It must be rather frustrating for Pilatus to see how their PC-6 is being abused.
They even used to have a limitation in the POH that vertical dives are prohibited.
Presently the ‘only’ limitations are the placard: DO NOT REVERSE IN FLIGHT
and the flight manual limitation
*Positioning of the power lever below the idle stop in flight is prohibited. * Such positioning may lead to loss of airplane control or may result in an engine overspeed condition and consequent loss of engine power.
That said. When participation during airshows we usually asked if we could use the space reserved for the helicopters to takeoff and land…
I thought the default GTN530/430 models are available from Asobo for anyone to use. All developers have to build the avionics’ 3d models from scratch? Just the logic is from Asobo? Interesting…
Hi Severeeno! Actually 3D modeling and PBR texturing are the easy part. Thanks to MS/Asobo for the animation templates!!! With their templates I only make animation in Blender, give appropriate name to the Button and the Animation and I automatically have in-game animation, function, and even night textures! This is just INCREDIBLE!
Thank you hobanagerik! We want to make everything possible to have airplane of our dream, including high quality gauges. We have tested our 530/430 Combo with the GNS530 mod and everything works fine as you see at the video!
Despite all the effort going.into the gps, it would be nice if it were configurable to not have them. Gps seems pretty pointless in an aircraft like this. It seems virtually every pc-6 has the center stack configured differently , but many have radios only.
Hi ngreenawa!
You are right! After 60 years of a successful production PC-6 has dozens cockpit/avionics layouts. In our case, for the comfortable flight simulation with a one monitor we decided to make avionics layouts which gives to the virtual pilot access to the maximum amount of gauges without changing a view angle. We use this avionics layout from the real PC-6:
I know some people like the avionics , and i wouldn’t want to take the option away from them, but even vr - effectively single monitor if u cant see another monitor with a map on it- its nice to have some variation in our aircraft , and i think i can count on one hand the garmin-free aircraft i have ( the fw p.149 being an excellent example of this)
It’s a logical thought, the problem with this is when you use high resolutions (e.g. for me 5160x1440) and you have old eyes you cannot see numbers on glass panels. It’s why I prefer steam gauges, not because I’m a Jurassic Pilot, but I can read them
A configurable panel would be a great option.