Comments on: X-Plane 10.50 Release Candidate on Steam, WED Soon

By: Joseph Glynn

Joseph Glynn — Mon, 22 Aug 2016 16:15:42 +0000

Hows WED 1.5b2 coming along. I guess you must have run into issue since it was hoped to be released for last Mon or Tues

By: Bob Marsh

Bob Marsh — Mon, 22 Aug 2016 03:38:44 +0000

Along with the above comments for ATC – AI interaction, I would like to make a request that when an AI Aircraft lands and is positioned at a proper AC Start location, that there is a reasonable delay before that AC is cleared for another destination. The immediate AI aircraft clearance for another destination after arrival is a case that surely demands a wait time of 4 or 5 minutes to be at all reasonable.

By: Michel

Michel — Fri, 19 Aug 2016 08:52:02 +0000

In reply to Ben Supnik. Thank you for the reply Ben

By: Ben Supnik

Ben Supnik — Fri, 19 Aug 2016 00:38:41 +0000

In reply to Michel. It works badly, as expected, because it's the same flattening algo we always have. In WED 1.5 the airport has a checkbox.

By: Michel

Michel — Wed, 17 Aug 2016 22:30:05 +0000

How is the status of flatten airports? Does this work or not? And if this work is how to define this area?

By: Michael

Michael — Wed, 17 Aug 2016 15:36:45 +0000

In reply to Ben Supnik.

The A/C taxi speed after landing, while still on the main runway is a bit slow. Maybe landing distances a bit short, too.

E.g. at Hongkong VHHH (gateway version, reasonable taxi route network, quite representative of a modern runway layout), a 747 lands and stops within ~1000′ of the TDZ. Then taxies for about a minute another 4000′ to the first useable exit at the center of the ~11,000′ runway. Meanwhile 2 more A/C go around …

Its plausible a PIC would save some rubber and keep going at some higher speed until the midpoint of the runway and then slow down, taking the first high speed exit …
Issue does not show up at KSEA, a more “organically grown” layout with many non-high speed exit’s even before the runway midpoint.

By: kevan Fitzakerley

kevan Fitzakerley — Wed, 17 Aug 2016 10:44:13 +0000

I have tried many times to assign a set of keys to control the radio functions, While I can assign keys to Com 1 Power on/off Nav1 Power on/off etc. These functions do not work.
Is there something I am doing incorrect?

By: Gregory Maitz

Gregory Maitz — Wed, 17 Aug 2016 04:10:06 +0000

When will we see these 2 areas addressed in X-Plane. They have been brought up numerous times and no acknowledgement whatsoever.

1) The Moon looks horrible, it’s so pixelated. It’s been like this for as long as I can remember.

2) The sun appears to have some kind of layer affect when setting over the horizon, it should be behind and not in front. Still not fixed.

3) Night lighting distance, I’ve read that this has been a limitation of X-Plane 32bit, but X-Plane 10 has been 64bit for some years now. Please allow the lights to flow into the horizon. Such a shame you guys have the best night lighting out of all the sims but the technique of drawing it on a 64bit platform is so bad.

When will we see these issues get addressed? Not trying to be pushy here, but it’s been awhile and I still haven’t seen anything being done about it.

By: Chris

Chris — Tue, 16 Aug 2016 17:07:58 +0000

I have a few requests if there’s the possibility of improving the ATC further. 1. The ability to paste or export a FMS flight plan to the lower flight plan box in the flight plan window, instead of manually having to type the waypoints in. 2. To be able to request a departure or an arrival runway. 3. To be able to select an approach type ILS, VOR, or Visual (Depending upon what is available for a certain runway) 4. To be able to select IFR or VFR flight rules. Thanks to all the developers and testers for their hard work!

By: Ben Supnik

Ben Supnik — Tue, 16 Aug 2016 03:01:51 +0000

In reply to Stephen Dutton.

There is no guarantee that the ATC data is correct.
– Some airports don’t have ATC data. It isn’t currently a _requirement_ that users add it to add to an existing airport if the data doesn’t already exist.
– Some users have input junk data. WED 1.5 will do a lot better job of validating data and checking for basic mistakes.
– If a user inputs plausible but wrong data, that’s hard to catch.