Project Airbus – Talk

Flyer10

Anyone got any idea why the master caution light comes on in the A330 during cruise? I have 100,000 lbs in the 2 wing tanks and it got down to 77,000 lbs and I get a caution light but nothing on the display. It cant be a tank running empty because I only filled up 2 wing tanks.

Flyer10

Well, I'd have said that it was a P3D bug, but it rather seems to be one related to the FMC or autopilot. I think theres a very narrow window where the CoG is ok, maybe it could be solved of the AP when to 2000 fpm climb or descent and then adjust from there. That could be why it happens more in th...

Flyer10

He'll probably post the new gauges on FSDeveloper or Avsim. No, XMLTools can't fix something like that. Any explanation why it went from messing up FLC about 50% of the time in V3 to being perfect 99% of the time? All I did was copy the folders and gauges over and change the xlmtools. Maybe the inc...

Flyer10

The developer of the XML config and XML sound gauge is aware of P3Dv4, so new versions are just a matter of time. That is great news, thanks for sharing. Can you post a link to where I would get these from, I already have the updated xmltools64 which is working fine. Francois, could the new xmltool...

Flyer10

I tried several flights and it worked even better on V4 than v3 which is strange. The bug where it would get stuck on plus or minus 700 fpm seems to have gone which is great. The only thing which is different apart from the missing sounds is that I have a blue check runway sign on take off even thou...

Flyer10

I know, there were 3 DLLs. The xmltools which was the major one which works, the callout one which doesn't work and the sound one which only seems to be needed for a few sounds. It's at 99%. I am not sure if anyone is capable of making new DLLs but I know someone is writing a 64 bit sound DLL for th...

Flyer10

Ok, I have the FDFMC working on 64 bit, theres only a few minor sounds missing like the click of the throttle detents, apart from that, it works fine. All Francois needs to to is include or link the 64 bit xml tools at http://fsdeveloper.com/forum/resources/xmltools64-for-p3d-v4-v1-0.197/ It may wor...

Flyer10

So the XMLTools64.dll has been released, can I just add this to the dll.xml or does Francois need to do something with the plane to make it work?

Edit - I tried adding the details to the dll.xml and it still did not work. I think I need some help from someone with P3DV4.

Flyer10

One more thing to make the cockpit more realistic. There is no GP/NAV switch in the real thing. It goes into NAV when the LOC or APP is pressed and would go back to GPS when the managed heading is set.

Maybe it could be applied to the APP button so its in NAV when lit but GPS when its unlit?

Flyer10

I´m missing the ILS capture option during approach to line up and the option for auto-land. Any chance to integrate this again? Maybe an interim soln to define FSX AP to the AP1 switch only and APPR button to AP2... How does the real A320 activate the lining up? Which buttons to be pushed? The App ...

Flyer10

One more thing will need to be changed, the callout_sound.dll will need to be updated for p3dv4. It's not bad that 2 dll's are the problem, one is going to be updated but is the callout dll critical or is it leftover and not needed like the other dll. Pretty amazing for such a plane, 90% of the v3 p...

Flyer10

Thank you, what about the loggerx dll? What does that do or will the xml tools dll be ok on its own?

Flyer10

It seems the FMC doesn't work in p3dv4, I am unable to enter anything on the keypad. All the calculations for climb, cruise etc work perfectly but I just cannot enter any numbers, so frustrating. There is a "0." at the bottom in red. Also the reloading image does not pop up but it does rel...

Flyer10

About P3dV4, it was said some planes would have trouble but xml planes should be ok. The very good news is that it seems all the gauges, sounds and everything else work fine. I haven't done a flight yet but everything seems ok on the ground.

Were there any problems expected moving to 64bit?

Flyer10

Were you doing the winglets or just doing the cockpit, I won't do it if its the latter. I think the auto way of doing it is weird too. A GPS would know if they were on the runway or not and I from what I read, most airlines don't use the auto switch but use it when lined up or crossing the runway. S...

Flyer10

Airbus auto mode means the strobes only come on when the plane detects lift-off, I believe they are optional while taxiing but turned off at night and in fog while taxiing but have to be turned on when crossing runways. Also, a very small thing, I though both AP weren't supposed to be engaged except...

Flyer10

I just got a PA update on FB asking if everyone is ready for an A350. Might be worth waiting on the FD A350 if this is true.

Maybe thats why the A330 has taken about ten years!

