C182RG II Improvement Project

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Carenado just released update 1.0.2 today which fixes the AP and other issues. Just a heads up. (Reference the main 182RG thread here).

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A nice surprise for a Friday! Hopefully Iā€™ll be able to take a look at this today and update my mod to remove my fix for the same issue.

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Iā€™ve updated my mod this morning, very small release notes this time:

  • updates this mod for version 1.0.2 of the base plane
  • removes the custom autopilot code as the bug it fixed has now been fixed upstream by Carenado

This update can be downloaded from flightsim.to [c182rg-improvement-project] as always, or as a direct download from https://projects.alexchesters.com/c182rg-improvement-project/0.5.1/c182rg-improvement-project.zip

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Does anyone have problems with starting to taxi? I have to use more power to get it moving than other aircraft.

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It was like that, with the default aircraft, from the start. Donā€™t think it was caused by this mod. It does need a lot of throttle to start moving. Maybe Carenado will fix it for us.

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Would it be possible to fix the hour meter so that it reads 100thā€™s, 10thā€™s and hours properly? Or perhaps the second to right roller needs to be black with white lettersā€¦ Iā€™m unsure which. Iā€™ve no idea if those kinds of things can be changed with a mod.

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I think this was mentioned in another thread, and a user posted an image from a real life 182RG. Iā€™ll try to dig that out. I think the gist of it was that the image looked like it does in the sim.

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Iā€™ve reported the tach issue to Carenado. The far right digit is moving at 1/10th of an hour so they need to either replace the tach to one that only has a single white digit (or mod it) or theyā€™d have to change the code to have the far right digit counting 1/100th of an hour and the next white digit to its left counting out the 1/10ths. Hopefully, theyā€™ll fix it one way or the other.

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Probably not possible to fix with this improvement mod but here goes:

  • The ARM button on the AP panel next to the BARO button is not backlit.
  • When in APR mode flying an ILS approach, the AP does not annunciate GS prior to capturing the glide slope.

Have reported both to Carenado.

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Thanks for the feedback; it may be possible to fix with this mod, Iā€™ll add it to the list and hopefully take a look at it at some point.

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I flew from KAUS to KDAL yesterday. I had 70% fuel. it was a 1.46 hr. flight, when I arrived, my fuel was 4%. This is a lot of fuel for 1.46 hrs. Good thing it wasnā€™t a 4hr. flight. Somethings is wrong.

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Are you sure you did everything right?
I just completed a low altitude flight of 2000 feet of 42 minutes (full fuel). I used up 12% of the fuel. Shortly before landing, the TDS GTNXi calculated a range of 720nm and a remaining flight time of 4:44.

Even without the calculated values of the TDS GTNXi, this results in a flight time of over 5 hoursā€¦

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Yea, I tried it too. Fuel seems fine. 5+ hr flight time.

Were you possibly running all the way rich the whole time?

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Is it possible to change the fuel capacity to 92 gallons as in the poh? Tried looking for the aircraft.cdg file but canr find it. Thanks

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Nope. File is encrypted. I believe fuel capacity is actually in FlightModel.cfg if I recall the SDK correctly.

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@CasualClick is correct, unfortunately this isnā€™t possible without providing an entirely new FlightModel.cfg from scratch

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I once tried that, I think, early after release in 2020.

I have access to the Steam 172, so what I did was take the flight model file from the glass 172 that everyone has, and copied it into the folder for the steam gauge one.

I then made some changes to that file, stuff I should really noticed i.e. really big or really small numbers. I never noticed any difference when flying it. Itā€™s like it ignored the config file entirely, and the two planes should have been near identical.

I havenā€™t tried this since in case that was some kind of bug, bug it made me think at that time that it wasnā€™t quite as simple as that.

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Itā€™ll ignore the file (I think?) unless itā€™s in the community folder. Thatā€™d be how youā€™d do what you wanted to do.

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This is for the C182 RG released in 2023 not the CT182T G1000

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I was just using the 172 glass/steam as an example of what I had tried back then, as flight model wise they should be near identical, which made blindly copying a flight model file into a planes folder seem plausible. I donā€™t think I knew back then about the need to build an addon pointing at that plane to go into the Community folder.