F28 Professional

It’s a wonderful aircraft, but I’m unable to fly it in VR because of the cockpit proportions. I hope Just Flight may fix this in the future. None of their previous aircraft had issue like that.

I also noticed that changing the viewpoint helps in VR, but unfortunately it doesn’t change the fact that the cockpit proportions are incorrect.

Hey any news about this. It is the most annoying thing about the F28.

I agree with the above mentioned points. I must say, i usually just excused the erratic AP behavior to it being so old and therefore less accurate but i believe thats something only a real world F28 pilot could comment on. With that being said, i have also noticed that in some occasions (maybe 40% of the time) the G/S of the ILS also oscillates and the AP has difficulty following it especially the closer you get to the runway. Again, i just excused this as the AP being old and less accurate since the margin of error gets smaller the closer you get to the runway it would make sense that a old AP would have difficulty following the GS. Maybe its intentional by JF or a bug. Regarding the speed, i set the power to HP RPM to 80% and let it descend at a speed of 280-300 and pull it idle around 12000 feet to let it slow to 250kts or less. I usually descend at 2000fpm. After 250kts its a bit more tricky to get the aircraft within the 200kts range to drop the flaps. Either i reduce the V/S to 1200-1500fpm or just extend the Speed brakes. But then again, who knows if thats accurate behavior or not. I do feel that the UNS-1 could get a little more love considering the F28 costs 70$ and is in the same price range as the Fenix, PMDG, TFDI, etc... So many features are missing which would be included in the real counterpart. I would say its probably modelled around 60% of the real one. Just the DTO page alone looks so plain compared to the real one. [image: 9c29a2be-53d5-4289-b05f-c3f7702f5a31.png] [image: 63477a02-d330-464f-9fcc-33ca20e1b334.png] Ive been told the F28 should be getting a update later this year but i have my doubts that any major features will be added considering this is the state of the aircraft after almost 3 years. I guess we can only hope. Kind Regards, Leon

Thank you for the feedback. We'll log that on our internal trackers to investigate ahead of the next update to the F28 Professional. Mark - Just Flight

I believe we only simulate direct hold entries in the UNS-1. Mark - Just Flight

Thank you for your reply! I think the dimming button you are thinking of is for this panel here. [image: 1726f8f6-2eca-473b-9504-2b715b7ef1e9.png] I was talking about this light down here. [image: e02f6f4c-96b2-45a1-94d5-f03130aba3ea.png] Also there is the same issue with the APU light. [image: c6af9667-3755-4525-8a5f-92b47805538e.png] Regards, Leon

The 'small wing' F28s (-1000 and -2000) didn't have polished leading edges - they were painted the same as the rest of the wing and lower fuselage. As modelled here by PH-MAT/VH-FKF, which was #7 off the line: https://www.aussieairliners.org/f-28/vh-fkf/vhfkf.html I believe it became the norm at the factory to polish the leading edges on the 'big wing' (-3000 and -4000) F28s, but some operators didn't bother with the increased maintenance and painted them or let them go matt. The black ice detection strips on the leading edges became common (possibly mandated in some countries?) after the Dryden Air Ontario crash (plus several other incidents through the F28's life caused by undetected/ignored wing icing). Not all the livery makers get this right - most of the -1000 liveries still have the polished leading edges with the ice strips. Sometimes they change the albedo texture but not the base texture (leading to a very matt-looking grey) and (more often, in my experience) they correctly copy the real-life paint colour but don't change the albedo file, so you get 'wet look' shiny leading edges. For my own virtual F28 fleet I've got a stock of texture and albedo files that I copy/paste to get the right look. I love the F28 for its 1960s/70s retro character, so the polished leading edges on a F28-1000 just don't sit right!

Any update on this?

@Mark For those of us on Xbox, everything is such a pain and so restricted. Being able to update the UNS-1 database right from the FMS or the tablet would be perfect and would make it feel so much more real. Hope you guys don't take forever!

Thank you for the kind words. I will be sure to share them with the rest of the team. Mark - Just Flight

@joncoughlin Just curious, did you ever figure this out? I'm currently working on the same issue, using Axis and Ohs. I tried to use chatgpt to write an RPN script for the purpose, but probably because I'm not experienced with LLM prompts, I gave up after about a dozen non-working scripts. EDIT: Just to clarify, I'm able to control them with button presses, but I dropped some money on the ProDeskSim F28 levers, which includes the fuel valve levers, so I'd prefer to find a way to bind them to axes. So I can set the LVar to 2/off with the button at the bottom of the axis, and I can set it to 1 when that button is released, but I have no elegant way to then set it to 0. Too bad the Bravo doesn't have detents you can set as buttons, like the Thurstmaster Airbus quadrant.

I’m glad there are threads about this - i’m have the same issue with the Caravan Pro and the NDB 345.5 NWI - the KR ADF radio wont input the .5s - so annoying when trying to do NDB approaches at EGSH. I’m going to ask at my old flight training centre to see what they say.

@Mark Oh i see i'm even behind a F28 update. My white livery issues started with an update december/january. But because i didnt really fly it i didnt say anything back then. But will update both now then. Thanks