doh I’m an idiot, I was thinking the about the warrior
Technically, no… you adjust RPM, and the constant-speed prop mechanism will be continuously chaging blade pitch, to maintain a “constant” RPM…
This video of one of my recent approaches might help illustrate this phase a little better (even though it turned into an absolute awful barnstorm of a landing…yeah.)
I get the same behavior with SU15 , plane is creeping with brakes on, makes for some interesting moments on the tarmac.
Anyone are facing CTD on Xbox when using Towbar (the “T” in tablet) to move the nose of the airplane ?
I think this has been a known issue since launch day. But I’ve not tried it myself because I knew it was a CTD before I even bought the plane.
Yep, had that yesterday too (XBox Series X).
Hi all,
I’ve been sitting here watching tutorials and reviews about the Comanche for a few days cleaning my keyboard from all the drool now and then 
And I am really tempted to pull the trigger.
What makes me hesitate is not the price. But it occurred to me that all reviewers operated most things in the cockpit by click&scroll. I like the tablet feature but operating things like trim, parking brake, carb heat, throttle/prop/mix, lights and so on with mouse only is something I’m not very fond of..
I have an Xbox X and an HC AlphaXPC+Bravo. Can all the switches on these units be used for the things they are intendet for?
So, could someone using this marvellous plane on XBox please tell me which items of the cockpit can NOT be assigned via MSFS’s control options?
I’ve read that there is an external tool to help with assignments but that’s not going to work on Xbox or is it?
Kind regards,
Frank
Don’t know what a fixed pitch aircraft is, but I didn’t know that there are still people teaching the stone age Method I + II technique.
Controlling the glideslope with prop pitch? Seriously? That must be among the most dangerous ‘techiques’ I’ve ever read.
If you are below your intended glideslope you need to add power. By decreasing prop pitch that’s not happening and what are you going to do if you need to go around?
PC user here, and I extensively use Spad.Next to customize my controls, to include a couple of Stream Decks.
For X-Box, most of the controls should readily map to the standard FS2020 settings, to include trims, parking brake, throttle/prop/mixture, as well as the main switches for lights, pitot heat, etc. Carb heat I’m guessing is mappable, but primer is probably not, though it’s only needed at startup.
The main issue you’ll likely have is mapping the autopilot controls, which is very different in this aircraft than most others. I’ll guess that the heading bug can be mapped to something on HC (maybe a rocker switch on your yoke), and probably the A/P disconnect button. However, the AP Master on/off and lateral mode selector button might require mouse clicks. Note that there are no vertical modes (V/S, etc.) on this aircraft, so you’re ascending/descending manually.
(I’m assuming that XBOX has the exact same Controls menu as the PC version)
And correct, you can’t use SPad.NExt, Axis and Ohs, FSUIPC, etc on an XBOX.
To lose elevation and droping airspeed at the same time does not work well together. Try to slow down first by reducing the throttle and while keeping the same altitude. Then trim for the new setting.
When you are pulling up (= trimming nose up) all the time during the approach you too slow or don’t have enough power for you set flaps, which have a lot of drag.
Get it! You won’t regret it.
I have an XBOX and everything I use in any dynamic phase of flight is bound to my Boeing yoke and throttle which has fewer controls and axes than your alpha and bravo. Trim works like it does on any other plane, you can use the wheel or electric trim bound to buttons. Trim acceleration and speed are actually adjustable in the tablet and the planes trims wonderfully. I even have fuel pump and pitot heat bound to buttons even though I only use them a couple of times each flight.
The only things to note are:
- The landing gear has 3 positions instead of two. But you can set it in the tablet to have 2 positions (no neutral position) and then it binds perfectly.
- The parking brake works with the parking brake binding but you have to hold the toe brakes while you activate/de-activate them. But this too can be toggled off in the tablet.
- The landing lights and taxi lights are actually just the left and right landing lights. They can each be bound to a separate switch/button or you can bind them both to one so you can have both landing lights on at the same time.
- I haven’t had to use the carb heat yet so I’m not sure if that one is bindable to an axis.
Of all the planes I have in my hanger this one plays really well with binding to physical buttons. My usual button for “AP master” actually scrolls through the autopilot modes so that’s great in flight (you need to switch modes a lot if you’re following a flight plan because it doesn’t change heading when following the HSI). I do wish they would change that binding to HDG or something and use the AP master for the actual AP master but you can’t have everything! This is darn close, though.
I think YouTubers use the mouse to show the controls as a teaching tool. You can watch the mouse cursor move around on screen to see what they’re doing, but it’s hard to draw attention to levers and buttons that are just switching on and off.
Enjoy the plane!
@FL991R, exactly the info I needed.Thank you so much.
Heading to the market place tomorrow.
Thanks again and happy Landings.
Regards, Frank
Note to self:
Don’t mess about with hardware elevator trim bindings while in the air.
That’ll be an ‘expensive visit’ to the prop/engine/etc shop now!
Im flying the comanche in the caribean.. i read on the A2A Forum that turbulence setting " realistic" is recommend. But IT IS so dam bumpy in the caribean im not sure that this is true to life. The turbulence is really heavy
I tried landing the Comanche at North Eleuthera (sp?) in the Bahamas, which is part of the new Carribean scenery pack…in a 30 knot crosswind. It went as well as expected. But there were three other light planes right behind me, and they all skidded off the runway through the grass to the terminal, just like me. 
Well Comanche demonstrated crosswind is 15 knots so that is double what was confirmed during testing as doable. So one would expect it to be tricky.
Yep, I can’t really blame the “ground physics” for that landing! I definitely should have diverted, but…YOLO.