mrvoyager

They make trimming be smoother, more precise.

Well I have found that the manual lever for trimming is smoother than the buttons on the wheel, but so far the only way to use the lever is to physically click on it, not good to fly with.

I wonder if there is a way to trim the pitch by using the manual lever by the throttle control using button commands? I find that the lever trimming is smoother but I cannot find a way to link this to the joystick buttons.

Yeah guys, I am afraid to say this, but I think I simply had to calibrate my joystick. I think this was the problem, that I was moving the stick and it was making the elevators jump and this was interacting with the autotrim, hence no smoothness. It is not perfect, but the dynamic improved a lot. I am still trying to get the hang of manually flying this bird, but its a lot better now, I am starting to enjoy it.

I've been doing circuit after circuit trying to figure it out, but its just unstable, I never achieve smooth transitions, I don't even know what it is. I think its that the autotrim reactions are just not in sync with the aircraft aerodynamics, it needs some further refinement. I actually preferred the first version that came out, no autotrim, but I can't get it back. I simply hate it to be honest, I don't even fly the airplane that much because I mainly just do circuits, I usually don't do routes. So I mainly fly the 737 and a320, but I really love the advancement made with the 777, I like how it looks a lot, the other simulations, but its just this annoying autotrim, its just not smooth, and I expect smoothness when it comes to such an advanced and large aircraft. The jerkyness I have to engage in to stabilize the airplane sometimes feels like I'm flying some faulty cessna.

Is there a way I could configure the pmdg autotrim parameters to make it smoother or at least try?

I'm not an expert, I'm just saying, autotrim could probably be much better, smoother.

Why can't the 777 have a similar autotrim behavior to the MD11? In the MD11 handflying interaction is so much better, I get smooth transitions from climb to cruise, smoother turns, smoother descends, the autotrim is smooth, steady, and stable in the MD11, and the odd thing is that its a much older aircraft. I know, the flight characteristics are not the same, but still I think the 777 should have a smoother autotrim so that handflying would be better. If it was done with the MD11 then it can be achieved with the 777.

I would like to know if the new 400 and 800 versions will include autotrim? My guess is the 400 will not and the 800 might have it. I really hope the 400 will not have it because I really don't like how it behaves with the 777. The 777 is so well made except for this feature, I find it a bit hard to coordinate between your manual joke and trim settings and the autotrim. Also, anyone haves an idea when the 400 might be ready? I really like it overall, except that in the facebook pictures the vc textures where not quite 777 level, I hope they will improve this. I might be wrong thou, it might be just that the 747-400 does actually look different, with less smooth surfaces.

I am trying to find some software that has good window views and maybe some additional effects like sound effects for FSX, something you would likely see in these realistic FSX videos, but not simply the templates they include in video editing, something you can use in FSX.

That's right, that is exactly my point. I wonder if it flies better with P3D, probably not thou.

I installed the optional 22 KHz sounds and I didn't like them, some effects and sounds stopped working. How do I revert to the previous sounds?

Well ok, I have no credentials to say its made wrong. The simulation is made right, what I meant was the actual aircraft, the actual boeing 777. I believe it was better to either incorporate a full autotrim fly-by-wire system that would adjust positions similar to an airbus, either that or the better option, to just not include an autotrim feature.

I have my name, do I have to also include my last name? What I simply mean is that when I make a turn, the vertical speed goes down, say from 0 to -500 when banking to 15 degrees unless I raise the ailerons. The autotrim is not enough to keep the plane on the 0 vertical speed level. The other thing is that there is an interaction, sometimes conflicting, between what I am trying to do with the pitch and trim and the autotrim activity, so the flight path is not very stable. With the ngx, I make a turn, raise the elevators a bit, and with good precision I can trim it to stay level.

Is it possible to turn the autotrim off so its more like an ngx? I find its behavior annoying when manually making turns. I don't like how it interacts with my own pitch and trim inputs, it makes the aircraft a bit unstable and not very fun. My opinion is that it should either behave like an airbus or like a boeing, and not something in between in this regard.