I do know that Captain Sim is aggressively pursuing corrections now, and can't wait for the 707, and 767-400.

Tim,Have you seen any progress report on the 767-400?

Hey now...It's easy to say how great the CS aircraft are....now after a few patches. It's also easy to forget all of those who pointed out the faults in the CS aircraft, and fault the battle with CS so that they would release patch and so that you can enjoy them months or years after release.If you are enjoying the CS aircraft NOW...please at least thank those who bought the planes BEFORE you and fought the good fight so that CS would take notice and provide a patch so that EVERYONE could enjoy the finished product.I know developers complain about complainers and indeed some complain just to complain, but I wonder if everyone would like this hobby as much if no one pointed out faults. Some of CS's reputation is earned and not all hot air by whiners.Just sayin'

imho-a big difference between those who point out faults and whiners/complainers...but my thanks if you pointed out faults and made it even better...For the price I paid even with some present faults still a bargain...

Tim,Have you seen any progress report on the 767-400?

Nope. Sorry, have no idea when we'll see it.

ferrari308guy,Just wondering about your intercept angles and airspeed when doing an intercept. Most of the time atc will give you a max intercept angle of 30 degrees plus if you have the airspeed up it will make it more challenging for the autopilot to do the intercept. Also is your verticle speed on the high side wheen capturing an altitude as that can cause an overshoot of the altitude. In the real aircraft, if I know the autopilot is "sloppy" I reduce the verticle speed to make the aaltitude capture smoother. Just a couple of things to try that might make your experience with this aircraft more fun.Dave

@philNot sure about the overshoots, haven't had any of those. The rocking happens infrequently on my computer, can be cured by disconnecting the AP momentarily. Some have suggested that it can be eliminated completely by using FSUIPC to disable turbulence effects.Pete Dowson keeps adding new features to FSUIPC, I'd really hate to have to stay with an older version. He is also very good at maintaining backwards compatibility, so there should be no need to search for an older version.There is an AAL livery on AVSIM - search for "David Sweetman American" and it should come up as number 1. I think he has a UAL livery also.

I think back in the day the problems with CaptainSim were on the customer service side, as well as their "Block" methods for releasing planes and updates. Things like slow/never to released repair patches, and airplane system update blocks which were advertised but slow/never to come were a leading conversation starter. Thankfully, lots of that is behind the company because they eventually did repair and create that which they had hoped. In essence, most everything is whole at this point, and there's no reason to complain anymore! (*there might be a product that still isn't complete in the eyes of some customers, but I'm not experienced enough with it to know which one) ...-Greg

Exactly my situation. The forums used to be filled with comments, mostly bad of their "Block" methods of delivery and slow or non-existant patches. Folks like myself stayed away in droves. Sorry, but I am always a fan of reputation by word-of-mouth and back then, it wasn't too good. Now the tone, such as those in this thread, seem to be changing. I still haven't bought anything from CS, but I will now consider thier 757 if Level-D doesnt hurry the hell up :(

Thanks for the replies. I will look around for the UAL and AAl liveries as suggested.dbw1 - The Autopilot intercept is no problem, and my intercept angles are always really shallow. It only overshoots with the heading select mode, or with V/S mode for the altitude captures. However, after I shooting a few approaches, I have noticed that the airplane stops tracking the glide slope on about a 5 mile final. The localizer is no problem, but I always end up having to disconnect the autopilot and hand fly the last few miles of the approach - no problem on a good day, but that's a problem in IFR conditions obviously.PPSFA - A colleague of mine talked to Pete Dowson, and he didn't seem to know to much about the issue, and didn't have any ideas, but I'll try and older version of FSUIPC that you suggested, it can't hurt.trisager - Thanks for the tip, I'll try the AP disconnect.

Exactly my situation. The forums used to be filled with comments, mostly bad of their "Block" methods of delivery and slow or non-existant patches. Folks like myself stayed away in droves. Sorry, but I am always a fan of reputation by word-of-mouth and back then, it wasn't too good. Now the tone, such as those in this thread, seem to be changing. I still haven't bought anything from CS, but I will now consider thier 757 if Level-D doesnt hurry the hell up :(

I had the exact same experience, and I had ruled out CS as a source of planes until I found someone whose opinion I really trust, and he spoke very highly of the CS planes, told me to buy a couple and promised me I wouldn't be sorry. I bought the 727-100 and the C-130 All-In-One and I totally love both planes.

