March 30Mar 30 Hi everyone, As we sit here refreshing the store page for the final March deadline, the real question isn't when the iniBuilds TriStar arrives, but how you intend to fly it. The L-1011 was the pinnacle of 70s automation, but it still demanded a "thinking" crew. So, which path are you taking? • The "Casual" Route: Auto-FE, INS shortcuts - the Auto Complete way. • The "Purist" Route: Manual FE panels, Triple-INS alignment, System Flows, and hand-flown DLC approaches. Personally, I’m going 100% Purist. I’ve spent the last few weeks deep in the books—not just for the "Cold & Dark" flows, but studying authentic Delta Airlines Normal and Abnormal procedures. We aren’t just going to fly it; we’re going to understand it's systems. The Masterclass Tomorrow (Provided it releases 😕) I recently caught a shout-out from the iniBuilds livestream host for my technical breakdown of the TriStar's systems, and I want to pay that forward. We’re skipping the "Part 1" basic tutorials and going straight into a Functional Evaluation Flight (FEF). We’ll be testing: • Direct Lift Control (DLC): Pitch-coupling accuracy on short final. • Hydraulic Redundancy: How the quadruple system actually behaves under stress. • The "Delta Way": Real-world flows from the real Delta L1011 manual. If you want to join me live 😉 If you want the "shortcut" version, there are plenty of previews. If you want to see if this model truly earns the "Study Level" badge through the lens of Delta ops, I’ll see you at the gate. How about you? Are you letting the Auto-FE take the heat, or are you taking full control on the flight deck? Cheers, Joshua757 Aeronautical Engineering First Class Honours Graduate and simmer.
March 30Mar 30 "Purist" is not realistic! Those planes were designed to fly by multi crew where each crew has own responsibility. Fixating on FE while airplane is free roaming with other members would be gross negligence of safety standard and crew management 🙂 Life time flight sim enthusiast, current airplane owner 172P (past C182F). FAA CP/IR ASEL/AMEL, FI ASELMy System: AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D , MSI X870 GAMING PLUS, 64G RAM, ASUS RTX5090, 4T SSDPut my hands on (pic/dual/given)7GCAA, 8KCAB, BE24, BE76, BE35-C33, BE35, C150, C152, C172B/N/P/R/SP, 182F, M20E,M20C, M20J, AT6(SNJ4), PA28-140,PA28-151, PA28-161,PA28-181,PA28RT-201,PA28R-180/201T, PA24-250, PA32-300R, PA44, AC114, YAK-18T, YAK-52, SR22
March 30Mar 30 2 minutes ago, sd_flyer said: "Purist" is not realistic! Those planes were designed to fly by multi crew where each crew has own responsibility. Fixating on FE while airplane is free roaming with other members would be gross negligence of safety standard and crew management 🙂 What happens with his plane is for the NTSB to figure, not us 😆 Juan Ramos
March 30Mar 30 10 minutes ago, xender said: What happens with his plane is for the NTSB to figure, not us 😆 Lets hope it wont get to that! Or we will read a report like - an airplane crash due FE fixated on fuel management while ignoring duty captain and FO 🙂 Life time flight sim enthusiast, current airplane owner 172P (past C182F). FAA CP/IR ASEL/AMEL, FI ASELMy System: AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D , MSI X870 GAMING PLUS, 64G RAM, ASUS RTX5090, 4T SSDPut my hands on (pic/dual/given)7GCAA, 8KCAB, BE24, BE76, BE35-C33, BE35, C150, C152, C172B/N/P/R/SP, 182F, M20E,M20C, M20J, AT6(SNJ4), PA28-140,PA28-151, PA28-161,PA28-181,PA28RT-201,PA28R-180/201T, PA24-250, PA32-300R, PA44, AC114, YAK-18T, YAK-52, SR22
March 30Mar 30 I won't be flying it at all hehe. But I'm happy for those who will be. It's an iconic aircraft for sure. What a time to be a simmer! | My Liveries | FAA ZMP | PPL ASEL | | Windows 11 | MSI Z690 Tomahawk | 12700K 4.7GHz | MSI RTX 4080 | 64GB 6000 MHz DDR5 | 500GB Samsung 860 Evo SSD | 2x 2TB Samsung 970 Evo M.2 | EVGA 850W Gold | Corsair 5000X | HP G2 (VR) / LG 27" 1440p |
March 30Mar 30 TBH, I don’t want anything to do with the FE activities. Perfectly happy to do all PIC/FO duties, tho. VERY interested in how effective the DLC are (they’re quite cool in the DCS Tomcat 😎) and the FM & physics in general, as well as the 1011 specific techniques. If it handles well and flies however a 1011 should, then it'll be worth the time to learn the systems.
March 30Mar 30 Q: IniBuilds L-1011: How will you fly the TriJet ? A: Like it was stolen! But in all seriousness, mainly just hand fly it with the help of a few navaids and autopilot occasionally. I am not a deep systems guy due to lack of time, and I just want to appreciate it and all of those glorious liveries they created. Pure nostalgia for me. Rob (but call me Bob or Rob, I don't mind). I like to trick airline passengers into thinking I have my own swimming pool in my back yard by painting a large blue rectangle on my patio. Intel 14900K in a Z790 motherboard with water cooling, RTX 4080, 32 GB 6000 CL30 DDR5 RAM, W11 and MSFS on Samsung 980 Pro NVME SSD's. Core Isolation Off, Game Mode Off.
