1 hour ago, Lucky38i said:

No the AT will clamp on takeoff regardless of flex or TOGA. It’s for the pilot to do an RTO.

Just make sure if you’re doing a flex takeoff that the ART is off and turn it back on in the climb.

Okay thank you.

25 minutes ago, Joshua757 said:

It should show EPR 50

Yes it shows just that, thanks.

One more thing, There is a potential quirk to look out for right after takeoff: sometimes the aircraft fails to follow the intended NAV routing. This happened to me on my second flight, and I believe it occurs because the NAV 1 radio remains tuned to the departure runway's ILS frequency.

For instance, if you take off from Runway 26 where the ILS is 111.50 MHz and leave that frequency active, the autopilot can become conflicted or 'confused' by the lingering localizer signal. This is a known behavior in classic airliners like the PMDG DC-6. To prevent the autopilot from getting distracted by the departure runway's ground signals, you must manually tune the NAV radio away to a different frequency, anything but the departing runway, such as the next VOR on your route, immediately after takeoff or during your pre-flight setup.

Have you experienced the same thing?

Edited May 25May 25 by History

12 hours ago, History said:

Okay thank you.

Yes it shows just that, thanks.

One more thing, There is a potential quirk to look out for right after takeoff: sometimes the aircraft fails to follow the intended NAV routing. This happened to me on my second flight, and I believe it occurs because the NAV 1 radio remains tuned to the departure runway's ILS frequency.

For instance, if you take off from Runway 26 where the ILS is 111.50 MHz and leave that frequency active, the autopilot can become conflicted or 'confused' by the lingering localizer signal. This is a known behavior in classic airliners like the PMDG DC-6. To prevent the autopilot from getting distracted by the departure runway's ground signals, you must manually tune the NAV radio away to a different frequency, anything but the departing runway, such as the next VOR on your route, immediately after takeoff or during your pre-flight setup.

Have you experienced the same thing?

That is interesting insight. Thanks for sharing. I haven't experienced that at all. I usually tune in a valid, random ILS frequency on both sides and do the auto land test, which is probably why I didn't notice.

15 hours ago, History said:

Okay thank you.

Yes it shows just that, thanks.

One more thing, There is a potential quirk to look out for right after takeoff: sometimes the aircraft fails to follow the intended NAV routing. This happened to me on my second flight, and I believe it occurs because the NAV 1 radio remains tuned to the departure runway's ILS frequency.

For instance, if you take off from Runway 26 where the ILS is 111.50 MHz and leave that frequency active, the autopilot can become conflicted or 'confused' by the lingering localizer signal. This is a known behavior in classic airliners like the PMDG DC-6. To prevent the autopilot from getting distracted by the departure runway's ground signals, you must manually tune the NAV radio away to a different frequency, anything but the departing runway, such as the next VOR on your route, immediately after takeoff or during your pre-flight setup.

Have you experienced the same thing?

That should not happen. Are you selecting “Nav” on the autopilot MCP before takeoff? Assuming the SID you are flying starts from the departure RWY, the autopilot will capture and fly the route/course.

The autopilot will only track VOR/LOC if you select that on the MCP.

If you need to fly a heading from the departure RWY to intercept a VOR or SID, you should make sure the autopilot is in heading mode prior to takeoff.

Any update eon a sound pack? I love the AC but have really put this in the hanger until one comes out.

1 hour ago, Dreamflight767 said:

That should not happen. Are you selecting “Nav” on the autopilot MCP before takeoff? Assuming the SID you are flying starts from the departure RWY, the autopilot will capture and fly the route/course.

The autopilot will only track VOR/LOC if you select that on the MCP.

If you need to fly a heading from the departure RWY to intercept a VOR or SID, you should make sure the autopilot is in heading mode prior to takeoff.

Affirm. So, I landed on that runway and I took off from the very same runway, I didnt touch the ILS Freq on MCP. When airborne and activating NAV + AP, it didnt want follow the magenta line. I restarted the sim, took off on the same runway but this time making sure my ILS Freq is not tuned on that runway freq, it went well.

