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Hi, I've got troubles with the original FSX A321. The rudder works on ground, but a few seconds after take-off it stops working. How can I fix that?

This is normal, part of the fly-by-wire system. The only way you can regain control of the rudder in flight, is by turning off the flight computers, and having the A321 handle like an F-16.  :)

Hi, I've got troubles with the original FSX A321. The rudder works on ground, but a few seconds after take-off it stops working. How can I fix that?

Have you checked, that your auto-rudder isn't enabled?

[quote]This is normal, part of the fly-by-wire system. The only way you can regain control of the rudder in flight, is by turning off the flight computers, and having the A321 handle like an F-16.

A321 is a stupid plane....

Very limiting FCS, and it gets very sluggish at low speeds.

I don't really understand the default A321 in FSX. It's just about useless with the flight computers on but when you turn them off, as someone mentioned before, it handles like an F-16.

It was an honorable effort in FSX, to replicate the flight-computers and fly-by-wire characteristics of the A321. Not bad, really... And if you DO fly it realistically (in ways that wouldn't scare your virtual passengers), and smoothly and by the book.. it works as well as can be expected for a desk-top simulator.

We don't realize how much "video-game" flying we end up doing in the sim (turns, climbs, descents and landings that would get you fired from commercial piloting). If you're REALLY precise about it, and stay ahead of the airplane.. the A321 is kinda fun..

We don't realize how much "video-game" flying we end up doing in the sim (turns, climbs, descents and landings that would get you fired from commercial piloting). If you're REALLY precise about it, and stay ahead of the airplane.. the A321 is kinda fun..

Fired?  Hell, tried, convicted, locked up, key destroyed, not even allowed to look at a flying airplane through the tiny slit that lets a sliver of sunlight in!

[quote]This is normal, part of the fly-by-wire system. The only way you can regain control of the rudder in flight, is by turning off the flight computers, and having the A321 handle like an F-16.

You have buttons for that, right over your head.
There has been a lot of complaints in the past about the A-321 that was said to behave as an oversized fighter jet. The fact is.... it behaves like that in real life too !
Last thing: I have no problems flying with teh flight computers. I simply respect the flight instructions and numbers (speeds etc...) and everything goes smooth.

I have no problems flying with teh flight computers. I simply respect the flight instructions and numbers (speeds etc...) and everything goes smooth.

That's the key

I can't do it 100% perfect in a Skyhawk, but I have no problems whatsoever in the 738

I can't do it 100% perfect in a Skyhawk, but I have no problems whatsoever in the 738

I think I'll host a multi-player, shared cockpit session in a 738..  wanna be graded ?  :D

Of course! If we're talking FSX

PM me, and we'll make an arrangement...

Of course! If we're talking FSX

PM me, and we'll make an arrangement...

Yeah.. FS9 doesn't have shared cockpits..

We can discuss it here, in case others want to join in.