Carenado Saab 340 - not IFR -operable

:white_check_mark: SIM INFORMATION

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:white_check_mark: ISSUE DESCRIPTION

  1. Did you remove all your community mods/add-ons? If yes, are you still experiencing the issue?
    Yes

  2. If applicable, which aircraft is experiencing this issue:
    Saab 340

  3. Description of the issue:

  • Hydraulic meters fluctuate all the time for no reason
  • Radar altimeter showing altitudes to 10 000 ft and over
  • Sounds are weird, for example when retracting flaps from full, it isn’t a continous sound but loops weirdly. It kinda stops and starts again.
  • Seat position indicators in cockpit are way off
  • Taxi light not illuminating ground
  • Plane cannot reach FL250, even FL130 was difficult (not even fully loaded)
  • Autopilot IAS descent. Descending from FL130 with 240 kts commanded in IAS hold, the plane goes over 20 degrees nose down even with full power? Drag seems to be way too high?
  • Where is the LNAV route track? EHSI not working as it should. We should be able to see the LNAV track and waypoints (and their names).
  • CPT and FO EHSI are interconnected, changing something on FO side affects ctp side and vice versa
  • Anti-ice boots not working (at least lights didn’t illuminate in cockpit and also not visually inflating on leading edges)
  • R Prop Anti-ice not illuminating in warning light panel (L prop illuminating as it should?)
  • Condition levers in cockpit not responding when moving “condition lever axis” on Honeycomb Bravo (I assigned them right and double checked).
  • Standby Vor indicator not showing ILS’s glide path. Vertical indicator stays centered. Lateral indicator working though.
  • Rotating COM1 knob rotates also COM2 knob and vice versa (doesn’t affect frequenies)
  • Both transponders backlighting too bright when flying in night. Comms, Adf and nav looks as they should.
  • Panel lighting doesn’t work
  • Adding more than one waypoint in UNS-1 is bugged (sids and stars working though)

Cockpit textures could be crispier and if we could set the annunciator lights to dim at night, that would be awesome. Now they are way too bright. And the annunciator lights on overhead panel and center panel show’s whatever they like whenever they like. It seems that even the basic systems (electrics, pneumatics, pressurization etc) aren’t modelled in Saab.

This should premium deluxe content, but it seems to be some half----ed port of FSX-plane. :sob:

Saab in it’s current state seems to be like 50 % ready. I hope we get updates in systems modelling and avionics in fast pace so we can enjoy this beautiful airplane. And if Carenado / MS doesn’t care about getting Saab at least in basic operating level, perhaps Blacksquare could help getting Saab’s avionics and systems in order? :stuck_out_tongue:

:white_check_mark: FREQUENCY OF ISSUE

How often does this occur for you? (Example: Just once, every time on sim load, intermittently)
Always

:white_check_mark: REPRODUCTION STEPS

Please list clear steps you took in order to help our test team reproduce the same issue.

  1. Open sim
  2. Spawn in Saab 340
  3. Look around in cockpit, try to fly this thing IFR

:white_check_mark: YOUR SETTINGS

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  1. What peripherals are you using, if relevant:
    G2

  2. [PC Only] Are you using Developer Mode or have you made any changes to it?
    No

  3. [PC, MSFS 2020 Only] Are you using DX11 or DX12?

  4. [PC Only] What GPU (Graphics Card) do you use?
    3090

  5. [PC Only] What other relevant PC specs can you share?
    3090 / 32gb

:white_check_mark: MEDIA

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Here’s the flight:

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I have nothing to contribute other than my voice to say I am getting all these problems as well. Currently in cruise at 13000 (Couldn’t climb past.) after a sluggish 160 kt IAS, 500fpm climb. VS mode is borked, and currently navigating by HDG mode and following the pink line in the EFB.

Aviator Edition purchasers here, I’m hoping fixes are on the very, very near horizon because I’m not getting $200 vibes from this at all. It’s like it wasn’t beta tested at all.

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Also the EFIS is unusuable at night. Can’t dim

Note: The EFIS is in fact dimmable and that part isn’t a bug

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Do you have the same issue if you follow the OP’s steps to reproduce it?
• I have too noticed the Radios: xfr/mem + Collins -text flickering. Haven’t tested the rest because the sounds were not working and I don’t want to fly a silent plane.

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• Tried on two different occassions (evening and morning EU time)

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I continued testing the Saab. Plane looks quite good from outside, and I hope cockpit visuals and functions will be brought to the same level in near future.

I couldn’t get the planes NAV radios to find any VOR -stations, even though I was near them. RMI didn’t show VORs either. On the other hand ILS -frequncies functioned as they should. Weird. And dtill no joy getting LNAV-route (and information) to EHSI.

Many knobs and buttons moving when clicked, but not having any kind of effect (ie. lighting, avionics bus L/R, etc.)

When it’s raining I can hear the rain and see it outside, but no single drop on windshield? O.o

Also the power/drag -ratio still seems very weird.

This breaks my heart. Pls do something Microsoft / Carenado!

Br.
Saab fanboy ´83 :melting_face:

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I completed LIPE/LIRF without problems
AP works well.
A little confusing during trip planning on the instrument between seats by I won

Yes, the UNS-1 is somewhat working, though many buttons and functions are still unserviceable.

Did you get the EHSI to show the LNAV-route with waypoints and wp-infos?

Not yet but I’ll try later again

Really sad to the this aircraft wich seems to have good potential release in this state. I really hope Carenado/Microsoft really looks in to giving this bird som love, and that’s fast as the reputation gets worse and worse.

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On the topic of the UNS-1 in this plane, I did a flight yesterday where I changed the arrival procedure but the waypoints didn’t change in the ND. There seems to be some sort of disconnect between the UNS-1 and the ND.

try flying the PC-24

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Tried to load flight plan and could not make an entry on line three.

No way to pick runway at destination…entering rny number does not change anything. I.e. can’t select arrival proc or app procedure.

As previously stated, no nav info on EHSI.

Several times my control axis just did not work…no elevator or axis control even though the power levers worked. I am using a Warthog HOTAS and can control some functions just not the flight control surfaces…this happens randomly as they show mapped correctly.

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VOR works fine for me, here:

ADF works too, but I could not get the mouse click to work so I filed a bug report.

I have of course. I’ve even flown the PC24 in real life, so I was really looking forward to testing it in the sim. But this topic is about the SAAB.

Agree, this one is even worse than the PC-24, Carenado really needs to say something!

I assume you mean $200.00 for the game, not the aircraft right?

you were acutally able to fly (from cold and dark) the PC-24 in FS2024? If so, keen ony telling us how?

No, I said I have ofcourse spawned in to the PC24, and that the fact that I have flow the PC24 IRL made me very eager to try in in the sim. I never said that it worked, it is horrible in the sim atm. Nothing works.

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Has anyone found a way to put in a flight plan?

I can’t make any entry past line 2

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I gave up, too many times the flight plan goes crazy and I have to restart.

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