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Anytime - there is no way for us to determine if the plane is "on a centerline" or even "over a light". Not possible in X-Plane. But many taxiways and runways are very bumpy in real life, and the bumping and rattling is something you can hear and feel very well in a 737 - especially when sitting over the nosewheel. Jan

And you know I wouldn´t ruin two perfectly fine and very expensive CFM-56´s on takeoff and climbout like that, don´t you? But - you can hear the "sawtooth" effect of the very high RPM a lot better that way. Jan

Dang, this is serious stuff. Here is my guess, without looking at the AMM and being corrupted by flying Airbuses for 4 years : Sitting in the cockpit with everything set up, how would you know if the spoilers extend when rotating the control wheel? Remember, the EFIS 737 doesn't have flight control displays. And no peaking outside the window!Hydraulic Quantity indication decreasing (as fluid gets caught in the extended cylinders) Assuming you have all static ports blocked (no altimeter). You took off, flew the numbers according to QRH and at some point levelled off. What ways can you think of to get an estimate of your altitude (MSL or AGL)? (Aircraft was just painted and someone did a really bad job during the preflight :-) )Either get into the ACMS and do an Alpha lookup of geometric GPS altitude (MSL). This would also work with a handheld GPS like your mobile phone, if you have an APP for that. You could use your weather radar with a tilt of 0. The beginning of the "ground return" in NM divided by 3.3 is approximately your altitude AGL in thousands of feet. Another way is to get a radar station with altitude readout (military) to scan you, or to have a friendly plane come up and fly alongside ;-) The last possibility is to depressurize the airplane and use cabin altitude indication. The F/O's course selector is not responding to changes. What could this indicate?Some mechanical malfunction of the transducer, or the MCP locked up (usually goes along with altitude going to 50.000 and the altitude alert blaring...). It could also be an electrical failure of a certain bus (no idea off the top of my head which one) If the airplane symbol appears in the lower right corner of the EHSI - what does this indicate?Never seen that conciously or heard of it. The CRT wears out and suddenly there is a color loss in the EADI. What implications could this have on landing in bad weather?The colour is required for autoland, because the FMA is written in "green" and if that colour fails, you could not verify the autopilot status during a low-vis approach. You are having a very bad day (obviously!) and now all 4 CRT's are black/white (complete loss of color). Any implications?This is mostly due to lack of airflow (equipment cooling). The CRT´s might shut down at a later stage, depending on how the internal temperature develops. Try to re-instate airflow by going to an alternate ventilation system. Let's start with that :-) Regards YD

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Right, we are absolutely not opposed to any third party making an app or add-on program to do this stuff - in fact I have been in contact with someone who is set out to do just that! I understand the desire to have something like that, and I am very confident that you will see some offerings in that regard very soon after we release. If having this capability is condition sine qua non for you, then I suggest holding off on the purchase until you are satisfied that your minimum in feature completeness is achieved (so I don´t have to deal with the whining about it in customer support ). Cheers, Jan

You obviously did. Didn´t watch the videos closely enough! Bad Dr. Nerdrage! Start at 02:00 mins, if you are the impatient type Here is my stance on setting the CG and Weight: When we initially conceived this aircraft, we had the serious simulation user in mind. The guy who wants to experience what the real pilot experiences. This explains why we handle the CG and weight stuff the way we do. Let me tell you what part the pilot has in determining and setting weight and CG. The pilot gets an estimated zero-fuel-weight on his electronic flight plan. Together with his First Officer he reviews all flight parameters, and if he works for a decent airline that care for the life of their passengers, and not only their money, he gets to determine how much fuel (in excess of the legally required minimum) he takes. Obviously he can´t overload the aircraft, and sometimes you have to make a call between taking more fuel and leaving payload behind. Once the loading is completed (and no, the Captain doesn´t tell every passenger where he needs to sit), he gets a printout of the electronic load-sheet. A bunch of numbers, along with the actual Zero Fuel weight, and the CG. He punches those into the FMS and thats it. No clicking on seats. No sliding bars to fill cargo holds. No neat little represenation of load and trim envelope, moving CG´s or stuff like that. Now we know that you guys dig that stuff, though, and we might get to it later, for now this first release is favouring virtual pilots, not the virtual loadmasters. Jan

Yes, CG will change as fuel burns. For passenger seating, we assume an average spread throughout the cabin, at least when you load the aircraft. But if you want to pretend that only half the seats are occupied, and everyone sits in the rear, you can. Just calculate the CG (taking a third-party-tool, for example), and then enter this CG with our "ground services menu". The airplane´s CG will be adjusted accordingly. In other words - you supply the weight and the CG, the airplane flies accordingly (including fuel burn). Jan

This is correct as far as the screens go - I think that the sound of the breakers working is pretty much "instantaneous" as soon as the switch reaches the "end" position (they are toggle switches). Our level-D simulators have this wrong. There is a slight delay for the activation of the breakers, and it always threw me off when using the switches. For a second you go "oh, something is not working"... We haven´t modeled the screen blanking so far, but we might do so for release, if not then will do it later. I think it is a neat effect that shows the significance of transferring the powersource... Jan

If you mean the "chevron" type FD - then no. I hate it, can´t fly it and don´t want it in my airplane . If you mean that you can only use one flight director (on-side), then yes. Jan

