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Hey guys, Now flown two flights with 1.0.7 and the aircraft seems to be unable to capture the glideslope properly now. Pushing the ILS button while the aircraft is physically below GS now shows GS captured immediately (rather than armed/captured), and the aircraft starts descending before the GS diamond is centered - meaning that it's descending below path for the entire approach. Disengaging ILS and recapturing results in the same issue. This wasn't an issue pre-update although I do remember that the aircraft used to climb to capture GS before 1.0.7 (which was marked as fixed), so I'm thinking it could possibly be a logic issue with that fix? That is obviously unless I'm…

As described in the title, the HSI and INS never agree on Distance and Time. HSI is set in INS mode and, as it can be seen, I don't have any active VOR tuned in. Is this a quirk of the real aircraft or a bug? In that case, which reading is the correct one? Also, the AP has never managed to track the INS properly in all the flights I've done, always a bit off-set, especially when the TO and FROM waypoints are close to each-other or in tight turns.

Hi. In the past few days my INS when aligning from cold and dark shows up off the coast of Africa, regardless of what airport I spawn to and put the coordinates in for. I have caried out well over 30 flights since buying the Tristar and It has been absolutely fine up till now. When I spawn on to the runway with engines running, it is fine and places the pink dot at the airport I am flying from. Any ideas? The picture shows the screen prior to putting in coordinates of stand. Using the +/- makes no difference.

Hi, FL360, all packs on, the cruise level set on the tape, but the pressure gauge shows 0 ft cabin altitude and probably over the gauge max scale delta p. Also the cabin temperature is quite low, below 20 F.

I've noticed that with the new progressive loading system, it does not defuel the aircraft if less fuel is needed than what is onboard. Instead, it instantaneously sets the aircraft to empty, and then begins loading it from there. This causes the aircraft to jerk substantially, and can break INS alignment.

Thank you for your quick responses, but the problem remains unresolved despite all your advice.

Hi, I've purchased the aircraft this morning and been trying all day to try and get the aircraft started using both manual and panel states options and have been unable to get any response out of the APU. If I try and start it using the panel states 'On APU', I get the message APU is being initialized, then nothing happens. Try using the Ready For Takeoff options, it says Waiting for APU RPM target, then nothing happens. Starting from Cold and Dark and use Autocomplete Preflight Preparation, all the items will turn green except APU On. The only way the aircraft will actually start is if you set the sim up to start from a runway, then it loads in with engines running. I've…

Just FYI, first time I've seen this. Happen in the 8-9 waypoint leg as well. I tried correcting back on course with HDG mode and when I put it back in INS, it immediately went off track again.

Hello. Currently descending thru FL300 with throttles at idle in MACH hold. Surprised to see that EPR is still 1.1. In a turbofan engine shouldn't the value be around 0.8-0.9 at idle since the engine are causing more drag than thrust ?

I have no problem sending the simbrief flight plan to the INS system but I wanted to try the GPS system and I must be missing something. I've changed the settings in the EFB to GPS and it all loads properly over there but when I send it over from the EFB it never makes it to the GPS. Am I missing a step?

See attached screenshot. This was after running unattended at cruise for nearly 4 hours with all crossfeeds open and all pumps on. I am not using the PFD fuel balance helper (which also appears to not be working correctly, but that's a topic for a different post). In my screenshot I've turned all pumps off but the tank 3 and 2R pumps to even out first the small imbalance in 2R and then I will try to burn tank 3 down.

When performing the lights test on the FE’s panel, I’ve noticed a few things that aren’t quite right. First, the fire detection lights are still illuminating when the manual says that they shouldn’t Second, with the APU Master Power switch ON, the 4 red APU fault lights do not illuminate. these 4 lights should illuminate during the test, and then need to be reset by pressing the reset button after the lights test button is unlatched again. I understand, a comprehensive failure simulation isn’t part of this product, but since this test is part of the normal SOPs for most every L1011 operator out there, I really do think it should be add…

Greetings. Was wondering if there was a list Vars and Events to enable my hardware to control the L-1011? Looking for the inc/dec AFCS Alt knob in particular. Thank you in advance. John

