iniBuilds Updates TriStar Airliner for MSFS 2024
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The update refines autopilot and flight director behavior, improves INS navigation to track great-circle paths more accurately, enhances the Performance Management System, and fixes electrical-system bugs. iniBuilds also announced a standalone TriStar Operations Pack that adds air-to-air refueling, strategic freighter, medical evacuation, and humanitarian configurations with dedicated systems and cockpit logic.
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iniBuilds has recently updated their TriStar Airliner for Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024, bringing a comprehensive range of improvements and marking its release on the iniBuilds Store at long last.
Update 1.0.8 brings improvements across systems, avionics, flight guidance, and overall cockpit functionality. The autopilot and flight director behavior have been improved, with vertical speed selection being handled more consistently when engaging the autopilot, preventing it from incorrectly changing the aircraft’s current vertical speed. Furthermore, the bank angle and turn-rate behavior have also been tweaked, along with lateral flight director guidance when the autopilot is disengaged.
The INS navigation logic has been refined to continuously calculate the aircraft’s track based on its current position along the great-circle path, allowing the commanded bearing to update naturally throughout the leg (just like the real counterpart). Such improvements ensure that the aircraft’s routing, fuel predictions, and overall navigation performance more closely align with SimBrief, Navigraph, and real-world flight planning.
Other INS and PMS improvements were also made, with cross-track error indications now behaving more reliably when flying track offsets, drift logic tweaked, manual waypoint entry in AUTO mode no longer causing unintended track changes, and CDI behavior further improved on long sectors.
The Performance Management System has been made more consistent and usable, with page transitions responding more reliably to the current phase of flight. PERF MGT interactions have been refined, and active mode annunciations are now working as expected.
Further system-level improvements were made to the airplane, including refinements to the electrical system that mitigated certain bugs.
They have also announced the development of the TriStar Operations Pack, a paid expansion for their TriStar Airliner that will also be available as a standalone purchase for those who only want it rather than the full thing, since it mainly targets cargo and special mission operations.
The aforementioned pack transforms the L-1011-500 into a multi-role platform, introducing air-to-air refueling, strategic freighter, and medical and humanitarian evacuation configurations.
iniBuilds claims the pack is far more than a visual conversion, bringing a dedicated tanker experience with bespoke systems, cockpit functionality, and operational logic that…
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