@Black-Square Fair enough Nick, thanks for the insights 👍🏼 Cheers James

@Black-Square the above posted profile looks pretty good to me. Can you comment on the selection of aircraft capabilities. Currently i think it should be something along the lines as what's shown here (remove rnp without gns430, and gps without gps enabled in fms) PBN: Enabled Indicator Description Y A1 RNAV 10 (RNP 10) N B1 RNAV 5, all permitted sensors Y B2 RNAV 5, GNSS Y B3 RNAV 5, DME/DME Y B4 RNAV 5, VOR/DME N B5 RNAV 5, INS OR IRS N B6 RNAV 5, LORAN N C1 RNAV 2, all permitted sensors Y C2 RNAV 2, GNSS Y C3 RNAV 2, DME/DME N C4 RNAV 2, DME/DME/IRU N D1 RNAV 1, all permitted sensors Y D2 RNAV 1, GNSS Y D3 RNAV 1, DME/DME N D4 RNAV 1, DME/DME/IRU Y L1 RNP 4 N O1 RNP 1, all permitted sensors Y O2 RNP 1, GNSS N O3 RNP 1, DME/DME N O4 RNP 1, DME/DME/IRU N S1 RNP APCH Y S2 RNP APCH with baro-VNAV N T1 RNP AR APCH with RF N T2 RNP AR APCH without RF Navigation and communication: Enabled Indicator Description N N No Equipment N S Standard Equipment (VHF, VOR, ILS) N A GBAS Landing System Y B LPV (APV with SBAS) N C LORAN C Y D DME (Distance Measuring Equipment) N E1 FMC WPR ACARS N E2 D-FIS ACARS N E3 PDC ACARS Y F ADF (Automatic Direction Finder) Y G GNSS (Satellite Navigation) N H HF (High Frequency Radio) N I INS (Inertial Navigation System) N J1 CPDLC ATN VDL Mode 2 N J2 CPDLC FANS 1/A HFDL N J3 CPDLC FANS 1/A VDL Mode A/0 N J4 CPDLC FANS 1/A VDL Mode 2 N J5 CPDLC FANS 1/A SATCOM (INMARSAT) N J6 CPDLC FANS 1/A SATCOM (MTSAT) N J7 CPDLC FANS 1/A SATCOM (Iridium) N K MLS (Microwave Landing System) Y L ILS (Instrument Landing System) N M1 ATC SATVOICE (INMARSAT) N M2 ATC SATVOICE (MTSAT) Y M3 ATC SATVOICE (Iridium) Transponder: Enabled Indicator Description N N No Transponder N A Mode A N C Mode A and Mode C N E Mode S, aircraft ident, pressure altitude, extended squitter N H Mode S, aircraft ident, pressure altitude, enhanced surveillance N I Mode S, aircraft ident, no pressure altitude Y L Mode S, aircraft ident, pressure altitude, extended squitter N P Mode S, no aircraft ident, pressure altitude N S Mode S, aircraft ident, pressure altitude N X Mode S, no aircraft ident, no pressure altitude Y B1 ADS-B with dedicated 1090 MHz Out N B2 ADS-B with dedicated 1090 MHz Out and In N U1 ADS-B Out capability using UAT N U2 ADS-B Out and In capability using UAT N V1 ADS-B Out capability using VDL Mode 4 N V2 ADS-B Out and In capability using VDL Mode 4 N D1 ADS-C with FANS 1/A capabilities N G1 ADS-C with ATN capabilities

That news is a little disappointing, and Kachan sure went out of his way to disguise the fact, with even the “About the Author” page suggesting nothing of the sort. Nevertheless, it seems like a really good book to read thus far, despite that fact. I guess I’ll keep reading it.

@Black-Square That's excellent news, Nick, thank you!

