FSHUD 1.3.103

[PAZFLOR31 18]

First time ever that I bother sharing my humble opinion about anything related to FS.

I am, as I write performing a flight (SAWH-SAZS), using FSHUD 1.3103 beta version, FSLTL and the unavoidable A320 Fenix, and so far, it's a charm.

On ground comms with AI work totally fine.

I have seen a few complaints about voices on the forum. Well, indeed some of them do not sound like you and me, but I sense the FSHUD is exploring new options and that the ones that they will choose to keep in the future will be fine tuned later on. So, Bravo, keep up the good job and don't mind the chronically unsatisfied who just need attention.

The background noise options work fine for me, especially for my copilot who now sound like he is in the cabin (zero background noise) and not a few miles away talking through a radio. That's nice.

So far FSHUD has impressed me and satisfied my (very own) expectations of what a nice ATC could be.

As for total immersion, well there are flight schools for those who do not realize that flying a PC is not flying a plane.

I am 1h away from TOD. Let's see what comes next.

 

 

[cchiozza 108]

FSHUD is good I just wish they would not clear me all the way to CRZ from 6K...Step climb?

[Fiorentoni 4,350]

I was going to say something like "Totally unsuspicious first overall post, you created an Avsim account just for telling us how good it is?", but then I saw you have an account since 2012! 😄

[PAZFLOR31 18]

In previous version of FSHUD my initial climb clearance was never higher than 2 or 3000 feet AGL, which was a bit annoying. This time with beta, it cleared me to FL210, which is a lot more confortable.

As for the approach, I received the expected arrival and approach infos well ahead of TOD, which comes very handy and the arrival and approach process was handled by ATC both realistically and practically.

Good job FSHUD.

If this is only beta, I can't wait for stable.

As for the gentleman who spoke about my account dating from 2012, the only answer that occurs to me is: Ok,so?

[Merawen 53]

Can FSHUD now use the api for reading the taxiway position of encrypted airports (marketplace)? 

[anden145 2,299]

23 minutes ago, Merawen said:

Can FSHUD now use the api for reading the taxiway position of encrypted airports (marketplace)? 

No. I don't think any addon can do that.

[Fiorentoni 4,350]

33 minutes ago, anden145 said:

No. I don't think any addon can do that.

Yes of course, since SU10 already. SU10 brought a Navdata API, which e.g. GSX uses to make GSX work on marketplace encrypted airports.

[Fiorentoni 4,350]

1 hour ago, PAZFLOR31 said:

As for the gentleman who spoke about my account dating from 2012, the only answer that occurs to me is: Ok,so?

Nothing wrong with that, just suprised, and most of all: Welcome to the dark side 😉

[PAZFLOR31 18]

So, here comes another flight using FSHUD 1.3.103, and some odd issues coming up which I do not understand where they come from.

The flight is YSSY-WAJJ, using PMDG 737.

Initially, after having started the flight, FSHUD and FSLTL, I left the computer for an hour.

When I came back to start with the flight I found the airport VERY nicely populated.

A few seconds after initiating taxi, I am requested to hold position, because, indeed, there was a traffic about to cross my path. Nice.

This traffic was heading towards Rwy 25, and God, when I looked to my left,... poor him, he must have been nber 15 in the queue to take off.

Luckily, I had chosen 34L just to have a nice long runway for my fully loaded plane.

Anyway, and that's where the twillight zone effect starts, when the traffic moves out of my way, I patiently wait for GRD to tell me to resume taxi.

Nothing. 30 seconds more and still nothing.

So I decide to resume taxi on my own, and a few seconds later the controller, who was probably taking a nap, allows me to.

On my way to Rwy 34L I have to cross 07/25 and the 34L/16R.

As I arrive at the first crossing I stop, hoping to hear GRD telling me to contact TWR for the crossing. 

Controller is having another nap obviously, so I decide to cross anyway, not after having checked for traffic on that very busy runway.

After I cross, I expect the controller to wake up too late again, but no.

So I keep taxiing until I arrive at the second crossing. The controller is now deeply sleeping and so I cross again without clearance.

At about 200m from the 34L hold point, I am requested by GRD to communicate with TOWER. A bit early this time, I am thinking, but no. I am just being cleared by TWR for my First crossing (Rwy25).

A few seconds later almost at the hold point, same again, I am cleared for my second crossing which is half a minute behind me.

When I arrive at the hold point for my take off at 34L, this time right on time I am requested to communicate with TWR. I declare ready for take off.

"Line up and wait". So I do, and then, again nothing.

I wait, because my runway crosses the 25 and we wouldn't want to kill so many virtual passengers.

