JaneRachel

sorry if I mangled my explanation guys! I was trying to say what RSR is saying, but he did it much more eloquently!

yes, there are standby instrument options included with the aircraft. You can change the layout in the settings. The older layout is still an option for airlines, although not sure how many have taken Boeing up on that offer.

fantastic images Luke!

just a couple of systems shots as I am currently working my way through checking the electrical system Here the APU is providing power on the ground, whilst the external power is still live. Notice because of that, the Right side buses are still on external power, reducing the load on the APU. Notice also the LOAD SHED messages. The APU has shed the Left Util bus. The APU gen cannot carry all loads so the util busses shed. Note that you can carry the right util bus, but only if you shut down most of the big power consumers: fuel pumps, hydraulic AC driven pumps etc. Here we are with external power now disconnected so we are only on the APU, both busses are now shedding. Although, as mentioned above, switch off those big consumers and you can get UTIL power.

Kyle was/is absolutely right, it was greyed out whilst the guys finalised their tweaking of it. We now have it working. We do indeed get updated versions

honestly I think this is all a fuss over nothing. As been said in this thread a few times, you an set the ZFW to whatever you want, thereby recreating exactly the passenger loading that you want. Your ZFW has nothing to do with faking cargo as passengers! I am happy the guys are concentrating on making sure the aircraft has so many accurate and fascinating features rather than making the 777 a seating simulator. Sure you could do a whole seating config thing, but there are only so many hours in the day and only so many programmers on the team. Something else would have to be dropped. I think they have their priorities just right. Would you want a situation of "sorry guys she doesn't fly accurately because we put all of our time in to a really nifty seating simulator"? All that seating setup would do, in any case, is create the ZFW for you. You can do the whole thing yourself very easily.

I had it happen to me a couple of times today on a long flight from London to SFO, but certainly not often enough to be a nuisance or mess up the new time acceleration feature in anyway. The software takes it in it's stride.

another interesting realism. Some of the testers were noting a strange noise when powering up from cold and dark and wondered if this was some sort of sound bug. Actually it was the self test for the cockpit speaker system! You get allsorts of tests if you are starting from a cold cockpit, speakers, cooling fan tests, display units testing themselves and stuff happening all over the place. All completely realistic!

it's only for you Airbus types, guaranteed I think the chap who thought it was there was seeing FIX page range rings or a custom waypoint. There is no reason why a custom waypoint cannot be created at an ETP obviously, if you know where it is ahead of time.

night flight from Sydney to Fiji

sorry James, wasn't on the forums as I was being all domestic, yes OFFPATH DES works

just catching up on all the mails, before I post more screenshots, as I push back from Sydney to Fiji. Someone asked about offpath descents, yes it is fully functional.

I am a bit quiet tonight as I have domestic stuff to do, but will be in there air tomorrow and sharing more info and screens as I cruise. I would just like to thank you all for responding to us testers so positively and courteously with your questions. We are all enjoying sharing info with you!

Hey Kacper, yes you can. It still works even if you resize the popout with dragging it larger with the mouse

all the performance figures are entirely accurate yes

there you go guys, straight from the horses mouth! thanks Armen not calling you a horse or anything incidentally

interestingly, the 777 refuses to pushback when on the chocks, either using AES or the CDU pushback. I was sat at SFO yesterday wondering why the pushback tug guy was just sitting there with AES when I suddenly realised I had left the chocks in place!

I am messing around with "non Normal" situations today and really love the mass of checklists available on the ECL. The non-normal have 16 categories, with multiple checklists in each category. There are an awful lot there, pretty much one for every occasion you never want to see happen!

Answer B is the winner. It really impressed me first time I noticed it!

It sounds fantastic, both internally and externally. You are not always going to get the same sound effect either, depending on how you land the aircraft and conditions. You could spend all day flying circuits and see variation in the landing sound on every touchdown!

some of the fine detail on the wing

freighter on a single engine climbout from EGCC Manchester

the shot with the setting sun is just fantastic!

the fly by wire will let you do pretty much what you want, that is the Boeing philosophy, however, the aircraft tries to dissuade you by reducing roll rate at the extremes of the envelope forcing you to make a concerted effort to do something silly. The real aircraft also adds in additional yoke resistance as a not so subtle reminder that it doesn't like what you are doing.

Hey Chris, something akin to a NASA shuttle launch its an amazing experience, even in a desktop sim. Its an amazing powerhouse. I read recently that each of the engines has 3 times the horsepower of the worlds largest cruise liner!