Hi Guys,

A genuine enquiry about if I might like this 737-200 product.

I have in the past bought the C130,757 and 767 from captain sim and loved them.  I also bought the 727 and didnt like the flight model very much.
Is the 737 flight model accurate like advertised on the product info page of the website or do we need to test and adjust ourselves?

I am asking this question for advice, I have read the flight dynamics post in this forum and am concerned as I dont have too much time for messing with config files these days.

Anyway the VC looks great andlike I said, I'm on the fence right now.....

Cheers,

Dan.

Regarding the FDE, this 737 flies manually like a dream. It "feels" heavy like an airliner should, not a plastic toy like so many FS (or any sim) aircraft often do.
Some minor issues in my opinion, it is overpowered, and loses too much speed on idle descent but these can be fixed. Myself and a few others are working on that, and you won't have to edit anything just try my FDE adjustments or someone else's. Mine will be available before this weekend.

And hopefully CS will fine tune those areas, making our tweaks obsolete in the future. I hope they haven't already forgotten the 737 just because they're busy with other projects.

The pitch command knob, alt hold, and Mode select on the flight director are only for reference (the VOR LOC needs to be fixed). They drive the flight director cues on the ADI.

Pitch is controlled via CWS or manually. I seem to be the only one having problems with CWS pitch, it's a nightmare for me, but I think since I'm apparently the only one, it might just be a problem with my yoke or something.

oneil875 wrote on Jun 19^th, 2012 at 8:46pm:


My problem with the pitch mode is that 90% of the time when I apply pressure on the yoke the AP fights against me; rather than change pitch the autopilot tries to maintain it's current pitch.

I think others have noted the roll mode moving as you described, it's not smooth like flying with the AP off.

Is the TM stick excessively responsive with other planes? You could either reduce sensitivity in FS settings or in the aircraft.cfg reduce elevator_effectiveness = 1.0 to 0.5 or whatever works best.

oneil875 wrote on Jun 20^th, 2012 at 6:49am:


Considerating pitch mode:  On the right side of the autopilot is a knob with three settings, TURB, OFF, and ALT HOLD.  For the CWS to work properly, this knob needs to be OFF and not in ALT HOLD.

You probably already know this, but just thought I'd throw it out there for your consideration. 

Phill

P.S. - I believe the TURB setting is INOP in this release.

I have an MS FF Sidewinder 2 Joystick and although the CWS pitch fights me, I have don't have much trouble changing the pitch. The best way around it fighting me is to take my hand away from the sensor that makes the force feedback active, and the pitch changes by smaller amounts.

I use the CH yoke, no FF. I usually have to push/pull the yoke several times before it will stop fighting me. And I don't mean a little resistance, I'm talking about full resistance, similar to if it was in Atl hold mode. I got sick of dealing with it so now if I want to adjust the pitch I just disengage pitch mode then engage it again when pitch is set.