FSX Fleet

[EHM-1703 Philip]

Hi guys, As no doubt you will have seen, Robert released the first batch of FSX planes today. If you have any comments or questions regarding them, please post here so we can keep all the information in one place.

Many thank.

[EHM-2186 Darren]

The saab2000 cannot reduce throttle to idle

[EHM-1703 Philip]

Hi Darren,

I don't profess to be an expert on this aircraft but.....

The Saab 2000 is one of the most powerful turbo props ever built. At Idle with the props set for normal flight the aircraft will creep as it would in the reel world, you need to adjust your Prop condition on the throttle panel to stop the plane from creeping. In the real world I believe the blade pitch is altered when idle so the blades are generating virtually no forward thrust or propulsion.

Hope this helps.

[EHM-1671 Ben]

To ignite this thread again, I just installed FSX on my computer and downloaded and installed our A320. It has no virtual cockpit and therefore is essentially unflyable in FSX since FSX has no place for 2D panels. I have not tried other aircraft but I would suspect other planes like the 767-300 wouldn't be operable since it has no viritual cockpit either... do we have a solution for this?

[EHM-1821 Javier]

there are 2D panels for all the aircraft, all i think are aliased from FSX default aircraft, its a shame that there arent good panels for them yet on FSX :[

[EHM-1703 Philip]

Ben,

Sorry, but we are limited to what is being supplied by Freeware developers for FSX at the moment it is not something we can just bolt on or add to the aircraft ourselves. There are very few Airliners that are complete with Virtual Cockpits for FSX yet.

I don't understand why FSX is is "essentially unflyable" with a 2D panel? Using the 3D Virtual cockpits have a massive hit on frame rates on FSX. To prove this, press [SHIFT] [Z] to bring up the FPS data and try the default 737-800 with the virtual cockpit, then switch to 2d view. I get on average 7-8 FPS better performance with the 2d panel. Also, please remember that the default aircraft use very basic cockpits also, once you start adding 3rd party features and guages, these frame rates will slow even more.

[EHM-1671 Ben]

Hi Phil,

Ooops - my mistake! I didn't know that there was a 2D view (when I cycle through the views there is only a virtual cockpit, no 2D) and when there was no virtual cockpit in the EHM planes, I couldn't find a panel so to me it was unflyable. I'll have another try with the aircraft now

[EHM-1703 Philip]

Ahhhh I see, let me know if you have any troubles as we are all still learning with FSX!

[EHM-1001 Robert]

For first try I could not find it either...then accidentally pressed the right mouse button, and wee...a popup menu appeared, where I could select the 2D panel.

As many keys remained the same with FS2004, I expected other things to work too the same way. But they just do not

[EHM-1671 Ben]

Well, sure enough, tried both the A320 and the 767 again last night. Both had great 2D panels... looking forward to flying some more with them

A question about the A320's flight dynamics: when I pull the stick back to rotate on takeoff, it 'noses up' well but all of a sudden it will thrust its nose in the air, and I have to push the stick forward to keep it from pitching too high. After a few seconds of holding the nose down to maintain 10 degrees, the plane will begin to dive and I have to pull the stick up to keep the plane from crashing into the ground. It fluctuates like this until I switch on the autopilot... anyone experienced this before?

[EHM-6861 Hunter]

I experience the exact same thing, but the otherway around with the Beechcraft 1900.