March 30Mar 30 Somewhere in between. I’ll fly with the INS but using Simbrief to load it. Not sure if I’ll use a GPS as well or not. In terms of the FE, I’ll do what I do with the FSS 727. I’ll do the FE setup and startup on the ground, but once we’re airborne that’s the virtual FE’s job. Dave Current System (Running at 4k): ASUS ROG STRIX X670E-F, Ryzen 7800X3D, RTX 5090, 55" Samsung Q80T, 64GB DDR5 6000 RAM, EVGA CLC 280mm AIO Cooler, Brunner CLS-E NG Yoke, Thrustmaster Warthog HOTAS & Stick, Thrustmaster TCA Quadrant & Add-on, VirtualFly Ruddo+, TQ6+ and Yoko+, GoFlight MCP-PRO and EFIS, Skalarki FCU and MCDU
March 30Mar 30 Ctrl-E (of course) Ryzen 9 7900X, Corsair H150 AIO cooler, 64 Gb DDR5, Asus X670E Hero m/b, 3090ti, 13Tb NVMe, 8Tb SSD, 16Tb HD, 55" Philips 4k HDR monitor, EVGA 1600w ps, all in Corsair 7000D airflow case. Sims in use - 2020, 2024, XP-12 and -11, FSX/SE, P3Dv4.5 and v5.4. DCS and AFS2 installed but rarely used
March 30Mar 30 Author 1 hour ago, bobcat999 said: Q: IniBuilds L-1011: How will you fly the TriJet ? A: Like it was stolen! But in all seriousness, mainly just hand fly it with the help of a few navaids and autopilot occasionally. I am not a deep systems guy due to lack of time, and I just want to appreciate it and all of those glorious liveries they created. Pure nostalgia for me. Haha, good answer!
March 31Mar 31 6 hours ago, Joshua757 said: Hi everyone, As we sit here refreshing the store page for the final March deadline, the real question isn't when the iniBuilds TriStar arrives, but how you intend to fly it. The L-1011 was the pinnacle of 70s automation, but it still demanded a "thinking" crew. So, which path are you taking? • The "Casual" Route: Auto-FE, INS shortcuts - the Auto Complete way. • The "Purist" Route: Manual FE panels, Triple-INS alignment, System Flows, and hand-flown DLC approaches. Personally, I’m going 100% Purist. I’ve spent the last few weeks deep in the books—not just for the "Cold & Dark" flows, but studying authentic Delta Airlines Normal and Abnormal procedures. We aren’t just going to fly it; we’re going to understand it's systems. The Masterclass Tomorrow (Provided it releases 😕) I recently caught a shout-out from the iniBuilds livestream host for my technical breakdown of the TriStar's systems, and I want to pay that forward. We’re skipping the "Part 1" basic tutorials and going straight into a Functional Evaluation Flight (FEF). We’ll be testing: • Direct Lift Control (DLC): Pitch-coupling accuracy on short final. • Hydraulic Redundancy: How the quadruple system actually behaves under stress. • The "Delta Way": Real-world flows from the real Delta L1011 manual. If you want to join me live 😉 If you want the "shortcut" version, there are plenty of previews. If you want to see if this model truly earns the "Study Level" badge through the lens of Delta ops, I’ll see you at the gate. How about you? Are you letting the Auto-FE take the heat, or are you taking full control on the flight deck? Cheers, Joshua757 Aeronautical Engineering First Class Honours Graduate and simmer. I'll be using the shortcuts for the FE if I need to. Trying to perform the duties of three crew as one person is a bit much. Back in the FS9 days, the PSS Concorde's VFE was entirely necessary because of the complexity of the fuel management process. Even the Ready for Pushback 747-200's fuel management could be distracting. If it has multiple INS options that work well, I'll be happy.
March 31Mar 31 If im not lazy, look up an approach, look up an arrival, go VOR to VOR. But stoked to have steam gauge airliner on marketplace.
March 31Mar 31 The thing is, it's not possible in most cases to navigate 100% true to life as nowadays most of the SIDS/STARS aren't possible to be flown purely using radio aids which they would have been back then. But it's nice that IniBuilds have included the feature to include these waypoints in the INS upload - they wouldn't have been originally. Tom Wright, UK PPL(A) SEP + Night Rating + IMC/IR(R) Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 | AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D | 32GB DDR5 6000MHz RAM | 16GB RTX 4080 Super | 2x 2TB Samsung 990 PRO M.2 | Thrustmaster TCA Airbus Sidestick + Quadrant | Logitech G Saitek Pro Flight Rudder Pedals | WinCTRL Airbus FCU + EFIS + MCDU
March 31Mar 31 I do think they should've included an FMS as one of the navigation options. Especially for those that to like to fly online. Imagine getting a reroute on Vatsim, good luck with that!
March 31Mar 31 13 minutes ago, james42 said: I do think they should've included an FMS as one of the navigation options. Especially for those that to like to fly online. Imagine getting a reroute on Vatsim, good luck with that! Yeah, I guess that's why they've included the GPS as an option, which isn't entirely unrealistic. My dad recalls when we got a flight deck visit on a Caledonian Tristar in the the late 90s they had a Trimble Flightmate (very early handheld GPS) that they were using. One of the pilots remarked that he wouldn't fly one of those without it. Tom Wright, UK PPL(A) SEP + Night Rating + IMC/IR(R) Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 | AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D | 32GB DDR5 6000MHz RAM | 16GB RTX 4080 Super | 2x 2TB Samsung 990 PRO M.2 | Thrustmaster TCA Airbus Sidestick + Quadrant | Logitech G Saitek Pro Flight Rudder Pedals | WinCTRL Airbus FCU + EFIS + MCDU
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