Bjoern S.

Hi Bryan, now it works 🙂 The FO is no longer running out of the flight deck between after performing the parking checklist 🙂 Thanks a lot. Best regards, Björn

Thank you very much. I will test it tonight and report back. Cheers, Björn

Hi Bryan, no, not at that time. But I often use this function between boarding and pushback - after the FA asks for boarding until the load sheet is handed out and then until the FA gives the "cabin ready für pushback". After that its all real time without fast forwarding until every pax has disembarked and everything is shut down. The FO leaves the flight deck after finishing the parking checklist and before reading the secure aircraft checklist. Best regards, Björn

Hi everybody, my F/O frequently leaves the A330 flight deck hastily when arriving at a gate or stand immediately after finishing the parking checklist. He pretends to "go out for a walkaround". Honestly I don't really trust him anymore as I am pretty sure he is just blowing a kiss to the pax sitting on 1C. Every time he returns to the flight deck literally less than 2-3 seconds later, he is happily announcing "I am back from the walkaround - everything looks good" as though nothing had happend. Maybe one should teach him to leave the flight deck only after asking for permission to go for a walkaround and maybe one should teach him to do the walkaround on the second leg as diligent as he does before the first leg of the day, too. Best regards, Björn

Congrats for this great release. It is pure joy to listen to you and Captain Ashcraft and watch you both flying the aircraft. I am eagerly waiting for these other videos to be released soon. Please keep up the good work. Thanks a lot and happy new year from Germany Bjoern S.

Hi Bryan, in the german FSX version "Autofeather (arm/off)" is translated to "Automatische Anstellwinkelverstellung (ein/aus)" Hope this helps. Best regards from EDDL, Germany Bjorn Siepmann

Well, in the 737 edition we had to configure the audio panel correct to be able to "talk" (or alternatively - even in the voice edition - use the prerecorded voice sets) via intercom or PA. Pushing the PA button on the audio panel brought up the fs2crew PA window - same with the GND crew. For the latter the service intercom switch needed to be set to on. I can understand that the necessity of that service intercom switch to be in the correct position caused difficulties for some users. Therefore I suggest to make the use of this switch configurable. Of course this would be an absolutely "nice to have". I would like to be able to bring up the PA-/FA- and GND dialog windows with the respective buttons on the overhead or audio panel and thus virtually "open the channel" to the correct station I would like to speak to. This would give me the choice of either speaking or using the prerecorded voice sets for the communication via the PA or intercomm. This is possible in the B737 voice edition as far as I remember and would not only be "nice to have" but very useful and a touch more realistic than only using the buttons in the fs2crew main window. I hope I could explane what I would like and expected to see in the 777 edition. It is not easy for me to explain as English is obviously not my native language. Best regards Bjoernsiepmann

Thank you Byork, for your explanation on why this feature is missing in the 777 edition. Of course I can understand those arguments, May I suggest to make this one configurable in a future service pack. Thus everybody who likes using the audio panel realistically can do so. Or maybe you might reimplement the possibility to open the PA-/FA-/ or GND crew window by selecting the the appropriate button at the audio panel as a somehow realistic workaround. That would be highly appreciated. Best regards from Germany Bjoern Siepmann

We can communicate with the ground and cabin crew now, too - but only by yelling through the aircraft's cabin or out of the windows and without using the proper setup of the aircraft's audio panel. I would appreciate to have the ability to use the intercom in the correct way as it is simulated by fs2crew in the 737 edition. UGCX will then hopefully add the occasions I can use the Intercom by adding a marvelous pushback tool.

The function you should assign a button for is "Automatische Anstellwinkelverstellung (ein/aus)". This opens and closes the FS2Crew window. Best regards from EDDL, Germany

Hello, I am back from my first short leg together with my new favourite female colleague on the flight deck Everything went super smooth and FS2Crew did a really good job - nearly as good as expected. Congratulations Byork for this so far bug free release! But to be honest I am kind of disappointed. Maybe I expected too many functionalities that I am familiar with from the FS2Crew PMDG B737 edition: e.g. the proper setup of the Communication Panel to be able to talk to the ground crew as well as the cabin crew. I missed that with the latest Aerosoft Airbus edition, too. But hey, this has been an Aerosoft platform, not simulating this panel in similar detail as PMDG does. I would highly appreciate if you could once again implement this feature for adding even more realism. Best regards from EDDL, Germany Bjoern Siepmann

Sorry, not yet. I did not have the opportunity to test it.

Yes, I wrote something in their forum yesterday, too. But no reaction until now. Well, I have to consider when to command "OK to clean up" for the time being. The FO's after Landing Flow is triggered by this call OR by setting the Seedbrake Lever in the Down detent, right? So the FO won't do anything until one of these two conditions exist? May be you might invent a command like "OK to clean up but do not touch the Autobrake until gate arrival" to do me a favor Best regards Bjoern