Just saw the update in the Marketplace, downloading now.
So I havenāt played around with it too much, but the autopilot seems much improved. It looks like they did away entirely with the automatic climb rate. I had to turn ALT HOLD off and then use the pitch controls to set my climb rate and then it autocaptured the set altitude. Way less terrifying to use now than letting the plane decide how quick we go up or down!
Iāve still got that overhead Gen 5 failure light stuck on but not a big deal.
Has the sound been corrected. At release the sound was great ā¦after an Update many people were unhappy.
Whatās that enhanced texture pack like?
I wonder if thereās an AP sync button somewhere - that sort of thing was quite popular for a while.
Does not appear to have made it to OrbX yet.
A couple issues and other observations and annoyances as of the newest version (1.3.0):
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The APU start switch now always returns to the āoffā position rather than the center position, and canāt be used to shut down the APU. It can only be shut down by closing the air inlet to starve it of oxygen.
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The ābeatingā sound of the propeller blades during startup only starts playing when fuel is introduced, instead of smoothly fading in and increasing in frequency as the prop RPM increases.
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Going even one click below idle revs the props up to max RPM and they start producing quite a lot of reverse thrust. The manual says the reverse range should give a proportional amount of reverse thrust, so I would expect it to have a perfectly smooth transition from idle to max reverse.
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I find the autopilot pitch switch extremely sensitive and had to use SPAD to bind buttons to directly increase and decrease the AUTOPILOT PITCH HOLD REF variable by 0.25 degrees per click to make it more controllable.
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Some of the rotary knobs, such as the IRS mode knobs, move in the wrong direction when scrolling with the mouse wheel. In all the other planes Iāve flown, scrolling up always rotates clockwise and scrolling down always rotates counterclockwise. They also donāt consistently rotate in the same direction so you either have to memorize the correct scrolling direction for each individual knob or use trial and error. Very annoying.
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The approach speeds given in the manual donāt seem right. I was at max landing weight and flaps 40 and no airbrakes, and the chart gives an approach speed of 110 knots, but I had the stall horn screaming at me any time I went below 115 or so. Is this normal? Also, since thereās an AoA indicator in the cockpit, is there a list of correct approach AoA values for various flap settings?
Now up on OrbX.
Iāve had issues with backwards rotary controls in this in previous versions too ( and in other aircraft ), I donāt think that is attributable to this update - the pitch trim switch is something Iāve complained about before too. The rest of them do seem off as well, worth emailing them in I reckon - Azurpoly have been pretty prompt to reply when Iāve sent any in.
Will be dowloading as soon as i finish work. Has the pilot side wiper been fixed?
Thatās how itās described in the manual.
This has been an issue since the public release. I agree, itās annoying.
Has any one the new Conditionlever axis working in A&O, Spad or FSUIPC and can show? I mean the binding MIXTURE 1 AXIS (0 to 100%) moving the lever between low and high idle as stated in the new manual. Using the insim Control Options it works, but I cannot make it work in FSUIPC.
Fixed: I found there are 2 new Input Events for the condition levers. Using those it works.
The Azurpoly manual says this light is the Gen 5 failure light. But itās not. The C160 POH says itās the warning light for overcurrent protection on the line from G5 to XP3 and XP4.
Now, the Azurpoly manual says that switches 19 and 20 (page10) are the G1 to XP3 and G1 to XP4 transfer switches. They are not. The POH says they are the G5 to XP3 and G5 to XP4 transfer switches (as switches 10 and 11 are not G1 and G2 to XP1 and XP2 but G5 to XP1 and XP2).
So, if you switch them off, is the light still on?
Do you happen to have a link to the POH, or would you be willing to share it?
Sure. They sell a Flight Manual of the German Luftwaffe C130 and one of the South African Airforce. I got the German one. Itās extremely detailed with 831 pages.
Itās on their website: Resources ā AzurPoly
Ah, neat. Is that a digital or physical manual? Iām assuming digital since the checkout page doesnāt list any shipping fees?
Edit: Nevermind, it says on their homepage that theyāre scanned PDFs.
Yes, itās a digital one.
Also the logic of the transfer indicators is wrong. Either the TRANSFER switch is in the upwards position and the indicator is in horizontal position or vise-versa.The same applies to the indicators of Gen 1-4.
The intended use of the G5, to provide electrical power to the aircraft sub-systems while the engines are not running (and G1ā4 wonāt deliver any electricity) or to act as a back-up in thte case of failure of an engine generator.
Did you try a REARM ?