Aircraft Mods have a mind of their own

I did most of my flying VFR and IFR, single or twin, since Aug 2020 when they released FS2020.
Occasionally, I use the stock CJ4 and the A320 for longer flights. I decided last week to try the FBW A320 and the Working Title CJ4…
With the FBW A320, I cannot get out of the reverse, and with the WT CJ4 I do not see any avionics
So off they go from my Community folder

Starting to understand why so many do not use mods

The good news is I am really really enjoying FS2020 using its stock planes!

Moved to #third-party-addon-discussion:tools-utilities also edited as Mods can also mean us Moderators - to make topic clearer.

Both planes works great in MSFS. They are also some of the more finely detailed planes that require a lot of studying to know how they work. You can’t just click and fly. Try out the several excellent YouTube tutorials. These are rewarding free planes if you know the details on setup and sytems.

Been flying the CJ4 for a few days now, never flew the stock, and waited until WT CJ4 mod was mature (which it is!).

If Avionics isn’t coming on - well, 1st step is Battery ON, then Avionics switch (right most) immediately below the Batt switch.

Avionics off might also mean you have a Liveries conflict. That’s usually the No. 1 cause of Blank Glass Cockpit screens.

Calibrate your throttles in EFB FBW320.

Stock A320 is no match to the FBW mod. Default a320 is awful

When starting on a rrunway , all planes with avionics have their avionics on… Is the WT CJ4 an exception?

No. You have either:

  1. Old version of WT CJ4 mod
    or
  2. Livery/Mod conflict.

OK I will try to install the latest WT CJ4 mod. Thanks

Funny, I had the sim loaded up but didn’t have the FBW A320 checked in Add-on Linker, so just the stock A320 was available. I thought what the heck, I’ll use the stock one for a short flight in Europe.

The thing can barely climb to altitude, it oscillates up and down as it tries to maintain a constant vertical speed. Managed and selected modes are a mess. It can’t reach managed speed. It’s been stuck in the climb phase even though I’ve been in the cruise at FL380 for a while.

I’m looking forward to completely missing the runway on approach :slight_smile:

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Yep. Charles de Gaulle Approach had me descend to 8,000, then climb to 9,500, and left me there. Fortunately the Pilot-in-Command anticipated this and made the ILS-26R approach safely and taxi’d to the gate… I guess this is actually more of an indictment of ATC, but I’ll try the same flight plan in the FBW tomorrow and see what happens.

I noticed the more complex autopilot functions in some of the 3rd party aircraft tend to get confused if you have any of the pilot assist options on. Especially auto trim can cause ILS to just give up. Also with 40,000 airports out there, certain planes with certain airports, The ILS just cant figure it out. The premium F15E is my go to as of late. The auto pilot has a decent track record so far. As it should for 40$. But flew from Anchorage to Nellis AFB weaving through mountains and canyons along the way. I usually manually do everything with fighters but I was busy texting or something. While descending with gear down at perfect speed, my plane decided to invert and dive at the ground randomly. Also SU7 probably caused some of these issues too.

A throttle quadrant (any throttle quadrant) and civilian airplane thrust revers don´t function very well together. Because there is no thrust reverser on any HOTAS, but idle to afterburner only.
Just use keyboard F2 to go into thrust reverse, and F3 to go back to idle again :wink:

The Cessna Citation CJ4 WorkingTitle Github mod has some instrumentation problems since the newest update, this will surely be solved soon. I would never fly my Citation without the superb GitHub mod, the stock vanilla gauges are absolute boring and can do nothing and have zero system depth except showing some simple general information about the planes speed height and position.