Few things a have seen so far...

[CptSpeirs]

Hi, here a few things a have seen so far in my first 4 flights with the great A400M:

1. When you power up the airplane with all screens on and then go outside and then into the plane again - the screens going into self test again.
2. Chocks need to be removed outside AND on the tablet. It should be enough to take them away on the outside.
3. I cant scroll in the integrated checklist. For example when I will skip a checklist.
4. The headup display starts flickering when you go bit further back and have low zoom (like 5% or less).
5. On descent and approach: The plane starts oscillating on pitch axis and autothrottle. They fight each other. 🙂
6. I have seen two times that the flight plan have little issue on the approach and will to a 360 at one waypoint. But maybe thats a MSFS problem?!
   1. Zürich: NEGRA2A / ILS 14 AMI14
   2. München: BETO1B / ILS 26L OTT

[richboy2307]

Hi @CptSpeirs

Thanks for your report. Please see comments below:
 

1 hour ago, CptSpeirs said:

• When you power up the airplane with all screens on and then go outside and then into the plane again - the screens going into self test again.

Thanks team is aware of this. For the moment, this is a core sim bug where-in it forces a re-initialization of the aircraft every time you switch between "walkaround" and normal simulation modes. Best to report this one on the MSFS forums as we have no way around this for now.

1 hour ago, CptSpeirs said:

• Chocks need to be removed outside AND on the tablet. It should be enough to take them away on the outside.

Similarly, this is a core sim issue wherein the variable for chocks & covers is not interacting with WASM as intended, hence why the desynced states.

1 hour ago, CptSpeirs said:

• The headup display starts flickering when you go bit further back and have low zoom (like 5% or less).

Not to sound like a broken record, but this is a characteristic of the sim's rendering engine, where in glass-on-glass materials cause flickering. You'll notice something similar if you try to look through one cockpit window at another. Our team is aware of this one, however we do not have a solution at this time.

1 hour ago, CptSpeirs said:

• On descent and approach: The plane starts oscillating on pitch axis and autothrottle. They fight each other. 🙂

Can't say I've seen this behaviour myself. Could you please share a video recording of this happening for investigation? Also in case you haven't already, please ensure the piloting assists are disabled + turbulence is set to LOW under Assitances option: https://forum.inibuilds.com/topic/24117-why-is-my-plane-not-following-the-flight-path/
 

1 hour ago, CptSpeirs said:

I have seen two times that the flight plan have little issue on the approach and will to a 360 at one waypoint. But maybe thats a MSFS problem?!

1. Zürich: NEGRA2A / ILS 14 AMI14
2. München: BETO1B / ILS 26L OTT

That does seem like an issue with the sim's navdata itself, wherein its using duplicated waypoints from both the Approach transition and the ILS approach itself.  Shared with the team for further investigation in case its something we can filter out on our end.


Thanks!

[S4nt0ss]

I would like to add, that the PFD and HUD pitch rates are not synced. for takeoff 15º of pitch on the HUD equals almost 20 on the PFD.

[S4nt0ss]

1 hour ago, S4nt0ss said:

I would like to add, that the PFD and HUD pitch rates are not synced. for takeoff 15º of pitch on the HUD equals almost 20 on the PFD.

 

[CptSpeirs]

@richboy2307: Thanks for the answers! How about the checklist?