That's what I'm here for! It wouldn't be any fun for me if I didn't get to see my users learning and becoming better virtual pilots :)

That's exactly what I've done. I'm happy to do it, but I thought I would also share that it was two hour endeavor to... Experiment, export, make the changes, export, find out they weren't enough, export, find more small objects, export, test in MSFS 2020, copy all changes to the release builds, test in MSFS 2024, test in MSFS 2020... That's how these tiny changes can add up to days of work very quickly. It's really the exporting that takes the most time. It's worth it to satisfy my OCD, but I also share just so those most interested in my products might understand why I can't implement every change requested of me, no matter how much I want to. Thanks again! It feels great to eliminate even one more MSFS 2024 issue.

I was curious about performance impact. The most complex MSFS aircraft are well known to be FPS or memory hungry: A380, A350, PMDG to some extent… Not sure how much of that is typically due to CPU consumption due to systems being simulated, or VRAM due to textures, or RAM, but I’m curious what PC hardware you develop on and how you get feedback about performance (and often the performance hit only becomes apparent when you use it in combination with other add-ons like a big detailed airport and A.I. traffic).

Yeah, but probably a lot of work to implement and I am not sure that's worth the trouble. Slew Mode is a great idea.

I doubt I will find the time for this myself, unfortunately, but I can only imagine the fun of getting the audiobook too and listening to the stories while flying the route. What an experience, especially with the atmospherics of MSFS 2024.

I reinstalled aircraft, and now everything works fine, no problems.

@jmarkows said in Starship navigation database: It will be interesting to see how it works, for sure. If you check the manual, specifically page 70, there's mention of the floppy disk reader and how you can play around with that to update the nav data... it doesn't explicitly say how or what it does. Be interesting to find out more! @Black-Square -- I got question about the nav data drive and I'm not familiar with aviation grade floppy drives. The unit used in the Starship is a 3.5-inch model? I noticed there's a lever to lock the disk. I've not come across those in regular IT, is the lever-model a specific aviation floppy drive. (I did see drives with levers; those are on 5.25-inch floppies.) Thanks! No, I can't wait till the Starship is available for purchase. The model looks awesome!

Absolutely, yes, if I have any more questions I will surely ask, so far things are looking pretty good, I been away from msfs2020 quite some time because I was just tired of the stuttering, the poor frame rate performance and just having to set almost everything to low settings on my older PC, I now have a new PC with a 4090 graphics card and it has much better performance, I was rusty for a while there having been away, especially with the avionics, but now its coming back, I am sure things can get busy for you so any future questions I will try to make worth the while. Thanks again Bob

@Sunake said in Preflight question: I realised you can't leave all the avionics on for engine start because I saw a steamer do it and the generator couldn't handle the load and tripped off. I just love the fact that this can happen! <3

And I appreciate your understanding of the compromises that must be made when working within the limitations of someone else's software! Since this is atop my list, I will be starting my investigation in just a minute, and will let you know what I find.

Using both seems redundant. As far as my case goes, I added _IsDown to my up and down events, and they work swimmingly. I've no idea why the difference; maybe the regular ones work better with the Rotorbreak command I see so often in flight sim peripheral channels. Supposed to imitate a mouse click I believe, but I've never used it.

My preference would be dual 750xi's as I could put the chart on one and the map or flight plan on the other.

@Guenseli Nice to read that you are seeking to make one of your awesome profiles for the Starship!

@Black-Square Ah okay, I thought he missed something special in terms of procedures. Looking forward to get this awesome bird into my own hands! Thank you very much and - as we are nearly there - I wish you a nice and flawless release tomorrow!

Well - I say it just insane to simulate something that even real pro multi million dollar simulators does bother to create, or even come to their mind. Absolutely no need to give priority to make it as realistic as possible, without ruin a real engine. Thank you for Omega nav system. I really missed it in flight sim. I hoped it was in Vulcan, but no cigar. I attended a short intro course back then when beauties used hot pants. Fun to finally learn how it works. 48 hours to go. I know the price will be right. The manual is worth it alone, and you get the Starship for free.

You are right, this seems to be a simulator limitation. The PMDG 777 and the Fenix A320 also do not show the DME. In the Fenix I was at least able to tune the DME as a VOR, but that still isn't really correct. Well, this whole thing is pretty bad.