I fly the 727 in real life and noted a few things which would be nice if they were addressed.

1. There is no stick shaker. Found this out the hard way! There should also be a panel on the overhead to test the stick shaker function.

2. Fuel Icing Lights. The fuel icing lights on the engineer panel are almost always illuminated. In my experience flying the 727 the fuel icing lights never illuminate. The fuel icing lights indicate that the fuel filter is icing up which is certainly an abnormal occurance. I noticed if you put on the fuel heat that the lights extinguish, but if the fuel heat is turned off then the lights coem back on. There is a limitation of ten minutes of operation with the fuel heat on since the fuel cools the oil your oil temps will rise. So the operation of this feature in the sim is unrealistic.

3. There should be an aural tone when 1000 ft from level off in conjunction with the altitude alerter visual cue. This one is important.

4. GPWS warning on landing... This has been mentioned before. This could be due to the fact that the flpa config on the quiet wing  planes does not allow landing with flaps 40. The 727 is equipped with a "GPWS Flap Inhibit" switch which silenced the GPWS when landing at less than flaps 40. I did not see this sytem installed.

5. The airspeed bugs are not visible at night.

6. Cockpit window opening in flight. I hit the window handle with my mouse and the wondow opened at FL330. Whe nthe airplane is pressurized the window can't be opened since it's a plug type window.

7. Oval #2 engine inlet on the -200 series. Come on guys!

8. Need a plain white paint option and paint kit ASAP!

These are my initial findings. maybe I will have more to addd. Overall a nice accurate simulation.

Another thing to note. I was mostly flying the 727 up til last night with the auto pilot on at 1000 AGL. So i didn't notice the airplane trim function which operates nothing like the real plane and made the plane unflyable. The high speed trim was still too sensetive and the pitch changes very dramatic. It was impossibel to trim the plane out flying by hand on the climb out. The trim whee lalso operates too slowly with the flaps down.

The cruise trim was impossible to use in the VC because you can't set the cruise trim conterol and the instruments at the same time. In the real plane the cruise trim operaters at a much lower speed making much smaller trim changes. The cruise trim in the plane operated too fast.

With flaps extended and the high speed trim in use there was no noise which as anyone who flew the 727 would know.... the high speed trim is very loud and the wheel flies around like a hubcap comming off a car.

This plane was unflyable without the auto pilot on.

JetPilot, thank you for your reports. But this forum is not for technical support. For technical support and issues reporting please check-in to Multimedia File Viewing and Clickable Links are available for Registered Members only!!  You need to or !!
then click Product Name > Customer Support >

It's really great to see posts from someone who flies the real thing. JetPilot,  I encourage you to fill out support tickets for these items. It seems the only way to get a fix on these issues.  I have to say, most of the concerns I raised through that system were addressed in the first service pack.

As for the trim, I have found it to be too coarse to be usable. I've been using a program called realtrim to give better results.

Multimedia File Viewing and Clickable Links are available for Registered Members only!!  You need to or !!

Captain Sim 2 wrote on 18.03.2009 at 12:12:29:


JP did not ask for tech support, he is pointing out inaccuracies and/or programming errors and/or functional errors in the current release of the product. JP's post is exactly "on-subject" of "It'd Be Nice" which is billed as "the place to ask for what we would like to see in future releases," to wit: fix the errors he detailed in the next release. Most of the other posts here are of exactly the same kind with exactly the same intent.

"Tech Support" is for getting help on issues that do not work as designed. All of the issues JP has raised are apparently functioning "as designed" but the design is inaccurate or flawed. This area is for requesting REDESIGNS or other additions because the initial design or implementation is deemed to be somehow deficient.

HoggyDog wrote on 11.12.2009 at 01:31:19:


Well said

Captain Support,

JP comments is valuable to make your product more desireable by your customer. YOU SHOULD NOT FEEL

May be I should simplify my comment. It is beneficial to CS Support if communication can be two way for  technical issues outline in this post, before "Ticket" developed .

Sanal