what are your controller sensitivity settings set at?
I have mine set at -50% and it seems to work well. It will reduce sensivity in the region around the center which helps increase control where you typically need it most.
Iāve discovered that it only happens when I have the ATC window ātorn offā or āpopped outā over on my second screen. Iāve been very careful to only open the ATC window on the main screen, and have not experienced a CTD since.
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i also noticed this and found reading the PA-44 manual that you have to have the heater unit switch turn on in the cockpit āheater fan switchā on the on position, then all the slider levers turn on (to the far right hand side) it is supposed to work then, however i am not sure if it the airplane coding or MSFS coding, but it should at least defrost the windscreen and door glass, but it doesnāt seem to have much effect as it should do. obviously it donāt have any engine or control surfaces area de-icing but it should still allow the windscreen to defrost so you can see where your going.
love this plane, just a few tweaks needed to make it work all good.
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I agree, itās rapidly becoming one of my favorite planes. Now we need some modern planes with steam gauges, G530/430 navigation, and certified for flight into known icing conditions. Singles, twins, and even turboprops.
I mean itās not like every plane out there is sporting a G1000, even though itās pretty common for brand new off the line planes.
I realize by the end of the year weāre likely to have dozens of payware aircraft to choose from, over a wide range of categories, but Iām an impatient child when it comes to such things. Besides, aside from the issue of spending hundreds or thousands of dollars on such things, I only have so much brain space available to remember how to properly fly so many at a time.
But I AM looking forward to some of the big boys releasing their airliners. I havenāt flown it yet, myself, but Iāve seen some seriously good things about the FBW A32X, but Iām more of a Boeing guy myself. So I need maybe a 737NG, a newer 747, and maybe a 767, 777, or even a 787 and Iāll be good to go with airliners. But some super high fidelity biz jets would be nice, too.
Iām a reality nut, so the closer a simcraft comes to acting, looking, feeling, and performing like the real deal, the happier Iāll be. And Iāll gladly spend more than $100 for those kinds of b1rds.
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I second that about, the more real, every switch, button and level works like in real life the better.
I am not really a fan of modern glass cockpit, i prefer steam gauges and having to plan out your flights before getting into the cockpit. Boeing 727 is one of my fav Jetliners, also for some old stuff i like the VC10, Lockheed Connie. and a awesome twin has to be the Cessna 421 Golden Eagle.
bush flying and old school flying is what i prefer.
the Seminole is pretty nice for now, also look forward to some more add on aircraft in the future.
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todays flight was awesome and challengine to land a twin at Gun lake BC (XCBH3) with the help of extra free scenery downloaded (BC mega Pack)
BC Mega Pack ā¢ Flight Simulator 2020
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I am impatient for study level GA airplanes! For a near study level jet, you should check out working titles CJ4 mod. It is completely redone, and very true to real life.
@FutureFlyer828, Iāve already got it, and I love it. I got distracted by the PA44 from Carenado that I bought on sale, so itās been my daily driver since I got it (because I love that one, too), but Iāll definitely be back to the WT CJ4 as soon as I get a hankering to fly a jet somewhere.
In fact, this message from you may have delivered that hankering lolā¦ Maybe in a few hours when Iām like awake for real.
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Canāt wait for A2Aā¦ also the J Rollon Marchetti looks awesome (The real air Marchetti was one of my fav airplanes in fsx). I bought the Piaggio FW add on, and was very disappointed. I have the Mooney, and it is pretty decent.
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Besides the bug that the Nav2 OBS is inop, I today had the issue that the HSI did not switch to GPS mode and didnāt show the GS of the ILS. I meanā¦ come on.
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Yep
(more characters because it told me Yep isnāt enough)
Just came across your comment while searching for the exact issue. It seems the GPS nav mode is not working when tied to HSI. HSI works fine in VOR mode, but not GPS mode. Weird, since it works just fine on the Mooney when switch between VLOC and GPS and the same company made the PA-44. You would think they would have it working and tested before selling it. I mean this is ābasicā navigation stuff that should work. Any idea where to report bugs with Carenado?
go to the support tab at carenado.com and select zendesk
I believe you may find, however, that in actuality, it shouldnāt work in GPS mode, and should only work in VLOC mode.
@FlyingsCool5650, I think the HSI is broken in probably several ways, and brought about by one of the more recent patches. I myself never owned it when it was working right, but Iāve seen YouTube videos, and the GS indicator is INOP, and the NAV flag is also INOP (I think), amongst several others. Plus the OBS for NAV2 isnāt spinning, and the on/off flags arenāt working, but the needles are, so it makes a great visual backup for an ILS.
Thereās also the issue of having to lean it out like 90% to get the EGT needles to even budge, but I think that goes back to the overly aggressive leaning model thatās been an issue since the beginning in the base sim.
I donāt expect Carenado to fix the leaning model, but I do expect them to fix their gauges, and for MS/Asobo to publish those fixes as soon as humanly possible after they get them. Even if theyāre still not 100%, even half-fixed is better than not at all. (To be published in the Store, I mean, I do expect Carenado to fix them completely even if it takes several tries.)
On a separate note, Iāve gotten into the habit of tagging anyone I quote or reply to to make dam well sure the system sends them a notification. If youāre the first post immediately following the post youāre āreplyingā to, it wonāt indicate that, and itās easy for readers to get confused, and the person to whom youāre responding to might not even know you did. So I always try to quote and tag someone to hopefully prevent anyone from being confused about who Iām talking to, or what Iām talking about.
It might not always be necessary, but I figure it takes me 0.5 seconds to add the tag and quote, so better safe than sorry. The forum software itself needs some tweaking, but this is a good workaround.
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as far as I know this is not a bug, the modeled PA44 is not KIC (known Ice conditions) certified and it should not have any deicing device.
if there is a bug, and there is one, is in this childish icing effect on wings and windshield that really is absurdly overdone.
I suggest to search online for iced wings and, specifically, for āinflight iced wingsā. The shots you usually find online are related to airplanes standing in parkings overnight and that icing is very different to the ice that forms during flight.
what we have now is totally unrealistic and, in the case of the PA44, not a bug with the airplane itself, it should not have any deicing.
you should avoid entering clouds with temperature less than 1C (we have a temperature gauge in the transponder instrument also, very clearly readable) and, generally, if you are pretending to be VFR, you should keep below the clouds.
that will prevent icing in general.
Why should the HSI work only in VLOC modeā¦?
Not the HSI, the Glide Slope indicator of the HSI. Which is broken either way.
I may be wrong, but Iām not sure if this model of HSI glide slope is supposed to hook up with the GPS. I think it only works with the NAV1 receiver. As I said, I might be wrong. I suppose I should look up the HSI manual for this gauge and see what itās options are. I donāt think the gauge code is available to be sure how itās supposed to work, though.
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Oh gotcha, I misunderstood, thx!
So no vertical guidance in the HSI even when flying LPV approaches?
Iām not positive, but I donāt believe so. Best confirm with someone more informed than I.