Hi all-I bought the CS757 during their sale, and am having ups and downs with it. I first experienced the side to side violent rocking phenomenon, but after uninstalling, and then reinstalling FSUIPC (the most recent version) it has appeared to stop; however, I have not done enough testing to confirm this. I was interested in trying an older version of FSUIPC, but I was unsure of what version to use, or where to find one, as Pete Dowson's site only appears to have the most recent version. Could someone please advise on this?Also, when using the autopilot, I have noticed that it overshoots any selected heading or altitude by a fair amount (30 degrees in some cases). Has anybody else experienced this? So far, this appears unrelated to FSUIPC, but as I said earlier, I need to do more testing to confirm.

I am having similar "dysfunctional AP" issues with the CS 727 (FSX). So are a lot of other people. Since I hate double-posting identical info, please check out the longest thread on Captain Sim's forums- the CS 727 Autopilot Thread. In short, the problems with the CS 727 AP boil down to:1. Frequently won't hold pitch at all, with or without Alt Hold (although for some users it apparently works fine);2. Waits until after flying the airplane THROUGH the localizer (in Nav/LOC Mode) then wildly overcontrols, zig-zagging around the LOC all the way down final;3. Waits until after flying the airplane THROUGH the Glideslope (in Auto/GS Mode) then wildly overcontrols, porpoising around the LOC all the way down final to the eventual crash site;4. Sometimes spontaneously climbs and descends the airplane in cruise flight with Alt Hold engaged and no VSI or airspeed changes indicated.I have read with great interest the suggestion to "install an older version of FSUIPC" and the others who ask "which version? Where do we get it?" etc. etc.I would beg your indulgence to ask a more basic question: what if you don't have FSUIPC explicitly installed, meaning that you don't have a licensed version of it at all, meaning that you don't have any way of "starting" FSUIPC (no GUI, no Start-Menu entry) to find out anything about it? I'm assuming that CS installed some version of it "behind the scenes" as part of my CS '727 Captain' installation So, questions:1. Since I don't have any GUI to FSUIPC, how do I even find out what version is installed on my PC?2. Assuming, for example, that I discover that I have "Version 4.2" installed, how/where do I get a different UNLICENSED version, and what do I DO with it after I get it?Thanks-

If you didn't install FSUIPC on your system by yourself, then you don't have it, as no addon automatically installs it for you. You can get it here: http://www.schiratti.com/dowson.htmlThe most recent version is 4.53 (at the top). You follow the installation instructions just as you would with any other program. When it prompts you for a registration key, just click cancel, the window will disappear, and your installation is done. (The registration key is only for the payware version of FSUIPC, which you don't need).If you do have FSUIPC installed, then you will find the GUI in the FSX Alt Menu under 'Addons.' You will get a window telling you which version you have installed.As for what you do with FSUIPC, that answer to that is (basically) nothing. FSUIPC is a module that allows 3rd Party Programs to interact with FSX. If you really want to do something with it, then you can try changing the few options that are given to you in the FSUIPC GUI, but I have seen they have little effect on my CS757. You have very few options to change because you only have the freeware version, and again, the payware version is not required.I hope this answers your questions.-Phil

Thanks for the replies. I will look around for the UAL and AAl liveries as suggested.dbw1 - The Autopilot intercept is no problem, and my intercept angles are always really shallow. It only overshoots with the heading select mode, or with V/S mode for the altitude captures. However, after I shooting a few approaches, I have noticed that the airplane stops tracking the glide slope on about a 5 mile final. The localizer is no problem, but I always end up having to disconnect the autopilot and hand fly the last few miles of the approach - no problem on a good day, but that's a problem in IFR conditions obviously.

