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Well, it is noticeable that you will rarely hear anything rude from a controller here in Europe or anywhere where the airlines are paying for the ATC service directly and per flight. Testy in more stressful situations (when they have to call someone 5 times because they aren´t listening properly), but never downright rude. The U.S., where ATC is paid by for the goverment is a whole different story. Efficient,yes. Likeable, mostly - but dare to ask the JFK approach controller to repeat his clearance Now if you employ a "real" controller to work on a service like PilotEdge, I would think it a testimony to the realism of the whole setup if the guy forgets that its "just a game" and takes it all seriously enough to fall back into old habits when dealing with non-compliant aircraft. Nice? Maybe not. Realistic? Definitely. Don´t forget that part of the whole ATC experience is also the pressure to not mess up, play along and to not be the clog in the wheel of a nicely humming EGLL approach flow... Jan

Yeah, I love it when manuals are clear and concise and leave no room for misinterpretation. Here is my favourite one: Quote: There appears to be some confusion over the new pilot role titles. This notice will hopefully clear up any misunderstandings. The titles P1, P2, and Co-Pilot will now cease to have any meaning, within the BA operations manuals. They are to be replaced by Handling Pilot, Non-handling Pilot, Handling Landing Pilot, Non-Handling Landing Pilot, Handling Non-Landing Pilot, and Non Handling Non-Landing Pilot. The Landing Pilot, is initially the Handling Pilot and will handle the take-off and landing except in role reversal when he is the Non-Handling Pilot for taxi until the Handling Non-Landing Pilot, hands the handling to the Landing Pilot at eighty knots. The Non-Landing (Non-Handling, since the Landing Pilot is handling) Pilot reads the checklist to the Handling Pilot until after Before Descent Checklist completion, when the Handling Landing Pilot hands the handling to the Non-Handling Non-Landing Pilot who then becomes the Handling Non-Landing Pilot. The Landing Pilot is the Non-Handling Pilot until the "decision altitude" call, when the Handling Non-Landing Pilot hands the handling to the Non-Handling Landing Pilot, unless the latter calls "go-around", in which case the Handling Non-Landing Pilot, continues Handling and the Non-Handling Landing Pilot continues non-handling until the next call of "land" or "go-around", as appropriate. In view of the recent confusion over these rules, it was deemed necessary to restate them clearly."

Thanks for the follow-ups, everyone! Jan

Yeah, the plane will fly perfectly fine without any electrical power - as long as you are in VMC. So there is always that element of luck involved when these (rare) events take place. Jan

What, only one busload of worshippers??

Yeah, you are right - I parked the plane as well... Actually, I do fly it on warm summer days (not too high!) and cold winter days . We are aware and will fix (probably some X-Plane dataref thingy again...) Thanks for the report, Jean! Jan

Hi, it is modeled - but right now it can not be seen because the 5th stage has been beefed up by us to provide more air during testing prior to release. It turned out that our model was not able to maintain cabin pressure running on only one engine at higher altitudes - before the 9th stage would open, the volume got too low. We could have tuned to make the 9th stage open at a higher PSI level - but this didn´t work according to the videos I made from the real plane, so as a stopgap measure we simple increased 5th stage pressure output. We may tune this at a later stage. In the real airplane you can sometimes feel it getting suddently warmer in the cabin during descents - the 9th stage opens, and the bleed air is considerably warmer than from the 5th stage. So before the AC system gets a chance to react, it first gets noticeably warmer... Jan

Tony is right - and so is his fiancee (give her a kiss for me, will ya?) My brother is complaining that he only got two stripes, though - oh well, if he shapes up a bit with his flying, who knows, maybe a rank progression is going to come his way? If he could only stop looking around the cockpit and concentrate... Jan

Hi, runways can not be added (also not on the real one, afaik), AC is a DME station and can also not be shown. RB would be possible, though. Cheers, Jan

Hmm, so we have two people reporting this, both running Radeon Chips on iMacs, running 10.11 OSX... Nils did try to put in a protection into the OpenGL code that MIGHT help with this - probably showing in 1.0.8 or more likely 1.1. Let me know if there is anything else you can figure out - I will be working on plans for the shrine just in case this works out . Jan

Hi, this is correct - the relais holding the connection to the generators are held close by battery bus current. Once the battery drains, you will loose all power to the aircraft. This will usually not happen, because the battery charger is powered through the ground service bus. If you turn off the battery switch, all buses will become unpowered, except for the hot battery bus. If you want to fly without AC generators you can - the battery will power all the buses you mentioned (but while on the ground, you need to move the standby pwer switch to "stby pwer", not to auto). But only if the battery switch is on. Once the battery is drained, you can not connect any power to the aircraft, anymore (not even GPU). Jan

A shrine... hmm. With priestesses? Like the oracle in 300? I will see what can be done :-) Jan

Thanks for the pictures, yes, sure looks like the conditionals are the problem. For now, I would suggest this workaround: Use HDG SEL to stay on the magenta until almost at the conditional waypoint, then fly DIRECT TO (enter LSK 1L) to the next "real" waypoint and engage LNAV again. Sorry for the inconvenience, Jan

Thanks for the detailed report, Juan - I am fairly certain that this is a problem isolated to your hardware configuration, otherwise we would have heard about this before and more than once. Can you give us a detailed report on the hardware you are using and the driver versions so we can track this problem down? Thank you, Jan

I will double-check, but the autopilot engagement status should have nothing to do at all with the operation of the autobrake. We are using X-Plane´s default autobrake, and it has a bug in that it requires to have ALL landing gear on the ground to work, whereas the real one only looks for wheel spinup and strut compression. Thanks for the report, Jan

No, I fly full time. But I have a nice gaming-laptop that fits just inside my flightkit and since I am old and married, I don´t have to entertain the flight-attendants and hit the bars during night-stops anymore, I actually get a lot of stuff done . Jan

I have it set, but don´t see the effect shown above... or do you mean that with HDR it´s fine, but without it´s not? Jan

You think so, eh? Jan

Couldn´t reproduce this - but would be very interested if there is something changing in 10.50 that we need to be aware of. So please check if you can make that go away by going 10.45 and then we will have to let Ben Supnik know... Jan

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