I just purchased the fss 727 from marketplace, and I’ve got an issue with gps navigation. When I’m starting from cold-dark in some of the airports in mfs2020 (about 1/3 of all the airports I think), it will 100% trigger following bugs: 1. FD is not working/moving at all (no matter which mode I’m using). 2. Altitude selector can’t switch to 100. 3. The airplane is not following gps route (confirmed that the ap selector to NAV/LOC, HSI source select to GPS and it works normally, both radio navigation master switches are on). I have tested in some of the airports like RJFF (3rd-party) and KSBD and it will 100% trigger these bugs, no matter how many times I restart the game. On the other hand, other airports like ROAH (3rd-party) and NSTU will not trigger any of these bugs at all.
I try delete the WASM folder but no effect. Then I disable the community folder, problem sloved. So now I see the problem, that is the fss 727 has some conflict with other addons. After a whole night’s work (with the help of addon linker) I can remove some the the conflict addons, most of them are aircraft that not update for a while (like gotfriend’s free aircraft), old library addon’s (dave’s library), or free 3rd-party airport addons downloaded from flightsim.to. But there are too many of them, I can only identify a dozens of them and it will take me a week to identify them all ( I have 2800 addons in my community folder). The only good new is that all addons in official folder which I purchased from in-game marketplace are not conflict with fss 727. Do you have any good idea to deal with those huge amounts of addon conflict?
And what also confuse me is that why only the fss 727 has so many addon conflict while other aircraft does not?
What I would do is remove half of your community folder, if you no longer have the issues, then something in the half that you removed is the culprit, so swap that half back in and remove the other half, then working with the half that you copied back, remove half of that, and so on and so on.
Yes, I select 300 addons and use the same method to identify 20 addons that will trigger this bug. That’s way too much because I have like 2800 addons in total. And why other airplane addons don’t have such issue? I meant, I have like 40+ aircraft addons in my community folder, ranging from free aircraft from flightsim.to, to those popular one like FNX, PMDG 777, TFDI MD11, JF’s BAE146, and none of them are conflicted with those 2800 addons (mostly are airports, landscape, liveries).
I took the 727 for a spin last night, following the 1.0.8 update. I found it a joy to fly right from release but it really is a beautiful bird now. It definitely shows that, in spite of the ongoing stagnation of the ERJs, FSS are capable of some fine craftsmanship. The visual flight model is among the best in the sim — it just looks gorgeous.
Considering its price point, it has to be one of the best aircraft available. I hear complaints about performance but it’s not noticeably worse than the likes of the Fenix or PMDG 777 (unlike the FBW 380 and Ini 350).
Since the last FSS 1.0.8 update, I am getting regular CTDs with this plane.
Now also, for the past week, when I do manage to fly it, I get no nosewheel steering on rollout. Taxi out from the ramp was fine. Everything was fine before. Anybody else having similar issues? I really like this plane but I’m running out of patience.
Are you on their discord? There is a uninstaller (plus instructions) they have their. It fixed it for me. It basically makes it a completely clean install.
The passenger version for MSFS2020 will be released on Thursday 17/04 between 10:00 and 14:00 UTC. As soon as they fix a non-working APU in FS24 version it will be released for MSFS2024 as a free upgrade.
