Hi,It was the first time yesterday that I posted a question on the PSS forum. The problem is that it's been over twenty-four hours since and it still hasn't appeared.I wasn't sure if this is common. Can someone enlighten me as to the process a post goes through at a protected forum?Regards,

It may never appear. I once posted a question that never passed through their screening. I stay away from this forum. Michael J.WinXP-Home SP2,AMD64 3500+,Abit AV8,Radeon X800Pro,36GB Raptor,1GB PC3200,Audigy 2http://www.precisionmanuals.com/images/forum/747400.jpghttp://www.hifisim.com/images/asv_beta_member.jpg

It is a moderated forum and the moderators are not always at their computer. If they are working messages can appear very quickly, but on the other hand as you have experienced messages can take a considerable time. It is very frustrating and, in my view, not necessary.

It only shows the way PSS deals with is clients and possible clients. I don

Level-D Simulations, where the only way you are allowed to see whether there are any bugs and how they are dealt with is to buy the product first? Captain Sim who just closed their forum altogether?I may not personally be a fan of the way PSS administer their forum, but it is their choice and they decided they had valid reasons to change it. What they are "afraid of" is a small group of individuals bombarding it with unhelpful smart-alec comments, pointless arguments and downright distasteful statements. It's something that almost every add-on distributor has to deal with one way or another and PSS decided on the route they have followed. Unfortunately it does mean that sometimes perfectly valid and reasonable posts take a while to appear.Ian P.

>Level-D Simulations, where the only way you are allowed to>see whether there are any bugs and how they are dealt with is>to buy the product first? Yeah, right Ian. No one ever posts any messages about "bugs" in any forums other than Level D's, eh? Those support forums are reserved for registered owners. Questions from prospective owners are posted in the open/public forums. Trust me, any "bugs" have been brought up in THIS forum, and others.Of course you can also have "open" support forums, for ALL to read, where the mods simply delete the complaints....

Thanks for all the replies.I must say I'm not too impressed with that forum. It

Is that agressive stance towards me, or PSS? Either, I really don't care. A lot of people complained that the LDS forum was inaccessable to them when making a decision as to buy the product or not. I was merely raising it as an example of a support forum which is not immediately open and accessable to everyone. You don't like it? Sorry, it's a fact.Incidentally, to the best of my knowledge *every* FS forum is moderated to one degree or another, support or not. My personal opinion is that PSS have overreacted with their method and it causes them definite problems with customer confidence. Ultimately, however, it is their choice how they react. They could have closed the forum altogether, could they not?I sincerely hope that the original poster's problem gets sorted.Ian P.

>I must say I'm not too impressed with that forum. It

I dont see your message in the queque Please send me an e-mail at [email protected]. I will be happy to help youhttp://www.avsim.com/pages/robert/kirkland.jpgRobert KirklandPSS [email protected]http://www.avsim.com/pss/phoenix.jpg

>As for the PSS forum, it borders on useless. In what way? If it is the moderation that you object to that is one thing, but if it is the content then I would have to strongly disagree. It is an active forum and several of us spend a lot of time trying to answer a mass of questions about flying the PSS Airbus (which is still the best overall Airbus product on the market, particularly when a certain merge is done :) )If you want to post your question/problem here rather than in the PSS forum please do and we'll try to help.

Thanks for looking into it. I shall re-post.Cheers.

Hey Rob, since you volunteered...Why is it that when approach phase is engaged my bus does not decelerate correctly? I.e. It goes to clean speed, then to stage 1 flap speed, and then, when I go to stage 2 the target speed becomes Vref instead of stage 2 flap speed.Also, on takeoff, assuming Flaps 1, I see the slats retracted at 200, which is correct but I don't see no bug for clean speed on the speedtape. Any advice?Another thing. Anyone has any idea about the correct assumed temperature input to achieve proper FLEX thrust? There were some thoughts about entering minus etc but I got some weird results.Finally, PSS would do a great favour to themselves if they helped us out with the INIT button right click "tuning" page. Minor (and somewhat arbitrary) corrections yield great results on the automatic fligth behaviour.These are my major peeves with the PSS bus. I have been using it for the last three years. It is a very honest product, assuming some effort is invested into it on the part of the user, and it is the mostly frequently used plane in my hangar. Yes, I have done the merge (to the best of my abilities). Yes, third party flight dynamics seem better to me (a clear example would be that I finally believed in the existence of autotrim when I loaded a third party FD). To keep things within the perspective of the original poster I can only add the following: Other forum members are very helpful most of the time. The PSS support people are usually helpful, frequently laconic, to the point of making one question their communication skills (tongue in cheek, don't bite) and often times both at the same time. It used to get on my nerves, now I sometimes half expect a well placed 3 word answer to a 50 line post and sometimes I chuckle when I read them (Is this sad or what?). After all would you like to answer the same question for the 50th time?I suspect that post deletion only happens either when people use abusive language or when they touch on subjects which PSS consider Taboo (such as the INIT page I mentioned earlier).Regards,

Lots of questions! OK here goes:"Why is it that when approach phase is engaged my bus does not decelerate correctly? I.e. It goes to clean speed, then to stage 1 flap speed, and then, when I go to stage 2 the target speed becomes Vref instead of stage 2 flap speed."If you are still above green dot speed at the deceleration point then in my view you have left it too late. I have always reduced speed earlier than the D and at that point would often be at 180 flaps 1. With the change to Vref rather than stage 2 flaps speed if you have your gear down it will do that, try it with gear up and I think from memory it won't do it. Some of the programming is definitely related to the gear being lowered."Also, on takeoff, assuming Flaps 1, I see the slats retracted at 200, which is correct but I don't see no bug for clean speed on the speedtape. Any advice"I'll do a flight (not tonight) and get back to you on that one but I've never noticed a problem. Let me look at that more closely."Another thing. Anyone has any idea about the correct assumed temperature input to achieve proper FLEX thrust? There were some thoughts about entering minus etc but I got some weird results."Just entering a minus with the same ordinal number is not the correct thing to do, but a minus figure is correct due to a programming error in the flex temps. I am working on a spreadsheet of the correct flex temps but I find - 10 or - 15 is good for a realistic reduction in thrust for a flex takeoff. I'll post the spreadsheet as soon as possible."Finally, PSS would do a great favour to themselves if they helped us out with the INIT button right click "tuning" page. Minor (and somewhat arbitrary) corrections yield great results on the automatic flight behaviour."Consistently (but perhaps curiously) PSS have always said that the right click INIT "on board dynamics" is an undocumented and unsupported feature. I did a lot of work on this a year or so back but gave up when iFDG released flight dynamics which solved most of the problems when merged with the PSS panel.

Thanks for taking the time to answer.I am with you on the approach phase thing. I always engage approach phase manually from the MCDU 20, or more, miles from the final approach fix. Also I usually lower my gear when I am at least at flaps 2, so I don't think that I am forcing the computer to go to Vref in the way that you suggest. I don't believe that would be proper behaviour anyway because it would mean that gear down should always happen at flaps 3. Nevertheless I will monitor my next flight more closely on that aspect.Thanks for the info on FLEX takeoff I will give it a try. As for the INIT page I believe that it controls AP aspects of flight which are unrelated to the Flight Dynamics. I.e. roll rate with autopilot engaged is commanded by the autopilot and without some tuning on the aforementioned page still results in what has been referenced to as "F-16 type turns".With kindest regards,