Starship

I think I've talked myself into this working as designed. The progress page reports the distance from your aircraft to the first waypoint, and the distances between subsequent waypoints. If you are flying away from the first waypoint, all of the distances will increase, which is what I saw the other day. In that case though, I was flying away from the first waypoint and towards the second, which caused a little cognitive dissonance (why is the distance to the waypoint I'm flying towards increasing, not realizing until later that the distance is not the distance to the next waypoint, it's the distance from your aircraft to the first waypoint and then the second).

I figured it out, system control -> GNS -> Nav source -> FMS1

**Typo above ^ I meant to say RNAV 0.3 for the AMS-850 but LNAV only and definitely not RF capable. My b.

Tips I've found if you want to keep your avionics bays as cool as possible. Turn on the ALTN and leave it on. As soon as you have the engines lit: Bleed air valves to Both Temp mode to Auto CKPT and CABIN Blowers all the way up Turn the CKPT temp all the way down (the inner knob) Set the Cabin temp so that the Temp Mode Target on the Cabin page on the tablet shows 70 degrees or whatever you want the cabin temp to be. turn on the lights master and turn down the displays (less heat) You can have those bays in the green most of the time doing those things. If your cabin temp won't stay with the set temp (Temp mode target on the Cabin page on the tablet will turn red) then turn the bleed air valves up to High Flow.

@CapVideo They seem quite random, but are fairly frequent with ILS still... Haven't gotten a chance the last bit but hoping to do more testing on it to find any common scenarios at least. Thanks!

Just noticed this today - fuel burn goes way down at higher sim rates. I'm at 36k feet right now with my fuel flow showing at 250 pph per side at 1x sim rate. If I turn it up to 4x it goes down to 226 pph and 8x goes down to 160 pph. I do use sim rate quite a lot for long cruises - I'm flying the Starship around the world right now.

Maybe I have seen a similar issue (but on SU4 beta, don't know if that plays probably a role) I was on a course which had sth like a wide rectangle path. [image: 87f4610b-0448-436f-81e3-df107cac48df.png] Original active leg was from the left position to 1 (note: its just for illustration. "1" was not the first WPT on the plan) Then I set a direct-to to 3. What happened then was, that the leg from 2 to 3 got magenta. And the Starship was flying a course like the direction from 2 to 3. But not heading to the leg or to 3. What I would have been expecting was, that it steers at this point directly to 3, maybe "illustrated by a magenta line from PPOS to 3?! But no line was drawn, just the active magenta leg from 2 to 3. I then made a direct to to 4, leg 3 to 4 got active and Starship was flying to that leg. Mysterious ...

Oh okay. Maybe it's a case where my references are too old and the starships you modeled this after behave differently? But yeah the other stuff I mention was fixed so thank you for that and sorry, it's just the manual boot tests are not displaying and extinguishing the various messages.

@OrangeAnon Thanks so much, this has fixed my issue! I might give in and use something like mobiflight in the future. For now I'll just accept the quirks of the native MSFS way.

[image: 0f68280a-aa93-4bdf-9527-e502c8fab584.jpeg] I had to take a screenshot from a video I took at USNA while visiting my son there. Across the water from the years, you can see the three remaining VLF towers. Sorry. It was a drizzly day.

I've had another AP coupled VOR approach fail. This approach had a standard teardrop intercept, so I set NAV2 on the outbound radial and NAV1 to the inbound radial. As I approached the IAF I activated NAV2 as the source and pressed NAV. She coupled to the outbound radial and flew it beautifully, Using HDG mode at the completion of the outbound I set up a standard 30-degree intercept to the inbound radial, changed the Nav source to VOR1 and pressed NAV. It flew right through the radial without intercepting, so I finished the approach manually.

The whole bundle, it's cheaper than buying them separately

@piosto All good

Yes, it’s as simple as replacing a single file. It has the words “gauge glass” in the name. Sorry, I’m not at my desk right now. If you can create a blank or modified .dds (2020) or .kxt2 (2024) file, you could just drop the file in the aircraft’s texture folder for yourself. The more “correct” way to do this in MSFS is to create a mod, which is loaded in your community folder. If you’ve never done this before, it can be a little tedious to set up, but for anyone familiar with the process, it will only take a couple minutes.

Thanks for the quick response! I shut the sim down and restarted it, the issue disappeared and systems now operate normally and the Hobbs meter works now. Go figure. Thanks for the great aircraft!!!

Thanks for the screenshots! That always makes troubleshooting so much easier. I’m glad to hear you’re enjoying Starship. She will always be my favorite. Everything looks like it’s configured correctly. This might sound like a silly question, but what weather are you looking for on the horizon? I’ve seen many users who are not aware that weather radar only detects precipitation, and not clouds.

Anyone know if this question has already been answered somewhere? If so, please link…