Ok I so tired again, the FPS was better, but not by much. Its like a constant lag spike the plane causes, its very odd…anyway Since I just landed the United 737-700 at KGE, I thought a short hop in the E-175 from KEGE to KJAC would be cool.
So here we go:
Climb out was good,
Now Because I have forgotten some of the default flight plan isim’s I did not check the plan, that I Imported into MSFS from simbrief (by saving it as an MSFS2020 Plan) , and after setting up the SID & Approach, no Star at KJAC and it is quite a challenging approach into RWY 19, I took the ILS 19Z
So after take off I saw the plan was a bit messy as the plane was doing turns, but it was double way points, so we had a little mountain tour
So I did a direct to another waypoint which solved it, cutting out the double waypoints.
Just after the MOSS Waypoint It was quite hairy but I was following the chart. Close to the terrain. Wing Flex looks really good, I can’t vouch for its authenticity however.
And switching from FMS to VOR, to capture the ILS, Radios tuned manually, did not set the course as at this point it was getting laggy. But as you can see form the Picture it is spot on the ILS 2 RED 2 WHITE… Perfect.
Here is a shot of the Chart for KJAC
As you can see the flight plan has what I call an overlapping waypoint the DNW VOR, but I did not need to go to that, and I was able to remove it in the FMS,
Here is a tracked shot of my flight from the sim, and as you can see it is pretty much spot on, I did not need to suddenly jump into heading mode or anything, LNAV worked very well, the only thing I did was control height via VS, the Auto throttle even worked really well.
All safe and down:
Flight STATS:
In Summary I would say, this is really good, I feel you need charts to help you with Vertical navigation, but it works quite well. I can’t really comment on the flight model as it is a tad to laggy, but it was ok to manually land, but I took it right down to the minimums before I took over.
If they keep working on this, it will be a truly wonderful add-on, but they need to really work on it and fast to. The FPS issue needs addressing I feel above all, then VNAV and also so more detail in the FMC for pre-flight and landing and/or a tutorial for what we have. I sort of fumbled my way around it, and I might have missed it, but there needs to more documentation on it so far.
Overall I love it, and I would love it more if the FPS was solved, the FPS issue is not absolutely a show stopper, but I find it hard to live with. I really hope it is fixed ASAP.