JaneRachel

Thank you that really helps! For some reason, the SI video demonstrating the CPDLC setup showed the departure clearance on the DCDU. It really confused me so thank you for clarifying, I appreciate it.

I only just tried it today, noticing compatibility was on the latest update. Still trying, no success.

Hey All, I am setting up the A346 for CPDLC (V 1.02 of the aircraft). All connections seem fine. I logon to the ATC station. I get my pre-departure clearance. However, it only goes to text in the MCDU. The DCDU panel doesn't get updated at all. It just constantly displays which ATC I am logged on to. I have tried many things, but there is no way I can get ATC messages to the DCDU - Again, they all appear fine in the received msgs area of the ATSU on the MCDU. My departure clearance pops up just fine in the MCDU, but the DCDU remains blank, apart from displaying the station (EGCC) that I am logged onto. I double checked all was working well at the Sayintentions side of things and connected quite happily with the Fenix and Inibuilds on the same flight and all worked as expected with the DCDU happily displaying messages. EDIT: I followed the Sayintentions setup and demo video released yesterday, which seemed to show the DCDU working... Any ideas would be appreciated? thank you! Jane

For some reason and it may just be me. I always find the A350 cockpit much more cluttered than the 777, so in the real aircraft I have always felt more comfortable in the 777. It may be a me thing, but all the glass in the A350 and the sheer volume of keyboards, keypads and buttons makes the A350 seem overfilled and somehow less spacious. On the 777 by comparison, there is actually some nice clean fascia between all the displays and a much more less cluttered pedestal. So feeling less wall to wall crammed, the 777 has always felt much more spacious to me. This coming from someone who is a software dev in my day job and has no less than six monitors around me in my workspace as I type! S

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)

Thank you! that really helped! I appreciate it (I notice it refers to x-plane in that chapter which needs a quick edit)

My rapid review from 4 flights (I do miss working at PC Pilot mag 😉 ) Visuals = ok but will not set the world on fire. Cockpit lighting lacking a bit too. Systems = fabulous FM = not flown a real A340 but very stable and convincing. Nice feeling of the weight and inertia. Goes where you expect it when handflying down the g/s so a real joy Jane

I took the plunge and bought it. Website was ok, but Aerosoft 1 is falling over trying to log in. (changed my password just to make sure and confirmed at the store). It just ignores the login request and tells me I am not logged in... Will try again this evening when things calm down.

it genuinely makes me a bit dizzy sometimes!

Hey All, The Just Flight 146 now flies in 2024. A 2024 version is also available in everyone's account for previous purchasers at no charge. I have been looking forward to this, really loving the original steam gauge 146 over the more modern RJ. Thanks JF, been looking forward to the compatibility, Jane

my Winwing MCDU just froze again moments ago, latest patch installed and latest WingWing simapp version too.., just a short test from Manchester to Heathrow, and it froze midway.

same here Ray, if its a Microsoft fix though we may be waiting until the start of the business day in west coast USA. Asobo will be halfway through their work day now, but this likely may well not be for them to fix but a Microsoft issue.

the first flight sim project I worked on for Microprose back in my young programmer days, we shipped on cassette tape. The primary fix then was a pencil to spool the tape back in as it invariably disgorged in to the cassette player :))

I just get stuck at the loading language - 0% and that is as far as it gets...

Thank you for the info appreciated. I think I will live with the freeze for now as climbing under my desk, pulling the PC out to reach to the back to get to my USB ports does not sound appealing 😉

a couple of weird bugs since the update with the A340. the hardware MCDU suddenly freezes on a page and stops all updates (although buttons still work as can be seen from the rendered in-cockpit MCDU). The managed altitude dot stays on in cruise on the WinWing FCU (whilst it rightly disengages in the cockpit rendered FCU). Reinstall has not helped. all the best Jane