Flyer10

That looks nice, you've got rid of the course display. Have you managed to make the airbus do auto course as in real life? If not, how will the pilot know the course? I am not sure if you can do this, but can you change the click spot from the bottom right of the PFD to the terrain button? Good work.

Flyer10

It wasn't clear which plane it was, you just mentioned the sharklets which could have been ceo or neo and most people associate it with the neo. Anyway, users can update the ceo to the neo themselves as you only have to tweak the .cfg (and also the gauge to change weights) which is what I would do a...

Flyer10

The aircraft.cfg for the A320 will need to be updated to make it into a neo. - 15% less fuel burn - MLW 145,500 lb - MTOW 172,000 - MRW 172.800 - empty weight -3,748lbs higher for CFM, 3,968lbs, 3,968lbs higher for PW - thrust 27,000 lb - Fuel 24,210G Also, I think it would be good if you could work...

Flyer10

The strange thing is that it happened in the A32x a few times, once it unblocked fine within a minute, the other times I waited several minutes and nothing happened, I even turned around and landed and it was still blocked. I will wait at least 5 mins the next time it happens. I never noticed the en...

Flyer10

I've found a couple more bugs, The N1 always redlines on take off, even with the Flx set to 60 when 40 should be enough to keep it out of the red. Its like it has full TOGA all the time. Outside temp was 22c. Also, when using a high CI, the plane wont get to cruise speed at high FL even when empty. ...

Flyer10

The MTOW of the a330 is a bit off, it should be 533,519 instead of 513,677. The RR engines have a static thrust of 71,100. Also, will the 200 and F models be done in time or is it just the 300 you are doing? -- Edit, tried a short flight in the Lufthansa and it wouldn't let me enter a departure runw...

Flyer10

The aircraft.cfg is still in utf8, all you have to do is open it in the text editor and save it as ANSI. Make sure there's no .txt on the end as it saves it as aircraft.cfg.txt.

Flyer10

That's exactly what I do but proatc still lists the airport as 1625 for me. I have to run it as most of the afcads I download are because a new runway was built. Can you download the zuuu addon and see if its the same for you, you can look at the runways.txt and its wrong there for me. It should be ...

Flyer10

Its not the addon scenery, its the flight planner giving a different altitude, then the FMC uses that different altitude but I am still confused as to how the FMC can get 2 different figures. I am trying to find where the 1625 figure came from but I cannot, the bgl and it airac data are both 1779/16...

Flyer10

I think I have solved the problem, ZUUU listed as 1680 altitude. A FSC generated flightplan has this: <DestinationLLA>N30° 33' 11.970605",E103° 57' 0.000000",+001677.00</DestinationLLA> while the proatc flight plan has this: <DestinationLLA>N30° 34' 41.994451",E103° 56' 49.000000"...

Flyer10

Flyer10, I agree with Cambec55; I think that something is not correctly installed in your addon. I checked ZUUU stock airport and data are ok : The FMC only uses stock data even with addon airports or addon mesh, all addon airports will not work properly. The FMC is getting the data from the wrong ...

Flyer10

I suspect FMC is reading the default airport file but the map is reading the add-on scenery. I have checked the default file. 1625ft would have been correct when FSX was written. It's the elevation of the threshold of 20L. I think a new runway, 02R/20L was built and the threshold of 02R is at 512m ...

Flyer10

I think that's the file although I got it from avsim, good to see its been confirmed on another computer. Its not an addon error either as it happens on just about every addon airport although its usually under ten feet so results in either a little float or a slightly hard landing.

Flyer10

I don't think its the mesh, the elevation figure is the default airport height, the map figure is the add on airport height. The map figure is correct but I believe the aircraft gets its data from the elevation figure so the plane would dive into the runway with an autoland. I think the map figure n...

Flyer10

here you go. http://www.fsfiles.org/flightsimshotsv2/images/2017/04/12/Untitled.jpg 1625 in the elevation bit 1680 in the map. Most are off but only by a few feet so it doesn't make too much difference but landing there would either result in a big float or no flare at all on autoland. I use freemes...

Flyer10

Use simple airport scanner and that will find duplicate afcads, I know 100% its not the problem in my case. I only ever have 1 addon afcad and of course the default which you cant get rid of.

http://www.scruffyduck.org/simple-airpo ... 4584282795

Flyer10

Just made an exemplary comparison on two airports with A320_IAE, where I know, that the airport altitude has been changed due to the new addon scenery vs. FSX default (here ORBX FTX NCA in KMRY, ORBX FTX SCA in KBUR). The pink elevation corresponds to the new addon scenery´s airport altitude which ...

