Everything posted by MediumRareBaku
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[1.0.6] Tank 3 not feeding fuel properly leading to imbalances
Unless I'm mistaken, ini doesn't usually simulate variations between systems to the degree of certain pumps having higher outputs than other pumps, unless the pump for Tank 1 was significantly stronger on the real L1011 by design than the other pumps.
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Degrees F and C
Should be an option if implemented. Even on modern aircraft like the Airbus most US operators display all temperatures in Celsius except the cabin temp which is usually shown in Fahrenheit.
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Suggestion: destination airport should be the last waypoint loaded in the INS when using auto-loading
I think that regardless of whether you import the waypoints including SIDs/STARs or without that, when you import waypoints into the INS from the PFB, that the last waypoint loaded should always be the destination airport and not the final waypoint in the flight plan. Once you hit that waypoint there is still valuable information to be gained from the distance and time to the destination that are displayed, and I am quite certain that all crews of L1011s fitted with INSes would have done the same. You can do it yourself manually, of course, but then that defeats the purpose of using the autoimport.
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[1.0.6] SimBrief fuel import still resulting in incorrect fuel amounts
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.
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[1.0.6] Tank 3 not feeding fuel properly leading to imbalances
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.
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Rain sounds in cockpit are too faint
No traction here?
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[1.0.5] Vertical speed selected under flight directors switches to aircraft's current VS when AP turned on
Perhaps this is a quirk of the real jet, but I doubt it. I have noticed that if I am flying manually with FDs on and I command a certain vertical speed, if the aircraft has drifted away from that vertical speed when you turn the autopilot the vertical speed target switches to the aircraft's current vertical speed and you have to re-command the prior target. For an extreme example, say I have 2000 fpm commanded in the window but am doing 1000 fpm, when I turn the autopilot on the target immediately switches to 1000 fpm. Happy to capture a video of the behavior if needed.
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[1.0.5] Autopilot still needs tuning in fairly typical scenarios
I try to avoid "X is broken" type reports as I know they're of limited utility unless it's something obvious, but I'm not sure what context would be helpful here. I have continued to notice that the autopilot struggles in situations that it very much should be able to cope with. I have observed the following: The autopilot is inconsistent with regards to maximum bank angle and turning rate: When high and fast it sometimes behaves the way I'd expect it to when low and slow -- faster banks to more aggressive bank angles -- but at other times it's the opposite and it will lurch suddenly to the maximum bank angle when high and fast and whip around when changing heading, etc. I assume the actual TriStar autopilot had logic built in to make inputs less drastic at cruise altitude but it seems like if they're represented in your autopilot that they're getting mixed up in different regimes. When intercepting VOR radials or a Localizer/ILS at 30 degrees or less, the autopilot almost always struggles to begin the turn soon enough and turns too slowly to intercept without overshooting. I am not aware of any TriStar quirks that would make this be the case but I am always willing to learn. The autopilot continues to struggle with maintaining course in a crosswind both when tracking VORs and tracking the INS. I am not even talking about significant crosswinds like a 100+ knot wind at a 90 degree angle, even something modest like a quartering tailwind at around 35 knots it will struggle to track the radial. If intercepting a VOR/LOC/ILS radial in heading mode, when the HSI shows even a half dot deflection and you switch to the VOR/LOC/ILS mode, the autopilot will often quickly bank "away" to intercept the radial more aggressively as if you were farther away, and then immediately but more gradually banks back to turn into the radial to track it, resulting in an overshoot.
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[1.0.5] DH lights flashing intermittently
I tried setting the DH to 200 feet on both the captain and FO side radar altimeters. That seems to have cured the flashing but the FO's DH lights stayed on until I clicked repeatedly 5 or 6 times in rapid succession.
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[1.0.5] DH lights flashing intermittently
Sitting at the gate setting up and both the DH light on the artificial horizon and the DH light on the radar altimeter are flashing intermittently. Different durations between flashes, different durations of being lit.
