16 minutes ago, Fiorentoni said:

That the buttons don't light up is correct and realistic - most operators have disabled this (to force the pilots to look at the PFD to see which modes are actually active). Yet you can re-enable the lights in the EFB settings

That is VERY interesting information.  Many thanks...and yes, it does indeed make you do that  👍

24 minutes ago, Fiorentoni said:

Yet you can re-enable the lights in the EFB settings

Excellent, @Fiorentoni.  Many thanks, found it...and my 'disable lights' is now disabled  

Folks need to dig into the manual. If not, you'll come to grief. 

1 hour ago, Ricardo41 said:

Folks need to dig into the manual. If not, you'll come to grief. 

Yes - I fully endorse that.  But if the manuals are not fully up to date (for example, I cannot find a full run through of the new EFB in either the FSS Documentation Hub or any of the many excellent and detailed video run-throughs) then folks can stumble a bit in the dark.  And when folks are in the dark, they miss things and trip up over things.

But, happily, we have an excellent forum here with folks happy to turn on their torches.

But with that proviso, I do indeed fully endorse what you say. 👍  

Is anyone else having issue with the jets vertical guidance?  VNAV and FLCH work, but in VS the jet starts bobbing up and down especially on descent and in APP on ILS it initally starts climbing then rapidly descending to capture the glideslope. Eventually it captures and worsk fine but that initial glideslope interaction is messy.  Horizontal guidance seems to work fine.  Was I supposed to delete the the jet then install the update.  I just updated it.  

It would be nice to know if others had this issue.

1 hour ago, aniiran said:

Is anyone else having issue with the jets vertical guidance?  VNAV and FLCH work, but in VS the jet starts bobbing up and down especially on descent and in APP on ILS it initally starts climbing then rapidly descending to capture the glideslope. Eventually it captures and worsk fine but that initial glideslope interaction is messy.  Horizontal guidance seems to work fine.  Was I supposed to delete the the jet then install the update.  I just updated it.  

It would be nice to know if others had this issue.

Well, I was just about to post about my own flight, and declare that it was pilot error (I still think it might be) in that maybe my aircraft configuration (flaps, etc) weren't correct but yes, the result was some quite dramatic climbs and drops, hovering quite close to stalling point at times...but let me do a quick recap, because in all other respects it was a great flight:

Route: EBOS Ostende Rwy26 to EGKK London Gatwick Rwy 26L (a short over-water route I use for most of my 'first flights')

Flight Procedures:  

- Started from cold and dark

- Successfully got the EFB to accept my Simbrief plan and load up and fuel up

- Took off manually, turned on Auto-throttle and Autopilot then switched to NAV and then to VNAV early in the climb

- The aircraft then pretty much took hands-off care of the speeds and the altitudes, including non-prompted initiation of descent

- It was in the last 10-15 miles, as I was progressively lowering flaps and u/c that it started porpoising either side of the approach height, dropping throttle until it was below approach altitude while idling, to stickshake, to auto full throttle with reestablishment of speed and then overshooting height.  BUT, to be honest I was winging it a bit in terms of when to drop the u/c and how much flap I was applying and when.  I'm pretty sure that was why it started porpoising.  Pretty sure it was pilot error in one of the few places I actually was doing ANY of the piloting 

- When in ILS approach range, I disabled the autothrottle and clicked APP (then at around 500' killed the A/P too) and it came down calmly and smoothly, following the glide path very well while it was still in A/P

 

I have to say that - in spite of the porpoising issue - it was the best full VNAV flight I think I can personally remember doing.