I know that the team has been implementing many POIs in the sim, but there doesn’t seem to be an exact list other than a few unnamed screenshots in the blog. Has anyone made a list of the best ones they’ve flown to? E.g. the Millau Viaduct was a pleasant find.
Edit: just discovered the POI layer on the location map. Cool feature!
After takeoff, as soon as the gear is retracted, the spoiler lever will be automatically pushed down from its armed state the moment you move the throttle lever backwards.
This obviously shouldn’t happen as the pilot needs to disarm the spoilers himself.
I also made sure that the all flight assistant options were OFF, as they also were when I noticed the random cockpit noises in the Cessna.
Thanks!
Ipad air 11 inch M2
Latest aerofly version (non beta)
But I checked and I definitely did not have any flight assistance enabled.
I was doing short vfr hop in the Cessna from Gretchen to Bern. On the ground especially, I noticed at times in the cockpit, noises of switches being pressed/flipped even though I wasn’t interacting with them. I didn’t manage to locate the source of these noises.
I definitely did not have any flight assistance enabled.
I also noticed in the external views, from certain angles all the windows disappear - so if you move the camera around the aircraft they seem to flicker.
IPad Air 11-inch M2
Latest aerofly version (non beta)
- Get into a new aircraft once in a while and really try to get the details right.
- Try out good-old VOR / NDB procedures like holding, intercepting or really complicated approaches without the help of GPS. Really trying to master these requires a supringsing amount of sessions.
- Imagine a long-range trip in a small aircraft which requires multiple stops. (My favourite trip was in an Pitts S-2 from Hamburg, Germany to Mariehamn, Åland - without GPS or any other kind of navigational equipment.)
- I also had a mission generator for approach lessons and HEMS missions. The HEMS generator was quite thrilling.
To make matters more interesting I fly with current weather, date and time.
Recently I did the stunning VOR approach into Puerto Natales in Patagonia from Santiago. The procedure isn’t in aerofly, but if you find the chart it will give you everything you need. Raw data flying + stunning scenery = Perfection.
A few things with the Final App mode in Airbus:
Otherwise, the plane actually flies quite well!
Pressing the apr button will do nothing but show CAT 1 on the pfd if the runway also has an ils. The vnav works the same regardless if the apr button is pressed.
It is also an issue that on airbus pressing the appr button will make the aircraft attempt to fly the ils rather than final app, even if the ils hasn’t been tuned.
How do you make the aircraft fly the approach? I fly with all assists (except rudder assist because rudder on the switch is bad) and so I don’t really know what I need to be switching to make the autopilot fly the approach and do the descent. I have it set to follow nav and it gets to top of descent and the plane doesnt start descending.
Make sure to set a lower altitude before reaching the t/d point shown on the nd. Arm vnav by pushing the button. For ils approaches, there is a tutorial on the aerofly website.
The current vnav system in the Learjet just about works for descending, following alt constraints. For non precision approaches, while in the real world vnav would also normally be used, I would just use v/s based on the chart glidepath.
