This’ll add to the challenge of landing. I guess I should practice landing on the copilot side.
SCHPLAT!
(I’d finally turned on a bunch of realism settings in the EFB before this flight, including bird strikes…that was quick!)
thats pretty excellent. never seen a bird strike implosion on a sim before.
how is this texture wise? what i love about the Citiation X is they provided a lite texture version.. which greatly helps reduce vram on my 3080. is this vram heavy?
Honestly I wouldn’t really know. I fly in VR and have a 5090.
Generally speaking, everything in the FSR Phenom is as it is in the real plane including unit options so not an omission per se. Some of these are settings that are set at software load in the real plane and not changeable via the GTC (I’m not sure which but given Raul’s attention to detail, it’s a safe assumption that any locked settings are accurate).
There’s been some users asking for a KG option for the fuel weights and I think FSR may be considering adding the ability to change it in a future update. I personally don’t need to change anything but I’d certainly like to see the option to do so maybe through the tablet as a Garmin software config tab or something so as to keep the GTC menus authentic.
How do you keep the cabin cool while boarding and preflighting in hot conditions? My cockpit routinely becomes over 110f even when it’s just like 80f outside. The pax also get friend. I haven’t figured out how to turn the air conditioning on while on the ground?
also while i’m here, i can’t get the trim to go down into the green before take off. I hold trim pitch down on my stick and I can get the numbers to change a little, but as soon as I let go the plane auto-trims back to where you see in the screenshot. autopilot is not on. what could cause the plane to change the pitch trim so far?
also, my entire generator broke after less than 1 hour. It says it needs to go at least 200hrs before maintenance is needed. What in the world is happening to my plane.
I dont open the door, keep my AC to medium and temp down to sixteen degrees wait till temp comes down to 20 degreess…prior to requesting my passengers. Soon as you open door the temp will rise again slowly.
With the trim it must be a key binding issue, I use my Alpha switch for trim have no issues
thanks. good to know about keeping door closed. in this instance turns out my AC was actually broken. i repaired it and was able to turn it on. it still couldn’t bring the temps down, it just kept them from going up.
as for trim, that one’s still a mystery. not happening with any other plane.
With regards to your generators Check your Realism Panel. Your screenshot shows electrical wear running at x4. The generators are supposed to last around 200 hours between maintenance, so they definitely shouldn’t be failing after 1 hour. Either the wear rate is accelerated or something isn’t tracking correctly.
Dont put your AC on high when on ground or using the GPU…your AC will break and need replacing.
I think it might be a bug. I do have it at 4x, but as you can see I’ve only flown the plane once for 1 hr and it failed. Might have to disable realism if this keeps happening.
ok back to AC, this one is driving me nuts. I’m currently airborne with fans on medium, and I cannot get the temps down to what I have them set at. They refuse to drop and my pax are angry. I’m wondering if it’s because those little “EVAP” fans won’t turn on? How do you enable those?
Pressurization and Air Conditioning Pneumatic System
The
Air Management System ( encompasses the pneumatic system, environmental control system (air conditioning), and
pressurization system. These subsystems work together to provide a safe, comfortable cabin environment from sea level to the
aircraft’s maximum operating altitude of 45,000 ft.
Pneumatic
System Two independent engi ne bleed air circuits, one from each engine, provide temperature and pressure
controlled pneumatic supply. Each circuit consists of a Pre Cooler heat exchanger (cross flow type, cooled by fan air), a Pressure
Regulating Shutoff Valve ( that regulates the supplied air pressure and shuts off bleed extraction when necessary (fail safe
position is closed), a Fan Air Valve ( that regulates cooling airflow through the pre cooler (fail safe position is open), dual
element bleed temperature sensors, and a pressure transducer.
The
BLEED 1 and BLEED 2 switches on the overhead panel control the PRSOVs. In AUTO position, the system operates fully
automatically under the authority of the AMS Controller. The XBLEED knob controls the Cross Bleed Valve ( in AUTO mode,
the XBV opens automatically when one engine is not providing bleed air, allowing the operating engine to supply both sides of the
system. In OFF mode, the bleed systems are completely isolated from each other.
