ATRguy

It’s out this Tuesday. If that’s today for you yet, then yay.

Yeah you can listen to AM radio stations on the ADF in real life because that’s basically all they are. Pretty handy too to listen to sports instead of pestering ATC for updates. Most people these days just have Bluetooth in their headsets and music on their phones, so they do it that way.

I just finished 13 hours from Toronto to Tokyo in the 350 and have never had a problem with it. I guess I'm one of the lucky ones. I also run pretty bare bones, no weather add ons, cameras, etc... just GSX and scenery.

There's basically no reason to still be on 2020, and I certainly wouldn't be expecting too many new releases for it.

Better thank those “kids” because flightsim has never, ever been this popular.

Yeah 100%. The A220 has been working just fine for me since the initial release. It’s only gotten better with the updates. Sucks that’s not the case for everyone, but it doesn’t seem like a Synaptic issue.

I'm sure plenty of people want to know that it works just fine for a lot of people, myself included.

And for me, it works just fine, as it always has.

Yeah I flew YEG to PSP and it was great. Handles the RNAV stuff really well, it flies those complicated approaches into Palm Springs pretty perfectly.

I have no doubt haha

Funny how it works just fine for some people, myself included, and others it's not. I run a pretty barebones MSFS, just GSX and Navigraph stuff. Maybe that has a lot to do with ti.

People seem to be hung up on this ever since the A350. I've been up front in a few 220s commuting to work and back; drop the gear and it is LOUD, simply because the rest of the flight deck is so quiet. I think people would be shocked how loud it can sound. In the ATR, when you drop the gear, it sounds like a shotgun goes off in the cockpit when the nose gear unlocks. It's LOUD. The first time I dropped the gear in real life, I almost jumped out of the seat it's so loud. It's so loud, I warn new pilots about it, that when you drop the gear, it's going to scare you. The sim doesn't even have a noise for it, so when you're in the plane for real, it's alarming. On an A220 related note, I picked it up yesterday and flew a nice little Winnipeg-Edmonton run and it was excellent. I'm on my way to San Diego now from YVR to check out the new Glideslope scenery.

No, I never do that IRL with a climb in IAS and our Boeing pilots definitely do not. The AP is good enough that it won’t bust an altitude unless you really set it up for failure. The only time I use VS to climb IRL is if we’re step climbing 1000 feet or so at cruise, I’ll VS +500 and then when the speed rolls back to our SOP climb speed I’ll swap to IAS.

As said above, no SOP will ever have you climbing in V/S mode. FLCH or VNAV as it provides protection and keeps the thrust levers at a consistent position. Descending in V/S works when you need it.

Looks and sounds really good! I'm surprised at how bad the VNAV is haha. I gotta check with some of my A220 buddies and see what they say IRL.