Carenado Mooney M20R Ovation

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Took this bird out again, she was sitting in my hangar for a few months collecting dust, bad owner. But so many planes to fly in the sim and so little time in the day. haha.

Anyway, I really enjoyed flying this plane again, I will have to get her out more often and put her into the regular flying rotation.

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I got this Mooney recently and I’ve generally been enjoying it, but there’s one thing that’s been bugging me:

I can’t turn on the flight director independently of the autopilot. I’ll press the button and the light will flash momentarily, and the guide on the attitude indicator will start to pop up, but then it will switch back off. This has made it so I can’t effectively pre-configure the autopilot before I turn it on. Has anyone else had this issue?

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GenBrienYQB reported the same here Carenado Mooney M20R Ovation - #2224 by GenBrienYQB and I am experiencing the same too. But I am not sure this is an issue or it is the normal behaviour of the FD with the AP OFF. Hopefully someone with real life experience could confirm.

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I’ve recently managed to purchase this aircraft and I love it, but I found a few issues with it. I’m on Xbox but the product is supposed to be the latest version (last updated in June).

  • The knob on the storm window doesn’t animate when you open/close the storm window.
  • The analogue fuel indicators outside on the wings don’t move and they don’t indicate the correct fuel amount. Possibly not simulated at all?
  • The altitude preselector doesn’t work as it should and as it is written in the documentation. You can’t arm a preset altitude and the aircraft doesn’t do the 500 ft/m climb/descent as it’s mentioned. You always have to engage VS mode first, then press the knob and set the VS rate, and only then it is possible to arm the altitude. The logic seems wrong here.
  • I found that the GNS 530 in the aircraft is not the latest WT version for some reason. It’s missing functionality. Can’t change the NAV view (there’s no HDG up view with the arc, for example) and also it’s just different to what is in default aircraft for example. Seems to be an older version, despite the patch notes saying otherwise.

Despite these issues the plane is not only perfectly usable but very much fun to fly and use. It would just be nice to see these bugs corrected, if they are bugs in the first place.

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It has been broken in the last version, it used to work properly. I opened a ticket with Carenado and they said it will be fixed in a next update.

I am using the PC version and the needles are moving based on the fuel load. The only point is that the indicated quantities the needles show are different than the ones I am seeing in the cockpit gauges. Not sure if it is a bug or the correct logic as the real plane. If you put 0 fuel quantity in both tanks, the needles still show a fuel quantity ?

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You’re right, the needles work, but I think the numbers on the instrument are incorrect. At empty fuel tank the needle is at zero and at full tank the needle goes to max. However, the max number on the indicator is 30 gallons while the tank actually contains 47.5 gallons max. At 50% the tank has 23.75 gallons but the needle is at around 14.

Maybe this is some kind of modification in the aircraft that this was modeled on? The tank was “expanded” while the instrument is stock? I’m not familiar with the real aircraft so I don’t know if such a modification could exist. Just guessing.

Either way, the instrument doesn’t show correct values. The displays on the dashboard are correct at least.

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One more small bug: the “GPS active” light is always lit, even when the aircraft is cold and dark.

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I also reported it to Carenado and they said it will be fixed in a next update.

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Do you know what is the current status for latest mentioned required fixes ?

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No, only once Carenado release an updated version we’ll know what the changes are. I have not heard anything about if and when they’ll release it.

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Well, Carenado is not famous for their continuous and quick support so I personally don’t expect any updates for the Mooney ever again. What’s currently there is quite excellent, I enjoy the aircraft very much.

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Yes, agree with your comments. Anyway, I stay optimistic and still hope they’ll bring an update for FS2020 but wait and see
 I also enjoy that beautiful airplane.

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The Mooney was one of my first add on planes and I really like it. I wish they would make it as great as some of the newer planes we have now.

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The Mooney is one of my favorites. I would love an A2A version. Even a Black Square mod would be great.

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2261

Hello all.
I have had the Mooney for quite some time abut just today decided to fly it again after 8-9 months.
Apparently I am not able to engage HDG mode or the ALT and VS functions.

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No problem on my side, are you clicking on “AP” 1st to activate the autopilot ?

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Yes i am click AP of course.

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ok, and what happens when you click on HDG and ALT/VS ?, the corresponding symbols are highlighted ?

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I have the main toggles (AP on/off,HDG,NAV1,ALT hold) and increase/decrease heading bug, VS ref, ALT ref and all the assigned yoke buttons work as well as the mouse on the instrument itself. Of course ALT ref only works on G3000/G1000/Collins setups and VS only works once armed manually on older systems including the very old Sperry through the KAP. Just flew it the other day across all of HI.

It’s been through multiple SU updates, just uninstall/reinstall. And I have the WT stuff installed(which for whatever reason causes zero problems on my 'box).

I’ve been going through the fleet flying stuff for the first time in a year+, a few of them required a 5 minute uninstall/reinstall.