Christianz wrote on Jul 11^th, 2013 at 4:01pm:

Im on my half my to VTBS from ENGM and the flight is going well except the autopilot's behavior http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8KIMWzmLgxk&feature=youtu.be Video from cruise.

You might need to change the [Custom Autopilot] settings:

From this:

[Custom Autopilot]
AP_Roll_speed=3.91
AP_Roll_window=5.7
AP_Roll_controlstep=2825


To this:

[Custom Autopilot]
AP_Roll_speed=4
AP_Roll_window=7
AP_Roll_controlstep=1500


Jack Vogel wrote on Jul 11^th, 2013 at 4:20pm:

So, for those of you doing these long hauls, does this mean that anti-ice nonsense is no longer a problem, or do I still have to worry about my engines flaming out if I don't give some magic key sequence? Also, it sounds from the description, that no one has VNAV working on takeoff, is that correct?

The Anti-Ice seems to be working (I left them set on AUTO and did NOT use SHIFT+H to turn the carb heat on, which was a fix in v1.1!

VNAV is working fine for me! It went wonky on me, as I stated in my original post. When I tried it again, with my joystick disabled. It performed just fine. It didn't wobble at all. The turn was very smooth.


BrzI wrote on Jul 11^th, 2013 at 9:33pm:

Did I read correctly ? You manually change TO to CLB in the CDU ? Should this not be automatic with LNAV, VNAV and TOGA set at takeoff and AP engaged after 400 ft  ?

No you did not read it correctly. I said I did not change it from TO to CLB (it was in reference to a post of yours that I had read in the forum though). I left it to do what it does it's own way. Should it change on its own normally? I don't know. :-/
I am not, nor have I ever been, a real pilot, so I don't normally check that in these modern airliners, unless an addon aircraft requires them to be changed manually, then I do change them. So IF they should change automatically and don't, then I would have to say that it's wrong. All in all, the flight was really good from beginning to end. Except for that bit of a wobble at the beginning, that seems to be being caused by my joystick (see my response to Jack Vogel question).


LOLcakes wrote on Jul 12^th, 2013 at 12:30am:

Markoz wrote on Jul 11th, 2013 at 1:23pm: Do you adjust the TRIM to the same setting (or s close as you can get) as listed on the TAKEOFF page? I do this as often as I can (which depends on if I remember or not). It seems to effect the takeoff performance if I don't do it. :-/ I can never determine my CG, I think that's the problem  :-/

I'm not sure, but it might be the reason. I just did a test flight with a very light aircraft (TOW 379,605) and it never went above 5500 fpm.

I know the Captain Sim 777 isn't perfect, but I am very pleased with the results I'm getting in v1.2. As always, that's how I feel about it. It is good enough (and was in v1.1 IMO) for some very long haul flights that I want to do in it. ;)