Yesterday, I installed update 1.6 for the AccuSim 172 and was testing it out with ActiveSky Next running in the background. I noticed a curious behavior that I only experience in the 172. My altimeter and airspeed needles were bouncing +/- 100 ft / 10 kts respectively at a periodic "beat frequency" of about 1 second which seem to correlate with SimConnect updates. It seems like ASN is introducing micro-changes to the environment at 1s intervals and the 172 is not enjoying it much. It's very distracting. The "bouncing" stops as soon as I disconnect ASN. No other aircraft exhibits this strangeness.

 

Has anyone else experienced this in the 172 or any other aircraft? I'm posting here because A2A and HiFi will likely just end up pointing at the other My inclination is to believe it's a foible of the 172 given the handful of other operational "quirks" I keep having with this aircraft, but hard to say definitively.

 

J

In fact I was flying the A2A 172 yesterday and I did update to 1.6 yesterday and I was using ASN flying out of CBB7 and I did notice an intermittent little bump but I cannot say if it was before of after the 1.6 update.

 

I will be flying that flight again latter today and will take a closer look and see if its the same thing you are getting.

Just tried it again: same phenomenon.

 

Perhaps I stand alone in this regard, but despite all the hoopla surrounding the 172, my reaction to this purchase is tepid at best. Visually, it's impressive, and the concepts behind AccuSim are great (realistic engine compression, temperature sensitive starts, water in the fuel, maintenance, window fogging, walk arounds, etc.) but they seem to have missed the boat on the core aircraft functionality. My brakes are squirrely (yes, I know about the FSUIPC hack), parking brake is ineffective (plane creeps forward at < 1000 rpm), the AP is buggy, LOC/GS tracking is bordeline abhorrent (albeit, significantly better in 1.6 than 1.03), torque/gyroscopic is too strong (but again, substantially improved in 1.6), altimeter QNH isn't correct, requires end-user hackery if you have the GNS530 installed (why doesn't the installer do this smartly??) giving a first-impression CTD if you fail to apply the hack, plane is sometimes "stuck" on startup and won't move, doesn't play nice with FSUIPC, doesn't play nice with ASN, uses global key assignments that are active even when the plane is not active. Seems like a great concept generally, but overall bad execution on the fundamentals.

 

Every time I get into this plane, after about ten minutes I want out and find myself back in my Duke where true happiness lives.

Hello,

 

have you posted any of your issues on the A2A Forums, also does the product work as advertised with FSX SP2 OK, or is it just with the third party software when things get funky?

 

thanks,

Lewis

Just tried it again: same phenomenon.

 

Perhaps I stand alone in this regard, but despite all the hoopla surrounding the 172, my reaction to this purchase is tepid at best. Visually, it's impressive, and the concepts behind AccuSim are great (realistic engine compression, temperature sensitive starts, water in the fuel, maintenance, window fogging, walk arounds, etc.) but they seem to have missed the boat on the core aircraft functionality. My brakes are squirrely (yes, I know about the FSUIPC hack), parking brake is ineffective (plane creeps forward at < 1000 rpm), the AP is buggy, LOC/GS tracking is bordeline abhorrent (albeit, significantly better in 1.6 than 1.03), torque/gyroscopic is too strong (but again, substantially improved in 1.6), altimeter QNH isn't correct, requires end-user hackery if you have the GNS530 installed (why doesn't the installer do this smartly??) giving a first-impression CTD if you fail to apply the hack, plane is sometimes "stuck" on startup and won't move, doesn't play nice with FSUIPC, doesn't play nice with ASN, uses global key assignments that are active even when the plane is not active. Seems like a great concept generally, but overall bad execution on the fundamentals.

 

Every time I get into this plane, after about ten minutes I want out and find myself back in my Duke where true happiness lives.

 

Odd, I have none of those issues

I am totally happy with the A2A 172. Best purchase so far.

_{Anyway, Took A flight today out of CBB7 through the Mountains with ASN active and am updated to 1.6 and the little intermittent bump I was getting yesterday did not re-occur! Nice flight no issue but for I intermittently lose my VC click spots. That I believe is a known issues but I was not aware that it was intermittent, i.e. the click spot are working, then later in the flight not working, then later in the same flight working again.}

I think you have to reinstall (the 1.6 update) and select the default landing lights options for the click spot bug to not occur.