There are still many bugs, such as after starting the engine, the engine hydraulic pump is still not working; when modifying the flight plan, MCDU black screen, another MCDU screen freezing, etc.
In my opinion the silence is because they fixed a lot of (smaller) bugs (i didn’t even know existed) but nothing seems to have changed regarding the A300 beeing a ressource hog…
I would have expected to read some feedback about that somewhere. Not reading about it makes me fear that everyone gave up on it (the performance i mean. Aircraft is still cool to me…)
whats the difference between PAX and LOAD? i assume PAX is the actual number of people on the plane? what is LOAD then? does PAX include their luggage?
This patch fixed my biggest remaining issue with throttle calibration and I’m a happy camper. Now if they could just make time acceleration wok I’d be a happier camper.
I did a test flight in the new update yesterday, had to recalibrate my throttles etc. Only thing I did notice was that the speed hold knob became unusable when trying to set a manual speed on approach. Like it was jammed in profile mode. Only thing I could do was disable IAS hold and tweak the power manually which was a pain being 30 odd NM out from the field.
I’ve noticed this too. Turning it will still tune speed from what I’ve noticed. Just appears to be visual bug. When I press DH button it disappears and reappears when I unselect it.
I had read in the forums that iniBuilds does not support time acceleration with this aircraft, and that folks had found fuel and oil consumption don’t increase with time acceleration (fuel consumption continues at 1x speed even if the sim rate is 2x or greater).
I found an additional issue with time acceleration last night. On autopilot at 2x speed, the aircraft developed pitch oscillations that increase to +/- 200-300 feet per minute vertical speed. I was planning to ignore the fuel/oil consumption issue and use time acceleration anyway, but the pitch oscillations were so great I had to stay at 1x speed.
iniBuilds said they may add support for time acceleration in the future. They were non-committal and didn’t provide a timeline. They also don’t provide refunds, and I didn’t see anything in the product description about not supporting time acceleration, so buyer beware if this is a limitation that would matter to you.
Yup, the fact that some people don’t use time acceleration (and some of those seem to get oddly offended by its existence) is no reason for a payware aircraft to not support it for the rest of us. It’s been pretty standard as long as I can remember in flight sims.
It’s something in the core of their code, I guess. I suspect that they just can’t do it rather than they don’t want to. A310 has the same problem. Or at least last time I tried 2x acceleration I found it on the ground a couple of minutes later.