Fix
Fix: no more false "too low" calls after take-off
The gear and flap warnings now only sound when you are descending.
After take-off, the ground proximity warning could shout "Too low, gear" the moment you raised the landing gear, and "Too low, flaps" while you were still climbing out with take-off flaps. Both calls are wrong on a take-off. They now only sound when you are descending.
What was wrong
The two calls checked height and configuration only. Close to the runway, with the gear up (below 500 ft) or with flaps under setting 3 (below 250 ft), they fired whether you were going up or down. In free flight, a normal climb-out set them off, and the first call also came with an amber warning on the display.
What changed
- The "Too low, gear" and "Too low, flaps" calls now need a descent of more than 200 feet per minute.
- On the IGS 13 approach they work exactly as before, because you are always descending there.
- Terrain, sink rate, glideslope, bank angle and stall warnings are unchanged.
The fix matters most for the new Take-off lesson, where raising the gear is a step of its own.
What did not change
- Flying with no input still ends in a crash, and the autopilot still lands in every weather preset, in all four aircraft.
起飛之後，近地警告系統有時會喺你一收起落架就大叫「Too low, gear」，或者你仲用緊起飛襟翼爬升嗰陣叫「Too low, flaps」。起飛時呢兩個警告都係錯嘅。而家只會喺你下降時先會響。
問題喺邊
呢兩個警告只睇高度同機身設定。喺跑道附近，起落架收起（低過 500 呎），或者襟翼低過 3 格（低過 250 呎），無論你係上升定下降都會觸發。喺自由飛行入面，正常爬升都會觸發，而第一次警告仲會喺顯示器出現琥珀色字樣。
改咗啲咩
- 「Too low, gear」同「Too low, flaps」而家要下降率大過每分鐘 200 呎先會響。
- 喺 IGS 13 進場，因為你一直下降，所以同以前完全一樣。
- 地形、下沉率、下滑道、坡度同失速警告都冇變。
呢個修正對新嘅起飛教學最重要，因為收起落架係其中一個獨立步驟。
冇變嘅嘢
- 唔做任何操作仍然會撞機，自動駕駛喺所有天氣設定、四款機型都仍然可以降落。
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