KIWI34 wrote in Mon Nov 23, 2015 11:55 am:swwon wrote in Mon Nov 23, 2015 10:23 am: Basically take the 777-300ER programming on FG and slam it into the 787 and everything should be fine. there shouldn't be a different type of "WAY To DO IT" just because its a 787.
Ah but then is it really a 787? more like a 77.87
Read the forums and wiki page about how to control it, it took me an hour or so to finally get it running, it is more realistic than the 777 and more complex hence why the 777 is still popular and overly used by nearly every person online ( i myself have 200 odd hours in her )
Find out how to use the 787, and you will have the most fun you could every imagine with that 787-8, its great for VFR and more commonly IFR
Very reliable, just put the effort in to learn its ways, and you will be away
Best of luck
Cheers
KIWI
Okay I figured it out and now it flies pretty solid, A/P works fine, once the combination of buttons in order are done "right" ( more about that later).
Much thanks to Kiwi for his help in the PMs getting me squared away. There are a few issues that if I can figure out how to fix I'll be making some changes to mine. Or maybe I'll just do a new one entirely (heck I'm getting into this as a new hobby anyways). There are a few problems that are far from the real thing. As I had mentioned, "if it we're like the 777 operation it would be almost perfect." Boeing has a phrase they use in their 787 brochures called
"Operational Commonality" with previous Boeing airplanes. It was created intentionally with its closest resemblance to the latest 777s so as to make training faster and easier for 777 pilots to take on the 787 with no more than 4-5 days training in the new plane. Same language and button operation as the 77 but with enhancements to improve the pilots information available and ability to tailor what the pilot is looking at. The FMC needs to be altered to illustrate speed, altitude, LNAV, VNAV ALT,GS, LOC etc the way it does on the 77 for example, (or all recent Boeings for that matter, from 737s on up to the 747-8 they're ALL the same inside the cockpit as far as what the instruments are telling you and what its going to make the plane do. The combination of buttons in specific order required just to make the A/P work on this 787 is silly and not accurate at all.. The full two screen radar is incorrect as well, and both pilots have that option available. I know there's been a lot of time spent on development and thus far guys have done a stellar job, this is in no way a slam at what's been done thus far, (I guess I could call this my unsolicited review); however I do believe there are more improvements needed to get the 78 working, flying and auto-landing the way the real thing should. It's very very close, just a few alterations to the cockpit displays and A/P control dynamics and this will be perfect. check out the article below.
http://www.boeing.com/commercial/aeroma ... 2012_q1/3/Oh and if anyone can track down the old wing-flexer for me that'd be great. Or is there a way to put the one that's working on the 747-400 in the 787?