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Hi all,
I still cannot get any joy with the autothrust.
FLX settings are allways 10% lower than what they should be and i never get much more than 87%N1 in CLB mode.
I have my CH throttles set up in FSX controls, with them calibrated without a reverse zone in FSUIPC4. As the manual describes.
I have also noted the orange target mark on the N1 gauges are going to different settings on the left and right engines, when they should be the same.
I think the problem appears to be that the autothrust logic is not able to over rule the actual position of the hardware i.e my CH throttles. Also the blue commanded thrust mark never meets up with the orange target thrust mark for each of the setting, FLX, TOGA, CLB. I will have to ask a couple of friends of mine who are real world Airbus maintenance engineers, as am i but im not airbus rated, but i believe that when you select TOGA for example, the orange mark should be at 104% when TOGA is triggered the blue mark should then shoot round to meet the orange mark at 104% making the engines spool up to that thrust.
I hope a fix can be found for this and other problems, as of yet after owning this product since the day it came out, i have not been able to fly it once on successful flight. I'm sorry to ask but is a refund a possibility?
Regards
Stuart
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Performed another takeoff, this time using full TOGA, engines only achieved 72% as apposed to the commanded 104%, this was also without the weather programme ASE, just to see it it was that that was interfering.
Airbus X is confined to the "pending" addon bin for now, very sad.Regards
Stuart
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Hello folks
My auto thrust is not working atall,
During takeoff the engines will never reach the TOGA or FLEX thrust dictated to them i managed only about 85% during a FLX takeoff when i should have had 98%. when in the air the engines will also not reach the CLB thrust they are commanded to.
As i write this im trying to climb to FL230, the FMA is in SPEED (green) CLB (green) ALT(blue) NAV(Green).
The ECAM upper shows CLB (96.2%) but the engines are steady at 77%.
Throttles are both in the climb detente A/THR on the glareshield is selected (green light on).
Regards
Stuart
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Try moving your throttle from idle to full and back again before starting. Many throttles only send data when they got a different setting.
Part of it is a FSX problem, all jet engines spool up to high on start. 100% is however very very high.
Yes my throttles were cycled to idle, its the ususal FS problem during start up, but i thought most developers had got around this not seen it happen in a while.
Its definitely over 100% as the needle goes amber.
Regards
Stuart
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Hi all,
When the engines start, they start way to fast and do a rapid acceleration to 100% N1.
Stuart
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That's an amazing article, thanks for sharing the link!
But the few % differences that cause the problems in the article would be hardly noticable in FSX unfortunately. Where handling on the ground is kind of a joke in FS (we call it ice skating), rotation where the wheels are on the ground but the wings carry some of the load is not much better.
Hi Mathijs
I think were going a little to deep here, all i hope for the Aerosoft Airbus is some good solid numbers to fly with. I hate addons that leave you out in the cold in terms of Vspeeds and trim settings. It kinda ruins the whole thing.
A lot of addons give a rudimentary CofG or just the required trim setting for takeoff. Either or both will do.
Perhaps TOPCAT will do a performance file for the aerosoft bus, and all this will be taken care of!
Stuart
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We are closing in on an Release Candidate but got a few very difficult bugs to smash. One of them is very illusive and so far we don;t even know where to look. Last stages, always hard. Rest assured the whole team is on it full time now.
we also decide on adding a load manager, image attached. It's not complete because we still have to add a few things, like an indication how far the fuel load will take you, as a direct service to the less experienced customers this product is aimed at.
Hi Mathijs
Looks great, can wait for the Bus!!
Could Takeoff Weight Center of gravity value and the resulting stabiliser trim value be added to this takeoff sheet?
This is something developers often leave out, its kinda important! Often end up rolling down the runway and at Vr you pull the stick back and either nothing happens or you go like a space rocket!
Would be nice to have the correct values for a smooth departure.
Regards
Stuart
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Felt the need to add a bit more.
It has been my personal believe many people are taking this hobby too serious. Everybody who uses FS is role playing, we pretend to be pilots. Nothing wrong with that as role playing is the base for almost anything we do as a hobby. But I am not the kind of person who has seatbelts on my office chair. I don't call my wife in the intercom to bring me coffee. I got no problems with using the pause option. What makes me enjoy flightsimming most is easy explained in to things:
- The people (customers, friends etc)
- The way you ever expand your skills and knowledge. You can complete a shooter game but you can never complete FS.
