Leonardo Maddog to be released 30 April!

[David Roch 1,982]

Always nice seeing you around, André! 🥂

[sd_flyer 6,038]

1 hour ago, OzWhitey said:

Even a "first impressions" opinion is interesting. Most people are just comparing the flight models to GA aircraft or other home sims, so I'm always interested to hear the thoughts of anyone who's flown an airliner. So thanks, and let us know what you think after you've given her a decent fly! 🙂

I haven't flown airliners but I did flew light GA for last 20 years IRL. And none of airliners A-320, MD-80, DC-6, B-247 and etc flight model remind me of light GA. I don't know who those people why they claiming it ! However, I have a feeling they never flown IRL to know the difference. 

[jarmstro 2,402]

So for £80 there are no liveries? I've downloaded a couple but have no idea where to put the files or what to do. Why is this so cryptic? Garbage.

[Fiorentoni 4,217]

Just now, jarmstro said:

So for £80 there are no liveries? I've downloaded a couple but have no idea where to put the files or what to do. Why is this so cryptic? Garbage.

RTF manual page 5.

There's 16 official liveries now, with more to come (and of course more at flightsim.to).

[rjack1282 316]

When taking off after setting EPR 1.4 with physical throttles, flip the Auto Throttle switch, the auto throttle sets power to takeoff EPR, but after power is set it switches to clamp mode and the power setting immediately moves to where my physical throttles are set.  I know how clamp is supposed to work but it almost impossible to perfectly line up my physical throttles with the EPR limit before clamp mode engages (no indicator of where they are set as far as I can tell) and I'm left trying to fine tune my throttles.

What is the procedure on takeoff if you have physical throttles?

[Fiorentoni 4,217]

Just now, rjack1282 said:

When taking off after setting EPR 1.4 with physical throttles, flip the Auto Throttle switch, the auto throttle sets power to takeoff EPR, but after power is set it switches to clamp mode and the power setting immediately moves to where my physical throttles are set.  I know how clamp is supposed to work but it almost impossible to perfectly line up my physical throttles with the EPR limit before clamp mode engages (no indicator of where they are set as far as I can tell) and I'm left trying to fine tune my throttles.

What is the procedure on takeoff if you have physical throttles?

You have noise on your throttles (or you accidentally touched them during the takeoff roll), that is the sim reads movement when in "CLMP" mode and therefore resets the throttle position in the sim. A deadzone can help.
The procedure itself is correct: AT on, AT goes to TO EPR, you keep your hands off the physical throttle. There is no need to touch the throttle from TO to landing, just like in the 737.
 

[rjack1282 316]

2 minutes ago, Fiorentoni said:

You have noise on your throttles (or you accidentally touched them during the takeoff roll), that is the sim reads movement when in "CLMP" mode and therefore resets the throttle position in the sim. A deadzone can help.
The procedure itself is correct: AT on, AT goes to TO EPR, you keep your hands off the physical throttle. There is no need to touch the throttle from TO to landing, just like in the 737.
 

I bet you are absolutely correct...it is the noise in the throttles.  I'll set a deadzone.

[Gilandred 690]

43 minutes ago, JRBarrett said:

If you don’t want your quadrant’s mixture controls to have any unwanted effect on the MD-80 you can un-assign them in the MSFS controller menu, but why not use them if available? It’s one less on-screen mouse manipulation you need to do - especially during engine start when you need to use the mouse on the overhead console to hold the engine starter switch in the “on” position. 

You can use your mouse wheel to move the starter switch to the open position without needing to “hold” it in position.

[ShezA 176]

Fsuipc can set throttle detentes which I used in P3D.

[WestAir 2,522]

5 minutes ago, rjack1282 said:

When taking off after setting EPR 1.4 with physical throttles, flip the Auto Throttle switch, the auto throttle sets power to takeoff EPR, but after power is set it switches to clamp mode and the power setting immediately moves to where my physical throttles are set.  I know how clamp is supposed to work but it almost impossible to perfectly line up my physical throttles with the EPR limit before clamp mode engages (no indicator of where they are set as far as I can tell) and I'm left trying to fine tune my throttles.

What is the procedure on takeoff if you have physical throttles?

Ryan,

Something is wrong. Once the A/T gets you to takeoff power the thrust levers stay put until the sim senses movement in your physical throttles.

Personally I do try and "chase the EPR's" because it feels wrong not to have my hand on the levers until V1, but you shouldn't have to.

[rjack1282 316]

9 minutes ago, Fiorentoni said:

You have noise on your throttles (or you accidentally touched them during the takeoff roll), that is the sim reads movement when in "CLMP" mode and therefore resets the throttle position in the sim. A deadzone can help.
The procedure itself is correct: AT on, AT goes to TO EPR, you keep your hands off the physical throttle. There is no need to touch the throttle from TO to landing, just like in the 737.
 

Ok next problem is MSFS let's me set a deadzone in the middle and at the end of the axis but not at any one point along the axis.  This obviously is intended for a joystick axis and not a sliding throttle axis. 

I think instead of deadzone I'm looking for a noise ignore function.  Do you know any way to do that?  For example there is such a setting in the Zibo 737 that I use to ignore minor noise.

[JRBarrett 3,070]

8 minutes ago, Gilandred said:

You can use your mouse wheel to move the starter switch to the open position without needing to “hold” it in position.

Yes, and that is what I do. I then move my view to monitor the engine gauges to introduce fuel at 20 percent N2. For me, it is highly convenient to use the hardware mixture lever to pull up the fuel lever, rather that using the mouse on the VC representation of the fuel lever.

[Bobsk8 12,677]

25 minutes ago, sd_flyer said:

I haven't flown airliners but I did flew light GA for last 20 years IRL. And none of airliners A-320, MD-80, DC-6, B-247 and etc flight model remind me of light GA. I don't know who those people why they claiming it ! However, I have a feeling they never flown IRL to know the difference. 

Over the years, I get the impression that many opinions on the sim forums, stating things are totally wrong with the flight models, have never even been in a light aircraft, much less piloted one. 

[Fiorentoni 4,217]

Just now, rjack1282 said:

Ok next problem is MSFS let's me set a deadzone in the middle and at the end of the axis but not at any one point along the axis.  This obviously is intended for a joystick axis and not a sliding throttle axis. 

I think instead of deadzone I'm looking for a noise ignore function.  Do you know any way to do that?  For example there is such a setting in the Zibo 737 that I use to ignore minor noise.

Hm no idea about that.
But what you CAN do is set the deadzone at the end and just put your physical throttles up there while the AT is not yet in "clmp" mode. This way it will "lie" in the deadzone and any noise gets "absorbed".

[OzWhitey 3,353]

33 minutes ago, jarmstro said:

So for £80 there are no liveries? I've downloaded a couple but have no idea where to put the files or what to do. Why is this so cryptic? Garbage.

Chill out. I posted step by step instructions about ten pages back. Have a read. Or Google it.