Hi, I’m currently flying the iniBuilds Lockheed TriStar using the PMS INS setup, and I’ve run into an issue related to simulation rate. The aircraft itself allows me to use sim rate x4 without any problem. However, the PMS INS does not seem to account for the increased simulation rate when performing its calculations. Specifically, the distance to Top of Descent decreases at the same rate regardless of whether I am at sim rate x1 or x4. As a result, during accelerated flight, the INS calculations become inaccurate, and the TOD prediction is no longer usable. It seems like the INS is calculating based on real-time rather than simulation time. Is this a known limitation of …

SimBrief fuel imports still seem to be resulting in a displayed 400 lb imbalance. See attached screenshots. The SimBrief OFP has a total fuel amount of 120.0k lbs which is shown in the PFD. However, once loaded, the fuel totalizer only shows 119.6k lbs, and when I add up the fuel shown on the individual tank gauges, I only see a little over 116k lbs of fuel on board.

Has happened a few times now, line up and start thundering down the runway. Some distance down the runway the rudder will go to neutral position and stop responding to joystick inputs. If you're lucky and near/past VR you can pull back and use ailerons to correct the issue. Eventually the rudder comes back into operation. My theory is the hydraulic system. Using brakes or tiller/rudder will deplete the hydraulic pressure very quickly. The plane has 4 systems and when you dab the brakes you can see a noticeable drop in system pressure. Usually A and B, then they are slow to recover. I let the FE sort the panel out but from past experience I turn on the PTU B-A sy…

I decided to try setting up controls for the TriStar using my Honeycomb Bravo in SPAD.neXt instead of using the sim's built-in bindings, and I've run into a bit of a problem: the throttle lever in the TriStar's cockpit resets to zero (idle thrust) when the physical lever on my Bravo isn't actively moving. See this video: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1U7UFaQO1-VXJzfFhl_SA5pK43_ZUKs3R/view?usp=drive_link This is basically the last obstacle I have to cross in order to have all my controls for this aircraft in SPAD instead of the sim settings (I don't like needing to have settings for the same thing in two different places at the same time). I don't know if this is an air…

This one falls into the category where I'm not SURE it's wrong, but it feels off. During the climb, I selected INS nav, VNAV for pitch, and engaged the autopilot. I then selected TM mode for the autothrottle, and it began a very rapid climb and increased the EPR to nearly .798 even though the EPR card suggested the climb should be in the .585 range intially. That seems VERY aggressive, and even exceeds the takeoff thrust EPR of .642 for the flight. Does that seem right?

I saw that the recent 1.0.6 update addressed a bug I reported regarding the reverse animation not happening when activating reverse using the joystick method that uses the HOLD THROTTLE REVERSE THRUST button. Reverse thrust animation not working - Systems - iniBuilds Forum It turns out the update '''solved'' this bug by creating another one. Now, when I activate the button assigned for HOLD THROTTLE REVERSE THRUST on the joystick, instead of simply making the throttles to enter reverse mode so I can control the reverse power via the throttle axis, it activates full reverse instead, and I can't control the power via axis, which is totally counterintuitive. This is the 3rd …

Since 1.06, it seems, manual waypoint entry triggers the aircraft to immediately sequence to the next waypoint EVEN when the waypoint being edited is NOT the current OR the next waypoint. The issue does not occur in manual mode, but I don't think it should happen in auto mode either, unless the waypoint being edited is part of the current leg.

I've been flying using INS+GPS navigation mode and decided to test GPS-only navigation mode to avoid having to deal with INS. The problem is that I'm having trouble getting the aircraft to recognize the GPS route in this mode. I import the route into the GPS, ensure it's in GPS instead of VLOC, but the aircraft doesn't seem to recognize the route. On the HSI, the indicator of how many miles are left to the next yawpoint shows zero and doesn't point in the direction of the next waypoint. Because of this, the A/P doesn't follow the route. Curiously, this only happens when I load the aircraft from the gate, in cold & dark mode. If I load the aircraft from the runway, wit…

Master power is on and illuminated, but when I press "start", the "NG tachometer" and "TGT indicator" gauges do not function.

If one of the INS units does not have a track initialised, it will not show wind data when that mode is selected. It should, since the only data required to compute this is the aircraft heading vs the sensed track.

weather radar not working on 1.0.6 for me

Hi I set up everything correctly but i still have no pressure to start the engines? Am i missing something? Was fine before the update. Here are a couple screenshots. Thanks