I just started using this plane less than a week ago.  Unfortunately the acclaimed Heavy Divsion mod is not good post SU-5 as the most recent revision for that mod preceeded SU-5 by a week or two.   So after initially trying the plane w/ the mod only to find too many broken basics, I decided to give the default 787-10 a test.  I'm quite impressed, despite its shortcomings.  When I compare against a flight done in the PMDG NGXu truthfully I can say they are shockingly comparable, really.  Sure there are many missing details, but a lot of those don't come into play in the NGXu anyway, once you're configured the plane.  Especially performance and while CAT III landings aren't quite dialed in well most everything works shockingly well in terms of the FMC and navigation.  IOW, the basics are really quite effective including interior lighting.  The sound package is lacking, but it's not that bad either. If you haven't give it the time of day give it a whirl you may be pleasantly surprised!

Here we are coming into CYVR by FSDreamTeam.  Note the main thread is only at 70% and GPU is coasting along despite RS at 120 and LOD 300.  For reasons I don't appreciate once on the ground taxiing the sim was not maintaining solid 30FPS, but was bouncing around betwee 25 and 29, despite presumably lots of CPU/GPU headroom before reported in the OSD.  I stopped and dialled back LOD to 150, and buildings/trees/bushes to High, and this DID NOT change the lower FPS which had been rock solid from KSFO all the way nearly to touchdown at CYVR thru thick cloud layers.   Server access time was solid 44ms.  

This plane flies very well without any mods, i did a lot of flights with the 787 not using a mod and the basics are working pretty well what i have seen. A good useable Plane now compared to the beginning of MSFS - IMO !

The Heavy mod is under a overwork at the Moment but it`s possible to use it, there`s still a lot update stuff goeing on so to wait a bit is an appropriate option..

 

cheers 😉

22 minutes ago, pmplayer said:

but it`s possible to use it,

Do you have artificial horizon and EICAS data shown with the MOD please? I have lost both post SU5.

55 minutes ago, Bernard Ducret said:

Do you have artificial horizon and EICAS data shown with the MOD please? I have lost both post SU5.

At the moment i am not using the newest mod mine is/was about 3days old and i saw since that about 4 other ( newer ) mod builds came to live..

cheers 😉

She's a beauty.

These two 787 skins have minor texture issues with the cockpit fire extinguisher,  but they are so beautiful that I don't like to fly without them.  There is an easy texture fix for them, https://flightsim.to/file/18430/787-su5-update-cockpit-fix

https://flightsim.to/file/15163/boeing-787-10-olympic-airways-classic

https://flightsim.to/file/15075/boeing-787-10-air-france-classic

Forgot to say one thing,  for a while I used "MSFS Community Downloader" to download the HeavyD mod and keep it up to date.

When 0.1.9 of the 78 mod was released,  I updated it with that downloader.   However,  although the downloader showed the same version number as the github page,   the version downloaded by the app was not the most recent version of 0.1.9 as found on the Github page (for some reason).

So if anyone is using that downloader,  might want to try the Github version.

Edited September 5, 20214 yr by Waldo Pepper

45 minutes ago, Waldo Pepper said:

So if anyone is using that downloader,  might want to try the Github version.

Near as I can tell 0.1.9 unfortunately has more things broken that the current OEM version.  Hopefully HD will update soon to SU-5.

Hi guys,

Don`t use this 0.1.9 mod Version it is total "out of date" and not SU5 compatible, just use allways the new ons from the githup page; with this releases you up to date..

cheers 😉

1 hour ago, Waldo Pepper said:

She's a beauty.

These two 787 skins have minor texture issues with the cockpit fire extinguisher,  but they are so beautiful that I don't like to fly without them.  There is an easy texture fix for them, https://flightsim.to/file/18430/787-su5-update-cockpit-fix

https://flightsim.to/file/15163/boeing-787-10-olympic-airways-classic

https://flightsim.to/file/15075/boeing-787-10-air-france-classic

Yes, that`a nice one..😎

cheers 😉

14 minutes ago, pmplayer said:

Hi guys,

Don`t use this 0.1.9 mod Version it is total "out of date" and not SU5 compatible, just use allways the new ons from the githup page; with this releases you up to date..

cheers 😉

I'm not very familiar with the workings of github, but I find this confusing.  V0.1.9 is showing as the latest release on the github page.  If not that, what are users supposed to download that is more current?

8 minutes ago, Sigwolf said:

I'm not very familiar with the workings of github, but I find this confusing.  V0.1.9 is showing as the latest release on the github page.  If not that, what are users supposed to download that is more current?

There isn't anything that is more current, and that file causes far more problems than is solves.  So the advise is:  keep watching until the developer, Heavy Division, updates the modification to work properly with SU-5, or WU-6 as is coming soon.  In the interim, the stock 787-10 in SU-5 works quite well w/o modification.

I’ve actually never flown the 787-10…good to hear it works well I’ll have to give it a shot.

15 minutes ago, Noel said:

There isn't anything that is more current, and that file causes far more problems than is solves.  So the advise is:  keep watching until the developer, Heavy Division, updates the modification to work properly with SU-5, or WU-6 as is coming soon.  In the interim, the stock 787-10 in SU-5 works quite well w/o modification.

pmplayer's post indicated there was something newer on the github page, so I was just remarking that I don't see anything newer.  I know 0.1.9 no longer works right.

i wholeheartedly disagree with the author of this topic

The default 787 does do a lot of things reasonably convincingly, but - just as with the 747 - I find the lack of proper autothrottle behaviour on take-off (eg. TOGA mode) really frustrating.  Neither plane can properly set the autothrottle to TOGA as per protocol.  The AT physically cannot move the throttles on the ground.  So you always have to set full throttle yourself (where the A/T) is tehnically off (not realistic) and then pick it up on climb. Even then though, the A/T seems to just track selected speed, rather than setting a fixed N1, where FLC or VNAV would then be used to pitch the aircraft to maintain a selected speed, against that fixed N1 value.

TL:DR - The autothrottle is literally that from default FSX airliners.