Litjan

Hi - the startup situation in the IXEG is not controlled by X-Plane. You need to choose the preferred situation (cold and dark, turnaround, ready to fly) in the PREFLIGHT menu of the IXEG side-pop-out menu. Try to install with the standard stable gizmo if the side-pop out does not work for you. Cheers, Jan

Happy that worked for you. Regarding the buttons - the autopilot system is modeled very realistically - which in turn means it is complex and can be confusing unless you study and understand it first. Often a button will not "work" because the conditions for engaging it are not met. The most common problem is actually the user deflecting the yoke - which prevents engagement (or disengages them) of certain modes or the autopilot as a whole. I have made some tutorials for that. Reinstalling X-Plane or the IXEG is only the cure for a tiny fraction of problems users have. Most of the time it is a "placebo" cure - after reinstallation people do something slightly different and not it works - so the reinstall seems to have been the cure. Cheers, Jan

No - that should not happen! It is the first time I hear about that problem... Cheers, Jan

Hi Leeroy, I am in contact with Ben and he is also reading along these forums. I am sure he will let you know if he needs more info, thanks for the offer! Cheers, Jan

Very nice, thank you, XPJavelin!

Hi and thanks for the nice words and the feedback. I totally agree about the vortices - we are using "default Laminar Research" particle effects for now - I really want to update those, though - and make better vortices (at the right spot and only the right conditions) and also APU heat blur, fire extinguisher bottle effects, better touchdown smoke, etc. I also noticed the flight-altitude problem with the mousewheel, I will enter a ticket for Tom to look at it. I am not sure about the Vspeeds - we may have coded this so that the take-off v-speeds get erazed from the EADI speed tape if you enter the approach speeds. I really don´t remember how the FMS handled this on the real 737-300, I never did that ;-) It is also quite possible that the behaviour was changed, I am sure the Zibo is using a much more modern software standard for their FMS. Cheers, Jan

Yeah - had the same thing happen to me a few times - glad that fixed it for you! Cheers, Jan

Please try to run with all other plugins disabled and let me know if that helps (also post the log.txt) so I can take a look at what may be interfering Cheers, Jan

Thats the way the DRM works, and there is a warning about that when you get asked to type FREEZE. You can try to file a ticket with the support at X-Aviation and if you can really explain why you froze a computer that you still intend to use the product on - they may possibly even reinstate it. But there is nothing I can do about it. Cheers, Jan

I would try the stable gizmo - unless you somehow clicked the preference to "disable the popout menu". In that case you must assign a button or key to toggle it - or open the ixeg_user_prefs.txt and set the preference there. Jan

After some consultation with Shifty we determined that the only runway related waypoints that can be entered in the FIX page are from the actual flight plan (i.e. what you can also find on the LEGS page). So if you fly to Frankfurt (EDDF) and you have the ILS approach to runway 07C in your FMS, there will be a RW07C waypoint on your LEGS page. You can enter this one into the FIX page as any other fix. You can NOT just enter RW07L at that point - only after you changed the approach in the FMS to ILS07L. So we are going to implement it like that - only waypoints that you find in your LEGS page. Cheers, Jan

Hi Leeroy, I steer your attention to this post, there is a link at the bottom to the latest Beta of Gizmo as published by Ben Russel, the developer. Always pays to try those... You can just swap out versions all you like, the credentials are stored elsewhere so you won´t be asked to enter them again. Unfortunately some systems can´t run the newest version...yet. Cheers, Jan

I believe that the temperature indication is working like this: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wheatstonesche_Messbrücke So if power gets removed, it simply stays where it is at. In other words - it needs power to "move" the indication to the correct value. Cheers, Jan

Also check the IXEG_user_prefs.txt file, it contains the coordinates to display the window at. Hope this helps, Jan

You have locked your computer (typed FREEZE on the confirmation screen). Most likely because you installed the product on another computer. You can only install it on three different computers.

Easy - your traffic global crashed. Look here for further info: Cheers, Jan

Yes, a preference would be nice... we will talk about it internally. Jan

Hi there, hmm, this is odd - it works for me. The FMC "clears" when you put in a new ORIGIN in the RTE page. Some other things to try - did you put in a weight (ZFW or GW) on the PERF page? Entering the speeds in the Takeoff page is purely for displaying them on the EADI. There is no other benefit. You could also safely take off with just setting them via the plastic bugs and the MCP speed window - but I am curious why you can´t enter them on the second flight (when the first one seemed to work ok) Please let me know if the above helped in any way. Cheers, Jan

Hi guys, make sure you "pull out" the knob to operate those first. You should see a little white flag come up with an M on it (for manual). THEN you can rotate that wheel to change the bug - it is normally driven by the MCP or the FMC. Not sure about the mousewheel in 1.3, but it will definitely work (in the right direction, too!) in 1.31. Cheers, Jan

Hi Rhino, this is not at all what you shoudl be seeing. I think there is a way to "switch" off the nosegear steering in X-Plane though...make sure that you do not have a switch set to that accidentially (like on a hardware throttle with switches). The rudder pedals are linked to the nosewheel like in the real plane - with the exception that at slow speeds, you can deflect the nosewheel a lot further than the nominal 7 degrees. This is a simulator concession, because few people have the option to assign and use a second axis as a "tiller". That being said, the next update will include the tiller to be able to manipulated with the mouse (or a second axis or the VR controller) so you can taxi around using that instead of the rudder pedals. Let me know if this helps!? Cheers, Jan

VNAV work? No way!!

Hi mamulo, are you flying with the "experimental flight model" turned on? This is required to get perfect results for the flight model. I tuned the plane to fly according to the numbers I still have from my official training - all the pitch+power values we had to learn by heart so we could stabilize the plane quickly. Drag from flaps does not really start to add up much until you get to about Flaps 10. The lower settings are really just making the wing "bigger" - not more curved. Drag from the slats is not much either, especially on the intermediate extend. Cheers, Jan

I would never say never Cheers, Jan

Hmm, I can´t see the video... Yes, the initial "dive" for the path is a known problem. The real plane starts a bit more smooth - our plane is like "falling off a cliff" as the path suddently drops down and it tries to catch up. However - if you use FL CHG in the real aircraft while still targeting a MACH number (high altitude) it will also descend with V/S of 4-5000 fpm sometimes. The oscillation could be due to a bug with our VNAV descent calculation - if VNAV does not perform as wanted, use FL CHG or V/S instead for now. Cheers, Jan

Hi Jürgen, we have had reports of systems getting saturated with "sound calls"... I remember that when we implemented the GPWS sounds and people said that they sometimes couldn´t hear the altitude callouts. We increased the maximum number of "sounds" to play at the same time back then. Maybe something to keep an ear open for ;-) Viele Grüße, Jan