I emailed Robert to let him know and to ask what was up regarding IYP’s status,
but I’m not holding my breath for a response. I’m taking a brake from flying
for now, mainly because I can’t get through the MCE developer’s heads that we
need some kind of landing assists. I’m beginning to see the challenge for them.
When you set up IYP, you were required to create a runways database
specifically for IYP with makerways. I wonder if this data in the database is
what data IYP used to make landings.
A large portion of MCE’s users, and by a large portion, I mean pretty much
every one of them, uses the advanced aircraft that has FMCs. When you program
those, it manages everything that IYP did, such as maintaining optimized
airspeed, etc. Ben suggested that we can land manually by turning off vertical
speed hold and using rate of descent command, however the issue with this is
that with an ILS landing, you aren’t actually following the glideslope, even if
ATC vectors you correctly.
MCE devs have been pretty much receptive and implemented a lot of things for us
in the time I’ve been using it—I actually enjoy using PF3 with MCE now, it
feels almost like IYP when I say Request IFR clearance, request taxi, etc. And
the latest thing to be implemented is that it uses the file to get PF3
frequency data.
I’ll have to do a video showing the devs how using the ROD command… we can
land, but it sure isn’t a smooth landing. As you approach the ground, you have
to pull up a bit to decrease your climb rate, and that’s where using the
keyboard would come in handy. Just can’t do it quickly with voice. Also,
without a runway database for it, it doesn’t know airport elevation, and this
is critical. I’m sure the MCE devs wonder where I went, I’ll have to check in I
guess, especially with the fate of IYP being unknown.
On Sep 23, 2017, at 5:22 PM, Declan Webster <declan.webster44@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
I really hope so, but I think as he said he’s not working on it any more and
the webpage also stated about his health its possible Iyp is finished. Even
if you already had it installed it doesn’t work. Again I really hope that
is not the case
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