Thanks for this! I will start my conversion to the 747-400/-800 in spring 2022 and I hope that I can already shape up for that with this model. The payware -800 I recently bought during a sale...seems to be not suitable for that 😐

Edited December 11, 20214 yr by Janov

Hi Sparky,

Thanks for your work and contribution to the X-Plane community with the B747.

1 hour ago, Janov said:

I will start my conversion to the 747-400/-800 in spring 2022

YOU LUCKY LUCKY FELLOW !

Enjoy yourself 

13 minutes ago, jcjimmy said:

Hi Sparky,

Thanks for your work and contribution to the X-Plane community with the B747.

tbf the vast majority of the credit in this update - especially for things that make people happy - goes to the awesome folk in the credits and special thanks

My main task this time round was fixing a few things that make people angry and bringing everyone together - yes, apparently these are things I can do to, however hard that is to believe.

1 hour ago, Janov said:

Thanks for this! I will start my conversion to the 747-400/-800 in spring 2022 and I hope that I can already shape up for that with this model. The payware -800 I recently bought during a sale...seems to be not suitable for that 😐

Not making a criticize of X-plane or the addons involved. But if you are looking for a convertion to flying the real 747, look no further than PSX 747-400 Sim. It's just perfect for the objetive you need the Sim for. Just the most accurace representation of a 747 in a Simulator.

1 hour ago, Alec said:

look no further than PSX 747-400 Sim

Yeah, I heard so! At any rate it is more of a "coming home" for me after 9 dark years on the A320 family. I flew the 744 for 6 years already and hope that some of that is still buried between my ears. Flying in X-Plane is more for getting pattern work down - procedures is something I wouldn´t trust a desktop sim on...quite yet (except for those models I built myself 😉 )

Cheers, Jan

 

9 hours ago, Janov said:

Yeah, I heard so! At any rate it is more of a "coming home" for me after 9 dark years on the A320 family. I flew the 744 for 6 years already and hope that some of that is still buried between my ears. Flying in X-Plane is more for getting pattern work down - procedures is something I wouldn´t trust a desktop sim on...quite yet (except for those models I built myself 😉 )

Cheers, Jan

 

Aerowinx PSX is the best CBT your money can buy, short of buying a Level-D for your home. It has been fine-tuned to a borderline fanatical attention to details based on the feedback and observations provided by several rw engineering and pilots over the years. You should check the forum and see for yourself.  You can also connect it to X-Plane 11 for using it as a "scenery generator" via a plugin, in the case you want a better "outside view" (it overrides XP flight model and uses datarefs to move the aircraft).

If you want to see the integration, here's a video of the "Canarsie" approach into JFK 13L I made a couple of years ago:

https://youtu.be/Jiho-jWwYSY

Hope this helps 🙂 

12 hours ago, Alec said:

Not making a criticize of X-plane or the addons involved.

Absolutely none taken, there's a few PSX/Sparky744 combo guys around.

1 hour ago, evaamo said:

short of buying a Level-D for your home

VR > Level D sim, and will eventually replace them imho -> already begun for helos, which you can already buy for your own home, motion platforms included (but a motion platform is a little bit overkill, you do get a pretty strong perception of motion in VR which is why people can get motion sickness)

10 hours ago, Janov said:

procedures is something I wouldn´t trust a desktop sim on...quite yet

1 hour ago, evaamo said:

the best CBT your money can buy

We have some "old" CBTs linked out through the issues page:

https://github.com/mSparks43/747-400/milestone/4

general plan now is to mark them up like

https://github.com/mSparks43/747-400/issues/670

Then fix the inconsistencies.

 

Edited December 12, 20214 yr by mSparks

16 hours ago, Janov said:

Flying in X-Plane is more for getting pattern work down - procedures is something I wouldn´t trust a desktop sim on...quite yet

That's a very interesting point of view coming from a real pilot!

Because usually we always hear the opposite: "for RL training, desktop sims are mostly good for procedures".

To practice procedures with a desktop sim is certainly possible - but every action you take (like shutting off one hydraulic pump) must have the correct consequence...the famed "study level" fidelity. There aren´t many add-on aircraft out there that are so good...and even if they are, they probably have a slightly different configuration of systems from the plane you are studying for.

I would not practice the actual landing touchdown with a desktop simulator - you can certainly practice that and get good enough to survive trying on the real plane, but just surviving isn´t what we aim for when flying expensive airliners 😉

But you can certainly practice the "choreography" that most procedures like a visual pattern or a low visibility circling approach have, when to reduce speed, when to extend flaps, your downwind timing, wind correction angles, things like that.

Edited December 12, 20214 yr by Janov

Has there been some work done to LNAV and VNAV?

12 hours ago, Bjoern said:

Has there been some work done to LNAV and VNAV?

LNAV/VNAV issue tracking is here

https://github.com/mSparks43/747-400/issues/671

https://github.com/mSparks43/747-400/issues/672

https://github.com/mSparks43/747-400/issues/688

Next release pencilled in for Friday

RC is downloadable from the github via code->download as zip for any last minute bug reports.

 

Edited January 6, 20224 yr by mSparks

Hello, not to sure if this is the right place for it but I have a problem. shortly after takeoff the aircraft selects CLB power and I can't climb very fast if at all (VNAV and LNAV selected). Thanks.