p.s the fps are AWFUL!

 

Alex,

I just did a flight from Seattle to Vancouver. My FR's at KSEA were about 23. Much better at Vancouver. I haven't tried it at say KDFW. Hopefully, as we move along in this process, the framerates will come up a bit.

Actually, if you consider that they made the default flight at KSEA, they can't be too worried about FPS, since that's one of the notoriously laggy places in FSX. If they'd have made the default flight at Ulan Bator, you might have suspected they had something to hide on that front. Although that does beg the question as to why they decided to put Russkie approach charts in the EFB when they could as easily have put them in for KSEA. It's kind of tricky to fly an approach into Seattle with a chart for Sheremetyevo LOL

 

Al

FPS is an issue on my system, but I'm assuming at this point it's just at a point that debug mode is on as they say and that optimization hasn't taken place yet. Here are 2 shots which in addition to the performance issue, will demonstrate the fuel imbalance problem. The diagram on the gauge is showing correctly but fuel is just being dispensed from the left tank This is after a climb up to FL380.

 

 

 

Can anyone comment as to the usability of the EFB? This I am very very interested in and will ultimately make me a CS 777 pilot or PMDG pilot.

 

How does it recall the charts for the airport that you want? Is it simple to use as in selecting an airport and or area? Or do you have to load in specific charts for each flight.

 

I guess I am asking what kinda search interface it has for pulling them up at any given time.

 

Maybe some pictures of the process?

 

Thanks guys. Sorry of this post is not in line with the discussion.

 

 

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It's kind of tricky to fly an approach into Seattle with a chart for Sheremetyevo LOL

 

:LMAO: :LMAO:

 

 

p.s the fps are AWFUL! :P

 

Same with me. Even on my SB @4.8, my frames sometimes drop into the teens with the T7.

Can anyone comment as to the usability of the EFB?

 

You can load any chart you like into it, you just save an image file of the chart, JPEG, Bitmap, GIF, TIFF, PDF etc, into the sub folders of this folder (or wherever the hell you have FSX on your PC):

 

C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Games\Microsoft Flight Simulator X\SimObjects\Airplanes\CS_B777-200\EFB

 

There are sub folders inside that EFB folder for Airport, Approach, En Route, SID, STAR etc. These correspond to the buttons on the EFB, so you can find stuff easily, and if there is more than one SID or STAR or whatever, you can cycle through them. You can pan and zoom these charts with buttons on the bottom of the EFB in either the VC or the 2D pop up of it.

 

You can copy the EFB gauge and put it in other aeroplanes too.

 

Al

:LMAO: :LMAO:

 

 

 

Same with me. Even on my SB @4.8, my frames sometimes drop into the teens with the T7.

 

 

I'm at 4.7 same with me

There are sub folders inside that EFB folder for Airport, Approach, En Route, SID, STAR etc. These correspond to the buttons on the EFB, so you can find stuff easily, and if there is more than one SID or STAR or whatever, you can cycle through them. You can pan and zoom these charts with buttons on the bottom of the EFB in either the VC or the 2D pop up of it.

 

You can copy the EFB gauge and put it in other aeroplanes too.

 

Thank you for the info. I assume there is a way to search inside the VCs EFB for a certain airport? Is it as easy as typing in a ICOA code? Or do you cycle through what you have loaded into the folder that way? Thank you and sorry about all the questions. Trying to decide if I really would like to help Beta this and try it or not.

There may be a way to search, but I don't know, I've not loaded so many in there that it has proved necessary, I just cycled through what I'd put in there.

 

Al

So say I've downloaded STAR charts for 3 airports, KATL, KPVD, and KBOS. Are the charts scattered around in no particular order, or are they grouped by specific airport?

Well that depends on what you name the files I think. Hang on and I'll do a test for you. Gimme five mins.

 

Right, back with a result, and a surprising one, which means you might have to be economical with what you put in those folders to avoid trawling through a lot of cycling files. But then again, that's probably how it is on a real airliner, since it's not like they fly all over the world to different destinations every day, they normally stay on specific routes:

 

 

 

 

 

Regardless of this minor surprise, the EFB in the VC is a great feature. I honestly couldn't care less if it is like the one in a real 777, the important thing for me is that it is easy to use, easy to customise, and it does the job well, letting me view charts either in the VC, or with the EFB as a 2D pop up, so it's great fun to use, and about as close as we could get to having a paper approach chart clipped onto the yoke. The fact that I was able to rip it out of the CS 777 and sling it in another airliner I had as a 2D pop up is great too, and for me, that's worth the price of entry whilst they get the CS Cripple Seven sorted with some updates.

 

Al

I honestly couldn't care less if it is like the one in a real 777, the important thing for me is that it is easy to use, easy to customise, and it does the job well, letting me view charts either in the VC, or with the EFB as a 2D pop up, so it's great fun to use, and about as close as we could get to having a paper approach chart clipped onto the yoke.

 

+100

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Thanks for those results, Al. I see in your last shot the chart is sideways, can they (the charts) be rotated?

and just cause I'm curious, what airport is the MIRSI chart from?

MIRSI is a racetrack pattern holding stack waypoint just North East of Liverpool, from 6,000 to 14,000 feet. It forms part of the MIRSI approach from the West into Manchester EGCC. You get to it via the Wallasey (WAL) VOR just south of Liverpool Airport. So it's the one which transatlantic flights into EGCC often come via.

 

Consequently, a MIRSI approach commences near the mouth of the River Mersey, which has its source way off to the East, passing through my home town actually. Thus you effectively 'fly up the Mersey' - hence the name of that approach - if leaving the holding stack at MIRSI when given a radar vector from the hold to make an approach into Manchester.

 

Not noticed if you can rotate things in the EFB, then again, you could just save it the right way around by rotating it in Photoshop LOL

 

Al

Thank you for the pictures and explanation of the EFB.

 

I have decided that I will buy the CS777 and help with what I can while learning the systems.

 

Thanks all for the info.

 

 

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