[ Closed ] JD320 Airliner ver 3.6 WIN/MAC 64 bit (X-Plane 11.50/11.41) (Page 6 of 6)

Hello,

Sorry that I didn't see your question until now. I had helped another member shortly after my post with a detailed explanation, but perhaps you missed it. I'll paste it here so you don't have to dig for it:

"Hello,

Sorry that I didn’t see your question until today. You’ll need to assign a keyboard or joystick shortcut for “avionics on” in your settings for things to work for the current version. It fixed all of my issues.

I think for the most part the avionics were automatically turned on in the background as you did your normal cold & dark startup procedures, but for some reason the background process must've been "broken" with this current version hence the manual process is now needed. I was so frustrated with the issues I was having. I had the same issues you were having and my radios didn't work or anything. So frustrating to plan everything, then takeoff and have the plane keep doing steep climbs and doing that whole Afloor thing. Then it wouldn't follow the flight plan at all. It would just keep circling slowly. No more!

Every plane I've flown in the sim seems to also have all of that avionics stuff done in the background when I'm starting up so I never had to concern myself with the concept. I'm not sure why no clear documentation is available for this current issue, but luckily I found the solution.

More details if you want them:

Here's the link to how I found out the solution: https://forums.x-plane.org/index.php?/f … amp;page=2

The main topic was actually people having issues with the A330's systems, but it's essentially the same problems with the A320 and the fix works for both planes. It's user "Murrky" who gives the solution. He also gives instructions on how to make a LUA script to bind the "avionics on" function to when you start the batteries. That's what I ended up doing since I didn't want another keystroke to memorize or to take up another button on my flight stick.

I'm glad he posted that reply because all of the other recommendations were for overcomplicated joystick settings workarounds.

P.S.

Murrky calls it "master avionics on", but it's just "avionics on"

-Dave"

-Dave

I really like the JAR Design A320.  I have what I think is the latest version (V3 7R1).  My problem is that I find it extremely tricky to engage the autopilot.  (wasn't the case in earlier versions)

I understand that the trim is supposed to be neutral (hands off) and the Flight Director bars exactly centred, but it seems to be incredibly sensitive to this, which is a pain when you are trying to follow a complicated SID hand flying and getting the FD centred at the same time.   I wonder if anyone has any tips on this, I may be missing something, like a speed or altitude constraint before the autopilot will engage.

This is also an issue, to a lesser extent, with the Zibo, but, to be fair, he gives you the option of an "easy neutral" on the set up.  Not so much of an issue with the FF 320 which I also fly, it just annoys me that I have this issue with the JAR one.