Having the same problems with HDG SEL mode and with ALT intercepts. I'm seeing about a 20 deg overshoot for the HDG on average, and +100-300 depending on vertical speed. The aircraft also wavers +/-100ft in turns. I have experienced poor GS tracking, although I can't say it stopped altogether. I did an autoland, and it was horrendous. It came in high and then dropped out of the sky like a rock. Using the term loosely, I think I "touched" down at near -800ft/min.I'm also interested in what you folks flying the 757 use for fuel planning. While I haven't RTFM -the WHOLE FM at least- I found the distances with wind/altitude factors but I couldn't find anything in the performance charts for fuel planning. Also, what about fuel loading? I've used the default option in FSX. While I don't know about yours, my overhead fuel panel certainly doesn't display the correct quantities. The FMC appears to display the correct quantity, however. I remember reading there was some known issue with the fuel consumption or display in an earlier version, but I didn't own the product so it was only in passing I came across it and didn't invest much in remembering. Also thought this had been addressed/fixed. Looks nice but overall, despite how far it may have come, I still feel it's a little raw. I'm glad I got it for a reasonable price and I look forward to future updates, but for now I can't say I'll be doing a lot of flying with it.Cheers!

i HAVE the cs 767, and got it early before the first patch came out. Now there have been five patches so far, that includes a hot fix for swinging around LOC/GS on apporach.I have read lots of posts about cs 727,757 so all i know about those products is what others say about them on forums, though i dont own 727,757.My summary so far on this cs range of a/c is this, Great Graphics better than most, Advanced Systems Modeling top of the range. But for goodness sake, the technology of of getting a plane to fly stable is the most basic thing in fsx, even dirt cheap 2D graphics planes from Abacus are stable on or off auto pilot, even default FSx palnes , as simple as they are, are stable on or off AP.So its hard to understand why Captain Sim develops such complex planes and get most of all the complex stuff right, but the simple tech of stable flight seems to be a problem for 727,757,767, and generally all the users are complaining about the same thing stability.Its not about asking for your money back cause the planes arent stable, i think its about advicing CS to to maybe put less effort in complexity and graphics, but put more effort in basic stuff......like will the plane fly on AP like normally, or like a raging BULL angry with AP commands.I have other issues with cs767 like, fuel load in the plane is wroung, if i load the fuel when APU is running, APU off and fuel loads fine. Problem i noticed since patch1.3, not an isssue in earlier versions.But what had me tweaking cs767 aircraft.cfg for a while was, each new patch never properly resolved the stability issue, but i found tweaking cfg file only make things worse overall, so i went back to original.generally, on approach , takeoff, give the AP very smooth commands, and instability is not too noticeable, but in some turbulent weather the plane flies like its on skates, not normal.Maybe they over modeled too much detail into the flight dynamics, peronally i wount mind copying flight dynamics of another plane of similar size over the cs767 flight dynamics, like say level D 767.With descent dynamics cs planes are top.

I agree 100% with the above post. CS has problems with the fundamentals of aircraft building, which is getting it to fly well. I don't care how good their eye candy and functionality is, if the autopilot can't fly the dang plane, what's the point?As for the post about fuel planning, I can't lend any advice, since I haven't been able to actually get the point where I can actually complete flights in the airplane.

I also had a look in that sale.. I bought 727, 767 and C-130. All great aircrafts!I agree, 727 AP is kinda broken. I can't capture the glideslope if the plane had passengers or cargo... never. But , it's not such a big deal (well, I imagine how people would say something bad about the developer if they pay and got some fundamental stuff broken) because this AC is a treat to handfly.

If you didn't install FSUIPC on your system by yourself, then you don't have it, as no addon automatically installs it for you. You can get it here: http://www.schiratti.com/dowson.htmlThe most recent version is 4.53 (at the top). You follow the installation instructions just as you would with any other program. When it prompts you for a registration key, just click cancel, the window will disappear, and your installation is done. (The registration key is only for the payware version of FSUIPC, which you don't need).If you do have FSUIPC installed, then you will find the GUI in the FSX Alt Menu under 'Addons.' You will get a window telling you which version you have installed.As for what you do with FSUIPC, that answer to that is (basically) nothing. FSUIPC is a module that allows 3rd Party Programs to interact with FSX. If you really want to do something with it, then you can try changing the few options that are given to you in the FSUIPC GUI, but I have seen they have little effect on my CS757. You have very few options to change because you only have the freeware version, and again, the payware version is not required.I hope this answers your questions.-Phil

Phil, thanks for your clear, concise summary. I have read on this forum and elsewhere that Captain Sim's installations place (parts or all of) FSUIPC on your machine.