Posts by skyandheaven

Liebe IPACS-Team,

ich bin am Sim reiner Laptop- und Tastenflieger, um mit damit gewisse Verfahrensweisen aus der realen Pilotenerfahrung zu trainieren bzw. zu experimentieren/reflektieren. Etwas hinderlich finde ich dabei die Tastensteuerung des Seitenruders, die in FS4 nur als Taster funktioniert, d. h., solange ich die Taste drücke, drücke ich das Pedal in die gewünschte Richtung, danach springt es zurück. Ich fände es sinnvoller - sowohl beim Rollen als auch z. B. bei Seitenwindlandungen - es gäbe eine schrittweise Möglichkeit der Steuerung des Seitenruders über die Tasten und meinetwegen eine eigene Tastenkombination zur Zentrierung (so, wie es z. B. bei anderen Sims gelöst ist).

Wäre es ein großer Aufwand, das entsprechend - bspw. optional? - zu implementieren?

Danke, Gruß!

Liebes IPACS-Team,

um mit Aerofly nach ICAO-Karte zu fliegen: Simuliert FS4 auch die in den Karten hinterlegten Angaben zur Missweisung, so dass nach TH geflogen werden kann anstelle von TC?

Danke, Gruß, AH

Quote from Jet-Pack (IPACS)

That's an aircraft category we haven't covered yet, might be interesting.

Please! That would be great! Thanks.

Hey IPACS, hey Jan,

are there any chance or plans to develop or implement a UL-Aircraft like the Ikarus C42 or any other with MTOW < 600 kg or 472,5 kg?

Thanks!

Quote from Airbusfanflo

Hallo liebe ipacs Team ich liebe die C42c es wäre sehr cool wenn das Ultraleichtflugzeug nach dem a350 Release erscheint

L.g

Ich möchte die Idee (auch für die FS4 Desktop-Version) sehr unterstützen, ein oder zwei UL-Flugzeuge mit in den Hangar aufzunehmen, die aus meiner Sicht bei dem ansonsten recht breiten Portfolio der Flugzeugklassen fehlen. Da sie sich aber fliegerisch von der Echo-Klasse doch noch einmal unterscheiden, wäre das recht reizvoll. Die C42 wäre hier sicherlich das Aushängeschild, quasi die C172 unter den UL-Flugzeugen.

Für X-Plane gibt es eine ziemlich vorbildliche Umsetzung insbesondere auch von den Flugeigenschaften von vFlyteAir.

On the 738 and 739 direct to waypoint works, if it‘s not within a SID or STAR leg.

Quote from FlyWorld

Does Aerofly FS4 currently have no integration with IVAO or VATSIM? Can it only be flown offline?

Flight simulation with VATSIM or IVAO requires at least a compatible scenery like airports with correct taxiways (marking, orange and blue lines) and stands/parking positions and a live weather engine with pressure, clouds, rain/snow, fog ... This is - afaik - not in sight on Aerofly FS4 and not it's focus. For that you have to use other Sims like X-Plane or MSFS.

Quote from Jet-Pack (IPACS)

Please let us know what specific features or details you find important when importing a flight plan. So what does the external flight planner give you that is not available yet? What do we need to add so that no external tool is required?

Flight planner of AF4 only makes a direct route from departure to arrival destination, resp. from waypoint SID to waypoint STAR; waypoints on the route have to be add by user manually. Therefore I use Simbrief or RouteFinder also, but a problem by this method is, that the AIRAC cycle of AF4 is too old (1301?), so that some waypoints doesn't exist in AF4, also SIDs and STARs are not matching almost.

Another thing is, that programming a route with airways is not possible.

And last not least: If there would be an option to save a flight route and open it another time, this would be great!

It would be really a step, if these things could be implemented some time.

Quote from Mtyn

No it doesn’t, which makes the app a bit useless to be honest. I really like how it works, but I can’t add a flight plan even manually as you need another (paid) app for that.

So yeah, nice to see an airplane on the map but that’s about it.. potential is huge though, with a flight plan and correct frequencies for Navaids it would be a perfect app for the sim!

Use Enroute instead of: https://akaflieg-freiburg.github.io/enroute/

Taxi button on lefthand side of FCU

Hey guys,

in the east of Chicago in AF FS4 you will see a very big transmission tower. It's height is about 4000 ft (ca. 1200 meters!). I think, this is a little mistake in scenery, isn't it? Because a funny detail is also, that the same tower is in a very small format next to the huge transmission tower, see screenshot.

I can confirm, that the apple version of AF FS4 doesn't establish connections to FSWidgets. Macbook Air M2 with macOS Sonoma 14.7.4.

Quote from Jet-Pack (IPACS)

From what I know the weather system is initialized at the beginning (when you press start) but no control messages are sent to that module during the runtime which is good for performance. If we end up sending messages to all of the individual parts of the sim the performance would suffer.

Thanks, Jan, but with visibility it works. Is this not a part of weather system also?

So I thought, this would not be a problem with the clouds also …

Quote from Crabonoe

It still is somewhat on topic. The thread was to talk about weather in aerofly, and he did. Sure it does not fully go with the topic, but it is still related.

No, the thread and my intention was just to talk about a suggestion of a possibility for a further key assignment, nothing more.

There are enough other weather-related threads in this forum.

Quote from captainsphinz

They need to put rain and realistic weather of this game

Thats off-topic, sorry. Because it's a more complex thing to implement a good weather system, which would be a big step for Aerofly FS (maybe this would be version 5 or 6 one day ...), my suggestion is a little and easy way, only to change cloud density during the flight without going back to settings - just by assigning this to a key-command. This thread shows, that I'm not alone with this idea, which should be not a very big challenge for the developers.

By the way, I'm not sure, if a whole weather system is wanted by the developers of Aerofly FS, which is definitely not a simulator with a concept like X-Plane or MSFS. But again, thats not the topic here ...

Quote from busflieger

What do you think, Jan, would this option be possible to realise easily?

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What do you think, Jan, would this option be possible to realise easily?

Hey guys, hey Jan,

I have a suggestion, which should not be very complicated to implement: Would it be possible to have key commands for the density of clouds too, similar to the settings for visibility, which is already possible to change it with key commands. The idea is: so you can easily change the cloud density on the fly and simulate in a very basic way weather or cloud changes during the trip?

This maybe would be a little workaround, until maybe a whole (METAR based?) weather system could be implemented in Aerofly FS someday ...

What do you think?

Ansgar

Quote from 777Driver

Looking at the A319 QRH, with a gross weight of 56 tonnes at FL410 (ISA) Vls is 175kias

What does your data say vls should be?

Yes, you're right, you can see it on the screenshot. FL410, near 56 tonnes GW, the VLS on PFD is near 180 kias. But you see also the small slot between 225 kias green dot speed and 245 kias overspeed. So the amber marker should show on AF FS4 also, I think.

Jan just wrote, that it will be fixed, thanks!

Nonetheless I doubt, that you could fly an A32x series with 58.500 kg gross weight (f. e. for the A319 in AF FS4) with 200 kts indicated airspeed at FL390 without any stall. You can compare with real procedures or other virtual flight models like Tollis A319, f. e., which is near study level and correct with calculations.