rjb4000

Ah, yes the ground spoilers will deploy if you extend the flight spoilers beyond 1/4 and you’re on the ground!

Ground spoilers should only deploy on the ground.

During the descent checklist - set N1 to TO below 15,000 feet.

Are you pressing the TO/GA button at some point after you’ve departed? It sounds like the FO is convinced you’re trying to perform a go around. Normally, when transitioning from the in-range checklist to the before landing checklist, go around actions are not performed.

Here's the location of the center lighting panel (the black rectangle in the figure) which controls the instrument integral lighting, along with the circuit breaker panel lights.

Why would it not be?

Time to run that after-takeoff checklist, too!

I’ve found that in overcast clouds having the nose light on will cause xplane to generate a super bright reflection back into the flight deck. You can try cycling that switch to see if it’s the culprit.

Have you modified the default seating position (I think shift+9), or what you get when you click on the seat? The default position puts you at the correct eye reference location to see the full HUD projection.

Click and hold for about a half-second and they will pull out. The change was implemented to make it harder to accidentally click a breaker while moving around the flight deck.

If you’re descending for landing why not select TO thrust per the checklist?

Usually the only reason the main door can’t be opened is if the aircraft cabin is pressurized. Can you attach a screenshot of the MFD at the time the door is stuck? To open the door you should be clicking the handle to the right of the door with the red knob on it, then clicking somewhere near the stairs to “push” the door open.

You should use baro minimums unless the approach specifies the use of RA minimums (see a CAT II or III ILS for an example). For the KMBS ILS 23, you should set baro minimums of 870’ in the reference window. When the aircraft descends below that altitude, the minimums alert will sound. The reason your minimums alert went off at 5 feet is because the minimums reference was set to 5.

Unsure if it was intended to be, but a nice QOL update would be for the volume of the virtual FO to persist between sessions.

Are you performing the A/SKID test as part of the before landing checklist?

Remove the static port covers in the payload screen!

It seems like the lamp does not display properly when the Therapeutic Oxygen button is illuminated.

Check out row number 5,517 in your output file (I find it easy to highlight the row so it's easy to refer to) - this is the last recording where the Mach selector is at M0.8 (shown in column PX - FCC1MachSel). After that row was written, the mach selector was changed to M0.68 and the rest is history! The engine speed was reduced and the actual speed bled off until the autopilot couldn't hold altitude anymore and was disengaged. It also looks like you were slowly climbing to reach FL370 maybe in FLC mode? When the mach selector was changed from .8 to .68, your vertical speed jumped up to 3700 fpm in the climb before the airplane leveled and speed continued to bleed. I'm not sure why the mach speed selector would have changed without your input, but that would be the root cause of the crash.

I’ve had this happen as well. The issue was that VNAV and managed speed were engaged during the cruise and the cruise speed was selected as LRC. At some point the FMS went nuts and computed the LRC speed as Mach 0.4, which causes the power levers to idle and the speed to drop and the autopilot disconnects so the airplane… spirals slowly into the ground. My solution until a fix is implemented is to manually select speed (cyan indication vs. magenta) if I need to leave the flight deck, as well as always saving the airframe state before walking away. You can confirm this is the cause by looking at the FDR report for your flight in the XPlane outputs folder. Check out the selected speed column and see if you find a super low speed right before the spiral.

Fuel dumping is only provided for the tail tank in the event the transfer function fails (see attached photo). In your case, likely the best solution is to hold to burn off the excess fuel before landing.