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Thanks Kyle. I just finished up 2 flights (simply incredible aircraft, congratulations to the whole team) but I have some pretty sore eyes from straining to read the FD's. They feel pretty uncomfortable right now, so I really appreciate this being raised.

Is that right? Seems like the A380 should be able to carry more than 4,672kg of cargo surely?

OK so its not just me then. I posted this on discord but it likely got lost in the sea of messages. I totally agree, the FD is incredibly hard to see on the PFD at any brightness level. I went through the range and nothing helped. There is not enough contrast between the green, blue and brown, so it's really difficult to make out the FD. Honestly that is the only thing I've found though after a complete flight, everything else in this aircraft is absolutely superb.

Is there any chance at all that update might include the addition of the PW engine variants?

Concur, unfortunately I can replicate this also, the aircraft is now unflyable at 4x sim rate which is a great shame. I was also able to use 4x and 8x with no issues in other aircraft so this is purely an A330 issue post SU6. Worked perfectly (aside from the fuel still burning at 1x) prior to SU6 so something has changed either with SU6 or with the latest update to the A330 as there were some things A330 specific listed in the SU6 changelog. This is such a shame as prior to SU6 it worked great holding the route and altitude perfectly. Easily making turns at 4x no problem at all. It still holds altitude perfectly but as soon as it enters a turn it overshoots and then gets into increasingly large overshoots trying to get back on course. Ended up almost 90 degrees away from the course before I saw enough and quit. This is a nightmare for those of use who use 4x for long hauls in this aircraft, which used to be one of my favourites. We are now going to get stuck in a loop because Ini won't fix it unless MS ask them to and MS may or not not ever get around to asking, so we are likely stuck for months with no fix if we even get one at all. Deeply frustrating.

@IniJamir Hi Jamir, Can the callouts on final be looked at again please, they are still not present in V1.0.8 The issue really is that there are so many great aircraft to fly in MSFS now, that I don't fly the L1011 consistently enough to be able to land it nicely on sight picture alone. I jumpo around with various different aircraft, many that sit much lower to the ground and the callouts from 100ft down really help to mentally prepare and execute the flare. If you only fly a single type its easy enough to get the muscle memory trained on sight picture alone, but as simmers who fly lots of different aircraft with different sight picture in the flare its pretty tricky. Would really like to see these added even if its a toggleable option please. Thanks for your time

@IniJamir Sorry for the ping Jamir, but could you please ask the team to take a look at this again, the callouts are definitely not playing under any circumstances. I've had 300fpm landings all the way down to single digit greasers and never heard anything other than 100 and 50 play.

Not sure that's the case Jamir. I actually had a -25 landing last night at CYHZ and didn't hear any callouts beyond the 100 and 50. The 30ft call is pretty important for judging the flare. It really shouldn't be any different to GPWS, the callouts play even at higher rates of descent, just the cadence is obviously faster and of course one may be skipped if there's a really high rate of descent happening. In the L1011 the FE was just a human version of that! Would really appreciate if this could be looked at again, it should be possible to hear the natural pace of 50, 30, 20 and 10 with any normal landing up to 300fpm or so. Appreciate the attention, thank you

In the V1.0.3 update changelog it appeared this was added "FIXED Add sounds to RA" However I have not seen any change, still just the 100 and 50ft callouts. Were these calls intended to be added in 1.0.3 or is the changelog referencing something else?

Yes agreed. The L1011 had a noticeably high nose attitude while landing, substantially different from most other airliners. This thread from PPRUNE lists exactly what you say, it should be maintaining 7 degrees nose up and a normal flare would be to 10 degrees. 13 degrees is the attitude to strike the tail. "On the L1011, the normal deck angle is 7 degrees during the approach and ten degrees in the flare, and any more than 13 degrees and the risk of a tailscrape is apparent." https://www.pprune.org/tech-log/9509-tristar-flare.html It was one of the things I was most looking forward to with the Ini L1011 along with DLC simulation as landing this airplane is just very different to almost every other airliner where at 10 degrees nose up you're smacking the tail on the runway!

@IniJamir Hi Jamir, just wanted to follow up that after a few flights in 1.0.1 this issue appears to be fixed, so you can close this one up now. Thanks

Hey Jamir, no problem I know you guys have a lot going on after a new release. I don't believe its related to the GNS as such, the aircraft navigates along the route, the waypoints sequence properly, it all works fine, except the track is always just a little offset, a half dot or so and it will wander both left and right of course. It's exactly like the localiser tracking issue where the aircraft sort of tracks the localiser but never fully captures and flies parallel to it. This is exactly what it does in GPS mode as well. It flies along the track, just not right on it.

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Posted this on discord but got no attention there so just wanted to highlight it here. In addition to the poor LOC tracking that you are attending to in the incoming update (thank you), the same happens when navigating with the GPS, where the aircraft can't remain on the proper course and drifts either left or right of the course and then flies offset. It never does regain the correct course. Have not tried tracking a VOR radial but would suspect it happens there too. INS navigation tracks perfectly from what I have seen. Not sure if it's going to be fixed when the ILS tracking is fixed so posting just in case.

Hey team, is there any chance you could add the Flight Engineer voice to call out 40, 30, 20 and 10 from the Radio Altimeter as well as the 100 and 50ft callouts currently included?