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ISSUE DESCRIPTION
Description of the issue:
Some planes are typically flown by two pilots. Others are usually flown by one. The carreer mode does respect this. E.g. the cessna c172 is flown alone, the Cessna citation longitude is flown by two.
But in Free flight you get a co pilot in the c172 - but no co pilot in the citation longitude. This is not logical. This should be fixed for immersion reason.
I guess the amount of pilots/copilots for carreermode and free flight is defined in the plane files? That’s why i posted in this subforum.
Please Mods, move the topic to the most suitable place.
FREQUENCY OF ISSUE
How often does this occur for you (Example: Just once, every time on sim load, intermittently)?
Always
REPRODUCTION STEPS
Please list clear steps you took in order to help our test team reproduce the same issue:
Compare presence of copilot in freeflight and careermode for several planes (e.g. the longitude should have a copilot in freemode as in career. In the c172 a copilot is rather optional)
Correct. The 2 conditions for the co-pilot to appear are: 1.define a co-pilot avatar in your profile, 2. add a co-pilot weight in the EFB. Hope it will work.
Good question indeed. I was wondering the same since there is always at least a pilot in the aircraft and usually upon spawning pilot weight is zero. Pilot weight should be setup by default. So I guess yes, you could add a weight to get aircraft correctly loaded.
What’s weird is that even if pilot weight is set to zero, avatar can be seen from external view:
Some planes in free flight do require to setup the weight of a co pilot in order to spawn it (longitude for example), others don’t (e.g. the talon jet - your copilot is in the back, even if the efb was setup with 0 lbs). This does not seem to follow any logic.
Also: I set up the longitude before flight with copilot and 8 passengers and saved the configuration. When I loaded into the flight only the copilot was present. I requested boarding, and the bus spawned. No one entered the plane and the passenger cabin stayed empty. I opened my efb and saw: My weight setup only used pilot and copilot weight and set all other passenger weights to zero.
