Litjan

Yes - but this does not apply for the 737 as it has no geardoors that would extend when trying to raise the gear (all gear doors and fairings are already extended when the gear is extended). But I think they also keep the windshear procedures the same to maintain commonality with other types - so transferring to another aircraft would not require to relearn this procedure in such a substantial way. Jan

No such luck . Anyway, the VNAV is not able to handle complex restrictions and has some bugs, this has been known and stated many times on these forums, so your bug report is neither surprising nor telling us anything that has not been known widely for many months. For now use V/S and FLCHG. Cheers, Jan

That is the reason. Jan

I think (reading from your log.txt) that your computer is not set up according to the rules of Fengh-Shui. There may also be an influence of earth-rays or simple bad karma. I have heard of cases where computer mainboards were evil sorcerers in a former life, and are therefore prone to malfunctions.

I don´t remember, but I may have some documentation and a few cockpit videos at home that I can check Cheers, Jan

No, it does not need an update, and future updates will not adress this. I am sure that it is something that is going on with your computer, especially if it happens mostly after 2 hour flights. You can post your log.txt from the X-Plane main folder here, and maybe we can have a look if you run a conflicting plugin. Cheers, Jan

It never worked on the FO´s side. Cheers, Jan

Make sure to bring some Licher Bier!

No, you have to send me one of your homing pigeons, and I will let if fly to you with a message about the new update when its done! Jan

Yes, you will get a notification by email.

Yes, we are fixing a couple errors in the LNAV code that would cause this. I think you should see almost all of these gone with 1.1. For now, keep watching the AP like a hawk!! Cheers, Jan

Hmm, let me guess, you are using XP11 and you are not reading many forums related to XP11, right? Here, let me help you with that: http://forums.x-plane.org/index.php?/forums/topic/110304-ixeg-737cl-and-more/&page=2#comment-1134164

Hi Jan, Thanks for the kind words - I know some planes are affected, and I know that the "default" aircraft in XP11 will be working fine again in the next beta... The payware aircraft will be updated when XP11 is final - Ben Supnik told everyone to wait until then. Cheers, Jan

Working on it! Au revoir, Jan PS: Day before yesterday fixed some bugs with Nils on the TCAS (some online-traffic staying fixed in position relative to aircraft, erroneous RA´s when X-Plane AI aircraft spawn....) Yesterday fixed a bug with Tom relating to aircraft not flying straight to first point on SID´s with long, straight initial segment (like LFPG 27L RAN1AD, for example)...

Yeah, we override the setting that X-Plane provides (at least we try to) - happy to see that you got it sorted. Jan

XP11 not supported yet. Cheers, Jan

We may revisit this at a later stage. The problem of A/T not setting correct thrust in some conditions is also on the review list. Thanks, Jan

Thanks for the nice feedback! We will need to re-tune the aircraft when XP11 is "final" - if you feel REALLY enterprising you can do this: Disclaimer: All this at your own risk. Don´t come crying if you *** up your aircraft and run out of activations because you need to re-install your messed up aircraft file. FIRST: MAKE A COPY OF THE .acf file!! Run the aircraft in XP10 at a certain speed and altitude, i.e. 5000 feet and 250 kts. Output "drag" to your screen. Note the value. EDIT: At 250kts, 5000´ and 100.000lbs (45.450kg) this should be 6460lbs of drag. Open the aircraft in Plane Maker for XP11 (root folder) and browse to Standard/Fuselage/Section Play with the value for "body coef of drag" (you will need to increase it) until your results for 5000 feet and 250kts match up with XP10 (6460lbs of drag) The results for other speeds won´t be perfect (since the shape of the drag curve has also changed for XP11) - but will get you back into the ballpark. Jan

XP11 is not officially supported. Lots of changes to drag, so this is not surprising. Jan

Excellent, happy to hear that! Happy flying! Jan

So I guess G-Data was the problem? Can you confirm that its solved for you now?

Thats the spirit!

Czien dobre, marpilot, Are you running X-Plane on an external disk like a USB stick, a memory card or a mobile harddisk connected with a USB cable? Are you sure you have excluded the whole X-Plane folder for ALL antivirus programs you may have running? Many users have installed some programs "by accident" that they don´t even know about like avast antivirus etc. I am positive that it is a problem specific to your computer, and not a problem with the plane, as thousands of other users are running it just fine. We will try to help you, but ultimately you have to find out what is slowing down access to the navigational database that is residing in the X-Plane resources folder. Jan

Hi Michael, the "bleeding off" is certainly academic/legal, and a prerequisite for landing-distance-calculations to be legal. The shorter the landing distance in the book, the better the plane sells. So it is advantageous to calculate touchdown with "Vref" instead of the minimum Vtgt of Vref+5. If you are approaching in high (and usually gusty) winds, it would require you to pretty much retard the thrust levers to idle when crossing the threshhold to bleed off 15kts of speed additional until touchdown. A recipe for disaster, as there would be no instantaneous power available in case of a sudden drop-shear or required go-around (spool times). And usually landing distance is not a factor for the 737, especially not in situations with strong headwinds. If you approach with a solid speed additional, you will need to fly the plane onto the runway, taking care not to bump the nosewheel first (usually you will fly with Flaps30 to give you a better controllability, anyway (higher speed -> better control, less driftangle). Chop the thrust levers at touchdown. Jan