Hello, before I start making Zendesk tickets or whatever, I wanted to make sure the problems I'm experiencing are actually bugs and not me just doing things wrong.

- A bit of a pet peeve but the airplane sways from left to right the entire route during cruise

- I can't switch between mach speed and knots. Additionally mach speed doesn't work, it just holds the specific amount of knots when FLC was activated while showing a mach value in the display. If you want to fly below mach 0.4 things get really messed up, the bug on the speed tape indicates wrong and it resets to 250 or so knots everytime you press FLC, you can only reselect the speed by looking at the little on-hover text on the knob to know what it's set at.

- The big HDG autopilot button (with green LED) makes the plane hold its CURRENT heading regardless of what heading is selected, pushing the center of the rotary knob that lets you select a heading activates selected heading hold mode. I feel like it should be the other way around? I'm not a real pilot but it was exactly the other way around in other renditions of Boeing sims I've played with. There the big HDG button made the plane follow the selected heading, and the middle of the heading select knob set the selected heading to the current one.

- When I'm descending from cruise through transition altitude, how do I find out the correct altimeter setting? ATC never gives it to me until I'm very close to the airport but it still nags me I'm at wrong altitudes.

Edited November 5, 20205 yr by cantremember

To your points:

 

-yeah, autopilots are still a bit wonky and won't necessarily hold their course completely smoothly yet.

-I have trouble switching between mach/kts in some planes as well (haven't messed with the 747 much, but it's probably the same root problem). Mach 0.4 is an odd target to want to hit. It'd be fairly close to stalling at cruise altitude, and down low it's around 260 kts. When you're flying low and that slow, you don't want to be using mach.

Yeah, the HDG button should not change the selected heading. It should just tell the airplane to engage heading mode, and it would then turn to whatever heading you dialed to. The SEL button (pushing the center of the knob) is used when you're already following a heading, and you dial a new heading in - the plane should not turn to that new heading until you hit SEL.

-For now, just hit the B key. ATC should tell you what the altimeter setting is when they give you an instruction to descend below 18,000 feet, but it doesn't. And you should also be able to get a current weather report (in the real plane you can request one via the FMS). In the old sim we could pull weather via Activesky which was synced with what was in the sim because Activesky was generating that weather. But in this sim the weather engine doesn't always sync with the actual real-world conditions, which means if you find the barometric pressure from an external source, it may or may not be the barometric pressure represented in the sim. So, for now, the only way to set your altimeter before ATC decides to tell you what the pressure is, and know that that setting is correct, is to do it automatically with the B key.

 

Edited November 5, 20205 yr by eslader

I pretty bad with the airliners, but I've also found all these issues.

1 hour ago, eslader said:

-I have trouble switching between mach/kts in some planes as well (haven't messed with the 747 much, but it's probably the same root problem). Mach 0.4 is an odd target to want to hit. It'd be fairly close to stalling at cruise altitude, and down low it's around 260 kts. When you're flying low and that slow, you don't want to be using mach.

 

Yup it's when I'm descending I start to have the problem. The plane switches to mach by itself at cruise, and then it's stuck in a strange hybrud way. I press the button to switch to kts but the display keeps showing mach speed. The tooltip when turning the speed knob shows knots; I can select slow speed that way and autothrottle keeps it, but the speed selector shows 0.4 mach (the lowest value it will display) and the desired speed on the ribbon is also at 250 something knots, even though autothrottle is now maintaining 160 knots. When you use FLC then autothrottle will try to speed up to mach 0.4 and you have to use the knob and read the hover-tooltip to dial back down to 160kts or whatever you wanted.

Both the 787 and 747 have issues changing from mach-speed for me. The A320nx on the other hand works

16 hours ago, cantremember said:

Hello, before I start making Zendesk tickets or whatever, I wanted to make sure the problems I'm experiencing are actually bugs and not me just doing things wrong.

- A bit of a pet peeve but the airplane sways from left to right the entire route during cruise

- I can't switch between mach speed and knots. Additionally mach speed doesn't work, it just holds the specific amount of knots when FLC was activated while showing a mach value in the display. If you want to fly below mach 0.4 things get really messed up, the bug on the speed tape indicates wrong and it resets to 250 or so knots everytime you press FLC, you can only reselect the speed by looking at the little on-hover text on the knob to know what it's set at.

- The big HDG autopilot button (with green LED) makes the plane hold its CURRENT heading regardless of what heading is selected, pushing the center of the rotary knob that lets you select a heading activates selected heading hold mode. I feel like it should be the other way around? I'm not a real pilot but it was exactly the other way around in other renditions of Boeing sims I've played with. There the big HDG button made the plane follow the selected heading, and the middle of the heading select knob set the selected heading to the current one.

- When I'm descending from cruise through transition altitude, how do I find out the correct altimeter setting? ATC never gives it to me until I'm very close to the airport but it still nags me I'm at wrong altitudes.

So its not a legend, peole do fly the 747 in MSFS 😁