Carenado Mooney M20R Ovation

Without temps/winds and dens-altitude hard to replicate.

105ktns is for max rate of climb at 2500rpm with that you could get at SL 1300ft/min.
And 2.850 LBS TOW.

So if you climb out with 90ktns with a good headwind component and ~15°C could be doable.

But there you go…

Here you see some GS Records of the M20R:

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Great. Thanks for that info mate.

AP does not follow NAV? I switched the Garmin to GPS and the AP to NAV. The plane does not follow the flight plan and misses the next leg.

What on earth has wind to do with the rate of climb???

And why should the ROC increase with a IAS lower than Vy?

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That’s correct. According to the manual the TAS at full throttle at 2000ft and ISA conditions is 193kts (3300lbs)

At max cruise (75% = 24/2400) TAS should be 180kts.

The Mooney not only looks fast :wink:

Wowee, quite the little hot-rod! I’m relieved to hear it’s not just bad coding.

I have also finally found Carenado’s documentation. If anyone else was looking here’s where I found mine: [install location]\Packages\Official\Steam\carenado-aircraft-m20r-ovation\SimObjects\Airplanes\Carenado_M20R_Ovation\Documentation

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I am asking the folks who made the checklist for the C182 https://www.flightsimhanger.online/ to make one for the Mooney.

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Does anyone know if there is anything that illuminates the overhead switches at night? I can’t turn on/off landing/taxi lights cause I can’t see the switches… it’s pitch black up there.

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I already searched the whole cockpit but there doesn’t seem to be any switch for that. I guess the original switches are backlit…

As a workaround, you can activate your head lamp with Alt+L.

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How do you activate the speed brakes from the panel?

There is a button on the left side of the yoke. I don’t see a way on the panel. That is why I was excited to be able to assign it to my HOTAS.

Oh! No wonder I never saw it. I always hide the yoke. Thank you!

First time I see in the Joke the CWR button that if I don’t mistake let you change the heading with the AP active. But I can’t found any option to this in the control menu :confused:. Anyone know something about.

Number pad " / " also activates speed brakes .

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An update: I noticed that icing does in fact work at high altitudes, but not at low altitudes when the temperature is very cold. Needs more testing.

As mentioned above, staring the game and then playing an aircraft with lots of garmin screens does in fact seem to help. The TBM is my go-to. Loading the Mooney after flying the TBM for an hour seems to be a reliable way of preventing avionics failures, as long as I don’t turn off the game.

Did you press the OBS button? Pressing it can cause that exact effect (not following the next leg)

I can confirm that iceing does work . Just had a flight where the plane iced up at 8000ft . I was flying / skimming , approx 100ft above a bank of clouds , just south of Birmingham in the UK . Outside temp was -3 deg and plane started to ice up rapidly . Ice on wings and windshield . Decreased altitude to 3000ft and eventually ice cleared , ( temps at 3000ft was 4 deg ) .

( P.s Had clear skies and -3 deg before encountering cloud bank . Plane only iced over upon encountering cloud bank ) .

Well, pretty disappointed with the Garmin, half the buttons don’t work; direct to, inner/outer knobs, proc, etc. Is this because it is using the base 530?

Yes, it’s an Asobo side problem. They’re just calling up the asset for their plane. Probably same too the autopilot. A house is only as good as its foundation.

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?? I have no problem with “direct to” !? Selecting a wpt in the FPL or typing a wpt works and plane set to course to the desired wpt…

May be because I’ve installed workingtitle-G1000 addon ? But it regards Garmin G1000, not 530. Perhaps some features modify GNS530 too ?