8 hours ago, cavaricooper said:

@Aamir et al-

Workflow allowing, could we please consider allowing each Throttle Detent to have a 10-15 unit coverage area, so that selecting Flex or Climb isn’t fiddly for those without HW detents on their Throttles.

Calibration would best allow the user to decide the span of each detent. To accommodate this each setting would have TWO points, an upper and lower, and anything between would be in the detent. 
 

Ta- C

If you adjust the deadzone on the calibration page, that's for the detents. You can't do them individually, it applies to the detents overall, but I find it helps with fiddly throttles. 

3 hours ago, JaneRachel said:

Thanks Detlef,

 

Tested at various airports here all good, except it did it to me again on the HON1H arrival in to Heathrow (might be the crazy steep path on that STAR or something).

Yep, I am aware of the airline limitations and not something I would normally use either, was just testing it out to see how it performed.

 

Really grateful for you testing this out too, thank you!

Jane

Hi Jane,

just took a look at HON1H arrival.

It is indeed a crazy steep path. You can't arrive at HON in FL350 resp. proceed further without a hold at HON. In no way you can be at the mand. FL150 at SOPIT (at least not in a carrier with pob's in the back). I guess we have to preplane here to assist the automatic.

But if you ensure to be at FL150 at SOPIT and FL70 at BNN, the automatic approach mode should kick in with no problems. The DECEL point  comes later.

BTW, the FF320 in XPlane had a lot of difficulties to calculate the DECEL point, was sometimes at 6 NM final ...... and was always negating restrictions in FL or Speed.

Have fun with the FENIX.

Kind regards

Detlef

 

9 hours ago, cavaricooper said:

@Aamir et al-

Workflow allowing, could we please consider allowing each Throttle Detent to have a 10-15 unit coverage area, so that selecting Flex or Climb isn’t fiddly for those without HW detents on their Throttles.

Calibration would best allow the user to decide the span of each detent. To accommodate this each setting would have TWO points, an upper and lower, and anything between would be in the detent. 
 

Ta- C

Have you tried the throttle calibration on the MCDU?  You can set the location of each detent and then set a Nullzone % for each one.  See LSK4 in picture below.  Set that to like 10% or whatever you find works.  

If I save a flight mid-cruise then load it again, the FMC is uninitialised (E.g. no flight plan, etc).

Just now, srce said:

If I save a flight mid-cruise then load it again, the FMC is uninitialised (E.g. no flight plan, etc).

Saving and reloading is not supported, I suppose. They would need some sort of panel state saving for this, at least that's how it works in the 737.

46 minutes ago, stratone said:

Hi Jane,

just took a look at HON1H arrival.

It is indeed a crazy steep path. You can't arrive at HON in FL350 resp. proceed further without a hold at HON. In no way you can be at the mand. FL150 at SOPIT (at least not in a carrier with pob's in the back). I guess we have to preplane here to assist the automatic.

But if you ensure to be at FL150 at SOPIT and FL70 at BNN, the automatic approach mode should kick in with no problems. The DECEL point  comes later.

BTW, the FF320 in XPlane had a lot of difficulties to calculate the DECEL point, was sometimes at 6 NM final ...... and was always negating restrictions in FL or Speed.

Have fun with the FENIX.

Kind regards

Detlef

 

thanks again for all your help. Yep, its a crazy approach. Luckily I was only flying in from Manchester (which has a mandatory FL190 to London on the standard routing doc), so managed to get to that FL150 ok.

Tried twice this morning and the APPR worked, so no idea why it glitched out on me last night. So grateful for you checking this with me

 

Jane

6 hours ago, Aamir said:

If you adjust the deadzone on the calibration page, that's for the detents. You can't do them individually, it applies to the detents overall, but I find it helps with fiddly throttles. 

This works BEAUTIFULLY, thanks!

FO sidestick by default.

Michael Moe 

On 5/21/2022 at 11:35 AM, petz_e said:

So having the option to set the sim rate to 2x or 4x the default speed during cruise is an essential feature for me

Add 8x. My personal standard was 16x during FS9 times, but I can do well with 8x. All my P3D birds support 8x (some even 16x). I've managed to make all my MSFS planes (including FBW) support up to 8x, but Fenix.

Edited May 27, 20224 yr by Luis Hernandez