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If I remember correctly, the battery switch doesn't turn on the displays - you need APU or external power for that. EDIT: D'oh, I'm thinking of the A320...

It will descend automatically provided you set the autopilot to one of those altitudes before top of descent. I normally find the next "hard" restraint and set it to that ( these are altitudes with letters, e.g 2000A is "you must be above 2000ft here", B would mean below). When you approach that restraint, set the autopilot to the next, and keep going until you intercept the glideslope. As for landing, generally if you're going too fast you'll land 'flat', with all three wheels touching together, while too slow and you'll land too high. Try approaching at 10 knots more than the speed given in the FMC's Approach page for your flap setting, and keep them until you flare - this should give you a good approach speed. If you're landing with the nose wheel first, you've probably come in too high and are trying to dive to the runway - again, lower speeds can help this. Finally, remember your flare only needs to be a few degrees pitch up between 20 and 30 feet from touchdown. Practicing approaches is the best way to improve this really, and if you keep the speed good and don't deviate from the glideslope, and keep a good flare, your landings should work out alright. As for ATC, it depends. X-Plane's built in ATC is rather poor at times (it only really helps to guide the AI traffic), so not many people use it from what I can tell. VATSIM provides ATC services worldwide, but this is run by users and so depends on who is online - most of the time, there aren't too many controllers about. If you really like flying in California, PilotEdge is definitely a good option as they provide professional coverage for that area between 1600 and 0700 GMT. Downsides are that it really is only california, so if you want to fly in the rest of the world you're stuck - I only fly in Europe usually, so it isn't a service I use.

Sorry, my bad - a STAR is a bit like the opposite of a SID, which is the departure route you program into the FMC (when you select runway etc). It gives you a route from cruise all the way to touchdown (or to ILS intercept) at your selected airport, with altitude and speed restrictions/guides. Try using the manual sections I recommended in my previous post - following those will give you a good auto landing!

Glad you got some flying done! Assuming you have also programmed in a STAR (which can be taken from EFASS), the FMC has a button titled "LEGS", and this page will have altitude restrictions, and distances between waypoints - handy for finding out how far you have to go (and the restrictions usually match the intercept altitude for the glideslope). If you leave the aircraft on VNAV and set your altitude on the MCP to be at the lowest altitude listed here BEFORE top of descent, the autopilot will fly you nicely down to that point. While that happens, set up the ILS frequency and course using the panel on the back half of the pedestal. Press the APP button on the MCP as you near the ILS intercept point , and hopefully the aircraft will perform a nice autoland. Section NP.21.38 to NP.21.43 (pages 48 to 53 of the pdf) of the "757 Procedures" pdf explains this much better than me - follow the tutorial there and you should get an autolanding! Also, the landing section of those Froogle videos may be useful, and while he disconnects the autopilot on final approach, not doing so would have led to an automatic landing. Hope this helps too!

Oh, if you DO want to find some more 3D trees, try some of Aerosoft's sceneries - Dusseldorf and Zurich both have some (But they really hurt performance, so watch out!)

That's just how default trees normally appear in X-Plane. I think its a good idea personally, you shouldn't normally be close enough to trees to need more detail, and the cardboard nature of them makes them much lighter on performance.

Whoa, talk about bringing back a dead post! Quite interesting seeing people's views from four years ago - how things have changed!

Trying out a private livery for the A320neo

Of course, I expect nothing more than unexpected bizarre failiures with beta versions... At least we get some nice eye candy while it gets fixed Probably best if you tell Andreas about it, things may not get fixed unless we report it! Also, to keep things on track, here's Carenado's amazing B1900D on a flight from Naples to Catania!

No problem Tobbe! I'm subscribed to this thread so just post any more questions and I'll get back to you very quickly in all likelihood!

Well I KNEW there was something funky going on when I tried starting #4 and it just spooled down again immediately! At the time I was too busy to try starting again though so just chalked it to incompetence on my side... Does Andreas know of this issue?

That's looking amazing!!

Don't worry - no such thing as a silly question to me! 1- UN852 and N852 are airways. These are routes between waypoints (like LOPIK, LNO or GESLO), and basically condense a lot of other waypoints between locations. X-Plane's default FMC does not currently support these, and so you have to just fly directly between waypoints. This is probably why that website does not include airways. The 757 uses a fully custom FMC which has full airway support. To create a flight plan with airways, I would recommend EFASS, which is an application that can generate full flight plans for all Flight Factor's aircraft, as well as for many other payware aircraft like the A320neo. You could also try using the high-altitude charts on Skyvector if you wanted to plot things manually! Another workaround (I think) is to type "DIRECT" instead of an airway, which will bypass the airway system and allow you to fly straight from waypoint to waypoint. It's worth noting that these can change frequently, and I'd really recommend purchasing Aerosoft or Navigraph nav data else you might find that you can't use your flightplan as your data may be missing airways. The "no active runway" error sounds like you've not set a SID. These are standard departure routes from an airport, and are runway specific - hence the "no active runway". Select the DEP/ARR button on the FMC and pick the runway you wand to use and an appropriate SID (EFASS is great for helping figure these out). One thing that's worth doing is looking at section 11 of the FCOM provided with the aircraft. I also have a bunch of training aids given to me by my flight instructor, who is rated on the 757/767, and I'll have a look for anything useful there too if you'd like! Hope this all helps, Jiggyb2

I'm no qualified 757 pilot, but I have a good understanding of it, so feel free to ask away!

Assuming you've set the IRS switches to align on the overhead panel, everything should work as it does in this video (which I would highly recommend watching if you want help on flying the 757! http://youtu.be/Z-KdHRxeths?t=11m56s

I've been flying with a load of privately converted stuff of theirs for ages and its wonderful, great to finally have official support!

Awesome! I got that iPad too, so I'm looking forward to playing with this app!

That's some amazing work!!

They're getting things a bit more stable before re-releasing it, they've already made A LOT of improvements now; it may have had a rocky start but they're definitely getting back on track.

For those of you not on the org, we've given Rob a (rather long) list of things that need to be fixed, and fixing it is what he seems to be doing. Hopefully, this is a good sign, since it shows to me that he's still invested in making this thing work (and ideally work wonderfully), rather than just grabbing the cash from a glitchy product and leaving it.

Good News! They've already fixed the starting issue.

Lots of problems on it At the moment guys, might be a wise idea to hold off on it! The engines don't want to start (though you can use them if you start with engines running), and throttle control is wonky...

That's alright! I'm considering getting an iPad anyway, they seem very well supported for real world flying too.

This seems really interesting! will it be iPad only, or will us iPhone users get a version too?

Posted this on "The other site" but nobody cared to respond... can anyone here help? Pretty simply, I've been finding a couple of airports (particularly those with ground textures from UK2000 sceneries) have been having odd issues with photo underlays, in which they get swapped for a different texture. It ends up with sceneries having things like this in the middle: (Taken at Aerosoft's new Mega Airport Heathrow, but with UK2000 ground textures as the Aerosoft ones didn't convert) I've noticed that these are all objects which have been draped using the ATTR_DRAPED command... could this have an effect? I don't think I've ever seen it happen with draped polygons... Another thing, I have an NVidia GTX660Ti with 2GB VRAM, at the time about 1.3GB was being used in X-Plane as Heathrow is hugely detailed. I've had the issue over the last few Nvidia drivers and still have it with version 340.52. No mentions of EGLL could be found in my log regarding the issue, having looked and looked again several times. Hope someone can help! Jiggyb2