New to this at least since the AAU1 update and I have a couple of issues.

1. The interior lights - how do you turn these on?  The rotary knobs on the overhead don't work at least by left mouse clicking or mouse wheel rotation.  All that happens is some clicking but the Knobs stay stuck at the minimum position.  Same for the map flood light on the lower panel.

2. Impossible to track the runway and  take off with real weather and any sort of cross wind.  Fine with real weather disabled.

And just an observation - the cabin isn't modelled (unlike the CJ4).  Disappointing  seeing the Longitude is now being touted as study/payware quality.

Assistance appreciated

Bruce

Edited February 11, 20233 yr by brucewtb
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1 hour ago, brucewtb said:

1. The interior lights - how do you turn these on?  The rotary knobs on the overhead don't work at least by left mouse clicking or mouse wheel rotation.  All that happens is some clicking but the Knobs stay stuck at the minimum position.  Same for the map flood light on the lower panel.

2. Impossible to track the runway and  take off with real weather and any sort of cross wind.  Fine with real weather disabled.

The interior lights should still work...I use the middle mouse to turn them.  Do you have any 3rd party liveries or anything still active?  An old or incompatible Longitude mod still installed could cause that behavior.

I turn Autorudder to 'on' for most aircraft in MSFS.  The ground handling is not correct in the sim and makes most aircraft way too hard to control on the runway.  This is not how it is IRL.  I would rather have a stable takeoff landing than trying to fight things so I have accepted using this feature..  The jets all have yaw dampers anyway so once in the air you won't be losing any realism for the most part.

I don't necessarily put the Longitude into the payware league due to it still having the default sounds (which are not great) and no cabin, etc.  It does fly nicely though with the latest avionics upgrade.

1 hour ago, brucewtb said:

2. Impossible to track the runway and  take off with real weather and any sort of cross wind.  Fine with real weather disabled.

This has been an issue in a lot of planes for a long time. One thing I noticed is that somehow, the axis sensitivity for my rudder pedals got messed up somewhere along the line. Left rudder was amplifed by 42%, right rudder was dampened by 42%. No wonder I weaved like a drunk going down the runway.

 

Once I fixed that it got a lot better, but still far from perfect. Ground handling is still a weakness in this sim. Especially when you hit that transition speed where the airplane starts to want to fly. That's usually the point where it tries to swerve on me and I have to stomp right rudder.  I get that behavior whether I'm in a jet or an old radial prop.

 

Ok I have reloaded MSFS 2020 with an empty community folder and I still have the Longitude interior lights issue - so looks like a conflicting addon is not the cause.   Where to now?

Bruce

Edit  It was the buttons on my Bravo throttle that were set to cabin lights and panel lights  - after deleting these bindings the knobs in the Longitude work normally.

Bruce

Edited February 11, 20233 yr by brucewtb
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2 hours ago, eslader said:

Ground handling is still a weakness in this sim. Especially when you hit that transition speed where the airplane starts to want to fly. That's usually the point where it tries to swerve on me and I have to stomp right rudder.  I get that behavior whether I'm in a jet or an old radial prop.

 

Yes that is what I get but will check my rudder sensitivities.

Bruce