level up makes great stuff

I am enjoying the LevelUp planes and have installed all kinds of repaints - the textures look better to me on the LevelUp, plus you can fly short or long variants - haven’t tried the 737-600 yet but it’s adorable - reminds me of the Air France A318s I had a chance to fly before they were retired.

Edited Sunday at 12:37 PM5 days by Republic DC9

I really enjoy them too! An excellent complemento for the Zibo.

Edited Sunday at 04:13 PM5 days by jcomm

5 hours ago, Republic DC9 said:

I am enjoying the LevelUp planes and have installed all kinds of repaints - the textures look better to me on the LevelUp, plus you can fly short or long variants - haven’t tried the 737-600 yet but it’s adorable - reminds me of the Air France A318s I had a chance to fly before they were retired.

I’m gonna have to try them again because I’ve run into some incredibly annoying nose wheel steering bug with the Zibo (it rotates properly but absolutely doesn’t steer the aircraft). Was working fine the last time I used it…

But, the last time i used the LU, it wouldn’t trim out by hand to level flight. Super annoying in its own right.

Anyhow, here’s hoping, or I’ll have to stick with PMDG until thing get better.

54 minutes ago, UrgentSiesta said:

I’m gonna have to try them again because I’ve run into some incredibly annoying nose wheel steering bug with the Zibo (it rotates properly but absolutely doesn’t steer the aircraft). Was working fine the last time I used it…

But, the last time i used the LU, it wouldn’t trim out by hand to level flight. Super annoying in its own right.

Anyhow, here’s hoping, or I’ll have to stick with PMDG until thing get better.

I've successfuly hand flown it. Handles really nice.

Edited Sunday at 06:55 PM4 days by jcomm

16 minutes ago, jcomm said:

I've successfuly hand flown it. Handles really nice.

Me too - in fact I seldom use the autopilot - I often just fly the pattern manually practicing takeoffs and landings (or between the many airports in the Seattle area) - the LevelUps trim nicely, as does the new 737-200.

1 hour ago, Republic DC9 said:

Me too - in fact I seldom use the autopilot - I often just fly the pattern manually practicing takeoffs and landings (or between the many airports in the Seattle area) - the LevelUps trim nicely, as does the new 737-200.

Oh, yeah - I had no problem with the LU -700 around the pattern and during maneuvers. Quite nice 👍

But when I got bored of that, I departed the pattern for a short 20-min hop to another airfield.

And for the life of me couldn’t get it trimmed for level, even balancing with throttles and such.

Was frustrating since hand flying and trimming are something I enjoy and do frequently in other addons

I’ll give it a try next flight! 🙏

I like this youtuber vids:

XP12 VATSIM | LevelUp B737-800 | Busy Departure From Singapore + ATC | SQ463 |

enhances the beauty of the LevelUp 737 but also the beauty of X-Plane's visuals, the scenery details at airports, the colours, the lighting...

For a free aircraft, I couldn't ask for more :-)

Edited Monday at 06:21 AM4 days by jcomm

This Discord channel has modified flight dynamics for the entire LevelUp lineup: https://discord.com/channels/967804647500808262/1476585976095707269

With this, the -800 basically handles like Zibo's.

The next official update from LevelUp will have improved flight dynamics by default though.

19 hours ago, UrgentSiesta said:

I’m gonna have to try them again because I’ve run into some incredibly annoying nose wheel steering bug with the Zibo (it rotates properly but absolutely doesn’t steer the aircraft). Was working fine the last time I used it…

Rule #1 for Zibo's 738 and its derivatives: Always check the hardware settings in the EFB.

Edited Monday at 01:47 PM4 days by Bjoern

2 hours ago, Bjoern said:

This Discord channel has modified flight dynamics for the entire LevelUp lineup: https://discord.com/channels/967804647500808262/1476585976095707269

With this, the -800 basically handles like Zibo's.

The next official update from LevelUp will have improved flight dynamics by default though.

Rule #1 for Zibo's 738 and its derivatives: Always check the hardware settings in the EFB.

Thanks for the link!

yep - definitely checked the hardware bindings first thing. And they are still as they were.

I even changed it to Roll and tried the joystick. Same thing - the tiller moves & nosewheel turns but the plane goes straight ahead 🤷‍♂️

I have a T16000 which I use for tiller, roll and pitch. In the EFB I have :

NOSEWHEEL AXIS ON/YAW/ROLL/VR

just as in the ZIBO.

Don't forget to always save your settings in the MAIN MENU lower right Save & Load Configs

I have been using the release available from: 737NG Series for X-Plane 12 - Aircraft - Threshold

and wasn't aware of modified "air" files from Discord, and, since I avoid the mess of Discord channels I am resisting pying a visit to the link @Bjoern posted above, and anyway this version (from december 2025) is very nice to hand fly, with a more or less reliable VNAV logic too and I really like the behaviour in terms of landing and overall ground physics.

I honestly can't find at present any sigificative differences between the LevelUp and the Zibo.

23 hours ago, UrgentSiesta said:

I even changed it to Roll and tried the joystick. Same thing - the tiller moves & nosewheel turns but the plane goes straight ahead 🤷‍♂️

Sounds like another plugin messing with nose wheel steering or a lack of hydraulic power.

Edited Tuesday at 03:48 PM3 days by Bjoern

2 hours ago, Bjoern said:

Sounds like another plugin messing with nose wheel steering or a lack of hydraulic power.

I’m pretty stripped down on plugins these days. The only ones would be those in aircraft addons themselves.

but it’s easy enough to strip it down to nothing but Zibo and see.

In re hyd power, the nosewheel itself is moving in response to tiller input, and the tiller is, of course, moving.

I realize those are visual effects, but still…

1 hour ago, UrgentSiesta said:

I’m pretty stripped down on plugins these days. The only ones would be those in aircraft addons themselves.

but it’s easy enough to strip it down to nothing but Zibo and see.

In re hyd power, the nosewheel itself is moving in response to tiller input, and the tiller is, of course, moving.

I realize those are visual effects, but still…

Really puzzling 🤔