agreed. time acceleration is a must for long haul commercial jets. who here has enough free time during the week to complete an entire transcontinental flight at 1x speed?
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The pilots on Vatsim/Ivao being on Long Haul tours. They musnāt use time acceleration. I did some LH only overnight 
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Mate, Iām flying the flag for sim rate and it is a key feature for msfsā¦
Like a pilot said on here a while back on one of these threadsā¦
We are the suckerās replicating full long haul flights for free when others get paidā¦
Yesā¦
Itās a hobby
Same timeā¦
Itās a game at the end of the day and if we can utilize certain aspects to make it enjoyableā¦
Sim rate capability is oneā¦
For some reasonā¦
The airbuses are just simply not able to do them for some reason and Iām very intrigued to know what it is thats limiting the airbusesā¦
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I certainly donāt. Thatās why I donāt do long haul flights or even buy widebody planes. I did it once in B737 to get Frequent Flyer achievement and wonāt do it again. Took off in the evening, went to bed, landed in the morning next day.
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I think the general limiting factor is that the sim does not have its own autopilot tuning parameters for higher simrates, so a autopilot that is tuned for normal simrate will struggle at higher simrate as at 8x simrate you have from a flightmodel perspective only 1/8 of the framerate wich can lead to oscillations, thats why many addons limit to 2x to prevent oscillations on lower end systems.
I think the more robust solution is a mechanism to jump forward instead of acceleration (and deduct the used fuel)
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PMDG really has the gold standard system which automatically reduces the acceleration rate if it senses issues, in advance of turns etc. I recall they first brought it out when they released the 777 for P3D (or maybe the 747, whichever came out first). They smartly and correctly realized that many people would be more likely to buy and fly their aircraft if flying long distances was made more convenient.
Iād bet other devs could duplicate this if they prioritized it. Hopefully Ini figures it out soon.
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I hope they will optimize their aircraft to get better FPS - like PMDG for example.
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anyone know if an Air New Zealand, Qantas, or similar livery for this bird? Real or fictional
On takeoff i keep getting an aural warning just few seconds after leaving the ground, I didnāt get the exact words but seems like ātoo lowā
I canāt honestly figure out whatās the cause (to config is checked, slats and flaps at 15, trim set) i thought about passing the flaps speed before taking off but that comes sooner than vr using performance calculator
any ideas on what can be the alert and how to avoid it?
Try setting the DH to -5 before takeoff and then unselect it and see if that resolves it. Iām not in front of my computer at the moment to test that.
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thanks for the input, Iāll try and let you know!
that seems to work, did a couple test, dh-5 no alert and again with dh0 and alert was there again
is this standard and i missed some points in checklist/guides or is a bug?
thanks again !
Yes. It was (is) SOP in the A310, too.
Is the default VR view tilted about 20 degrees down or itās just me? I checked cameras.cfg and could not find a section for PilotVR camera definition. They didnāt do it?
As Nixon said, it is SOP. Hereās the snippet from the manual for cockpit prep:
I do recommend giving the manual a good look over, lots of info and easy to miss stuff the first few times reading it.
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If anyone is interested, I found a correct camera position for VR, so that eye reference point is aligned and the white ball is hidden behind the red one. Just add it to the end of cameras.cfg for both passenger and cargo models. Itās just a copy of the default cockpit view with new values for SubCategoryItem, InitialXyz and InitialPbh.
\Community\inibuilds-aircraft-a300-600\SimObjects\Airplanes\inibuilds-aircraft-a306r\cameras.cfg
\Community\inibuilds-aircraft-a300-600\SimObjects\Airplanes\inibuilds-aircraft-a306f\cameras.cfg
[CAMERADEFINITION.68]
Title ="Pilot"
Guid ="{8714c2d1-b44e-4828-ad5b-c65c5abe2251}"
Description =""
Origin ="Virtual Cockpit"
MomentumEffect =1
SnapPbhAdjust ="Swivel"
SnapPbhReturn =0
PanPbhAdjust ="Swivel"
PanPbhReturn =0
Track ="None"
ShowAxis ="YES"
AllowZoom =1
InitialZoom=0.306548
SmoothZoomTime =2
ZoomPanScalar =1
ShowWeather =1
XyzAdjust =1
ShowLensFlare =0
Category ="Cockpit"
SubCategory ="Pilot"
SubCategoryItem ="PilotVR"
PitchPanRate =20
HeadingPanRate =60
InitialXyz= -0.071335, 0.015504, 5.318042
InitialPbh= -1.032081, 0.788379, 0.816337
NodesToHide =""
ClipMode ="Normal"
BoundingBoxRadius =0.1
UITitle="TT:GAME.PANEL_CAMERA_PILOT_VFR"
TargetCategory="None"
CycleHidden=0
CycleHideRadius=0
ShowPanel=0
InstancedBased=0
NoSortTitle=0
Transition=0
PanAcceleratorTime=5
XYZRate=0.25
XYZAcceleratorTime=0
VarToggle = ""
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Does anyone know why the FMC stops talking to the autopilot. Just keeps flying circles around its self and doesnt want to follow nav track
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And does anyone know if they have removed the limitation for refueling in flight? You canāt use the panel state for ready for takeoff, because your fuel load canāt be changed. You canāt use FSiPanel to setup an approach, if for example like me, you start a long haul flight at a gate, fly the departure and then use FSiPanel to set up an approach on the STAR - you wonāt be able to change the fuel load to the proper amount. FSiPanel wonāt be updated to work with this aircraft unless this is fixed, and Inibuilds seems to refuset to do it because changing the fuel load in flight causes a brief engine shut down. To be honest, never was a fan of the a310 or this one - itās far too twitchy, too FPS limiting, and doesnāt handle like a top tier payware aircraft should. My experience with their scenery and this product is the same, poor performance and design that doesnāt allow basic features that other products like PMDG and Fenix allow. Sorry Inibuilds, when youāre paying this much for third party addons, we get the burger our way, not the way you tell us we should like it.
Thereās a known LNAV issue with 1.0.4 and theyāre working on a hot fix.
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YEs, Diretc to is broken right now. A pity. My fave airplane right now.
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