Now we got previous products that we created and promoted that had a 'light touch'. Take for example one of the best selling scenery products Lukla. We promoted that with 'your first landing will not succeed' as a killer airport. Customers picked up on that very fast and started to land every kind of aircraft there, just to see if it could be done. Is that realism? Well yeah, the sim is okay, the aircraft are okay7, the scenery works. Did a 737 ever land on Lukla? No. Could it? Possibly yes, it would never get off again. But thousands of our customers tried it. Because it is fun. I did it, I liked it.
I also like to land the PMDG747 in crosswind and a 150 feet ceiling. And I even mutter 'please remain seated' etc etc for the none existing passengers.
I think Adras field will add to the role playing element for me, it has no preconceptions of a real airport, it can be how i want it to be.
We need German Airfields part 11 to give us some local airfield to fly to and from Adras.
Stu
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Not I am not at my desk so I do not have all documents, but I do not think you calculate trim settings because all stabilizer trim is fully automated in normal conditions. But you will need to (or rather you can) enter the weights and they will be used to calculate the FLEX settings. The whole preflight is pretty realistic, we only skip the fake INS things as those are just nonsense in FSX.
Hi Mathijs
The take off trim setting is not automatic, you need to manually set the stab trim, the figure in the real world is a function on the center of gravity, and usually presented to the crew on the load sheet. I hope some simple method of correctly setting the trim for takeoff will be provided for different C of G positions. This could be done via a load manager for example. Its very frustrating when purchasing a new addon, lite or not to find you have to guess important pre flight data.
Stu
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Yes, I think it will be better in most aspects (that's just because the Wilco one is older and based on FS2004 though). We do not try to match what they do in the MCDU totally though.
But to give an illustration, we are testing the flight model right now and just now I did a take-off at FLX setting, the retracted to CLB setting then and the throttle stayed in CLB setting until I was at flaps 2 for landing. Fully managed speed mode for the whole flight. We did find one bug (I got into overspeed with FSX turbulence) and we are looking into that one. Not counting the turb I never hit 1.05 G until touchdown. Very very smooth.
Mathjis
Thank you for that reply, just what i wanted to hear, i like to sound of smooth flight from takeoff to landing!
Will pre flight preparations be simple too? Will all the required V1/Vr/V2 speeds be provided and will it be simple to calculate Stabiliser trim settings for the take off weight? This is something that is often overlooked by developers, C of G and all that. Quite important, difference of speeding down the runway and needing pull right back on the stick to get her in the air, or, it turns into a space rocket because there's too much trim!
Stu
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Looks really good!
Will the functionality in terms of the autopilot/FMGS be comparable to wilco/feelthere's Airbus?
Rgds
Stuart
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Hello all,
I have recently had a problems with some addon scenery airports regarding the FSX ATC approaches.
Luxembourg is one such addon that gives me the problem, i can be approaching this airport in bad weather on an fsx IFR flight plan, but the only approach i get assigned is a visual one. There is no way to select ILS approach.
It is not a problem unique to the aerosoft addon, but i hope someone here has the answer
Many thanks
Stuart
Hello
Any ideas for the above problem folks?
I also had another problem with ELLX today, i was approaching in very bad weather conditions. Zero visibility, there were no runway lights on! It was daytime, but should the lights not come on for poor vis?
Regards
Stuart.
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Hello all,
I have recently had a problems with some addon scenery airports regarding the FSX ATC approaches.
Luxembourg is one such addon that gives me the problem, i can be approaching this airport in bad weather on an fsx IFR flight plan, but the only approach i get assigned is a visual one. There is no way to select ILS approach.
It is not a problem unique to the aerosoft addon, but i hope someone here has the answer
Many thanks
Stuart
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Hi folks
Just got the new GA3 bundle, very good scenery!
Just found that Paderborn has no radio comms tho! I flew from bremen to paderborn and paderborn/lippstadt would not appear in the nearest airport list on FSX ATC.
When on the ground the ATC window says no messages to transmitt.
Regards
Stuart
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My loose idea ive had for some time is that developers should look to design a whole flight expirience. What i mean is, take a real life aviation situation and design both the scenery and the aircraft to compliment it.
Aerosoft is well placed to do this as you design both scenery and aircraft.
Some examples,
A fokker 50 to go with Iceland X
A dash 8-100 and some Norway scenery like Iceland X (Wiedero)
Saab 340 and Scotland (Loganair) (There is some good scottish island scenery avaliable).
A BN2 Islander (oops someone did one
) and German airfields/Helgoland (I think Aerosoft missed a trick on this one and should of done the BN2 islander themselves!) 
Im sure there are many more!
This type of thing is good for Joe Thesimmer that doesnt have alot of time to sim. You dont need to think "where shall i fly to?" and the flights are fairly short,
Just a thought.
Stuart M