Just wanted to add my praise for this airplane.

As a committed non-piloting type, I bought this because I thought it looked fabulous. I've just now had a chance to take it out in the sim, and it behaved immaculately for my purposes. Hot start on runway, took off fine, did a roughly 100 mile circuit (LEMD) and landed back down perfectly happily. Even taxied happily to the (wrong, of course!) stand. Never even looked at the manual other than to see what it looked like, but this thing handled beautifully without any twitches or jumpiness. And it is gorgeous, inside and out.

This might even be the tubeliner that I actually try and learn a bit about proper setups in. Although we'll see how that goes, I still have no interest in actually simulating the piloting of such a plane. But it is a joy to move around in, for sure.

Glad I bought it.

3 hours ago, Stearmandriver said:

@RNAVV19R, if it's of any interest to you, I successfully put together a custom RNP approach in the iFly tonight, the good old RNVM26 into PAJN.  I've gotta say, it was easier to build than in the 777 navdata, while still seeming to preserve a similar level of control.  The plane flew it very nicely; not quite as stable as the real plane but smoother and more accurately even than I had the 777 doing it.  I appreciated the ability to tone down the GPWS sensitivity a bit (a slider in the EFB) as it allowed me to eliminate the spurious GPWS cautions that usually come along with doing this kind of thing in the sim.  

This should start at the beginning of the first big arc into the channel, if you're interested in taking a look.  I think I say on this approach that setting the RNP in the FMC doesn't change the behavior of the nav performance scales or the CDI, but I was wrong about that - they actually work correctly!  The NPS contracts and the CDI DOES get more sensitive! 

https://www.twitch.tv/stearmandriver/v/2277303254?sr=a&t=1589s

Nice!

I assume the "NavDist" is the arc radius for an RF leg?

41 minutes ago, Steve Dra said:

It's been my experience that you don't have to shut down MSFS when this happens....just kill the iFly plugin in task manager, then restart the plugin, and it's worked for me.  I know it would be annoying to restart MSFS each time.

They are working to resolve the issue.

Thanks, Steve. I didn’t know, but you are correct. Tried it successfully last night 🍻.

Hopefully I can ask this without getting the usual hate comments for daring to want to save my flights and return and continue the next day .Its not as real as its gets !!! so dont dare ask . For any kindly forum users would like to answer I am  answer interested in purcaseing the impressive looking 737 max but the require the ability to save and restore mid flight something supported by both  PMDG in there 737 and Leonardo in the md80 . Could someone confirm if this has this essential ability . Never now purchase without confirmation been bitten too many times with low quality add ons.  Please please please not why do you want this answers you know who you are. Or in 40 years of simming I never use this as well .

As I am now making my third flight all around 3h with the MAX8, i have already learned a lot, the AC is so great, I already like it better than the PMDG`s 737. 🤩
I like the cockpit and the details (also the look of the cockpit) and all the nice gimmicks much better and the sound is really very good, allmost outstanding.
Top airplane ( now already ) there will probably be improvements in the following updates but actually no improvement is necessary to be able to fly it professionally in this condition.
The iFLY team has done a great job - in my opinion ! 👍

cheers 😉

Edited October 16, 20241 yr by pmplayer

On 10/15/2024 at 8:30 AM, Luis Hernandez said:

while the iFly Max8 has a hard time doing higher simrates, does it allow editing the fuel amount in-flight?

That way, I can takeoff with the correct weight, climb to T/C, skip to somewhere before T/D (I use Quantum Leap for that), adjust fuel accordingly, and then continue as if nothing happened.

Has anybody tried editing fuel amount inflight? I got burned with the TFDi MD-11, that can't do so. Flight1 no longer has their 30-day refund period, so I can't try it by myself.

