Just wondering if this has been everyone else's experience. The Flight Director does nothing (does not provide guidance) unless the autopilot is engaged. If you are following a nav source and click off the autopliot, the FD won't follow the path.

1 hour ago, Boeing_Driver said:

Just wondering if this has been everyone else's experience. The Flight Director does nothing (does not provide guidance) unless the autopilot is engaged. If you are following a nav source and click off the autopliot, the FD won't follow the path.

Yes the default FD doesn't provide roll guidance without the AP on. We built a custom FD for the CJ4 because of this so that it provides guidance even with the AP off.

It’s actually amazing, once you get passed VFR flying, how many small things that are broken. 

The Garmins are like whoever made them was working from a screenshot of a Garmin and handwritten notes from another developer, and they never even bothered to go find a YouTube video of someone using the actual unit, or spend 5 min with the Trainer applications that are freely available on the Garmin website.

I still can't believe that Garmin the company actually allowed their names to be put on the bezels of the Asobo "Garmins".  If anything should be branded as the "AS1000" or "MS1000" instead of a "G1000", it's what we have in MSFS.

Edited January 10, 20215 yr by marsman2020

37 minutes ago, Ianrivaldosmith said:

It’s actually amazing, once you get passed VFR flying, how many small things that are broken. 

Truer words were never spoken.

 I fly the msfs TBM daily so I have gotten so used to working around things that I barely miss them . (I'm not a rw pilot but I own the hot start tbm and have that as comparison)  totoritkos moded g1000 In the hotstart is very  well done. Plus the base laminar g1000 holds its own. I still fly the hotstart tbm from time to time (flew it today as a matter of fact).. 

The Garmins in all the msfs planes have come along way (I too feel like someone coded them based on notes and not experience with one)  and I do miss correctly  working flight directors for hand flying for a bit after an IFR takeoff. It gives vertical guidance just not lateral.  If there is a stiff crosswind even heading mode flight benefits from working FD lateral guidance. The cj4 mod is a joy since they fixed the flight director's when off AP.  (And working titles  FMS modifications for the CJ4 in general)

But having said that.. I still have a hard time going back to xplane.   I mostly just to every once in a whole fly the planes I own in xplane (the hot start will always be deeper (in every way) than the stock  msfs tbm

And Asobo is  going the right direction. Again. If the gps was 40 % correct (don't confuse correct for complete. Even the xplane Garmins are missing a ton of features.)  .. its like.  60% of what IS implemented is correct now in msfs . Although You still gotta keep both eyes on the gps (as opposed to xplane garmins where keeping one eye on it is good enough] 

So I'm still loving the sim and I'm willing to wait. 

Edited January 11, 20215 yr by Wewk584

I'm pretty patience, but I will admit I will wait all of ten seconds to buy the first high quality payware aircraft that hits the shelves.

I flew the FBW A320's latest dev build today and the blasted thing wouldn't even let me go direct to my next waypoint, among other things.

MSFS is like a beautiful mansion with no furniture.

I guess im still learning the ins and outs of IFR and i haven't messed with the garmins much so i have yet to be annoyed. (they (the garmins) seem to work when i use the sim to put a flight plan in them) I mostly leave them alone after that. Hopefully they are more robust when they are worked on with the upcoming garmin update.  More delighted that i was able to completely fill out the box (MCDU) with a complete simbrief flightplan (no shortcuts everything manually entered including the plan with cost index, waypoints, weights, fuel, wind, transition alt, flex temps) and the default A320 flew me from LSZH to LDSP and no one died lol.

I guess people who are further along the path will need more items to work and not be inop  but i hope you guys get the additional level of functionality with the planned Garmin update Asobo has planned.

 

I just hope they dont break anything when the update drops. (Pretty please?)

 

Cheers

11 hours ago, Boeing_Driver said:

Just wondering if this has been everyone else's experience. 

No, it hasn't because I'm flying the latest version of the WT CJ4.