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1.0.3 Cabin Altitude gauge starts full scale high and moves to full scale low when cold and dark
I know 1.0.5 was supposed to cure the pneumatic system, but I am still seeing the cabin climb gauge start low and move to 0 upon initial load in, and when bringing the APU bleed and Pack 2 online there is a 500-1000fpm descent rate on the cabin climb gauge followed by an oscillating climb/descent pattern that eventually settles on 0. After takeoff, if you take off with only Pack 2 operating, when you bring the next pack online the cabin moves to full scale descent on the cabin climb gauge, and then it reverts to the previous climb rate. Bringing the 3rd pack on bumps the climb rate down a bit briefly and then it returns. There shouldn't be such a dramatic descent when you bring the 2nd pack online.
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All fuel pumps show as ON during initial power-up, but revert to OFF when any of them is latched.
This was a previously reported bug that I think was supposed to have been fixed in 1.0.3 or 1.0.4 but I still see the same behavior.
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Please be sure you're updating the manual to reflect new features
We're on update 1.0.5 and looking at the manual download it still shows version 1.0, while I know you've added some new features in recent releases. Please make sure you're also going back and updating your manual to include procedures, etc., for those new features.
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1.0.3 Cabin Altitude gauge starts full scale high and moves to full scale low when cold and dark
Load the aircraft, cold and dark Enter the cockpit, swap to FE station, observe cabin altitude gauge Needle starts full scale high climb, moves to full scale low descent, stays there. Opening doors, turning on power, turning on the APU and a pack doesn't change it. I uninstalled -- including deleting the WASM folder -- and reinstalled and the behavior is still present. I did not have the aircraft selected in the menu when doing so.
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Rain sounds in cockpit are too faint
The sound of rain -- both stationary/taxiing on the ground and in flight at speed -- are far too faint. I have to turn my volume up to nearly max to hear the rain on the fuselage on the ground, and I can't hear it at all in the air. I have system volume at 100%, MSFS volume at 100%, and the environment and other sliders at 100% in the sim. Headset mode off, speaker mode in the sim set to HiFi. No other sound processing software or mixers, etc.
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SimBrief profile weight issues
Sample size of one here, but just noticed that the SimBrief profile seems to have a discrepancy somewhere. My planned ramp weight is 339,460 in SimBrief using the provided profile, but when loaded into the EFB it's coming out to 333.9k lbs and the auto-set of the weight totalizer on the FE panel is also reading 333.9. It also seems to be under-loading the fuel basd on the same gauge. I should have 43.0k lbs, which is shown in the EFB, but immediately after loading the aircraft the total fuel shown on the FE panel is 42.6k lbs.
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Clickspot for DLC arming button on spoiler
Perhaps I am missing something, but I cannot figure out how to click the DLC arm button on top of the spoiler without moving the camera all the way down in front of it and rotating it so I can see it. I am sure it was very easy for the captain to reach down and press it (though I do find myself wondering at the wisdom of having the lights being on the forward end of the spoiler vs elsewhere, I guess he had to stick his hand in front of it to see if the lights were on?) Can a clickspot be added on a screw somewhere or something similar to arm DLC, please?
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VOR DME on the HSI
Per iniBuilds, and the manual I've checked seems to support this, this is correct -- the HSI only shows distance and time information for the INS regardless of mode, and the RMI is the only place that shows VOR DME.
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Throttle management - reduce workload
This would be nice -- especially if you could select the acceleration height for thrust reduction so as to respect different operators procedures
- Disable emissive lights for PFB and perf card
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PFB night mode
I would like the PFB and the speed card on the panel to have their emissive lighting (or whatever the proper terminology is) to be removed -- optionally! -- so that they're only lit by cockpit lighting as real paper charts would be. Even with the brightness lowered, backlit paper is always going to look weird in my view.
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Gross weight totalizer on FE panel in KGs when units set to Lbs.
- Gross weight totalizer on FE panel in KGs when units set to Lbs.
- Gross weight totalizer on FE panel in KGs when units set to Lbs.
- Throttles at idle vibrating into reverse
I am using the Honeycomb Bravo. I've calibrated my throttles in the EFB. Idle calibrated to idle, etc., but no matter how many times I calibrate them, once my Bravo levers are at idle, the throttles in the sim sit there and vibrate between idle and the beginning of the reverse range, and sometimes vibrate enough into reverse that the reversers unlock. I do not have any reverse bindings set in the sim and I do not have reverse on the axis set to on. I am not using the 0-100 axis option per the manual. - Gross weight totalizer on FE panel in KGs when units set to Lbs.