The amount of things that are seriously incorrect is horrendous. Because in real life, they would get sued by the airline, the pilots union, the FAA, and the NTSB. In real life, in the airplane, you ham fist your way through the FMS and it will still work, you can do things backwards, and it will still work. In real life, in industrial applications, systems are modeled to work with tremendous amount of error checking, expecting the user to throw in garbage, and they are programmed to not accept it. What they are really hinting at is that their coding is sub par, and it's not their fault. They expect you to follow procedures exactly or don't be surprised if it does not work. The replies I read from the developers in other threads about the Vnav bug tell a very sad tale. When you try to manually enter in a new fix in flight, I would get the Invalid entry, then the Execute button would light up, which it is not supposed to do if it is an INVALID entry!!! I tried selecting a new direct intercept fix, did not fix it. When the Lnav would not leave white, I tried resetting the auto pilot. It would go from 100 to 400 when I pushed it. Climbing to altitude, the mach/IAS button did very weird things. The bank angle limit select seems to be backwards, when you set it to 5, it banks more than when you set it to 15. The FMS says invalid entry when in real life you can do it. Some times you are able to set it new altitudes for fixes, other times you are not able to. LNAV stays in white, some times you get a msg saying that you are not on an intercept course, other times you do not. It just simply does not work like the real thing. With all of this said, the Flight Factor 757 is an amazing accomplishment thus far for X-plane, however there are certain things that just are not correct that if I had known about, I would not of purchased it. So I also know just how hard it is to replicate the systems on a real airplane, and can only imagine just how hard it can be without any real experience on the airplane itself. I also have experience programming in C, C#, Java, and a little C++. Even though I do not fly 757's, I do have a experience in a Level D 757 full motion simulator. I've been a flight simulations junkie since middle school and been professionally flying since 2007. If you routinely fly out of Charlotte, NC from the E gates, there is a chance you've been on one of my flights. My name is Bill and I am a real life airline pilot, currently flying with a regional airline on CRJ 900's and 700's. Hello, first off let me introduce myself to the forum.
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