The
pneumatic system supplies blee d air to three user systems: Air Conditioning (cabin heating and cooling), Cabin Pressurization,
and Wing/Horizontal Stabilizer Anti Ice (
Automatic
Bleed Management: This is an important aspect of the pneumatic system that often surprises pilots who are new to the
Phenom 300E. When the BLEED switches are in AUTO, the AMS Controller has full authority to open and close the PRSOVs
based on the current operating conditio ns. This means the bleeds will not always be open just because the switches are in AUTO.
The
AMS Controller continuously evaluates the system and will automatically command a PRSOV closed for a variety of reasons,
including: the associated engine is not ru nning or not producing sufficient bleed pressure, bleed air temperature is outside the
controlled range, a bleed leak or overpressure condition has been detected, a component failure has been identified, or the system
simply determines that bleed air is no t required in the current configuration.
When
a PRSOV closes for any reason the BLEED 1 OFF or BLEED 2 OFF advisory CAS message is displayed on the EICAS.
This is entirely normal behavior and does not indicate a fault. It simply tells you that the respect ive bleed side is currently not
supplying air.
On
the ground, the AMS Controller uses Outside Air Temperature ( to determine how much bleed air the cabin needs. The
logic follows three distinct temperature bands:
Above
30°C (86° Both PRSOVs are com manded closed. The cabin does not need heating in hot conditions, and keeping the
bleeds closed reduces unnecessary engine load and prevents overheating the already warm cabin. You will see both BLEED 1
OFF and BLEED 2 OFF CAS messages. This is completely normal on a hot day.
Between
11°C and 30°C (52°F to 86°F) The system operates in single bleed mode. Only one PRSOV opens (the one associated
with the first engine that was started), while the other remains closed. One bleed circuit provides sufficient air conditioning in
moderate temperatures. You will see one BLEED OFF message for the side that remains closed.
The EVAP fans are on. The green fan symbols on the ECS page indicate they’re operating. They don’t actually animate or spin, so I think you’re expecting a visual rotation that isn’t modelled. Anyone correct me if I am wrong.
Reduce your Cabin temp AC to lowest and fans on high at the beginning in the air or let the passengers control it, to do that rotate the temp knobs past the “L” just one click.
I know what you mean I think I spent more time to get the Temp ok for passengers and forgot the basic fundamentals of flying at the beginning. I can’t tell from your pic it looks like the Mode is off is it on Auto not off? Switch “off” “Auto” or “Manual”
According to the developers, this is something only Embraer can modify IRL, so the option is also blocked for the pilot.I believe there might be an update soon that would allow us to change that option in the sim.
For the time being I have found a workaround, if you load into the G3000 on another plane (I’ve only tested this on the longitude, but it should work on something like the vision jet) and you change the units there. The option should carry over to the Phenom
thanks, i feel like a derp. of course the fans are on when they’re green. it’s the Blacksquare addons that have little animated fans, so i was expecting them here too.
Current settings:
Mode: auto
Fans: medium
Desired Temps: 59f & 67f
Curr. temps: 79f & 82f
What I do is reduce temp to 16 and fans on high momentarily, soon as temp drops 21 to 22 degrees celcius i increase temp slowly and put fans on slow or medium then it tends to stay there.
It also takes into account of passengers body heat.
Obviously thats the way I do it, maybe I am wrong.
I also routinely have to set the desired temperature a couple degrees lower than what I really want. I usually try to keep the cabin at 72F and I need to set temps to 70 to get it there.
I think the VCS can be damaged if it’s on during engine start. For safety sake, you might turn the Air Conditioning mode switch to off for start up. In the case of the generator, it may have just been a random break or possibly damaged if you had some failed start up attempts that could have lead to overheating it.
There is some pretty significant failure modeling built into the Phenom but I think it flies under the radar a bit since the failure modeling isn’t hyped up as much with the Phenom as it is with say, a BKSQ plane. It could definitely catch one out. I had a failed start up and even though I didn’t torch a starter/gen, I think I induced an ‘Eng 1 Short Dispatch’ status message indicating a FADEC performance fault that needed to be cleared with maintenance (which, if you see this is, as I understand it, NOT a no-go item but if you see ‘Eng1/2 No Dispatch’ that IS a no-go item).
Never thought of that…thanks.