8 hours ago, Dreamflight767 said:

That should not happen. Are you selecting “Nav” on the autopilot MCP before takeoff? Assuming the SID you are flying starts from the departure RWY, the autopilot will capture and fly the route/course.

The autopilot will only track VOR/LOC if you select that on the MCP.

If you need to fly a heading from the departure RWY to intercept a VOR or SID, you should make sure the autopilot is in heading mode prior to takeoff.

Also some people select NAV on the ground and then TOGA which overrides it leading to an embarrassing situation later. Seen this too often by Real 737 Pilots streamers 🤣

I would love to love this, but I can't get flight plans to load up in either MSFS2020 or MSFS2024 and I can't even find the manuals anymore (sim how to's - not aircraft flight manuals that are, of course, there on the EFB) - and yes, I have a working sign in to the official forum but can find no information there either.

Can someone point me to where any usable documentation exists to load a flight plan because whatever I do presently (both files in the Routes folder etc etc) simply doesn't work and all I find are very contradictory videos from other folks who clearly have had similar issues.

The aircraft itself is complex and quirky - and I like that - but why match and beat that with such a supremely complex and impenetrable support and documentation system?

Edited May 26May 26 by AJZip2

Got the old 2020 version and the -83/-88 expansion already, for which I gladly paid for. What do I get with this new plane, apart from a new model file (and the need to get updated liveries for this new model)?

49 minutes ago, Luis Hernandez said:

Got the old 2020 version and the -83/-88 expansion already, for which I gladly paid for. What do I get with this new plane, apart from a new model file (and the need to get updated liveries for this new model)?

Liveries are desperately needed :)

1 hour ago, Luis Hernandez said:

Got the old 2020 version and the -83/-88 expansion already, for which I gladly paid for. What do I get with this new plane, apart from a new model file (and the need to get updated liveries for this new model)?

the virtual cockpit textures are SIGNIFICANTLY improved.

7 minutes ago, micstatic said:

the virtual cockpit textures are SIGNIFICANTLY improved.

Indeed. That's the major us point.

22 hours ago, lehbird said:

Any update eon a sound pack? I love the AC but have really put this in the hanger until one comes out.

From the Discord it sounds like (ha!) we shouldn't expect it anytime soon. The guy working on it had a hard drive crash a while back that lost most of his work. Since then he's been mostly focused on some other project that he has contracted to complete and that one is taking precedence over the Maddog work.

I ended up doing the quick change to the files to make them somewhat work. Not perfect. But good enough with FSRealistic for now. I remember when the 20th anniversary edition came out and the sound pack creator said it would be just a few weeks. Good thing I didn't wait!

9 hours ago, micstatic said:

I ended up doing the quick change to the files to make them somewhat work. Not perfect. But good enough with FSRealistic for now. I remember when the 20th anniversary edition came out and the sound pack creator said it would be just a few weeks. Good thing I didn't wait!

Interesting. What modifications did you do ? 👀

This is a copy paste from the official Maddog forum. obviously you have to purchase the sound pack for this to work. It’s not perfect But much better than default

In your Community\z_Immersive-Audio-MaddogX-Sound-

Immersion-NG\SimObjects\Airplanes - Copy all the folders and rename them : MaddogX20th83, MaddogX20th and MaddogX20th88, now you have 6 sets of

folders, the old maddog ones and the 20th ones - copy the layout.json and rename it layout.bak for exemple,

that's in case you wanna revert what you did

- copy all the lines, paste them after the last line, before the last

- Rename all the "path": "SimObjects/Airplanes/MaddogX88/sound/something", or

/MaddogX83 or MaddogX with

"path":

"SimObjects/Airplanes/MaddogX20th83/sound/something", You have to add in between 20th in place of MaddogX88 80 or

83 The objective is for the soundpack to recognize the new 20th

version folders inside Ish-maddogx-aircraft folder achitecture

Edited May 27May 27 by micstatic