Hello, forum. Sorry to bother you.
I managed to argue myself into buying MSFS2024 recently because I’d wanted to buy the Twin Otter add-on from Aerosoft but discovered it had been removed from sale and added into FS24 instead.
I do like that plane, although I find the autopilot extremely difficult to use for altitude control. I think I have more studying to do to work out its quirks, as button presses often seem not to do what I expect they’ll do, or changes seem to kind of reset each other…
Anyway, that aside, I was delighted to find that the Cessna Caravan Amphibian is included in 2024. This made me happy, because the Amphib Caravan was my One True Plane in FSX and I was sad it didn’t make it into FS2020 (the fact that it was just a fixed model with no opening doors etc was also a disappointment). So I couldn’t wait to get reacquainted with my old friend… but…
Does anyone else find the Caravan Amphibian almost impossible to control? I’m trundling down the runway and almost immediately I apply takeoff throttle the plane’s trying to roll and yaw wildly - it’s like the taildraggers in 2020, and as with those planes, I can barely get it in the air without it flipping over or veering off the runway. I managed to get it in the air once, landed it, and halfway down the runway it just fishtailed and rolled over sideways.
Is it a setting? Something I’ve missed? Is anyone else having the same problem? I don’t remember the Caravan Amphibian being anything close to this unstable in FSX.
