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FSFlyingSchool Pilot
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Hi, i am a real world heavy pilot and i have a few questions about some of the features and the way it runs. Heres my background-t-33/t-1/c-141b/dc-10/g550.I was a heavy instructor and check airman. Ive flown the demo a few times and from my view i have a few questions. The first thing is auto-pilot use. I notice that if you have it on for 10 seconds it reduces your points. I have a couple thoughts on this. In the heavy world, you are trained to use the automation. It really becomes a factor during high workloads. Flying with out the auto-pilot will actually add to your workload. Imagine hand flying a complex departure. You have you eyes on the instruments watching your track, climb, airspeed and power. You also have to monitor atc and your fms. You are also staying ahead of the departure by constantly checking the sid. This would be a very high workload situation. Then throw in some weather and malfunctions. Now imagine if you had the auto-pilot and throttles on. Now it only takes quick glances to ensure that the auto-pilot/throttles are maintaining track, climb and speed. You can easily cross check the fms and the sid. You also have some free brain cells to monitor atc and your trusty co-pilot. In this situation, all that is left to do is punch buttons and twist knobs. In the real world, the auto-pilot is usually on above 1000ft. Some guys may handfly a little higher or they may turn on the auto-pilot a little lower.All depends on what they are doing and whats happening outside. I once flew from Germany to Jersey auto-pilot inop. It was a killer flight. In my world, my allowable flight period is reduce anytime the pitch axis of the auto-pilot is inop. The other thought is this. One of the critiques i gave guys during instruction and sim checks was to use the autopilot. Guys would really mess up a departure or approach while also dealing with a malfunction. You see all types of mistakes. I would find myself saying things like, if you would have used george etc... or if you would have used the auto-throttles. In the end i think the program shouldnt be as harsh in auto-pilot use. Maybe have a heavy mode that didnt factor the autopilot as much. Also would be nice if you got points for actually using it during high workload situations if its available.
The last thing is stall speed. Would be nice if there was a way for the system to actually know when you are too fast/slow for landing. I was told i was too slow while i was on the proper speed.
that was just a couple of concerns i had. seems that the program is more based on flying small planes during VFR.
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FSFlyingSchool Developer
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| Rich: Thanks for your interest in FSFS and for your detailed post - you raise interesting points.  The main reason we deduct 33% off the pilot's score if the AP is used is to prevent people getting great scores simply by operating the AP well. Having said that, it is of course true that skilled, effective operation of the AP is - well - a skill in itself, and indeed is more appropriate to the operation of a real passenger jet. The deduction of points for the AP has already been revised down on one occasion (it was originally a 50% loss) by popular demand and we are indeed considering lowering it again.  As to the stall speed - FSFlyingSchool should be doing this for you already. This is one of the data contained in the aircraft's profile in either an FSR or FSU file. At present, FSFlyingSchool does not take into account changing conditions such as weight, tempurature, pressure or even partial flaps when considering the stall speed and this may have influenced the results you saw. These are all things that we are working on incorporating into the program logic and hope to release in a subsequent version. All new versions have thus far been free to existing customers. FSFlyingSchool is an evolving product - we consiously decided to release the product as it was back in Dec 2006 and then continue to add from there. As a result, it does not do everything already - we are letting sim pilots enjoy it right now and get the benefits with each new feature we introduce! 
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