I’m hoping there’s a PPL career… So I can take advantage of the career mode goodies and do what I do in real life, except with lots of planes… That would be one. Another could be Doctor’s without borders, Flying Doctors, Royal Flying Doctors, Rural Doctor, etc… Another could be a business owner who has to do sales pitches in different far flung places. Another could be a mechanic, and you have to test your work when you’re done. Another could be Young Eagles flights. Another could be … I could go on…
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Ah, that’s interesting. I had assumed it got that from the programmed nav data.
That’s also there - it’s what shows up below the frequency.
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Yep it’s got both. You don’t have to listen to the morse yourself if the top one matches the station you are expecting. The bottom one is for guidance only as it’s just a db lookup rather than a decode. If only the bottom one is present the pilot is still required to do the actual morse decoding. Not all units providing this sort of information are the same of course so it’s important to understand for specific equipment what the source of the info it displays is.
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I have a question about flying in cold weather. I want to do a tour in a small prop plane through Alaska, and the Comanche is my no 1 choice because it’s so well made. But I remember from last winter carb ice was present at all times when flying in extremely cold weather, it was unflyable.
Now my question is, how come? I am talking about -20 C or lower. To my limited knowledge, carb ice isn’t an issue when it’s that cold right? The air can’t hold enough watervapor for carb ice to be present. Well that’s how I learned it.
But yeah the Comanche dropped dead out of the sky last winter in Alaska, at temps of -25C in clear skies. So what don’t I understand correctly?
Did you use carb heat and it still didn’t maintain power?
Carb ice is very unlikely at that temp. Did you look at the EFB to see where the issue was? That’s one really nice thing about this plane. Don’t get me wrong, checking that during an emergency should be like #47 on the list of priorities, but since this is a sim airplane and subject to sim vagaries, I usually try to check because I might be able to avoid it in the future and/or report the bug to the dev.
Did you notice a drop in manifold pressure? As above it’s rather odd to get carb ice at that temperature.
Yes I did see a slow reduction in MP (until imminent stall), and yes I did use full carb heat. I’ll give it a try again this weekend. I was just under the impression it was a sim limitation considering icing, but I don’t think A2A does sim limitations.
Note that in the real world you did not need to be super proficient at Morse, you could just note the code of any nearby stations down as a reminder when you did your flight plan. For local stations you heard them so often the code was implanted permanently in your head forever.
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I recently got this on the sale that recently passed.
So far I’ve racked up over 60hrs engine time already on a new craft with everything set to normal wear and tear, also at a normal failure rate. My trip has been from Pipers home at Vero Beach to get it home where I live in Australia, so I’ve gone the East-West route and crossed the Aleutions in pretty brutal conditions. I’ve gone through 2 Batteries and 1 Starter of my own fault by not getting the engine started fast enough and bumping up the throttle a bit to get the Alternator kicked into gear.
Everything else is oddly in the green for me apart from the cylinders which show a slight dip now but still green and an option to replace them. This plane must be way tougher than it looks for there not to be more issues considering I’ve had a few hard landings, been relatively heavy on the brakes and the harsh conditions I’ve faced.
Is it really that crazy hardy of an airplane or is the wear and tear acting up? What are others experiences with a new plane? Maybe way more hours are needed and it’s only still just getting broken in.
P.S I have also experienced what I suspected to be Carb icing issues out in Alaska waters. The temp was about -20c, flying in partially cloudy skies at night at 10,000ft. I saw the power drop and consulted the tablet, did what was suggested and it worked. Setting my mixture back to what it was before and dialling the Carb Heat back to around 30% saw me not having the issue again after.
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I wouldn’t expect any engine problems in the first 60 hours as long as you’re adding oil. In fact, I probably wouldn’t expect any major issues for 500 hours.
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I don’t own the A2A yet, but this is one reason why I speed up wear and tear if the option is available, such as with the FSR M500: I just know that with a busy life schedule, I’ll likely never get to 500 hours and I’m impatient. 
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The great thing about the A2A Comanche is that you can set it to ‘second hand’ or ‘auctioned’. This way you’ll start with many parts already well weared out.
Anyone who has set their Comanche to Auctioned? I haven’t dared it. Although I suppose a simple ‘overhaul’ would make everything flyable again.
I want to use one livery as an auctioned vagabond and crank the attrition. I just fly so many other aircraft I haven’t reached any real failures or severe wear on any given one. Really if you were IRL with reasonable usage anything remotely worrisome will be caught in an annual well before failure. I have smoked the generator on the FSR but I was doing something with the GPU attached. Still not sure what it was but I went to following procedures after that. Still managed to bring the GPU cable along for the ride a few times.
Anybody using one of those Authentikit throttle kits on this bird? Wondering what the quality is like. I’m looking for a reasonably priced, accurate throttle control. The authentikit is designed around the throttle controls for this bird, but it could be adapted for use on most Cessna light GA planes as well. I figure it could also be used with the Piper PA28 series; although, it is not an accurate reproduction of the quadrant in those planes. It is about 1/2 the price of a similar quadrant sold by “Pilot something or other”. I forgot the last part of the name.
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I too have been eyeballing it. Would be nice to have an affordable vernier style TQ.
One can never have enough throttle quads 
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Other than, what would be needed for 2024 functionality.
Only thing I would add is an internal temp readout on the dash (know there is one in the tablet) for immersion sake.
There’s one available on Flightsim.to if you use Axis & Ohs, very handy.
I have one of these. Nice unit. A bit of a wait to get it but worth it. Very precise in operation.
https://www.simmax.it/prodotto/single-throttle-engine-ver-2-2-plug-play/