“The airport runway lights are extremely insufficient, and the cockpit lighting is also very low. Will there be any improvements regarding this?”
Overall better lighting is in the works, with the fundamentals for them to be added being laid with the new rendering engine coming in 25.2.
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“Is any solution being worked on for situations where the fuel decreases even slightly?”
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Low fuel burn is a known issue with AutoPilot+, hopefully it will be tweaked in future updates (however nothing definitive has been said by the developers regarding this).
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When this low fuel burn on AP+ will be fixed one day, I guess we will have many crashes with empty tanks, when people return from AP+ and they wish back the times with low consumption again 
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Nah. It just means no more 100+ hour nonstop trips. If one plans properly, there shouldn’t be that issue.
I hope it gets fixed so its the same if not close enough to what the fuel burn would be if one didn’t use AP+.
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I dont get how you run out of fuel? Its a you problem, unless you can point to where you have over fueled the plane, your flight time and cruise speed was normal the whole flight and yet you still run out.
How do you do a 100+ hour non stop trip? Just out of curiosity, what route, altitude, and aircraft?
Just fly around the equator or something endlessly. The best candidates for it under AP+ are probably the A350 or A380.
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I also don’t get it, but by now I have seen already several threads with people complaining, where they even run out of fuel during AP+ and crashed.
I always calculate my fuel on my observed fuel consumption at certain altitudes and add fuel for 1 - 1.5 hrs in case I need to divert to another airport or need to fly holding patterns because of busy airport (what actually never happens, but irl they have to have a reserve for that)
I tried that equatorial flight with an A350 and had only a dozen passengers and filled my tanks 100%.
At that time winds were going west, so I started westbound from Singapore (almost Equator) over Libreville, Gabun (on Equator) and managed to get to Quito, Ecuador.
I had to land there and refuel because I wouldn’t have made it back to Singapore over the Pacific Ocean with only 5 hrs fuel left in the tanks. The whole flight was 44 hours with a tank stop.
I also don’t understand how people do that. Actually it doesn’t bother me much, since I try to fly as realistic as possible. So that was only a try.
PS: I only had it once on a long haul flight from Hongkong to EGLL long time ago, when I had the fuel calculated properly, but I hadn’t thought of strong headwinds around 100kts and when I came back from AP+ I only had fuel for 10 minutes left.
Because EGLL was controlled, I didn’t want to land there and not be able to leave the runway, so I tried to divert but after engine shutdown, a steep turn made me stall. But only happened once and long time ago.
Lol i have the opposite, i always have way to much fuel. Do you ever log back in during the flight or just for the final 30 minute mark? I probably check in 5 or 6 times a flight. But yea it needs fix to adapt to live conditions
On 99.9% of all cases I also have much too much fuel left. I also do check in several times in an AP+ flight, to see, where am I, who is flying around me, how much fuel is left compared to ETE and last but not least, that’s an XP expansion pack But I don’t care about XP anymore. Have more than enough and whether 4 million or 5 million- who cares.
Like I said: Happened only 1 time to me that fuel was Zero about 20nm away from touchdown and I could have made it gliding down, but my turn to divert was too steep and I messed up.
The longest I did was 34 hours back in March this year in Delta A350 where I took off from JFK and cross both Atlantic and Pacific and then flown further into Midwest US before making southward toward Mexico and ended landing in Cancun.
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Lol oh ok, i just check in when winds are in my favor. Nothing worse going 400kts on some great tailwinds all because when you logged off on autopilot + on 150mph headwinds
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