Flysimware Lancair Legacy inbound

“Electrical failure” isn’t a singular thing though; there’s no “electrical” that just dies. The most likely thing to fail in flight is the alternator, and guess what? Your panel will probably alert you that it died and you’ll have 30 minutes or more of battery power to get yourself down. Depending on the aircraft you may even have a second alternator that’s still working just fine. There’s a chance of a wiring issue due to bad maintenance I suppose but bad maintenance is not an issue that’s exclusive to electrical systems.

Reminds me of FSX’s Yakutat Mail Run mission (a great remake of which can be found on fs.to). Surprisingly, it’s not a death sentence even in IFR conditions, but it does make it A LOT harder to fly just having to rely on the V/S indicator, turn coordinator and HSI.

The RealAir was absolutely fantastic, spent so many hours on it.

And no “Glass Cockpit” aren’t standard anywhere except when you look on YouTube or go to the rich kids airfield, talking about GA of course.

Interesting using the G3X if that is no longer being developed, going the RealAir route would be top, anyone who tried it would know.

In reality glass cockpits become more and more common. Steam gauges are really expensive to maintain and additionally they are heavy. We‘re about to replace the steam gauges in our 1974 C172 by a G500 and GTN750 and we have a GNS400 laying around that might get in there as well :sweat_smile: cheaper in the end.

Maybe we do not fly IRL in the same part of the world then.

Yeah well … my PC monitor spontaneously died for me a few weeks ago, after only being in use for 5 years. There are many different ways that a screen like that can fail.

You’d be hard pressed to find a high performance experimental like a Lancair here in the USA that doesn’t have a glass panel. It’d be a really old airplane, or an incredibly cheap builder. The glass stuff is now so affordable that the cost is almost the same as steam gauges.

Here’s my instrument panel design for our STARHAWK Lancair Legacy…

Flysimwares Starhawk legacy has finished exterior textures

Out now -

Looks great, though, personally, I’ll hold off until out of BETA, especially at that price TBH - stung too many times with Betas.

I’ve just bought this add on. It’s very good indeed however…
When I fly the Lancair I get very blurry ground textures. I’ve done the exact same flight (one after the other) in the Lancair and the Kodiak. Ground textures using the Kodiak were fine.
I seem to remember this happening with the FSW 414 when I was on Xbox. Not sure why this would be happening.

I also picked it up. Seems to currently be a resource hog. There is so much detail that it is going to require a pretty hefty PC. Nice plane though. Hope it improves in time.

I’m confident this will turn out to be a well done aircraft but I’m going to hold out until A2A release their Lancair - then make a decision on which one to go for. I’m assuming they’ll be at a similar price point and I think there’s only room for one in my hangar!

I’m finding this plane a real handful to fly. It seems really (overly) sensitive to joystick input.
On takeoff it drops the left wing massively and seems really unstable.

They are aware of the instability issue (I reported it too) and hope to have a fix in the update tonight.

I’ve noticed a similar thing, but this can be managed by taking off at slightly higher speeds, and letting the plane lift off rather than yank the stick back. It kind of reminded me of the early Kodiak releases, where i would see streamers try to take off, and go into a spin almost immediately. Excessive P-factor in that instance.

On another note, has anyone found a way to stop one wing from refueling? There are buttons to start, but when pressed again they don’t actually seem to stop, which makes evening out the tanks impossible. I didn’t try unsummonining it, resummoning it, then only pressing one of the buttons though. Even if that worked that’s a real faff.

Both the instability and the fueling were fixed in the later patches, currently the plane is already on patch 0.1.3 and there will be more for sure :slight_smile:

Speed brakes no longer function in the air. Which is where I need them most!