Let me start by saying I have been a customer since day one, although I have never really participated in the forum activity, and I do believe your products have been the best on the market for many many years. So, I'm not trying to whine about something pretty irrelevant, but I thought I could give my personal feedback and see if anybody share the same feelings. I think the arming/disarming feature on the B777 is great and adds on to the realism. I'm sure you will be maintaining the feature in the upcoming B747.
What I find a bit annoying is having to arm/disarm every single door and the fact the door needs to be cycled (opened and closed) before being re-armed. Real world simulator IOSs (Instructor Operation Panel) do have a doors arm/disarm for ALL doors at once (of course they do simulate a bit of lag between the doors to make it more realistic) and I think that would be a much more convenient option for your add on as well. Alternatively an auto function that arms all doors when first engine start switch goes to start and disarms at last fuel cutoff off would reflect most operators normal procedures. I think the "ground operation" function manages the doors itself, but I guess some people (like me) don't like to use this feature for a series of reasons. Did you consider in the developing stage having arm/disarm ALL doors function, and allowing to arm and disarm even multiple times without having to cycle the doors? What made you decide for individual door option and are there eventual technical/programming limitations? I personally don't see any benefit in having this feature for single door and I would be much happier if it could be done all in one click.
Having said that, thank you very much for your continuous effort.
Regards Mike