handling is massively different. The team have done an outstanding job. There has clearly been a ton of work in so many areas. I have done a few short flights around the UK. Taxi feels completely different and much more convincing. I also don't get the slewing effect I used to have braking in taxi. Rock steady. Much more stable in turns and just generally less slippery. The taxiways are not icy anymore 😉 I have found the takeoff roll to be significantly more stable and I didn't have to fight as hard in a crosswind to maintain the centreline. Same on landing, braking and centreline tracking was much less of a fight and it felt that I was much more in control of the aircraft. Flare logic was the one big change I was looking forward to and I was not disappointed. Taking a bit of getting used to. Will take a few days to change my habits, but the float seems to have gone away. Previously I either hit the ground like a brick or floated like a feather. Now I actually land the thing 🙂 I am already spotting quite a few nuanced changes in systems and a few changes in MCDU logic and expect I will find more. All in all I am both grateful to the team and impressed. That flare logic was the huge one for me, so thank you Fenix team! Jane

Agree, I just wanted to check I had not broken anything. As a games dev by trade, I tend to break everything I touch 🙂 So thought it was me 🙂

thank you Jude, it worked by default for me with the previous version out of the box, so not sure what has happened there.

has anyone had issues with the Winwing MCDU and EFIS/FCU setup. None of it is powering up for me at all... The other Airbus aircraft I have still functions as normal with them, ( and I flew just fine a couple of hours ago with the "old" Fenix and they worked... It just seems completely locked out of the new models.

hey Russell It might be you seeing the new VNAV in action that they modelled. It is very different to a VNAV on the 737 for example. The "intelligent" VNAV on the 777 can see spurts of climb rate if the aircraft thinks it can "get away with it" . It is the same on the descent with a much more variable VNAV descent calculation than the 737 or other Boeings. This was something that was added for 2020 and 2024 in the sim and was not around in P3D. It now more closely resembles the real VNAV which bounces around quite a bit on the 777. It is supposed to result in smarter energy management. The 787 shares this VNAV so I think @jon b might be much better at describing it than me 🙂 Jane

Hey Pete, You are not trying to trim for pitch are you? Just a thought. The 777 trim works very differently to a conventional aircraft. In the 777 you trim for speed rather than pitch. It is really tempting to trim like a regular pitch trim and get in trouble. Doing so will lead to oscillations as the aircraft hunts for the speed. The 777 you set the trim for the currently flown speed. Adjusting the trim is telling the system that you are changing speed and the aircraft will pitch around looking for that speed. In the real aircraft you can tell by the control forces on the yoke if you are trimmed for the speed you are flying. We don't have that luxury in the sim, but there is a setting in the FMC to show a marker on the speed tape for the speed you are selecting when you trim. So be really careful (it is easily done!) not to think you are trimming to set a pitch, when in reality you are trimming to tell the aircraft what speed you want rather than pitch. So for example, if you disconnect from an autopilot ILS, you are already in trim for that speed courtesy of the autopilot and will manually raise and lower the nose to stay on profile, not retrim which will just have the aircraft pitch to accelerate or decelerate the aircraft using gravity, pulling the nose up to slow down or pushing the nose down if you are pitching for a faster speed. hope that helps a bit Jane

I came across this fantastic video of an A350 instructor for one of the major airlines. He is using the inibuilds A350 to demonstrate how to operate the aircraft. I found it thoroughly absorbing and picked up a few tips. He also points out a few navigation bugs in the A350 flight management system (just in case inibuilds see this thread). II loved it, well worth a watch Jane

Same, I disabled, but it doesnt seem to have stopped the aircraft opening with various faults and issues on loading. I think its some sort of initialisation issue in 2024 rather than "faults" as such.

hey all, Has anyone seen any initialisation problems in 2024? My aircraft seems to boot up at the gate with random things not working. I often get a "Datalink Company Fault" ECAM which means I cannot load a simbrief plan. I have to reload the aircraft a couple of times for it to want to load from simbrief again (although it loads the briefing sheet fine in the EFB and displays it - yep I have set up my username properly in the control panel). The fault seems intermittent. A few times I get failures such as AP1 and AP2 not working on the system page, asking me to ground service (I have all failures set to off, so this is weird). I have had the APU fail to start, switches seemingly in different positions when I go in to the aircraft from the gate, which then get stuck. Even if I set the aircraft to always load on the APU panel state it doesn't always seem to get there. It seems quite difficult and many trips back to the main menu to get a fully functional aircraft at the gate... Jane