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Now it is getting weird...we haven´t changed anything with regard to that logic in about 5 years! I will check and see what is going on. Cheers Jan Edit: I checked and it is working ok on my end - are you running a "light enhancement" script of some sort? We had some problems with users that did and they had too bright or too dim cockpit lighting as a result...

Hi, I am not an expert on internet connections - it may be a problem with your internet setup (router, firewall) - our experts live in the US and are still asleep - they should be able to give you better advice in a little while. Cheers, Jan

Just run the installer - it will take care of everything! Cheers, Jan

Hi Antares, yes, you are right - some of the limits on that TMA are not working quite like in the real aircraft. The actual thrust set by the plane is correct, but the limit displayed isn´t. I am actually not sure, though - if you select CLB-2 (for example) manually, will it switch back to CLB at the washout altitude or does the selection "stick" since you made it manually? The TMA is a thing that we pilots don´t really pay much attention to, it "just works", so I what is shown there never really struck me as "odd" - I only started worrying about it when modeling this aircraft. We actually have an open ticket for looking at the logic, including the ability to override the automatic switching and selecting a rating manually on the CDU. Cheers and thanks for helping to point out inconsistencies! Jan

We deliberately allow loading of the plane beyond certified weights - the real one COULD be loaded above those weights as well (it is just not allowed). It would be like limiting the wind in X-Plane that you can set to the maximum certified limit...but part of flying in a simulator is to explore the "what if" scenarios ;-) Cheers, Jan

Works for me - sometimes it´s value is off the scale (it starts at 60C), could that be the case?

Yep, I can confirm that as well...that one used to work as well. Both of these buttons depend on a timer function that has given us some trouble recently. This also relates to the "GPU connects to only one bus" bug. We are continuing to investigate the problem together with Ben Russel, it is a deeper computational problem. I believe that going back to the "stable" Gizmo release may fix those (at the expense of the less smooth experience when flying). Cheers, Jan

Hmm, I never noticed that - it has been a long time since that was coded - I have to check some of my videos of the actual aircraft. Just shooting from the hip I would say that it should correspond to the thrust reduction altitude... Thanks for the report, Jan

You are right! And we fixed that...I wonder what happened . Thanks for the report! Jan

Ah, I get it! The carot will actually always indicate the "full power" N1 (20k lbs of thrust) for the given conditions. The reason is that a pilot needs to be able to quickly set "full thrust" in an emergency. The carot will not move down (in automatic mode) for a derated thrust. Once you pull out the knob for manual setting it will move to the "indicated" value that is shown in the little window. Cheers, Jan

Yes, our plane should be flown with experimental flight model ON. It will fly with it OFF as well, but the performance will not be correct. Happy you got the fuel flowing again! ;-) Cheers, Jan

Hmm, for me this works fine - look how I set the value to 80.0% N1 and the carot is exactly on 80?

No, that should not have anything to do with it. Please doublecheck the position of the switches - the center fuel pumps will not show "low pressure" lights if they are off - so it is a bit easier to have them "off" but to think they are on. I have just checked and it works correctly on my end. Cheers, Jan

We wanted to implement it, but then we saw that the new Microsoft Flight Simulator has no opening doors on aircraft, and since everyone says that that is a much better program than X-Plane we have not done the opening doors, because we want to be more like them! Cheers, Jan

The difference to EXP CLB is that OP CLB will climb at the speed you have set on the FCU. EXP CLB will pull the nose up to green dot, converting all kinetic energy into altitude, then climbing at green dot (best angle). It is a pretty violent (for passenger jets) maneuver, I have tried it on a ferry flight - but using OP CLB with the speed dialed back to green dot would accomplish the same thing, just a bit more smooth. Cheers, Jan

Hmm, maybe it just looked like low framerate due to the video capturing. 35+ is totally fine. I have not heard anything like that from anyone else - and I have also tried the mousewheel on my autobrake switch while in CWS P several times today but could not observe the effect your video showed... Cheers, Jan

Ahh, now I see what you are talking about - the sudden "pitching" the plane does when moving the switch? No, I have never seen that - it seems that you run X-Plane with a very low framerate, I am not sure, but maybe that could be part of the problem? A computational issue? Does the same thing happen if you use the "mouse-drag" to turn off the autobrake? Cheers, Jan

The later Classics even had speed and alt intervention - we chose to model the earlier variant because it is easier . But I have never in my life pressed those buttons on the aircraft that had them - I know what they do from the manual, but that description was just a little vague...too vague to try this with a real aircraft, I guess . I think those buttons got about as much use as the "expedited climb" button does in the 320s... Cheers, Jan

Hmm, I have no idea what "Machine ID invalid" would mean. I hope that Ben can find out what is going on. Thanks for your patience! Ciao, Jan

Unfortunately my airline phased out the 737 Classic about 5 years ago and we didn´t get NGs or MAX as a replacement. I was transferred to the A320 family, which I personally do not enjoy flying as much as I enjoyed the 737. Yes, we intend to keep the IXEG 737 current and relevant as X-Plane progresses, and once it is "feature complete" we will look into expanding its scope as well. Cheers, Jan

You have to input your email that is connected to the account - make sure to not input spaces by accident. Cheers, Jan

Hi airfrance, yes, I try to keep that post up-to-date as much as possible. Your observation is spot on - the VNAV climb and cruise works good (except for some small quirks, like being unable to input manual speeds), and the VNAV descent works if there are no restrictions on it. We will work on the VNAV after this next small patch (1.33) is out. I guess it may depend from airline to airline, but at my airline VNAV was basically NEVER used on descents in the 737 classic. It may be different for NGs and at other airlines, but the VNAV descent on the Classics was a bit quirky (not as much as ours is, though!). Thanks for the nice words about our plane! Cheers, Jan

Hi XXFlight, yes, this sounds like a hydraulic failure. This is something that can only happen if you "trigger" it with the "failures" menu, though. We are not using default X-Plane failures for the hydraulic system. Did you check the hydraulics quantity and pressure indications? When it happens the next time, make sure to take a screenshot of the instrument panel and also the overhead panel so we can see how the systems are set up. I am fairly confident that this is some type of setup mistake - especially since you had this problem twice in a row. Cheers, Jan

Wait, you are saying that VNAV doesn´t work correctly for the descent?? That being said, it could be very well that the calculation is correct, I would need to see the miles remaining on your PROG page to judge that.

Hi Nico, I am not exactly sure what you are talking about. Can you explain what you observe again? Maybe with a picture? Thanks, Jan