Posts by Jet-Pack (IPACS)

Yes, airports change over time and it's impossible to keep track of all of them. But SFO is the default airport of the sim and also one of the most popular ones so we may update it eventually.

According to real world pilots our Extra 330 is the best aerobatics simulation they have ever flown.

You can fly knife edge spins, Lomcovaks, Tumbles, Torque rolls and so on.

Adjusting the fuel in the menu also causes the cargo and passengers to be redistributed again currently. The aircraft CG is balanced towards a set target when the fuel or payload are changed.

During flight the aircraft FMS currently doesn't really know the correct CG shift for the fuel so it uses the real time CG of the fuel instead. But the fuel moves around in the tank, that's why the displayed CG may change a bit depending on accelerations and flight attitude.

The LS button needs to be on for the A350 and A380 and off for the A320 family. But that's just display, has no influence on autopilot to my knowledge.

We've done some testing on Android and even very powerful devices (even flagship devices) had issues because of their drivers. It doesn't matter how great their CPU is if the driver causes crashes then we just can't offer that feature.

Building the -200 would take many months because the entire cockpit would have to be redone from scratch. I don't see this as a viable option, it's too much work. If we were to invest this much time we're already half way to a brand new aircraft.

The 747-8 has entirely new wings and engines, this also would take months, though a bit less than the cockpit. It can be done but it's still a lot of work.

Something that would be much easier actually is a 747-400F.

Can you please try it with an RNV approach instead of a VOR approach? I'm not sure if the VOR approaches work in managed mode yet, I don't think I fully implemented that.

Did you press the approach button yet?

Yes, as i explained in the last part of my previous post this is a mathematical result of how wind speed is derived. The computations don't account for side slip and that's why there is a displayed error. This would also be the case in the real world for some aircraft. I'm not 100% sure if the A320 family derives side slip angle from the air data probes or not. It certainly does not have a sensor for it.

In the flight info? In the green HUD? On the aircraft navigation display ND?

The display on the ND derives wind speed from the difference between inertial velocity and sensed airflow. During side slip the aircraft may not accurately predict the change in relative airflow by that sideslip and attributes that to a change in wind direction.

Depending on if you fly the A320 family or A350/A380 there are differences, what do you use?

Plan for an RNAV approach in the navigation route.

Go to the assistance settings and turn off the auto-tuning assistant, that might help to disable auto-tuning to an ILS on the same runway.

Works as intended.

What wind power do you mean?

On weaker devices not all lights are rendered to improve performance.

What device do you have?

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Is the global scenery updated behind the scenes? I've been flying long-haul between Europe and the Middle East quite a bit. The resolution seems to be vastly improved around Bahrain/Doha/Saudi Arabia in the past year, looks photorealistic from cruise (on PC) I don't remember it looking that good previously.

We constantly work on the global scenery and regularly push out new airports.

The Steam version has global scenery streaming if you enable it. This includes regions covered by the Europe DLCs. However this requires an internet connection and offline game play is limited to the regions you have already been to. The Europe DLC enables you to download a large portion of the aerial images and airports for offline usage. Please note that trees, buildings and other smaller details may or may not be included in the DLC download, so more detail may be available with streaming enabled still. But for a Europe wide offline base coverage with high resolution images near airports the Europe DLC is great.

It works the same on desktop and mobile.

Lower spec devices just don't support this because of the hardware limitations.

You can send arbitrary data from the physics part of the TMD file to external applications using the sender objects. You can also send messages to the TMD file just like the controls.tmd file would, and set any switch you want really.

If some graphics quality setting is shown on your device then that particular adjustment it's not supported by it, sorry.

What device do you have? This screenshots looks to be from the desktop simulator, not from mobile.