Slowdive wrote on Jan 13^th, 2009 at 8:10pm:

Yeah, I was thinking about some work-arounds. Perhaps not entering the runway/approach until you know what it will be for sure. And just don't use vnav for descent and manage it yourself. It's kind of a drag because that's what the FMC is for, but until they fix it, this might work. Also, I've been wondering why some people don't get this crash. The people who are crashing are you using lbs or kg? I'm curious if that could be a cause. I've tried both PW and RR variants and it makes no difference. I could be chasing my tail here, but until CS fixes it, I'm very frustrated. They won't return it, because I had good faith and have waited for a fix, so it's been too long now. I'm stuck with a very broken airplane. :(

I still think you are exactly right that perhaps the majority of purchasers load up the airplane, firewall the thrust, and fly VFR.  I actually bought this to train for checkrides/recurrents at my airline, and boy was it a mistake!  Once again, beautiful outside, but as it is at the training academy, you can't see the outside, just the cockpit, and you live in the FMC.

Until there is a fix, which may be asking too much because they would need to completely redesign the FMC/AP system, the another company 767 will be my aircraft.  I think CS even advertising that this thing has a "full FMC" is sad...

Don't get me wrong, terrific attempt at a sim, but fix the darn thing!  It is unflyable as a commercial aircraft, only flyable as a big beautiful C172.

JB