Okay, finished all the flight testing. Got some interesting numbers.
All flights followed the following criteria:
Vy=100 KIAS
A/C Weight = 3650 Lbs.
C/G within limits
A/C is clean (Flaps up, Gear up)
Full Throttle
Prop. @ 2700 RPM
ISA throughout entire flight
Wind calm
All flights were recorded. I can upload to YT or otherwise as required. It might be best for someone to try and replicate my findings as well, so as to adhere to the scientific method.
TL;DR: The stock application of the G36 is definitely under-powered. Turning auto-mixture off exacerbates the issue, as itās not currently possible to lean the a/c accurately with the current G1000 implementation. The mod helps quite a bit, although is still under-powered at high cruise altitudes (>12-13,000). Hopefully these numbers can help improve the mod as a short-term fix, all while further improvements are made to the sim to allow for better recreation of the climb profile.
Big thanks to @FrettFS for making the mod. Your contributions are greatly appreciated!
EDIT: This took me 6 hours to compile. Please love me
Gotta love this community! Thanks for your effort and those of others (jonasbeaver, Tbolt, JuiceBox). Especially the first table is useful (with mod and automixture). I will also enable automixture and the recommended weight for further tweaking
Bottom line is that especially at high altitudes the discrepancies (at least in climb performance) become larger. The absolute differences are not that great though.
The thing is that, in the absence of a working SDK for default aircraft (other than the Da62 sample), there is no efficient way to tweak. Itās a non-linear problem that Iām trying to solve by changing some tuning parameters. Adjusting one parameter and getting it right usually breaks something else if you do this by trial and error. Although we can all understand the basic differences between certain engine parameters and different types of drag, the exact effects of each tuning parameters are sometimes difficult to establish. Any help on this (from someone with some experience in aerodynamics, unlike me) would be greatly appreciated. In the meanwhile Iāll fiddle around some more ā¦
Iām an aeronautics student looking to become an air traffic controller. My knowledge is fairly basic, but I know where to look for good information. Let us know what specifics you need help with specifically and Iām sure we can all scratch our heads collectively, at least until that SDK shows up.
Canāt wait to get this G36 up to snuff, love my Bonanzaās
Youāll only see the 1, but when you start flying it will be immediately noticeable if it worked or not. Being able to actually do 170KTAS at 23/2300 vs struggling to break 140KTAS at 25/2500 just brings a smile to my face.
I donāt know if itās tweakable, but the one thing thatās still really out even with the mod is the behavior when you drop the gear. If youāre at say 150 KIAS and lower the gear, the speed should immediately drop 20-30 kts. In a real plane it feels like if you hit the brakes hard in a car.
The Carenado A36 for X-plane has this effect perfectly, hope it can be reproduced here.
I started working on a new version based on all of your feedback:
I fixed the bug @jonasbeaver reported where the efficiency would significantly increase around 2000 rpm.
I adjusted the gear/flap drag balance. The landing gear now produces more drag @jwe21x, while performance is reasonably close to the approach settings and speeds provided by @jonasbeaver
Biggest challenge ahead is further adjusting the climb and cruise performanceā¦
Thanks again for all the help and positive comments !
Thanks for your efforts! I mostly fly this plane in FSE, and I also do so at cruise alts above 10K quite a bit. Anything I can do to help you collect data?
I just tried the modā¦ all I can say is Wow! It really flies nicely now! All phases of flight feel like they have been improved. Thank you!
One question I have as I start seeing more mods coming along. Will Asobo pick up these changes and incorporate them into code base or will we forever have to be chasing down the latest mods for everything? Yes Iām lazyā¦ but more importantly, everyone should have these improvements.
Nice work on the Bonanza!
Can someone fix the TBM 930 as well? Idle should be at around 30% of the current throttle stroke. If you put it to idle, it overheats and if too soon, the engine shuts down.
Ah cr ap. I didnāt see the instructions at the bottom of the post and I dropped it into my Official folder and overwrote the stuff there. Now the plane doesnāt show up in the list at all. I knew I should have made a backup.
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