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Posted
11 hours ago, tooting said:

How its it 'functional' when the vnav, lnav and auto throttle doesnt work??

I don't mean that in a horrible way, but im confused as how a boeing can be functional when the lnav and vnav don't work. You might as as well fly a default aircraft if youre going to use heading and selected speeds surely??? 

 

 

Never said anything about LNAV. It works perfectly fine. No pilot needs VNAV for an aircraft to be very functional. Its an autopilot convenience. You can use the aircraft well managing the MCP speeds and pitch manually  with V/S and speed. Do as real world pilots do. If something isnt working, there are plenty of redundancies in place to continue to fly.  I dont use VNAV a whole lot. past FL200 im using V/S anyway on descent and meet constraints that way. Climbing is not much issue with VNAV if using it. Just dont turn it on before FL100. 

As for the AT well that should be looked at but I believe its tied to the speed control and vnav which has a bug. It couldve been my system because it happened on two flights only. 

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Posted
1 hour ago, HighTowers said:

Never said anything about LNAV. It works perfectly fine. No pilot needs VNAV for an aircraft to be very functional. Its an autopilot convenience. You can use the aircraft well managing the MCP speeds and pitch manually  with V/S and speed. Do as real world pilots do. If something isnt working, there are plenty of redundancies in place to continue to fly.  I dont use VNAV a whole lot. past FL200 im using V/S anyway on descent and meet constraints that way. Climbing is not much issue with VNAV if using it. Just dont turn it on before FL100. 

As for the AT well that should be looked at but I believe its tied to the speed control and vnav which has a bug. It couldve been my system because it happened on two flights only. 

Honestly, that's beside the point.

That's like saying, 'I never land, so it's not an issue, that the landing gear isn't working'. 
The lack, or faulty function, of a feature isn't acceptable, just because you happen not to use it.

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Posted
2 hours ago, Anders Bermann said:

Honestly, that's beside the point.

That's like saying, 'I never land, so it's not an issue, that the landing gear isn't working'. 
The lack, or faulty function, of a feature isn't acceptable, just because you happen not to use it.

Not saying it as an excuse. Its not acceptable.  VNAV should be fixed and working, but it still doesnt make the plane non functional. Its very easy to fly without VNAV in the meantime.  The caveat is if CS actually fixes it and properly. I suspect they will if they want to make it a "great" aircraft release. 

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Posted
23 hours ago, tooting said:

I still don't get it. 

I've a microwave in my kitchen, so that's like saying it doesn't heat soup up but the bowl spins around. 

Someone's going to fix it next month so I can eat hot soup as well as soup that has spinned around the microwave.  But until then it's OK???? 

The reason I say this is around  8 years ago captain sim and bbs started this pay to beta nonsense and here we are in 2018 with half baked 757s, CRJs and bbs buses and people just shrug their shoulders thinking its OK 

 

 

 

That airplane consists of more than VNAV speed restrictions and to say it's not functional because it doesn't slow to 250 kts below 10000 is a bit much. That won't stop you from getting to your destination. Your microwave, on the other hand, has one feature and without it it's useless. Bit of a poor comparison.

I have a significant dislike for pay to beta and non-finished products to say the least and no one said it's okay. This is a bit off-topic though since this product is not in beta (no idea where everyone got that idea from) but a full 1.0 release. If you take a look at their bug tracing list you'll find no deal breakers, just some things to take care of.

I was skeptical about it but it looks like a very decent simulation of the 757.

Posted

With the hotfix installed, I flew from KLAX to KSFO with ASP4.  Started cold and dark (well, I had to shutdown everything after it loaded).  I tried to follow the tutorial that comes with the sim for starting up the 757 but confusing so found a nice video on YouTube -

Successfully got the APU started and programmed the FMC then used GSX for departure.  Took off and had no issues.  Prior to the hotfix, I was having issues with the aircraft exceeding the speed.  No problems this time.  On descent, I had to manually slow down the aircraft and use the speed brakes often.  It seemed to work better in the past but then I have had flights in the past where I did not need to use the speed brake and the VNAV brought it down normally.  Think maybe there might be winds pushing the aircraft from behind when I have issues?  Still it should not work that way as I doubt someone flying a real 757 would be constantly turning on/off the speed brake or leveling the flight until the speed comes down (maybe this is part of the game?).  Once you get the speed down below 250, it seems to work perfectly and, when you can start lowering the flaps at 240, things are really good.  Once on approach to KSFO, I saw no issues whatsoever.  It followed the glide slope perfectly.  On landing, the reverse thrust did not work even though I had 3 Green and it was setup properly with the speed brake armed, etc. The reverse thrust has worked in the past.  I shouldn't have to hit F2.   

The only issue I saw was an occasional warning that the engine bleed was off on both engines but they were both on.  There's a lot more immersion in flying the 757 when you can start up the engines during pushback.

