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You might have noticed by my screenies that currently I am almost exclusively flying the 737 Experience.
Which needless to say I very much like.
But when I'm on the ground, a couple of strange things happen.
1) when the plane is not moving and I switch from cockpit view to external view, the plane behaves like it was being dropped from above (like it was suspended in the air some 2 centimeters from the ground, and then it falls down... so it bounces a bit on the landing gear... I think you get the idea).
2) when taxiing, there is a lot of bouncing too, more than with other planes, and this is also very well noticeable by the force feedback effects (my table shakes

Hi Friday - check your instant messages...!

I find a quick fix for any aircraft that have is problem, is to cycle the flaps, then it stops.......well works for me.

Matt

The updated flight dynamics that microlight sent to me (thanks again) solved the taxiing problems. No more bouncing and smoking tires. The aircraft looked a bit more nervous during takeoff, rolling on the runway, but it may be an impression, and there was a strong crosswind anyway.

For anybody else who wants them: I've just uploaded the update for the 737 Experience  flight dynamics, so they'll be available here at the next cycle.

Is the VC supposed to be lit at night? I realized yesterday that, in my installation of 737 Experience, it doesn't light up when I turn on the illumination switch.
Also (for Martyn): now that I've installed the updated aircraft.cfg file, what steps do I have to do to install the Expansion Pack? Do I just merge lines into my current flight model file? Is it "smoke effects ready"?

i hope they are going to add navigational data for the panel. like ken mitchels updated a320,a340,a330 panel wich you can see your flight plane on the navigation screen

The aircraft.cfg file should already be set up for use with the exhaust effects. The file is a copy of the one I use in FS9, and it works fine for me.

Regarding the vc light: because the exhaust effects use entries in the light section of the cfg file, and as there are only 19 lines available before FS starts to ignore them, then the vc light was a sacrifice to have enough lines available to get the exhaust to work. If you can't live without a vc light, then choose another light that you don't mind losing(!) and reinstate the vc light line in its place - remember to make sure the light.x numbering is retained, it's very sensitive.

Then I wasn't dreaming... the VC light was there before! (phew... I was starting to think I'm artheriosclerotic).  :D
I'd like to have the VC light, and to have that, I'm ready to sacrifice the additional exhaust effects.
Could you tell me what lines to delete (or REM out) from your new aircraft.cfg file, and what line to type back in to have cockpit light? I'm sure it'll take less for you to write it than for me to figure out.  :)

For all you VC-flyers out there, here's the aircraft.cfg edit to make to put the VC light back in. Copy and paste the following to replace [lights] line 16:

;light.16=5, -53.50,   0.00,  4.70, fx_APU
light.16=4,  43.8,  0,  4.3, fx_vclighth

This removes the APU effect, reinstates the VC light and leaves the exhaust effects (if you have them) intact. Please note that this is the default M$ high intensity VC light, and if you want the less bright one, just remove the 'h' at the end of the line.

Sweet deal!
I didn't notice those APU effects. Where on the aircraft do I look for them (to say bye bye one last time to them.... I do need that cockpit light) ?

The APU heat plume comes out of the vent just below the navigation light at the rear end of the fuselage, beneath the tail.

Strange thing happening with mine, no engine sound on the outside! Can hear the flaps and gear moving but silence apart from that. Normal in the cockpit.

Thanks everybody for the good work (moach, heretic, microlight). Almost done here, two little problems left.
An image is worth 1000 words:

As you can see, the world as seen through the windscreen in the new (bjorn's) cockpit does not stretch to the full height (see left corner), and I must manually drag the window to the lower left corner of the windscreen to regain a correct perspective, every time I create a flight with 737 Experience. I'm no expert at tweaking .cfg files, can you give me a hint?
Also: the [lights] section in aircraft.cfg mentions two fx_fanengine* effects: fx_fanengine_heavy_idle e fx_fanengine_heavy. The effect files provided in the 737 Experience Expansion Pack bear different names (fx_fanengine and fx_fanengine_idle): do I have to rename them?

The updated flight dynamics that microlight sent to me (thanks again) solved the taxiing problems. No more bouncing and smoking tires. The aircraft looked a bit more nervous during takeoff, rolling on the runway, but it may be an impression, and there was a strong crosswind anyway.

*STUPID QUESTION TIME*
If an aircraft didn't roll on the runway, wouldn't it just stay still? Or do you mean 'rolling' of a different kind, and if so, what?
Cheers