8 hours ago, Republic DC9 said:

Silly question, but how does one make certain that this lovely autothrottle is OFF before landing or on rollout after landing so, you know, your plane doesn’t keep barreling down the runway at 190 knots then off the end of the runway into the ocean, with thrust reversers and parking brakes unable to stop it? (Not that this just happened, of course....) 🙂

I always found this to be a problem in the Longitude -- not really knowing whether the autothrottle was on or off -- since there's no clear indicator light. One solution is to turn on the Tool Tips feature. With Tool Tips enabled, you can hover your mouse over the autothrottle buttons and clearly read whether autothrottle is "On" or "Off."

36 minutes ago, David Mills said:

I always found this to be a problem in the Longitude -- not really knowing whether the autothrottle was on or off -- since there's no clear indicator light. One solution is to turn on the Tool Tips feature. With Tool Tips enabled, you can hover your mouse over the autothrottle buttons and clearly read whether autothrottle is "On" or "Off."

Autothrottle are indicated on the G 3000 when it's engaged, I think it says "AT" if I remember right.

3 hours ago, David Mills said:

I always found this to be a problem in the Longitude -- not really knowing whether the autothrottle was on or off -- since there's no clear indicator light. One solution is to turn on the Tool Tips feature. With Tool Tips enabled, you can hover your mouse over the autothrottle buttons and clearly read whether autothrottle is "On" or "Off."

My thanks to @Ixoye and @bofhlusr for educating me about the Citation autothrottle indicator. I'd never noticed that before.

On 9/9/2020 at 1:56 AM, Dillon said:

Hope there's something in there for getting around CTD issues on medium to long range flights...

I expect you've found out yourself now. Having had the CTD a couple of times I realised I was in "external view". I now fly most everywhere in high flying jets in "cockpit view" and not had a problem since, you can't see much at 43k anyway. In slower lower smaller piston twins it is not an issue.

8 minutes ago, thecanarian said:

I expect you've found out yourself now. Having had the CTD a couple of times I realised I was in "external view". I now fly most everywhere in high flying jets in "cockpit view" and not had a problem since, you can't see much at 43k anyway. In slower lower smaller piston twins it is not an issue.

I never fly externally.  That's XBOX flying in my book for gamers.  Thanks for the feedback though.

Having said that. I've just come across the dreaded CTD (three times in succession) trying to complete a "direct" flight from KCIU to LPHR. All about 4 hrs (ish) into the flight just before TOD to start the STAR. The strange thing is when I flew LPHR - KCIU I had littlenavmap create a route with multiple waypoints, whereas on the return I flew direct to the STAR. Whether that is significant I do not know.

I seem to remember a similar problem in FSX that could be worked around by pausing the flight and then resuming.

Well I've eventually manged to complete the KCIU - LPHR without a CTD ... at the 4th attempt. At approx 3 hrs into the flight I "saved" the flight, quit MSFS (and had lunch), came back and loaded the saved flight. It took a few minutes to re-configure the aircraft, speed, nav etc. It helped I could fly direct to FRS at the start of the STAR to LPHR. 
I've got 32Gb cpu RAM and 6GB gpu RAM but it looks like anything more than about 4hrs flight time and the dreaded CTD will get you.

On 7/31/2022 at 8:20 PM, David Mills said:

My thanks to @Ixoye and @bofhlusr for educating me about the Citation autothrottle indicator. I'd never noticed that before.

LOL You are not alone,

I never noticed that either. Should really pay more attention to the instruments 🤣

Hello All,

On the AT Subject re the Longitude does the TOGA function work?, on runway I advance manully throtles to approx 50% and try to enable TOGA but nothing happens?.

 

Any help much appreciated

Charlie McEwan

5 hours ago, charliemcewan said:

Hello All,

On the AT Subject re the Longitude does the TOGA function work?, on runway I advance manully throtles to approx 50% and try to enable TOGA but nothing happens?.

 

Any help much appreciated

Charlie McEwan

TOGA works fine ! 

Recommended procedure > Engage the AT as you enter the runway, then go TOGA. Push throttles FULL forward for TO.  After rotation and you have reached 400 ft AGL set your AP modes as desired (HDG or NAV and FLC or V/S).  The AT will then kick in and follow whatever you have set (Manual or FMS speeds) I believe the default FMS is 200 kts, then 250 up to 10,000 feet.  I prefer MAN speed at 180 kts and V/S set to +4000 fpm.  If desired , you can leave AT engaged entire flight and it will disengage at 50 ft AGL on landing.

Thank you so much for procedure recommendations, I don’t know why but I thought hiring TOGA buttons enabled throttle movement to take off power. 
 

I will do as you advise 

 

thanks again

charlie

12 minutes ago, charliemcewan said:

 I don’t know why but I thought hiring TOGA buttons enabled throttle movement to take off power. 
 

 

You are correct for many aircraft.  However, Working Title modified the Longitude to match its real world procedures and they have done an awesome job ! 

4 hours ago, vcarlo said:

You are correct for many aircraft.  However, Working Title modified the Longitude to match its real world procedures and they have done an awesome job ! 

Yes I agree awesome is correct thanks again my best wishes

charlie

10 hours ago, vcarlo said:

TOGA works fine ! 

Recommended procedure > Engage the AT as you enter the runway, then go TOGA. Push throttles FULL forward for TO.  After rotation and you have reached 400 ft AGL set your AP modes as desired (HDG or NAV and FLC or V/S).  The AT will then kick in and follow whatever you have set (Manual or FMS speeds) I believe the default FMS is 200 kts, then 250 up to 10,000 feet.  I prefer MAN speed at 180 kts and V/S set to +4000 fpm.  If desired , you can leave AT engaged entire flight and it will disengage at 50 ft AGL on landing.

Question… during flight, my physical throttles are at max… AT is controlling the actual throttles but they obviously are out of sync. So when you get to 50 AGL when landing, the throttles are WAY out of sync. What do you do to minimize this?