Do not use GSX at KSFO.  Even though you can see almost a completely empty airport, GSX says all the gates are occupied.  Then when it did find a vacancy on the Northside and I warped to the Gate, it placed me on top of a 747.  But this is about the 757.  Sorry!

Jim

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Posted
7 hours ago, diajohn said:

JIm, I don't know why this is in the Captain Sim forum instead of the P3D forum.  

We set up this forum several years ago when many members complained about support for CS products and wanted a central forum where all discussions concerning CS products would be in one location and not scattered throughout AVSIM.  If topics were posted in the P3D Forum and not moved by a moderator to this forum, they would soon be lost in the pages of P3D.  As you can see here, many people are having problems with their CS product, including the CS757.  This is a location where you can find all of the issues, good or bad, regarding CS products.

There are other reasons for placing the topics here in the CS Support Forum:

As you may or may not know, discussions about CS products are usually volatile.  The P3D Forum is not the proper place to argue for and against a product.  If there are issues, you go to the support forum and discuss them there with the people who are interested in hearing about the issues.  Discussing the issues in both the P3D and this forum only creates more confusion as there may be members who want to raise every issue possible regarding the product in the P3D Forum (as more members might visit that forum) and the issues have already been discussed and resolved in this forum.  This is a support forum for issues with a CS product.  I believe CS is actively working on any issues found and immediately releasing a hotfix before a version update indicates to me they are working hard to please their customer base.

CS seems to have turned over a new leaf in that they are more responsive to questions in their forums and the site has dramatically changed with the product description and 'sim ops' where the manuals, updates, banners, tutorials, etc., are all in one location and easily accessible by everyone. 

There have been complaints too about the price but the price for the FS9 product many, many years ago was $68 for the base package and $23.00 for any expansions.  With inflation, the $75.70 price seems to me to be in line with their previous sales (like golf and tennis, this is an expensive hobby).  One can wait for several years like the FS9 757 and buy the product for $10 one day.

Hope this explains our decision to keep the CS product discussions in one place. 

Best regards,

Jim

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Posted
9 hours ago, Jim Young said:

With the hotfix installed, I flew from KLAX to KSFO with ASP4.

So, Jim, have to put you on the spot :biggrin: . Would you say it's better with the hotfix and therefore recommended? Or another fix is needed?

Mario Di Lauro

Posted
18 hours ago, tamsini said:

So, Jim, have to put you on the spot :biggrin: . Would you say it's better with the hotfix and therefore recommended? Or another fix is needed?

I don't have it (yet) myself but there is a list on the 757III website with fixes included in the hotfix. Not all which are on their list have been fixed in this hotfix and there's a v1.1 update soon to be released.

Posted
20 hours ago, tamsini said:

So, Jim, have to put you on the spot :biggrin: . Would you say it's better with the hotfix and therefore recommended? Or another fix is needed?

This was just a hotfix to release what they had fixed so far.  They will put out another hotfix later or maybe release the final update.  Although I had a small issue with the speedbrake, I blame it on being a rookie, a pilot wannabee.  I'm learning.  It was just released this month and still overly excited by the fact I can start it up from cold and dark.  I don't monitor fuel as I have unlimited fuel turned on but heard there was still an issue with that. 

I don't think there will be any other 757's released for P3DV4 or at least I have not heard of any rumors of any so you can wait until they have one of the 9.99 sales (which probably would not include this product for a few years) or get it now and start enjoying it or burning up the AVSIM forums with "issues".

Best regards,

Jim

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Posted
19 minutes ago, Jim Young said:

get it now and start enjoying it or burning up the AVSIM forums with "issues".

I'm not one to "burn up avsim with issues" so I guess I'll have to choose the former!

Thanks, Jim.

Mario Di Lauro

Posted
On 2018-01-18 at 0:06 PM, Jim Young said:

On landing, the reverse thrust did not work even though I had 3 Green and it was setup properly with the speed brake armed, etc. The reverse thrust has worked in the past.  I shouldn't have to hit F2.   

Hi Jim, I’m curious about this, what method were you using to try to engage reverse thrust if not F2?

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Normally, when the aircraft touches down and you have APP engaged, flaps down, speedbrake armed, and autobrake turned on, the reversers will automatically deploy along with the speedbrakes and stop the aircraft very fast.  For instance, in all of the PMDG aircraft, I can do a wing view on landing and watch it all happening without any intervention on my part in the cockpit.  The CS757 did deploy reversers and speedbrakes the first time I tried the aircraft and the aircraft's front landing wheel was absolutely on the center line and I was truly impressed.  I just think I did something wrong this time (which is hard for me to believe - :biggrin:).  Haven't had a chance to try it since then as AVSIM has been working me to death with whips but I will soon and will certainly report back.  The commercial aircraft are getting more and more realistic and hitting the F2 key is only good for the default heavies in FSX as you cannot set it up like with the new payware aircraft.

Best regards,

Jim

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