Flyer10

FMC use destination airport altitude provided by the FSX GPS. FSX GPS get this information from current AFCAD in function in the SIM. So, even if it is an ORBX airport, destination altitude info must be right. You can check destination airprot altitude in the DESTINATION page title If you get issue...

Flyer10

FMC uses the default airport altitude. One improvement option would be to manually fill the individual airport altitude (acc. to the used individual airport scenery) in an additional framed box in the CRUISE or DESCENT window. The FSX/P3D default value should be automatically set by default and opt...

Flyer10

Hi to me A320 1.59 seems ok. I made LIRF-LIMC without any problems to report. The only issue that I still have is about 0 ft elevation in A321 1.59! I don't know what's going on in this aircraft I have tested the a318,319,320 and the elevation has been ok, once it was about 50 feet off so I hat to ...

Flyer10

The prob is the aircraft.cfg, which has been written with the notepad (MS language prob). There is a workaround, so I hope Francois will improve this in the next A330 beta release. Its saved as UTF while all my others are saved as ANSI, I think its just a matter of re saving it in the correct forma...

Flyer10

A330-300 1.58: Just discovered a strange problem: After installation all 3 aircraft are displayed in the FSX menu as expected and one of them can be selected and started. If I terminate the sim and then relaunch the sim again, no A330 aircraft is displayed anymore in the FSX aircraft menu. They sim...

Flyer10

I will do several flights for each plane over the next 5 days. If there's any bugs, I should be able to find them! Edit - 3 flights in the A318 - First flight, the 107nm descent at FL390 had me a bit worried at the start and it wasn't enough to get me down in time. I needed several minutes of speedb...

Flyer10

I tried the updater but just get a "starting error" message, although that might possibly be because I don't have the 319, 320, 321 CFM models installed.

Flyer10

Good news, that seemed to work. It keeps the FP in memory on a reset whereas before a reload/reset didn't and reset it to zero. The destination matched exactly where before it was always a few feet off in .55 and of course didn't work for me at all in .57-.58 I haven't flown it yet, I will try that ...

Flyer10

I reset the plane in .55 because the FMC takes the destination info after the plane is reset, you can start the plane and the FMC is updated when the flight plan is added. That does not happen in .58. In .58, you have to have the flight plan loaded before the plane, resetting the plane will delete t...

Flyer10

Yes, procedure 1 is not possible for me. I need ATC to give me the take off runway, SID and other things. Procedure 2 results in the destination altitude being 0. .55 had no problems at all in this regard, (the info updated as the FP was loaded, despite what you say, it worked!) all it needed was a ...

Flyer10

Yes, the eye view was in the nose cone. I prefer the A32x cockpit. The behaviour is exactly like the A32x, the elevation stays at zero if the flight plan is loaded after the plane. If the flight plan is loaded before the plane, the elevation will be that of the destination airport. I think that rule...

Flyer10

I had no VC in all 3 a330s, I was waiting for someone else to report it in case I did something wrong.

There were no installation instructions, did we just have to put it in the airplanes folder?

Flyer10

Are you really sure, that you have installed at first the files from panel 1.57 and then 1.58? The update 1.58 is not commulative to 1.55! A simple check e.g. for A320_CFM: Go into your panel.A320CFM folder and check the date from A320_CFM.CAB file, which should be from 14.03.2017. I had the proble...

Flyer10

François this point is what i did. I created a flight plan and then launched A320 v1.55. Elevation was as expected (360ft). I shutted down fsx. I created again the same plan and launched A321 v1.58 this time and elevation was 0 ft. I flown the A321 with that plan. Everything was ok but radioaltimet...

Flyer10

Hi i tested again with your last update but still I have 0 elevation. Here what i did. I preview A321 1.58.. then I load the plan and start the game. Arrival elevation is 0. But if i switch to A320 (still 1.57) the elevation comes right. And switching back to A321 i still have the right elevation (...

Flyer10

As I said before, clearing the data will result in every elevation being zero because the gauge takes the elevation of the landing airport on the plane load rather than when the flight plan is loaded. I think it will break it for everyone. Another question I'd have is, has anyone completed an autola...

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