1 minute ago, Jeffg817 said:

Is there a aircraft manual?

jeffg

https://forum.inibuilds.com/topic/35986-aircraft-manual-tristar-airliner/

28 minutes ago, Farlis said:

The A340 was released to the Manager after about 4 months.

Thanks

Looks like is an MP purchase then.😁

T45

Found it Thanks,

Jeffg

50 minutes ago, Treetops45 said:

Thanks

Looks like is an MP purchase then.😁

T45

I may just wait. 

The TriStar got big promo from Microsoft both on the PR front and Marketplace. That usually involves a period of Marketplace exclusivity.

Given my experiences with other recent iniBuilds releases, I might just wait for it to hit the iniManager so that a few patches/updates will have already happened.

It would be a buy for me if it was the strectch version. The L1011 - 1. I will wait for that version if Inibuilds does it.

Got mine! And a whole bunch of liveries. One quick flight out of KSFO, great fun and looks wonderful. Interiors are excellent too. I shall have a few trips in an RAF version next.

And as a complete contrast I also picked up the Wren and Autogyro (both Rara-Avis) from Just Flight today as well. What fun!

1 hour ago, Treetops45 said:

Thanks

Looks like is an MP purchase then.😁

T45

I can wait, maybe hold off until it comes to Ini site. I have plenty of heavy's now to keep me occupied for a long while.

Purchased, flew EGLL to Hamburg.

Very smooth.

Felt good on the controls.

Keeper.

T45

 

No time for a full flight tonight unfortunately, but I did do an initial preflight and take-off…very nice on first impression!  It took a bit of reading to figure out the PMS and INS setup, but I stumbled through it and had my aircraft flying toward the first INS point when I had to shut down the sim so I’ll call that a day 1 success. 

One thing I was wondering, how would pilots deal with a last minute change of STAR / approach with the INS?  I can’t imagine trying to punch in a bunch of coordinates on the fly in congested air space.  Or was it the case that most STARs from this era were simpler / more VOR based?  Or was ATC more likely to just give vectors?

Edited March 31Mar 31 by regis9

Had a good takeoff out of YVR for a test, so I’m off to Kai Tak from Sydney as my second flight.  
 

Feels heavy at almost MTOW.  Took me a couple tries to sort out which order I should be putting the AP on…. IAS to TM, to VNAV…. Just trying to get it all done smoothly.  
 

Gotta start planning a descent at some point too 

41 minutes ago, regis9 said:

No time for a full flight tonight unfortunately, but I did do an initial preflight and take-off…very nice on first impression!  It took a bit of reading to figure out the PMS and INS setup, but I stumbled through it and had my aircraft flying toward the first INS point when I had to shut down the sim so I’ll call that a day 1 success. 

One thing I was wondering, how would pilots deal with a last minute change of STAR / approach with the INS?  I can’t imagine trying to punch in a bunch of coordinates on the fly in congested air space.  Or was it the case that most STARs from this era were simpler / more VOR based?  Or was ATC more likely to just give vectors?

The import STAR/SID option isn't realistic as those are RNP Arrivals which are RNAV1 whereas the INS is an RNAV5 meaning it's too inaccurate to fly the charted path via guidance, we added this function as we know there are users that will fly routes from SID to STAR and then either pick up a VOR for final appr guidance or the ILS itself following a set of Headings to join the Final Appr.

IRL they would have to switch to radio navigation and use the guidance from that to fly towards the field on a course, or controller would be required to radar vector aircraft that aren't RNAV capable to the final approach fix where they can join the localizer or fly the visual.

1 hour ago, regis9 said:

No time for a full flight tonight unfortunately, but I did do an initial preflight and take-off…very nice on first impression!  It took a bit of reading to figure out the PMS and INS setup, but I stumbled through it and had my aircraft flying toward the first INS point when I had to shut down the sim so I’ll call that a day 1 success. 

One thing I was wondering, how would pilots deal with a last minute change of STAR / approach with the INS?  I can’t imagine trying to punch in a bunch of coordinates on the fly in congested air space.  Or was it the case that most STARs from this era were simpler / more VOR based?  Or was ATC more likely to just give vectors?

For more explanation, RNAV SID/STARs are a post-GPS invention. SID/STARs existed before GPS of course, but they were defined by radio navigation aids like VORs and ADFs. See this chart from Kai Tak for example - as you can see these procedures are easily flown using only dual VOR receivers. There are also still many non-RNAV procedures still out there, I've also attached a chart from JFK showing a non-RNAV arrival that again is easily flown using only your nav radios.

INS was purely used for flying across the ocean or other areas where there was a lack of navigation aids. They were never used, nor meant to be used, as a means of terminal guidance. Once the aircraft was back within range of a radio beacon, radio navigation would be resumed.

 

Edited April 1Apr 1 by Stavros

Thanks very much for those answers.  I’ll look to plan my flights in this without RNAV SIDs and STARs in that case.  Or perhaps to bend reality a bit I’ll switch over to the GNS530 for terminal procedures.  Is there a way to set up a Simbrief profile so it knows you are not RNAV equipped?  

12 minutes ago, regis9 said:

Thanks very much for those answers.  I’ll look to plan my flights in this without RNAV SIDs and STARs in that case.  Or perhaps to bend reality a bit I’ll switch over to the GNS530 for terminal procedures.  Is there a way to set up a Simbrief profile so it knows you are not RNAV equipped?  

I don't think you'd be bending reality that much. An L1011 operating today would likely have a GNS530 unit like this installed – in fact the one modelled is based on a real aircraft.

I'd like to know the answer to your question too actually – I believe you can set /A (or similar code) in aircraft profile for equipment capabilities within Simbrief but all my attempts to do that never actually worked.