This a huge help to me, I’m progressing through Career mode and have only done about five 737 missions so far and see the same thing with VNAV and not being able to transition to GS. GS will be armed but never goes active and I need to manually intervene to reduce altitude to catch the GS after passing above it on VNAV. Didn’t know this has been a thing since release, lol.
Don’t care for this current behavior but now can at least plan for it. Thanks!
This is exactly why this irritates me. I have a Commercial License including IFR of course and these types of details make your training impossible. If they really want this to be at least quasi realistic such items should be fixed… students think they are crazy but it is the simulation. This works just fine if you go from LNAV and Altitude Hold into the ILS/GS. Capture should be automatic and not involving punching a ton of buttons.
Anyone tried the other boeings like the 747. Are they affected too?
Have not heard anything on 747 just 787 and 737.
Did a testflight with the 747-8 that is included.
Guess what…. it had the same issue. GS capturing only if VNAV is disabled. The vertical diamond remains white and does not lock until you deactivate VNAV.
Yup. You know I have carefully researched this issue and I am pretty sure this is a BUG. Prior to the final release of SU4 I never noticed anything so it must not have been there. I also checked appropriate 787 references and it should be automatic.
I guess they have teams that work the aircraft in parallel to the sim itself and then suddenly put all the parts together for the SU.
I appreciate the legwork on the 747 as the more general the problem maybe the faster fixed but they seem short of staff. I believe the 747 and 737 share the AP in real life. When I was doing research I had the occasion to fly a real 747 simulator at NASA Aims in Mountain View California. I recall I had no idea where the ground was when landing… seems the pilot is looking up and a long way off the ground when the mains touch.
I somehow doubt, that there is any boeing plane at all, that comes by default (no marketplace vessel) in one of the msfs editions, that doesn’t share this issue.