C208B Grand Caravan EX Mods General

Hi Por, glad you installed ok. I know nothing about the workings of the mod, like you my expertise is PNG scenery. Re the cameras I use Ctrl + 1-9 and if you press the same keys again it brings back the default view.
Back to the G1000, i haven’t used it for a while, been using the GTN750, so when I installed v0.3.5 I noticed it doesn’t work as it should. You need to make a modification that is explained in the G1000 notes.
In the C208B-mod/simobjects/airplanes/asobo_208B…/panel directory are 2 xml files. You need to copy the contents of WTEngineDisplay.xml and paste them into the Panel.xml file at the top just after
Hope that is all clear.

After installing WT 3.5 have you reinstalled the fix for the annunciators and have you modified the panel.xml file as explained in the working title changes.md, and detailed in my post this morning to por9300.

Hi Don, Thanks for your great help. I am not too good under the hood so to speak. takes me ages to get my mind around the various steps, and i usually have to prepare all downloads and make a small script…1. do this. 2. do that etc. and keep this for reference for other ventures.

I will look back though the posts and check into the other mods you mention and sort of creep up on it. The C208b is a great workhorse. I have been also waiting for the Kodiak to appear one day, as there are a few in MFS production.

The C208b has a lot better ground steering and braking, and seems to have more grunt when loaded. Empty, it is very bouncy on the strips, so i usually always have 60-70% load. I will have a look at setting up the camera views a tad better, as bush strips need very good vision.

Are you using the PMS5 GTN750? I was looking at this today, and thinking of getting involved. I used the Reality GTN750 in the P3Dv4 and was a very good system. They are still working out how to rebuild theirs, so i was curious about the PMS5 version.
Geoff

Hi Geoff, yes I know what you mean, like you i’m getting on in years. Yes it is the PMS50 GTN750 i’m using with the WT G1000 installed as well as this provides annunciator warnings etc. I much prefer the GTN750 as it is much easier than trying to rotate knobs when the plane is bucking about. Also the G1000 mod doesn’t have OBS which as Ryan says makes orientation much easier. With the (at the moment) free premium version you also get terrain radar and vcalc. I would certainly recomend you try it, it’s all free at the minute.

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Pretty quiet in this thread lately. Are we holding our collective breath to see what next Sim Update does to the Caravan model?

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Indeed… I really hope turboprops will get some love in this update. I do not expect them to be fully fixed, but at least I hope they fix the prop drag that will not have to be offset by flaps’ effectiveness anymore for STOL flying.
And if not… back to the mod

I’m too lazy to look but the last dev Q&A specifically mentioned the Caravan getting a total rework for this update releasing on the 25th. They demoed the new turboprop logic in the video as I recall.

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I’m hopeful this will bring a nice improvement! :smiley: I’ve quite come to like this bird and improvements to the engine handling would be very welcome.

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Okay, just tried the stock C208 with SU4 installed. The engine seems to behave more realistically now. Ground roll on takeoff seems greatly reduced. I set cruise power at 1900RPM and 1750RPM according to the POH at 4,000ft and fuel flow was within just a few gallons of the table. Reducing throttle for descent results in a much quicker reduction in airspeed; drag seems more noticeable. The bucking bronco pitch up behavior is more tame when applying flaps–you still need to trim but it’s manageable. Normal and short field landings were easily performed by the book too. The reverser behavior is greatly improved; it actually seems to do something.

My big complaints are the yaw damper still doesn’t work and the default G1000 is still lame (AV1 bus turns the MFD and PFD, for example).

I would be curious to hear others’ thoughts on the new model. I hope the improvements that Asobo made in this patch will spur the folks who have been kindly working on these mods to keep going!

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As mentioned, just need the Yaw Dampener implemented. The Caravan is back in my go-to inventory with the PT performance tweaks. Pair it with the WT G1000, and get flying!

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I end up being completely dumped with these mods compatible or not with the new versions. I put the mod “GTN750” which works well. And concerning the C208, what is the recommended mod, for a better flight model? and with what mod G1000. But maybe without anything, everything is fine now.
Thank you,

I would guess all existing mods are suspect as they were based off of the old flight model. Unless they have been updated to work with SU4.

Sadly this plane doesn’t get much attention.

There is no need for the c208 mod now as the flight dynamics are OK. Working Title G1000 mod v 2.7 is compatible and PMS GTN750 v 1.0.18/1.0.14. Personally I have adjusting the nose wheel steering in the flight_model.cfg file and also applied the WT-g1000-0.3.4-fix from the C208B-mod but that’s just a personal choice.

Yes, it always seemed very sluggish on taxi in default.

so the only fix to fix are the uwa lights mod?

I tried to modify the mod (just for my own use) to remove everything except the landing light updates and the texture fixes (for all the typos on the default panel, which somehow are still not fixed). But it seems Asobo has remapped some of the switches, so now the mod texture fixes no longer apply correctly.

I think we’ll have to just wait for the mod devs to update this, if that’s still the plan.

While the default flight model is indeed improved, there’s still a lot broken with the default “reworked” SU4 Caravan. The standby torque gauge is for the wrong (non EX) version of the Caravan and shows an incorrect scale. Yaw damper does not work. The typos previously mentioned, and another issue not solved in the default is the Battery Amps on the MFD reading -140+.

I already have fixed some things that you mention, long time ago.
I’ve waited for @dgtlanlg to update the mod, but he hasn’t been online for a long time.
I will try to merge the latest changes and pull requests from github to my original base on github.
I will try to checkout the latest changes from the original source and merge them if needed.
Maybe I can publish a new release version in the next days.
But so far I need to have a look over the hole files

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Where can I find Working Title G1000 mod v 2.7

“Working Title” https://www.workingtitle.aero

Look under the Packages link. V.0.3.7 is the latest.

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Okay thank you, that’s the one I already have