Tonight I flew the Boeing 737 Max from KSAN to KLAX starting from cold and dark on XBox Series X. I was able to go through most of the startup sequence without too many problems but here are the problems I encountered on this airline flight in Southern California.
- “I could not use the EFB in Cursor mode in the cockpit. I could not click on EFB options with the cursor.”
I was able to go directly to the pad and point click on options though with the white dot. But I could not use Cursor mode on the pop up EFB.
- “There was no ATC option for a ground services pushback from gate 27 at KSAN.”
Though ATC worked for ATC Taxi clearance. I did get a pushback via a button sequence bound on the XBox controller though.
- “In flight stuttering was very bad.”
Once in flight toward LAX, the graphics would only update every 5 seconds. In other words, it was frozen for 5 seconds, then it would refresh graphics for 1 or 2 seconds.
- “I lost all instruments mid flight.”
First the instruments blacked out, then all of the instruments greyed out perhaps 15 or 20 minutes into the flight. So I flew the remainder of the flight in external mode.
- “The Sim Crashed to Desktop (CTD) upon final approach to runway 25 R at LAX.”
Important Note: I did use external view a few times during startup from Cold and Dark. I never used slew or drone camera. I avoided slew and drone camera as I know those cause stuttering. Plus, Airport Traffic was turned on.