I'm having this issue when flying with Elytra.
Someone create an offical forum for discutions at https://www.reddit.com/r/Mojira and link it at the descritption of this report.
MCCE-1599 was marked as "Works As Intended". Should this issue also be marked as "Works As Intended"?
PS: still an issue in 1.9
Phase out the furnace?
They should at least make the power rails more cheap
still an issue in 16w06a
Console edition also has the same bug (after TU31)
Still an issue in 15w49b
Mojang please check this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YVGFJRwSe2A.
Problem 2 shows the bug. Problem 3 is the actual trick that players can workaround this bug today.
Problem 2 also does not occurs in 1.7.10 version.
Timings can be done by other means (repeaters, comparators, etc...), but are more precise and compact with hoppers. I think that perhaps some new advanced repeater could be released that handle higher ticks and hoppers maintain the current snapshot behavior.