Posts by Overloaded

  • A 737-500 advisory

    Quote from Martijn22

    For those getting confused. Aerofly’s Boeing 737-500 actually uses a 737-200 cockpit. This is because the air conditioning panel in the cockpit contains a button to turn on the Gasper Fan, which was only present on the 737-100/-200.[1] But Soutwest’s 737-300s and -500s did use steam gauges.[2]


    P.S. I did notice this before, but I never made a post about it since didn’t think people would care enough to get it corrected. Now there’s two of us who’ve noticed our Franken-737🥳🥳

    Not to mention the - impossible with the fitted hardware and software at the time - EPR gauges which are a carry over from the original bought in -200 model. The only EPR gauges in high bypass turbofans back then were in Rolls Royce three spool engines which needed more than n1 to display thrust output. It would have increased authenticity to have left them out.

  • A 737-500 advisory

    Quote from fares

    the -500 is actually equipped with by far much more advanced avionics and true glass cockpit "ok semi glass to be quite fair", but actually such an advanced cockpit will aid the navigation through the different landings which are quite challenging on the current model hence you need actually to follow the map portal and coordinate your descent via it which is a bit hard

    The analog cockpit offers more sophistication than might be appreciated in a quick glance. There is a ton of information available to navigate the plane with more than adequate situational awareness and for some time now the Aerofly -500 has had a working zooming map display.



    The FMC/CDU can display the RNAV core parameters so here the active waypoint bearing is displayed on the CDU and is slaved to the captain’s HSI, set on to the nav position on the glareshield. The ETA is shown and can be compared with the instrument panel clock/timer. The moving map shows the plane is going to pass just south of San Francisco’s Golden Gate on a westerly heading.


    The plane is turning towards the SAU VOR shown on the flight plan display and on the nav1 pointer of the RMI. The VOR’s position just north of the Golden Gate is confirmed on the moving map. The captains side still shows the VOR bearings and DME values even though the HSI is indicating the RNAV output.



    The Oakland ILS is being tracked by the Autopilot and displayed (the green loc and gs lit up under the F/D A/P annunciation, it seems the glide slope is displayed, the lateral display might remain the ‘nav’?) on the attitude indicator despite the RNAV following the programmed route and displaying the centred track on the slaved HSI.
    The navigation information given is comprehensive and navigating the sim’s -500 gives a flavour of aviating in the days before moving maps. It is debatable whether it should have been portrayed as an analog -500 or as the original model’s -200 but it is definitely a valuable presence in the sim. If some extra help is really desired the overhead information display can be turned on.
    The sim’s -500 follows a programmed route on autopilot in the sim and initiates the descent following normal Boeing practice. The descent rate automatically ‘chosen’ in the second picture was inappropriate and needed an override intervention.

    The permanent TKE figure looks like a magnetic variation sim error which I think was absent previously.
    The clock and FMC seem to have a one hour time difference. The minute values are correct.

  • 3D approach lights?

    Could a future points of interest type upgrade do the three dimensional approach light support structure? The FS2 Monterey scenery add-on shows how good it can look and the flat paint on water presentation screams inauthenticity especially at SFO where the twin runway 28s structures are not even in a continuous line of pasted contiguous flat photo scenery. This detail is really screaming in our face during a landing, the most attention focused phase of flight simming.

  • 737-800 autoland not cutting both throttles!

    I’m 95% certain that this is from me doing something wrong rather than being from a bug. Both autopilots are engaged with the ILS and a normal two throttle cut is expected after touch down. Speedbrake and autobrakes are armed.

    I’m seeing this more often recently, does anyone know what is causing this? The speedbrake doesn’t come on with one throttle still advanced.

    FS4 beta version, presumably equivalent to the one day later published version.

    Old hardware.
    i7 4770K at 4.2 GHz, 8 GB ddr3 ram, Rtx 2080 super, mild overclock, 8 GB, full screen on a 4K monitor.
    Vulkan, high quality AA off, high graphics except medium trees. Nvidia RTX HDR on. Nothing else running on the P.C.
    Win 11 (not yet bloatware trimmed).



  • Donations

    The horrible danger is the introduction of a more or less fake new version just to bring in fresh income. Sustaining the current version with payments for high quality new material is better than losing all we have with the current versions. When FS4 needs to be replaced it should be because of unforeseen and incompatible revolutionary technological developments.

  • Question about time zone

    Up at the Artic Circle at midnight it was nowhere near dawn so the date is not the 20-22 June Summer Solstice. I flew up to 75 degrees north on the zero East/West meridian and got sunrise at 02:33 so looking it up online I got the date as 18th April using 2026 data. It could be in the autumn at an equivalent number of days after the solstice.

  • Question about time zone

    In reality it is not that hard to get used to. For any location the probable time zone time is later if the longitude is east and earlier if west. The time zone changes an hour for every 15 degrees of longitude but of course there are some exceptions and most temperate countries add an hour on in the local summer period.

    At 104 degrees east Singapore is locally 7 hours later than UTC in true time but the plus 8 hours time zone of China, Eastern Indonesia, The Philippines and Western Australia has been selected by the government of Singapore.

    To get the mean noon sun at Singapore in Aerofly one ought to select 7 hours earlier than UTC, that is 05:00 but in reality 04:00 is necessary. Nearby (in longitude) UTC plus 7 hours Bangkok works with 7 hours which must mean that Aerofly works off the chosen government time zone rather than true geographic time. It must be another database thing?

  • Donations

    I would prefer to pay for high quality developments inside FS4 than have to buy an all incompatible new FS6 (or whatever number) just to introduce a fresh income impulse.

    The mobile pay scenery model is a huge improvement over the truly horrible annual cut offs.

  • Aircraft braking in flight

    Perhaps repeat your simulation with the real life appropriate speed management, that is fly Mach above about 30,000 feet and indicated air speed below that height.
    Watch the Mach hold descent in the video where the warming air below the tropopause allows the constant Mach Number to correspond with increasing numbers in knots of indicated airspeed. The idle thrust descent accelerates mildly in true airspeed thanks to the high rate of descent (only reducing in true air speed below the ‘cross over altitude’ switch from constant Mach to constant indicated airspeed).

  • FS4 beta R22 string instrument missing after sim restart

    (The smilies are purely to help avoid any English language +/- ambiguity from me).

    Yes, changing from a different aircraft to the R22 gives the working string instrument. 🙂 It does not matter what previous Expert on Non Expert state had been previously used.

    Starting from a fresh P.C. boot in NON Expert Mode gives the string. 🙂

    Starting from a fresh P.C. boot in Expert Mode does not give the string. 😡
    Both scenarios were duplicated.

    (Starting from a fresh P.C. boot in NON Expert Mode but selecting Expert Mode before starting to fly the sim will give the string, 🙂 also duplicated).