Starship

@Aaron-Anderson I wanted to tell you that I have struggled to touch down smoothly with this thing since release, but I followed your technique and focused on rounding it out and flying it on and I had the smoothest touchdown I have ever had in the Starship in MSFS 2024. So smooth I wouldn't have known it was on without the sound of the tires. @Black-Square and your tip about not holding off the nose told me I should fly that on too, and I managed to both remember and execute despite my giant idiotic grin after the mains. Left the greasiest streak I've ever put to pavement in real life or in the simulator, fantastic advice!

You may find it more useful to use the CDU tuning by clicking NAV, COM, or ATC on the left side of the CDU keypad. No decimals required, and even if you don't have the RTU's in 3-digit mode it works great. Neat thing about the NAV tuning is that you can enter the 3-letter identifier and it'll auto-tune the frequency, clutch in a "slam dunk" situation when you're scrambling single-pilot to prep when ATC is running at a high tempo.

Okay I use SI instead of the ingame ATC, so no problem. Good to know, didn’t saw that option in the EFB

I stick to medium, personally. "Realistic" is absolutely insane and exaggerates way too much, especially on approaches with light or calm winds. Medium is still a bit heavy but it's more manageable without wrestling with the yoke and pedals. I would speculate that "realistic" works better with heavies but I don't fly many airliners in sim. I've noticed less an effect with the greater inertia in similar conditions, so I picked the middle ground, if even medium feels a bit too strong.

Thanks @jmarkows Brilliant. Missed that part and its been driving me nuts lol

@Black-Square I bet dealing with the simulator is rather frustrating, particularly given all the hard work and attention to detail you put into your aircraft. I’ve just moved into 2024 from 2020. I liked 2020 as a sim but always found that night time was very very dark, it that representative in my opinion. Your aeroplanes are fantastic and I can’t wait to see what’s up next.

Well, I was able to complete a 2024 flight where I started cold and dark, loaded a SimBrief flight, tweaked the flight plan in the EFB, and loaded to avionics. I was able to do an RNAV approach with vertical guidance in bad weather. Although full disclosure, the first time I tried this flight, somewhere around the time the aircraft was due to catch the GS, the autopilot went crazy and crashed the plane by pointing at the sky all of a sudden. Not sure if I can reproduce that, needs more testing. Really appreciate this update, being able to follow full flight plans is a game-changer.

Thanks, I'll pass this along. I think it's mainly the AP he's interested in.

What part of setting it up are you having trouble with? Do you understand how to use profiles, and how to assign events to buttons? Everything SPAD is mostly documented with Youtube videos. Which is nice if you can find a video that matches what you are trying to do, but it can also mean spending hours wading through content on topics that is not exactly what you are looking for, and wasting time on videos that are no longer relevant because of later changes to SPAD.

I find my pop culture knowledge rather good for a 53 year old US citizen, but Laugh-In was before my time. Anyhow, to aid a little better, a certain password in the Starship is "BurtRutan"

I think I had this once when I was running up with an ambient temperature above 40ºC (104ºF). After the avionics bay overheated, the message was shown. After shutting the avionics down for some minutes, it cooled enough to resume operations and get airborne.

@HansRoaming said in checklist item: pitch/roll/rudder trim set to 0 (neutral): I thought it meant numeric 0. Maybe putting pitch trim all the way down to 0 helps with taxiing in some fashion? Part of my confusion stems from this video: https://youtu.be/lGYOBP8VFVA?si=rry5RAripGu-FQrs&t=192 At 3:12, Nick calls for checking the trims, and Emanuel looks at them and responds "trims are neutral" with pitch trim in the default middle position, and Nick continues the checklist without commenting on that. But I'm not sure how much this means, because even if it's really supposed to be moved down to 0, Nick might've just decided to avoid slowing down the pace of the video for something that was unlikely to matter.

Awesome, made the change, hopefully now the MSFS updates have come out then 1.12 will be released soon.

This was helpful! Thank you!

fixed in SU3

I primarily tune in frequencies through the CDU. I notice that it is impossible to input a comms frequency in the recall field. Not sure if there is perhaps a logic in that, so the RTU and CDU don't "fight" over that field, but if that is the case, I wonder why the yellow arrow still appears - seemingly indicating that the LSK can be used to input the frequency in that field.

@MarkS said in If you're doing a world tour.....: I'm on leg 25 of this massive world tour, available on flightsim.to. It did not include a stop on Reunion, but flew right past it so I added it, as well as a stop in Antarctica. [image: fa09f856-73ae-43a3-bdac-9d3c37af2e14.png] https://flightsim.to/file/93601/around-the-world-flight-plan All these places and still skipped Hawaii...

Oohh...system.cfg... voltage curves... so that's how that works. I was looking all over .xml files trying to find some reference to 26 So maybe when the simvar gets the voltage number, it's starting from the left of the curve and finding the 0:26 entry first and setting capacity to 0? And there's some (undocumented?) behavior in MSFS that says "0 remaining capacity is automatically 0 volts," even if the voltage curve says 0 should be 26? But if that's the case... Yep, tested it and Recharge Batteries disables external power too! (I should note I've only been trying it in FS2024)

I checked again and ran the trig for different altitudes and was completely unable to paint the ground in MAP or WX mode regardless of the tilt. This seems like a shortcoming, I have on occasion at night with heavy rain tilted the radar down so the bottom of the beam catches ground at the edge of the display range. This helps identify a lower detection plane for the radar. For instance is I set the radar to paint the ground at 100 nm and the aircraft is ~30000ft AGL then at 50nm the bottom of the beam is 15000ft etc. Every tilt from -1 to -12 resulted in a dark screen for trying to get any sort of ground return