, I was still smiling, then....Now I fly Airbus. Jan

Thanks for the heads-up! I will check in the latest Beta myself... Jan

Hi, the problem is that the speed is too fast for the plane to make the turn - your speed at D165V is planned at 240kts and FL89 - the True Air Speed is too high to make the turn to the next waypoint. You can also tell by the LNAV route making a very "sharp" kink at that waypoint. Try to reduce the speed to 170kts or so (enter 170/ at LSK 1R) and see how it works then? Jan

I think the reason behind this behaviour is the "deselect" function of the pushbutton on the MCP. The take-off mode of the flight-director is basically FL CHG in the pitch channel with a complex algorithm to determine the target speed (V2+15 with both engines) and HDG SEL in the roll mode. This roll mode can not be deselected, though. So when you engage the autopilot, the pitch mode switches to FL CHG with a fixed speed, but the roll mode stays in HDG SEL (but can not be deselected - so no light on the button). Just my guess why... Jan

Hi Tom, yes, this is correct - we had some discussion about this back then and I didn´t quite remember, but one of our beta testers checked it in the real aircraft. The HDG SEL is active, but the button isn´t lit. Jan

Thanks for the report and the files! Jan

Thanks, Tim - we will look at it as soon as possible! Jan

The CWS P is a fallback mode when the GS is lost after it was captured. The plane will tolerate a missing GS signal for a second or so, but then revert to CWS P. This is working ok in your movie - but the GS should never capture in the first place in this scenario... Jan

Errm, no, it is not normal, it is a bug - when you push APP in that situation the GS should get armed in white - and stay that way until a valid GS deviation signal is within 1/5th dot deviation for the capture... Good find (probably only happens if the GS isn´t received yet)! Jan

Sweet, thanks! Jan

I guess if you were really bent on doing that flight you could click the "reboot gizmo" button when you are mid-way and then re-engage the autopilot and feed the FMS for the remaining part of the flight (as the database should be reloaded with gizmo reload, iirc). Jan

Thanks, Chris! Jan

Hi guys, we always need the IXEG_FMS_debug.txt file to review any flights. It is in the aircrafts root folder and will be updated every time you press EXEC. Thanks, Jan

You certainly turned the CRS-1 (or CRS-2 for FCC 2) selector to the inbound course of 248, right? Jan

Thank you for your feedback about the VNAV performance. We are still tuning it and hope to improve it, although I do read a fair amount of user misconception about how it is supposed to work in your post. About the claim of the light intensity not being correct - may I ask you how many hours you have in real Boeing airliners? Just to confirm the credibility of your claim, of course. Thank you very much, Jan

Hello Igor, It is great to see this finally come to fruition! I hope I was at least some help during the development, and I think this will create an even better immersion for our plane! Good job, Jan

Hi Ian - thanks for the offer! I will talk to Tom and will get back to you. I personally would love to have that, since the real FMS does it, too. Cheers, Jan

Added to log, thx Tom!

Hi Michael, the autopilot will supersede the flight-director - but the question is - if AP A is in command, but FD switch A is off - will there be a MA light on the left side? I think so. So maybe the logic is like this: Whenever any FD switch is on, there will be a MA light. If an AP is in CMD, then the MA light will be on that side, even if that side FD switch is off. If no AP is in CMD then the MA light will be on the side of the FD switch that is on AND was switched on first. So your second row would be: .... B Master .... A+B Master third row: ... A Master .... A+ B Master Jan