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Am I missing something?
Nov 25th, 2025 at 7:49pm
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I bought and installed the 717 after realizing that it has had some pretty positive updates over the years since it first initially came out. Yesterday I gave it a quick look before going to bed and it looked pretty great, but after attempting a flight today, I have found the aircraft to be unflyable from some massive issues. I compiled a list of issues I encountered, just to see if they are known bugs, unknown bugs, or if there is something I am missing. I have only flown the 717 in FSX a handful of times, so I am far from knowledgable on how the 717 operates specifically.

- Financial report on the backwall of the cockpit(?)
- DOT international flight plan on the cockpit door
- The ambient occlusion baking on the back wall of the cockpit is very poor
- There are floating screw heads where the old position of the paperwork holder on the back wall was
- Can't input airways on the MCDU
- Deleting certain waypoints in the arrival can set your destination to the last regular waypoint in your flight plan
- The FMC doesn't allow you to choose no approach transition, it just picks the next available transition
- The maximum weight in the fuel/weight page on the FMC is set to the max landing weight (110000), when it should be the max takeoff weight
- On GSX pushback, the bypass pin floats infront of the landing gear, the aircraft plays landing wheel roll sounds during pushback, and after the tug disconnects the nose of the aircraft shoots up
- The throttle does not move with small throttle inputs, only large inputs above a certain point show the throttle levers moving
- the FMS SPD button does not arm takeoff speeds on the ground
- The autothrottle takes over regardless of the autothrottle system is armed or not, which can lead to a situation during taxi where the aircraft enters TOGA power if you apply too much power at once
- The aircraft spawns in with the speedbrakes already armed
- The APU needs the engine start pump switch turned on to start
- There is no display showing the baro setting on the standby gauge in the center of the FMCs
- The GPWS test switch does not function, even though the switch itself moves
- The windshield Anti-fog and Anti-ice switches are 3-position switches when they should be regular 2-position switches
- Disabling the autothrottle via keybind toggles the autoflight override switches off
- Disabling the autopilot via keybind does not move the autoflight override switch
- Arming the autothrottle using the autoflight button on the ground does not work
- The altitude knob does not have an option for hundreds of feet
- Pushing the altitude knob resets the altitude bug to current altitude
- When resetting the altitude to current altitude, if the current altitude contains hundreds of feet, you cannot get rid of the hundreds of feet unless if you spin the altitude knob all the way up to its max altitude, then the hundreds of feet dissapear
- The feet/meter button does not operate (even though the display shows the correct "M" under altitude)
- The aircraft auto-rotates at 90-100kts, regardless of weight/TOCG setting, causing a dangerous stall condition shortly after takeoff
- The ATS auto-enables during takeoff roll
- The terrain  display auto-enables itself, and is extremely high resolution compared to what it should be on the 717
- Trying to dim the terrain display dims the entire ND
- The terrain display clips out of several parts of the ND display
- The nose light switch automatically turns itself off when the gear is retracted
- Turning on the nose light switch shines the nose lights into the cockpit, after a few seconds the lights turn off and the switch automatically turns itself off
- All of the buttons on the MCP function as if they are lit when pressed, which is not realistic (they should light up with the instrument & pedastal panel lights)
- You can open the cockpit windows in cruise
- The engine fire bottle discharge handles function, but do not shut down the engine, but it does cause the agent low light to turn on for the entire flight
- The flaps handle is very slow to move, almost as if it's controlling the flaps via physical linkage
  
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Re: Am I missing something?
Reply #1 - Nov 25th, 2025 at 9:33pm
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It turns out that I was on a version that was outdated by around 6 months, I wasn't aware that you had to manually update after installing. Even after updating, most of these bugs are still present, which makes it impossible to fly the aircraft. The aircraft actually stalled itself and crashed after takeoff after trying again after updating. I was even able to log more bugs, including flaps speeds being incorrect, and the purple active waypoint text having a green outline to them. I really wish I could refund this product, I was expecting an aircraft that could at least fly from A to B, but it can't even deliver that.
  
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Re: Am I missing something?
Reply #2 - Yesterday at 8:02am
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Thank you for taking the time to put together such a detailed list of points. While we do not fully agree with every item, we truly appreciate the effort you invested. Several of your remarks are absolutely valid, and we will take them into account in our future updates.
  

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