I managed to make one flight in it, which was nice. The other 10 times I tried to start a flight, either MSFS 2024 hang or I had WASM crashes. That thing is not easy on resources.

 

12 hours ago, weaklink said:

On the A340, that means you'll have to dump fuel though (which in itself can take quite a while) to avoid an overweight landing.

What if the aircraft does not have any passengers or cargo?

8 minutes ago, Christopher Low said:

12 hours ago, weaklink said:

On the A340, that means you'll have to dump fuel though (which in itself can take quite a while) to avoid an overweight landing.

What if the aircraft does not have any passengers or cargo?

OEW is 174 t, max fuel is 155.5 t, so if you fill it up, you'll be at 329.5 t. MLW is 259 t, so you'd still have to dump up to 70 tons of fuel to avoid an overweight landing (if you wanted to land right after taking off).

If you're empty, you could take up to 85 tons of fuel and remain under MLW.

Would like to see an autoland under nasty gusting weather 🙂

9 minutes ago, seb851 said:

Is not true Tolis run in WASM like PMDG, is not like Fenix or FSLAB run in external software

Oh yes you are right. Just found a FAQ entry on AS discord stating that also. Actually I trust Toliss a lot more on their reputation than PMDG but thats highly subjective for sure 😄As we are talking about a high level in general in this league of devs. Most will end in personal preference in this cases. 

Cheers T.

15 hours ago, weaklink said:

I've downloaded and installed it now. I'm trying to activate it in the EFB ("License Key Activation"), but it's telling me "AUTHZ_007: Access denied".

I'm assuming the license key is the serial number that's displayed in Aerosoft One, as well as on the "Downloads" page on aerosoft.com?

Has anyone else encountered this? Does this mean my license key is faulty or that there's an issue with the servers? (I'll also be contacting Aerosoft, but I thought I'd ask here as well.)

Wanted to give an update on this. I've just received a response from Aerosoft:

Quote

Thank you for your purchase of the Aerosoft Aircraft A340-600 Pro, developed in collaboration with ToLiss.
 
Due to extremely high demand yesterday, our servers experienced significant load, which caused some technical issues. During this time, a number of serial numbers were unfortunately assigned twice.
 
Your order was affected by this issue, which may lead to DRM problems in Microsoft Flight Simulator. To resolve this, we have generated a new serial number for you.

[...]

We sincerely apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused and appreciate your understanding.
 
Have fun flying the A340-600 Pro!

The new serial number did in fact activate without any issues. 👍

9 minutes ago, jcomm said:

Would like to see an autoland under nasty gusting weather 🙂

I’d love to see that too, but there just aren't many planes in MSFS24 that can handle a real autoland in nasty weather. Honestly, the Maddog is probably the best one for that right now.

Edited March 13Mar 13 by Claudius_

19 minutes ago, Christopher Low said:

What if the aircraft does not have any passengers or cargo?

That absolut makes no sense in a normal usual scenario at all but even if you would insist to do, check some simple math 😉

MTOW 380T
OEW 174T
max Fuel 155.5T
max landing weight 265T
 

 

 

17 minutes ago, Torsen said:

That absolut makes no sense in a normal usual scenario at all

 

 

Virgin were often flying the 747 up and down the UK to position flights for their EGCC operation. Granted, that's not the 346, but you'd regularly see empty heavies in UK airspace. Less so nowadays, as the Manchester operation is more regular and they use their down-route locations (eg, MCO) to switch UK airports. Eg, MAN-MCO-LHR. 

Edited March 13Mar 13 by MikeV1

18 minutes ago, Claudius_ said:

I’d love to see that too, but there just aren't many planes in MSFS24 that can handle a real autoland in nasty weather. Honestly, the Maddog is probably the best one for that right now.

That and the fact that nasty weather near the ground is something MSFS doesn't simply model that good 😕

I use ActiveSkyFS to nill the throttling of wind speed for instance near ground, but contrarily to X-Plane 12 I really can't make it hard enough for my liking 🙂

21 minutes ago, MikeV1 said:

Virgin were often flying the 747 up and down the UK to position flights for their EGCC operation. Granted, that's not the 346, but you'd regularly see empty heavies in UK airspace. Less so nowadays, as the Manchester operation is more regular and they use their down-route locations (eg, MCO) to switch UK airports. Eg, MAN-MCO-LHR. 

Yeah sure. Repositioning flights are a valid example but even then they will not just fuel it up more than needed or even to max fuel like Christopher stated as it utterly makes no sense. You will only take the fuel needed (including, reserves, ballast and stuff if applicable)

Cheers T.

Is anyone noticing EFB preferences not saving? It is resetting each flight for me, including having to re-enter my Simbrief ID. Wondering if it is some permissions thing (My FS2024 is installed to the default MS store install path).

The EFB really needs some work in terms of the UI, I feel. It catches me out that pressing buttons on the EFB often has no sense of pressing them with any sort of button animation too. (maybe I am picky as I work with UI teams all day long in my day job in the games industry where it is a really big deal, with focus groups just for UI feedback)

I did not state maximum fuel. My short flights are usually with two thirds fuel (in the case of the 737), or MEDIUM fuel (in the case of the 777F). As for whether it makes sense or not in the real world, I am not concerned about that. Flight simulation can be anything you want it to be 

Edited March 13Mar 13 by Christopher Low

1 hour ago, Claudius_ said:

I’d love to see that too, but there just aren't many planes in MSFS24 that can handle a real autoland in nasty weather. Honestly, the Maddog is probably the best one for that right now.

Just noticed this community video streaming, live now, with an autoland and then a manual landing, under some considerable wind...

 

@jcomm interesting, thank you.