Ideal Flight Accessibility phase 2

[Steve Waite]

You mentioned SAPI before and I said before that's got nothing to do with how often anything is called out. SAPI in IF is more instant than the readers can ever be.

Instead it is down to how often IF makes the callouts. Remember there is a control to wait for the next callout on the voice settings page, check that.

Are you saying you are missing some altitude calls then? Also remember that the altitude calls out altimeter when it's altitude, and not when it is above ground height. SO missing altitudes may be because you transition over lower terrain.

Why not suggest what you prefer on one page verses another, so that I can organise the pages better for you - that is the information I am waiting for.

When you have a page selected there is the hotkey to repeat the current page. Also you can go back from page 1 to page 8 quicker than forwards. You can hit the hotkey many times the key is remembered. So if you are at page one and want page five hit it four times.

[Steve Waite]

I made a couple of small changes for possible extra fast ascent/descents. Not sure if that is the issue.


Depending on rate of change will now read out:
below 50 ft reports 5 ft increments
below 200 ft reports 10 ft increments
below 500 ft reports 50 ft increments
below 2000 ft reports 100 ft increments
below 10000 ft reports 500 ft increments
else reports 1000 ft increments

[Orinks]

Looking forward to trying it. I think that might be it.

[Steve Waite]

I'm adding other sounds as well for directions ascent and descent. I now know about TFM making tones so I have had a think about two programs running sounds so Ideal Flight aims to be easy to differentiate. More on that soon...

[Steve Waite]

...I forgot to mention that there will be changes made to the way the decisions are made to make tones or talk out the values, so that we get tone or voice not both. It was an omission of logic...

[Steve Waite]

...heading compass magnetic was fluffed when disabled in the voices - so we would hear something like heading 60 degrees 62 when disabled...

[Orinks]

Hi Steve,

So I did a flight today and wanted to go change my range to update my flight parameters. To my astonishment, there wasn't a range calculated.

This is a Boeing 737-800. I can go test with the Mooney if need be, but the 0.00 LB/KG is what was alarming in this report.

Initial Fuel Level: 30.51 %, 2075.97 Gal, 13909.03 Lb, 6309.03 kg
Fuel Used: 16.63 %, 1131.24 Gal, 0.00 Lb, 0.00 kg
Fuel Remaining: 13.88 %, 944.73 Gal, 6329.68 Lb, 2871.10 kg
Average Fuel Consumption / Hour:
16.32 %, 1110.34 Gal, 0.00 Lb, 0.00 kg

Thoughts? I've never scene that in my assessments before.

[Steve Waite]

Should be easy to find, that section has been re-written recently so it could easily have an omission in there somewhere. It skipped the used fuel weight in the de-brief for some reason although It shows the correct values for remaining weight so it's monitoring correctly. The de-brief is the guilty party. Thanks for spotting it.

[Steve Waite]

This is a Boeing 737-800. I can go test with the Mooney if need be...

No need to test with the Mooney that works OK. Is that the first time you used this particular 737 or is it your usual aircraft?

What I found was that this was not an omission in IF, but rather, the aircraft reported zero weight per fuel gallon to cause the problem - multiply anything by zero equals zero.

If you unloaded the aircraft just before debrief, or maybe a fault in the aircraft stopped it responding or doesn't report fuel weight, or you loaded a glider or engineless aircraft at that point, that would report zero fuel weight in that section.

So before I install a work around, can you check figures from that aircraft, say from a previous flight or another flight?

[Steve Waite]

Initial Fuel Level: 30.51 %, 2075.97 Gal, 13909.03 Lb, 6309.03 kg
Fuel Used: 16.63 %, 1131.24 Gal, 0.00 Lb, 0.00 kg
Fuel Remaining: 13.88 %, 944.73 Gal, 6329.68 Lb, 2871.10 kg
Average Fuel Consumption / Hour:
16.32 %, 1110.34 Gal, 0.00 Lb, 0.00 kg

When IF builds the flight the standard values of weight per Gallon are used. But remember that Gallons are a quantity of volume. That means the volume can increase and decrease such that the weight decreases and increases.

So when in flight the aircraft in simulation depicts the weight of the Gallon. If the weight comes back as zero, as in the case above, we get the zero weight since Gallons multiplied by zero equates to zero.

I have installed a work around so that when a situation is met with zero weight per Gallon as was in your flight the weight is from the standard value.

The issue can't be reproduced here, so it must have been an anomalous situation that had arisen on your system when exiting or ending the flight somehow. Or it is particular to an addon. As you mentioned this must be very rare since you have not seen it before. It's not something that's been reported before.