Agreed. The avionics on Xplane are superior; the G1000 is fully working and documented, the Zibo 737 has a great fms
Xplane native is weak on flight planning though. Feel free to shoot that down ha ha
Just seen the roadmap. We’re looking at a FOUR MONTH wait for this to be fix (end of Feb). This really is a beta version atm.
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Ah, that Reddit articles claims that having a trim wheel axis can screw up the AP to trim massive climbs or dives of 6000 ft/min.
The Logitech AP has a trim wheel axis I think, or it might just create up/down events.
Cancelling the AP I have noticed massive pitch trim on the small planes - it takes several seconds of manual trim on the yoke to fix it.
Possibly the Logitech AP trim wheel is an issue.
However, are you all getting very tired of working around the bugs and odd behaviour? I am.
If you have any kind of axes mapped to any trim you will encounter massive reactions going out of AP.
The AP will have moved the trim in order to follow course, height etc. but your trim axes are stuck where you left them when turning trim on so when switching AP off there will be a violent reaction on the plane.
Is that a “bug” then?
The article said use Up/Down buttons and remove the trim axis.
No it is not. IRL the trim wheels are motorized and keep up with AP movements. We dont have that.
Up/down buttons are just single or multiple keypresses so when you go out of AP there are no discrepancies between APsetting and the before AP engagement status of trim.
I hope Abby coming fix includes improving the flight directors, currently they are absolutely useless…
https://forums.flightsimulator.com/t/flight-directors-in-all-aircraft-verging-on-useless/297052
The new Honeycomb Bravo Throttle Quadrant has a trim wheel, and Asobo/MS have said that full native support for that one will be part of the next patch.
For that wheel to work correctly – given the fact that it’s not motorized – it would have to have no min/max positions and send discrete up or down events when turned by the user. So I suppose that’s what it does.
Standard axis levers with min/max positions will never work well as trim controllers for the reason you mention.
I’m flying the A320nx manually, AP and A/T off.
Manual trim down on the yoke is immediately cancelled by the fly-by-wire to a very slight pitch up. The trim wheels move slowly towards me. Why is this?
It seems to be impossible to manually trim for level flight.
EDIT: Using Honeycomb yoke and Saitek AP panel.
Exactly…lige mine ord. Ups glemte engelsk.
@TaurineCorn668 Not sure on the specific MSFS implementation of the Airbus FBW system, but in reality you do not trim the aircraft at all. It is design to maintain 1.0g at all time.
If you raise pitch to say 5° and hold it for a second to allow the G to settle at 1.0 it should maintain this pitch when the stick is released.
Again, I’m not sure if this is working correctly.
That’s the conclusion I came to. I can get close to level flight, or a slow VS, using small yoke movements for a second or two. Manual trim is ignored.
Sounds like it sort of works as it should then, trim should have no effect at all.
I am having issues with the AP where, when adjusting the VS or Alt it will…best way to discuss this would be adjusting ALT up it will just start climbing on it own a high rate. Has anyone seen this?
My G1000 map display freezes when trying to enter waypoints. Can anyone else try entering “LAM” as a waypoint for me? Whenever I get to the M it just dies…
Not sure if it’s just specific waypoints that’s causing it.
ATC gives an ILS approach, you enter it and activate the approach. Instead of taking you to the waypoint directly, it makes a u-turn, and flies from a spot USR to the last waypoint and then to the ILS waypoint.
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In a sense I’m happy to see that all what I observed in the sim is confirmed by other users. Initially I thought I was not able to make it working as expected.
Clearly, as mentionned by several contributors, the sim is hardly usable in IFR mode. I counted on it to complete my IFR training as we are not allowed to fly these days, but bad luck, it will be for next time, next release, maybe.
Eric
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I find it quite usable. To really make sure you don’t get into problems, momentarily switch to HDG mode before changing the flight plan. If the sequencing is not as you expect (like when it loops back to a previous waypoint), quickly clean it up, and when OK, switch back to NAV mode. But even without doing this, the Garmin often functions fine.
If I select ‘FPL’ on the right-hand side Garmin display in the DA40 NG both screens freeze up after the latest update.
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@LeTrigg & @FloydriXB Are you both using Navigraph navdata? This is a know issue since update 6 I think. They don’t know why, yet if you remove their data, it no longer freezes.