A call to Chipmunk fliers - how about the (lack of) right-turning tendency when power applied at take-off?
I recall from my rather limited Chipmunk RL experience some years ago that the Chippy was a handful at take-off due to the strong right-turning tendency. I am missing this in the sim (auto rudder is OFF and wind is calm, of course).
The FSX Chippy from AH (marketed by JustFlight) was spot-on with this.
Other than that, the visuals are pretty good and it seems to fly by the number as I recall them. Nice. The only other thing I would welcome very much would be the free castoring tailwheel and simulation of the differential brakes when taxying. Though I understand the AH implementation is aimed at ease-of-use.
So interestingly, this happened to me during my first take off and I had to abord and retry because I wasnāt expecting it. I counteracted it with backpressure and left aileron and didnāt experience much right turning tendency on the second attempt.
Thanks for the post, KJ! Totally empathetic with your passion about the plane, and jealous you got to fly in one!
Would love to see your Newton when youāre done with it!
One thing I learned when taking screenshots is that the camera zoom setting can cause some serious distortion, especially with the drone camera. If you set it to 85-100 (depending on how zoomed you want the background), it keeps proportions pretty close. At the default settings, it significantly distorts objects as they approach the edges of the screen.
If you set the zoom of the view youāre using to 90-100, Iād be curious to see if that solves the exaggeration youāre seeing.
Ground handling in taildraggers is severely borked in this simulation, still. So many planes get a weird sudden swing when they hit a particular speed thatās not torque-related. Frankly, until Asobo fixes this issue, Iād prefer that designers err on the side of taming the takeoff experience. If real planes were as deadly and unpredictable as, say, the Big Radials P-40 on takeoff, the second World War would have been a ground war because weād have lost all of our pilots in training.
Really glad I picked this one up, excellent warbird trainer! Going to an event tomorrow at the Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum and looking forward to checking out a Chipmunk or two!
No Aeroplane Heaven product has yet reached Xbox however they are doing the DC-3 that will come to Xbox for the anniversary addition so maybe they will start adding more to the Marketplace and Xbox but that certainly hasnāt happened so far.
Correct me if Iām wrong butā¦Is the Flap operating handle working in reverse?.
All real life cockpit pictures I can find show the handle forward when flaps are up.
Ok so can someone answer me this question please? Is fuel only drawing from one tank? and if so do you get an imbalance, that affects the plane. I dont have it, I know little about this plane, was going to give AH a final chance, but I am worriedā¦as I am reading āFuel only draws from the left tankā which makes me think it has a right tank and the right tank does not get used, surly this would cause an imbalance which would result in the plane flying badly?
Thereās definitely a fuel bug. I looked at the fuel system diagram and read up on it, it pulls from both tanks simultaneously. Thereās ultimately only one line that goes through the fuel cock, pumps, and into the engine. The left tank is the only one that empties in this one, it always reads 0 on the wing, and it kills the engine once empty. I donāt know how that one slipped by their testers, but it seems like it shouldnāt be too hard to get a patch out for that
Hereās a screenshot of that diagram - itās in the included POH in the Documentation folder.
Regarding the fuel issues, a couple things I found while digging through the cfg files as well as the .flt files which define the state of the aircraft when you load cold and dark, on the runway etc.
Flight_model.cfg - the default fuel tank selector is defined as 1 (all) but there is also a value of 16 for both tanks. Iām going to try this but also, all the .flt files, at the very end have a fuel section and there are 2 parameters for tank selector and tank selector 1 and both are defined as āLeftā. Seems like it might correlate to our issues.