Absolutely correct. And this override is simulated with our 737. No effect on AP until you pass the control-deflection threshhold, then the AP reverts to CWS mode (in the axis that was moved), together with the flashing yellow AP P/RST warning light. Thereafter yoke deflection will affect the CWS target value (i.e. fly the plane with an attitude-hold mode). Jan

We will try to also make Navigraph data compatible with the IXEG 737, just like Cameron said. If we can´t get this into version 1.0 you have two options: a.) Fly the 737 with the enclosed database and get an extra paper route to get Aerosoft nav-data when you feel the original database is too outdated for you. b.) Don´t fly the 737 at all. No one likes to spend money again for something they feel they have already bought. But I - for example - have one and the same movie on VHS, DVD and now blue-ray. Same exact show on every single one. Hmm. Why? Because I can´t watch the VHS tape on my current hardware, which I think is superior to my old tape player. See the analogy? Have a fantastic day, Jan

Almost there - we want to make sure "we have it" before announcing a firm release date. Once the plane is feature complete (for V1.0) we will announce the date, then its another few weeks to finish everything up - during these weeks we will release the tutorial videos one by one. Jan

This is the way it works: With HDR off, you only get two "illumination beams". Inside the cockpit those are used for the "dome light" and for the "pedestal flood light". Outside the cockpit we use one for "landing lights" and one for "other lights". The other lights will switch and swap dynamically to give you the best possible experience. So in the cockpit you can still use and adjust most of the cockpit panel lighting (they dont use illumination beams), but you will loose map lights, emergency flood lights, emergency exit lighting. Outside you can see most lightbulbs shining, but the visual lighting effect is limited to two beams at the most. One is reserved for the "landing lights", so you will always see those and they light up terrain and stuff. The other one is reserved for other lights, and will be displayed as best possible. If you have one runway turnoff light on, only then that lightbeam is used. If you turn on both, then the lightbeam lights up a broad area in front. If you have only the winglight on, then it will illuminate the wing, but only one side (only one beam, remember?) Now before you start complaining - this is not something we invented to save us work, it is just a limitation of X-Plane. If you want to run a contemporary flight-simulator with an adequate appearance, you need to have the hardware. Buy, beg, borrow or steal. It´s been like that for the last 35 years. I feel sympathetic to anyone pursuing this hobby with a limited supply of resources (been there myself for the first 15 years of my computer gaming), but if we could make this simulation run full bore with 50+ FPS on your 20 year old Pentium 5, then we would be guilty of sorcery and burn at the stake... Jan

The function of the plane is the same, but you would loose some lighting options in the cockpit (like map lights, for example), and on the outside lights (like logo-lights, for example). Jan

The effect on performance would be great, because your framerate will actually increase if you don´t have HDR on. But you will miss out on a lot of internal and external lights, non-HDR is really limited in that regard and there is nothing we developers can do about it :-( Jan

Interesting. I don´t know much about the 737-200, I never flew it. But it might be possible, in that configuration you would not need a gear-transfer-valve as there would always be one engine-driven-pump to raise the gear, even after an engine failure. But with a total loss of electric, you would also loose system B (and the stby system), so you´d have to land without flaps... Jan

I don´t know, but we used to have the A hydraulic unpressurized for pushback a few years ago. The reason was that there were no adequate steering-bypass-pins available at all destinations, so for commonality reasons the pushback was done with all A pumps off. That way the nosewheel steering won´t try to snap the towbar... Jan

I think it´s mostly because it takes time to implement that I would rather spend playing computer - or implementing wingflex! If we could snip our fingers and - whoop, there it is - you bet we´d have it (as an option for the weak and lazy only, of course ). Jan

Ha, I think you are just trying to get a new video with the 737! Seriously, thanks for the detailed explanation, I will definitely try that. The truth is that I am old and don´t adopt well to new things . Every new software takes me out of my comfort zone, and I don´t even use TrackIR during my testing of our 737, because it takes too much time to start the software, put on the hat, get everything centered... Jan

Hi Vespa, good to have you here! We are emerging on the other side of Christmas right now, expect more progress reports shortly! Jan

Rest assured that we are not rolling the dice to set a price. We are trying to hit the sweet spot, as in maximizing our benefit: "copies sold x profit per copy" With that we have to be aware of what will be perceived as a "fair price" by the potential customer. It always takes at least two parties to complete a transaction. It is part of the process called "trading" to come to a conclusion about wether the trade is beneficial to you, or not. If this conclusion is "no" to either party, then the trade will not be made. What is not going to happen here is the process of "bartering" or "dealing". It usually involves telling the other party why you think his part in the deal is more beneficial than yours, and threatening that the trade will not be completed unless the balance of benefit is shifted to your side. Common phrases heard are: "I have X hungry children at home..." or "that other product is better and cheaper than yours...". IXEG will announce a price. You will decide if you pay it or not (or wait for a sale pre-Xmas 2016). Hopefully both sides walk away from the deal with a smile on their face, thinking they made a good deal. Jan

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Guys, get some rest. I said that we will release the 6 tutorial videos before release... Jan

Thats totally awesome - I just don´t understand, since you seem to have real mechanical instruments in your cockpit, why would you need us to do virtual ones? Isn´t it more about providing interface to drive the real ones? Cheers, Jan

Good points all around. Again - there is wing flex on the real 737 (although less than on other aircraft). We might add it later as development resources become available, it´s just not the highest priority for us (and this is clearly a point where opinions vary ). Cheers, Jan