5 hours ago, Stearmandriver said:

@RNAVV19R, if it's of any interest to you, I successfully put together a custom RNP approach in the iFly tonight, the good old RNVM26 into PAJN.  I've gotta say, it was easier to build than in the 777 navdata, while still seeming to preserve a similar level of control.  The plane flew it very nicely; not quite as stable as the real plane but smoother and more accurately even than I had the 777 doing it.  I appreciated the ability to tone down the GPWS sensitivity a bit (a slider in the EFB) as it allowed me to eliminate the spurious GPWS cautions that usually come along with doing this kind of thing in the sim.  

This should start at the beginning of the first big arc into the channel, if you're interested in taking a look.  I think I say on this approach that setting the RNP in the FMC doesn't change the behavior of the nav performance scales or the CDI, but I was wrong about that - they actually work correctly!  The NPS contracts and the CDI DOES get more sensitive! 

https://www.twitch.tv/stearmandriver/v/2277303254?sr=a&t=1589s

If you have time, I’d love a quick tutorial on basic steps to creating a custom RNP approach! 

57 minutes ago, KAS said:

If you have time, I’d love a quick tutorial on basic steps to creating a custom RNP approach! 

+1

6 hours ago, RNAVV19R said:

Nice!

I assume the "NavDist" is the arc radius for an RF leg?

You'd think that, but nope.  Interestingly you don't define the radius anywhere, just the center lat/lon.  NavDist is the track distance, the distance charted as leg length. At least, that's how it looks to me, I figured all this out by looking at the default data for the RNVZ13R in KPSP.

Oh also, don't get too hung up on the heading field because it doesn't seem to do anything.  I tweaked one by a good 20 degrees last night just to try and figure out what might happen... And saw no change.  So I'm just going to use my best estimation of heading at the end of the arc and call it good.

Edited October 16, 20241 yr by Stearmandriver

4 hours ago, KAS said:

If you have time, I’d love a quick tutorial on basic steps to creating a custom RNP approach! 

Yeah I can probably put something together.  It's MUCH less complex than the new PMDG format; iFly seems to only require the information their FMC is actually using.  PMDG 's new format is the Navigraph default DFD database, which works well but is designed for every manufacturer, so it contains most of the data from the actual ARINC-424 spec, the vast majority of which is extraneous to any given flight sim dev, but they all use a few different things so you never know what all you need to complete, so you end up building the whole database lol.  This is much easier.

When doing the TO performance calculations - is derated TO set automatically? Or something that needs to be manually selected? In the screenshot below (bottom), what does D-TO mean? Is it TO or TO-1 in the FMC?

I haven’t found a way to get the performance calculator to come up with optimum values for flaps, derate etc.  I’ve been using the simbrief performance calculator instead.

11 minutes ago, Cpt_Piett said:

D-TO mean? Is it TO or TO-1 in the FMC?2

It's the derated thrust you get with 53°C selected themperature and in this case TO thrust. But it will still be D-TO if you use TO-1 or TO-2. The term itself does not change.

9 minutes ago, Cpt_Piett said:

When doing the TO performance calculations - is derated TO set automatically? Or something that needs to be manually selected? In the screenshot below (bottom), what does D-TO mean? Is it TO or TO-1 in the FMC?

I agree with Regis; I'm not sure the tablet can calculate optimum values for this stuff yet.  You need to choose a flap setting and thrust rating (TO, TO-1 etc) and it will then calculate an assumed temperature with the data returned.  It's finicky though; I would read that D-TO as derated takeoff, yet you've selected TO which is full thrust.  This Boeing EFB bears little resemblance to the data provider I'm familiar with though so I'm just guessing.

4 minutes ago, Farlis said:

It's the derated thrust you get with 53°C selected themperature and in this case TO thrust. But it will still be D-TO if you use TO-1 or TO-2. The term itself does not change.

That's what's tripping me up - a derate usually refers to selecting a lower thrust rating - 26k vs 28k for instance (TO-1 vs TO).  A full TO thrust rating takeoff wouldn't usually be called derated, even if it is reduced by an assumed temp.  But maybe it's just the terminology they used 🤷‍♂️.