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  1. Yes, no more bean counters please. Bring in someone more like Alan Mulally, who IMO was the last good CEO of BCA.
  2. I'm seeing this too, according to the gauges it's off, but sound, heat effects, fuel usage still occur.
  3. oh my 🍿 737 NG Flight Crew Training Manual Avoid rapid control column movements during the flare. If the flare is too abrupt and thrust is excessive near touchdown, the airplane tends to float in ground effect. Do not allow the airplane to float or attempt to hold it off. Fly the airplane onto the runway at the desired touchdown point and at the desired airspeed.
  4. I'm a little disappointed with the question format this time too. Requiring a typed entry will get more people skipping those questions I'm sure. Didn't the survey last year at least give us the opportunity to rank what we considered important in an addon aircraft instead of just typing random things?
  5. Yes this is the main thing, lots of environmental influence mostly outside of your control. I have very good signal quality here, but still prefer wired for the flightsim PC for the stability. An analogy I like to use with my other pilot friends is it's very much like CTAF at an uncontrolled airport. Only one person can talk at a time, and sometimes they talk slow, or over each other causing both to retransmit, and sometimes you even get interference or congestion from someone using the same frequency at another airport that you're close enough to hear. All making things much more hectic the busier it gets.
  6. Paine Field should be coming soon, they're working on it now and just posted some photos today. Generally speaking I think the demand for detail has also increased, so scenery and aircraft now take much longer just due to customer expectations.
  7. Maybe that's something done elsewhere, but it's not something I've seen. Someone who exceeds their data limit may be restricted, but it would be that account to all destinations, not specific ones. Since Noel was asking about Xfinity I will tell you they have a policy known as settlement free peering, which includes Azure. This means neither party is charged for any data that goes between the two networks. So again there's no benefit or reason for them to throttle anything.
  8. As someone who used to work on the networking team for an ISP, I can say that there's a very small chance they would throttle just the MSFS servers. Usually when there's a user that uses a lot of data it's their whole account that gets throttled. MSFS is peanuts compared with other streaming services, and it makes little sense to advertise high speed streaming only to throttle them by default. The only situation where a VPN may help is in situations where there's an issue between your internet IP and the MSFS servers. A VPN changes your source IP the MSFS servers sees and results in a different path through the internet. However not you've introduced a new potential issue in that you'll rely on not only how busy the MSFS servers are, but also how busy the VPN server you're on is. Also your CPU will be busier because it has to decrypt and extra layer of encryption.
  9. Not sure if you mean the real one or not, but here it is. http://servicecenters.cirrusdesign.com/tech_pubs/sf50/pdf/AFM/SF50-002/Online31452-002.pdf
  10. Does it have a system page available? In the real 650 you'd change this via the "user fields" under the system page. FYI. you may need to use the down arrow on the system page to see it.
  11. Not a lot to go on as far as progress, but there's this: https://forum.aerosoft.com/index.php?/topic/174025-lemg-for-msfs/#comment-1094345
  12. It's been done. Not sure about landings though, they could be ruff.
  13. I was surprised to see them used now on the PAE-LAS route, quite an upgrade from the E175. Although I do sort of prefer the E175 since there's no middle seats.
  14. That's high, but Fenix is still working on the engine modeling. It could also be an issue with the airport. I've been to a few that seem to require excessive thrust in certain areas in any aircraft. From the A319-321 FTCM: THRUST USE Only a little power is needed above thrust idle, in order to get the aircraft moving (N1 40 %). Excessive thrust application can result in exhaust-blast damage or Foreign Object Damage (FOD). Thrust should normally be used symmetrically.
  15. This may come in handy too: http://servicecenters.cirrusdesign.com/tech_pubs/sf50/pdf/AFM/SF50-002/Online31452-002.pdf
  16. Thanks for the link, some good info. it looks like they're also doing a P2006T too which may also be worth keeping an eye on. This if from the X-Crafts E-jets V2 page, hopefully this holds true for the MSFS version too. "X-Crafts is working on a completely new product line. These will be brand new add-ons, entirely redesigned and recreated from the ground up using cutting-edge software and techniques. The add-ons will feature new highly detailed and accurate models of the interior and exterior, authentic FMS, enhanced systems - at or above the ERJ Family level, all across the board. We are working with real E-JETS pilots to help us fly to a higher level of authenticity than we have reached before."
  17. Looks like The website is https://www.flightsim-studio.com/. Not any info I could see about the 175 other than the photo on the home page. Does anyone know how detailed they're planning to get with this? I've been flying on these as a pax quite a bit since it's the main aircraft Alaska/Horizon uses out of KPAE. They seem like they'd be fun to fly.
  18. Interesting, it does look like a buoyancy limitation. Those are EDO 2000 floats, I didn't realize that was what the default conversion used. The FAA requires each float support 90 percent of the gross weight. Our 172XP has EDO 2440s, so no limitation.
  19. So I don't have XP12 yet, but "feel" is a key word. Finding the proper attitude on the step in a real floatplane is something that is mostly done by feel. When on the step you can sense the acceleration and deceleration to find the sweet spot. Something our desktop sims can't do. Do you have a source for this? I've never seen floats cause a decrease in MTOW. They do significantly reduce useful load though, especially in something like a 172. I suppose if the floats were smaller it could be a buoyancy limitation, but the 172XP I learned in had a MTOW if 2550 regardless if it was on wheels or floats.
  20. This is something they showed in the Weather preview episode long ago. Not sure what happened to it since then.
  21. That was this first thing I thought of too when I saw the new design. There was also this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convair_Model_58-9
  22. This is something I thought wasn't a big deal until I got the Hot Start CL650. It really does add to the immersion. Having this along side the A2A style preflight checks would be awesome.
  23. From the FCOM it sounds like it works the same as in a Boeing, not sure if the Fenix has this modeled though. When the flight crew pulls the barometric reference knob, the barometric reference is set to STD. When in STD, the flight crew can turn the barometric reference knob to preset a QNH value. When the barometric reference is set to STD, and the flight crew pushes the barometric reference knob, the barometric reference changes to QNH or QFE (depending on the last barometric reference in use before switching to STD). When the barometric reference is set to QNH (QFE), and the flight crew pushes again the barometric reference knob, the barometric reference changes to QFE (QNH).
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