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| One thing that would be nice is an improvement in ils monitoring. If i fly a normal intercept to the ils, the instructor complains about me capturing the loc and being below the gs every 5 secs. The only way to fix this is to delay the landing mode. While flying the md80, the instructor complained about the flaps and gear being down during cruise. I normally configure my aircraft as i do in real world flying. When on a intercept heading, i configure for maneuvering flaps(15 in the md 80). I drop the gear when the gs breaks case and select flaps landing when the gs is a dot above. The instructor will bug me to death about the gear and flaps being down in cruise mode. Maybe you can add an approach mode that ignores flap and gear position. Even better if the program only monitors loc and gs after capturing them. I also flew the 767 and the program complained about me being close to stall when i was at the proper app speed. I wonder how the program decides stall speed. It also complained that i was too fast for landing while flying the md80 and md11. Can you give me the range that the program uses to decide if i'm too fast or to slow on landing? That would help me decide the proper stall speed to use for the current weight.
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| Hi Rich: Thanks for your post - very interesting to hear from a professional - appreciate your insight.  I would like us to be able to resolve the issues you raise, but I will start with some basic points that might put the FSFS design into context. One of the challenges we have is that FSFS is designed to be useful with any powered plane. Unlike a great number of add-ons, FSFS will work with any plane you happen to be flying, so long as it has an engine.  It's tricky to have it work with everything from the Wright Flyer to the A380, but we try our best. One area in which we are expanding of course is add-on packs that are able to go into a great deal more detail because they deal with a specific airplane. Last October we released the Cessna 172 Detail Pack and we will soon (in 2010) release the Boeing 737 Detail Pack. The experience the pilot has with the Boeing 737 Detail Pack will be very different from the standard experience of flying with FSFS. A great number of extra aircraft systems are monitored and the correct flying of that particular plane is what the instructors are looking for. As to your own experience with FSFS, I am a little puzzled by the "below GS" comments from the instructor as you should not be hearing this too soon. There should be no issues with declaring that you are going into landing mode a long way from the runway, but I will look at this and make sure of the parameters involved. If the aircraft is not specifically known to FSFS, and this means the name of the folder the aircraft is in has to exactly match what FSFS is looking for, then the speeds that FSFS is using are estimated from the FS2004 or FSX data that it finds when you start your flight, and this data varies in its formats which can make it tricky for FSFS to estimate reasonable values. Take a look at the aircraft data it has at the aircraft page in FSFS and see what you think. You can adjust these values and save them as user data as explained in the manual. At the moment, FSFS does not take into account all the variables such as air pressure and aircraft weight when estimating V speeds, flaps settings, etc. but we hope to do this soon.
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