After a minute I think that, maybe, the program doesn't see me in the proper position so I move forward a few meters and,... zilch.

Another few meters. Nothing. Luckily I had chosen a looooong runway.

Eventually I decide to proceed with my take-off and at about 80 knots, I receive the clearance. What a relief, I won't loose my license just yet.

But this is not where the weirdness stops.

As I fly my SID and am about to reach FL200, which I was initially cleared for, I am instructed to climb to my CRZ Level of 320, so I keep climbing.

At about 30000' I check what my optimal cruise level would be and it's 360. So I am about to request this new flight level, but FSHUD menu only offers the option to cancel my flight?!

No cruise level change option... odd.

Ok, I think maybe I have to wait to reach 320 for the FSHUD to offer me further climb, and soon enough I reach it.

No change in the menu.

This goes on for a couple of minutes, and then out the blue I hear my copilot communicating with the tower and stating that we are crossing FL230 for FL320!!!!!

We had been at FL320 for a couple of minutes already...

TWR with a very british cool attitude responds: maintain FL320. And just after that the FSHUD menu wakes up and offers the change of flight level.

 

So, what was all that? Looks like, exept for altitude, the delays in reading my actual position have been piling up somehow. But why was my arrival at the hold point immediatly reacted to?

Was it the amount of traffic at the airport? The amount of communications was low enough not conclude it.

Is it my computer? I use a decent MSI gp76 Leopard laptop with RTX 3070 (I must say when MSFS in running, I could cook an egg on top of it, but it runs smoothly).

Is it an issue with FSHUD or between FSHUD and FSLTL? As far as I am concerned, with my total absence of computation knowledge, "Mystere et boule gomme" as they say in France.

Something isn't right though...

Edited July 9, 2023 by PAZFLOR31
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[reecemj 151]

14 minutes ago, PAZFLOR31 said:

PAZFLOR31

Am having the same issues with FSHUD. I post my grabs in the beta forum. 

[PAZFLOR31 18]

8 minutes ago, reecemj said:

Am having the same issues with FSHUD. I post my grabs in the beta forum. 

Ho. There is a beta forum? Stupid me! Where can I find it?

[RALF9636 1,998]

https://www.simforums.com/Forums/forums.html

 

You should also open a support ticket via the FSHud window.

 

All the problems you describe seem to be caused by the single reason that FSHud somehow fell behind because of a pile up of AI traffic that occurred during your one hour absence. I experienced similar issues after I paused the sim for an hour or more.

In such a case you can easily cancel the flight within FSHud and restart it at your current stage.

 

Edited July 9, 2023 by RALF9636

[tup61 1,634]

6 hours ago, reecemj said:

Am having the same issues with FSHUD. I post my grabs in the beta forum. 

Same here. Specially during taxi you have to hit the exact spots of the assigned taxiing path or you will lose connection and you never know how long it takes for ATC to start talking again. Sometimes I miss a taxi waypoint only by a few meters and still lose contact. (BTW The FSHud interface shows the direction and distance to the next taxi waypoint but it seldom works out for me. The system sucks.) 

In flight things usually are fine for me. Problems start again with the vectoring towards the IAF. Wat too many vectors are given and often they are odd and even contradicting. I ALWAYS completely ignore vectoring.

Unlike FSHud a lot but it really needs to improve fast in order to stay ahead of BeyondATC. Of course B-ATC won't be released anytime soon but once it will FSHud better be darned good... As it is now the ONLY advantage FSHud seems to have over B-ATC is that it actually controls traffic. 

BTW I stopped posting on the FSHud forum because of the often bad attitude of the developer. Inpolite, aggressive, moaning, accusing... The dev of B-ATC is the complete opposite. Luckily. Recently FSHud hired another guy to also offer support on the forum and he is more polite but sometimes lets go of his guard and hides behind quite personal excuses (like bad things happening in his life... all kinds of things you shouldn't post on a forum as an official representative...). Odd couple...

Edited July 9, 2023 by tup61

[tup61 1,634]

1 hour ago, RALF9636 said:

In such a case you can easily cancel the flight within FSHud and restart it at your current stage.

Which I do a lot. Way too often, really...

[Fiorentoni 4,350]

11 minutes ago, tup61 said:

BTW I stopped posting on the FSHud forum because of the often bad attitude of the developer. Inpolite, aggressive, moaning, accusing...

Yeah that dev actually blocked me from my FSHUD account so I couldn't log in and couldn't use FSHUD anymore. That's absolutely illegal and I've never seen anything like this before. Luckily I was able to get a refund from FlightOne.
I can't hide feeling a bit of schadensfreude hearing FSHUD is still a mess.