Great read. He says to prime the engine, then press the starter and after 5 strokes switch on the mags. In the book “I’ll take the 18” I read about the same advice, actually it was 8 strokes there.
This works perfectly in the sim.
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I was going to comment on that. That is how I am starting the plane now.
Some more testing last weekend. Whith the minor modification to the drag, I can confirm I can reach 140 IAS and 165 TAS at 10k no problem with 42-43 gph.
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I’m wondering if IRL one would open the throttle for priming or rather keep it closed.
I have read in other planes manuals you shoudl open (at least in some degree) the throttle to prime (also some planes do not have primer and use open throttle and three seconds of high aux pump), so I try always to remember to open the throttle while primming.
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One question: yesterday after practicing some touch and go’s with the Beech, I detected that the landing gear green light didn’t turn on. Even the noise was different, I didn’t hear the final lock effect. Although, in the external view, I could see the landing gear down. Even I landed without any problem.
Maybe I damaged the gear due the speed? (I lower the gear below 120)
Regards.
The gear extension speed is 110 kts, the gear extended speed is much higher.
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Just flying circuits to practice my landings when the left engine quit downwind on my fifth circuit. All I can think is that the oil level got too low (it was showing about half full after landing). It wasn’t fuel, and it wasn’t icing, EGT was fine, but I didn’t look at the oil pressure as it quit.
Anyway, the engine quit, I reduced throttle to 0 and hit the feather button on top of the windshield, but the prop angle didn’t seem to change at all. Is the feathering modelled? Really fought to get it down with only one engine. what a beast!
Am absolutely loving it!
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That is awesome. I would love to experience an engine failure that I completely did not expect. That is some quality simulation right there!
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Was engine health ok? What about oil pressure and temps? Cylinder temp would raise and engine health would degrade if there is an oil leak with oil running out. Cowl flaps? Oil bypass levers? Or maybe carb ice? Really difficult to say, so many possibilities.
I always record my take offs and landings so I can investigate later.
Cowl flaps were open, CH temps were fine (as were oil pressure and temp last time I looked).
Engine wear was around 91.4 on both engines after several hours flying (probably about 20). When I checked after landing, the left engine had dropped to 82.
Sure it wasn’t icing (needles were in the green) and fuel pumps were on with half full tanks. The only other thing was that the oil level for the left engine had dropped to around 50%. But I don’t know whether that is what causes it, or whether it was a result of the engine failure.
Still wondering if the feather switch works. I had to overboost the healthy engine just to stay airborne with gear down and flaps at stage 1
Great plane. Absolutely loving it
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The only possible reasons for an oil leak to occur are the ones described in manual. An engine failure per se wouldn’t cause an oil leak. If your oil level is as low then it means you had an oil leak prior to engine failure.
Right now, engine has very poor resistence to oil leak when overboosting with high pressures. From 36 to 38 you have some margin, but when using above 39, oil leaks are just around the corner.
A very important thing to understand is that once an oil leak accurs, there is a lot of time until it is noticed in aircraft instruments. Lets imagine you have 7 gallons of oil when an oil leak start. You only have a decrease in oil pressure when oil is below 4.7 gallons and you only notice probably when below 4 galons, where oil pressure becomes significant. And to go from 7 to 4 gallons it takes some time, depending on how you are operating the engine. In my tests it takes from 10 to 20 minutes.
Yes, it works but as Carenado modeled and as you see not very good. I didn’t do anything on propeller feather yet. But to be fair to carenado, msfs sdk tools to propeller feather are far from ideal and have many limitations.
This is in my to do list.
I have done some tests and my findings are that when feather is needed, put propeller pitch full forward and then press feather button. Very important. Never touch propeller pitch again and you have to feather before RPMs get below 500..
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I don’t know about throttle but in this plane you have to build fuel pressure with booster pumps to prime the engine. This isn’t modeled yet in my mod. In this mod you can prime without booster pumps.
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I’m confused, put the propeller pitch in full fine (the opposite of feathered), and then push the feather button? Not pull it all the way back to get it close to feathered, then let it go the rest of the way with the button?
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You are completely right if we were talking about real planes 
. Unfortunatly this method works with our beech.
As I told, this is one of those thinks I’d like to do because in real beech there are a lot of stuff regarding propeller feather.
I already spent a lot of time trying to figure a way to do this correctly but I still have to find a way.
Asobo recently improved the sdk with a new tool to deal with propeller beta but unfortunatly this tool is mainly focus on turbo engines and has an huge limitation that prevents for feather use.
I proposed to Asobo an improvement of this tool that would make it much more versatile in its use but I had no response.
I believe I can in future find something much better than what we have now.
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Something similar happened to me the other day. I was trying to show my brother-in-law a demo of the sim and I took the modded Beech. I started in the runway for get airborne quicker. I contronlled the throttle so I wouldn’t exceed MP maximums and started the demo flight. No much later the left engine suddenly stopped. The engine damage looked ok (above 95%) but the CH was too high and I couldn’t reduce it whatever I did.
Now reading some of the posts I realize I didn’t check the oil level when jumping into the runway, has it to be checked anyway with this kind of start?
The oil level is state saved between flights. So, you definitely need to keep an eye on it.
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Out of curiosity, what are you guys setting your EGT levels at over 3,000 feet ? one of the real world Cessna 414 drivers said they use 1050 but on this one I don’t know if that would be right , I’m talking about the 2 digital gauges .
EGT temperatures are always relative and of course differ from engine to engine. And they are different for various throttle and prop settings.
I lean until I reach peak of EGT temperatures, whatever it is in the current configuration. Then I go a bit rich of that. I think that’s good for those radial engines.
If cylinder temps get high and opening cowls and oil shutters doesn’t help you can help with cooling the engines by going to a richer mixture.
IRL the leaning procedure for the 18 was very different than that, but this is not simulated in the sim.
Here is the IRL leaning procedure. Would be amazing if @AlexBap8588 could model that:
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Thanks for this kaha