I just bought RC yesterday and managed first tutorial flight today. Just one conclusion: this default aircrafts are crap :). did it with FSX 737 and it's useless. AP won't hold speed properly, won't slow down properly, and is just useless, stalled during approach, flap handle in 30 while it's really in 15, only VS altitude change. I just got spoiled by JS41 from pmdg, can't fly defaults anymore :).As for RC itself it's great, thanks. I'll try rest of tutorial flights with something else, not default 737.Greg

I just bought RC yesterday and managed first tutorial flight today. Just one conclusion: this default aircrafts are crap :). did it with FSX 737 and it's useless. AP won't hold speed properly, won't slow down properly, and is just useless, stalled during approach, flap handle in 30 while it's really in 15, only VS altitude change. I just got spoiled by JS41 from pmdg, can't fly defaults anymore :).As for RC itself it's great, thanks. I'll try rest of tutorial flights with something else, not default 737.Greg

Hi Greg,Fly the tutorials with any aircraft with which you a happy.These tutorials date from FS9 time.The aircraft is not what the tutorial is about,more that the tutorials are designed to get you up to speed with RC4.3 and all of its features.Norman Bowman

Hi Greg,Fly the tutorials with any aircraft with which you a happy.These tutorials date from FS9 time.The aircraft is not what the tutorial is about,more that the tutorials are designed to get you up to speed with RC4.3 and all of its features.Norman Bowman

I know that, but tutorial wants me to fly at FL29 (to teach me about switching between controllers and descending I assume) and the only payware AC I have is JS41 which will not climb that high. So I had to use default.Greg

I know that, but tutorial wants me to fly at FL29 (to teach me about switching between controllers and descending I assume) and the only payware AC I have is JS41 which will not climb that high. So I had to use default.Greg

FL290 or FL29?

The default jet aircraft should be capable of handling what you need by using MCP controls. If not there are several freeware aircraft available.FL 29 most probably does not exist since nowhere globally is there a transition level less that 2900 feet. More than likely it is FL290 or 29,000 feet at standard pressure on the altimeter of 29.92 in or 1013 mb.

The default jet aircraft should be capable of handling what you need by using MCP controls. If not there are several freeware aircraft available.FL 29 most probably does not exist since nowhere globally is there a transition level less that 2900 feet. More than likely it is FL290 or 29,000 feet at standard pressure on the altimeter of 29.92 in or 1013 mb.

the transition altitude might be entered incorrectly on the controller's screen, causing all sorts of issues. you know these computers, tell them something and they just start doing calculations... :-)

Typo, I meant FL290.It was very strange how it managed to stall at approach. I was at 3000 feet, on intercepting course, 150 kts, flaps 30, autothrottle armed, speed hold, alt hold, heading. I just pressed app and it went straight up, N1 at some silly settings (like 50%), like it wanted to capture GS not by flying to it at altitude I was but going up. And with AT armed and speed hold set why it didn't just firewalled throttles? Just went up at 30 degrees. Very strange.GregPs: On the others note: does RC do something to VC++ during install? After I installed it my PMDG JS41 have issues with black displays and the suggestion is that VC++ may be corrupted.

RC does not use the VC++ libs. It does expect the VB 6 objects libs in there and may install if not present. jd will have to comment.Both are Visual Studio MFC based and share some other object module libraries.I suggest reinstalling the JS41 and it should update any common modules.