Can anyone help me here? I’ve run into a (virtual) problem with fuelling my plane.
I’m at CYWJ Déline Airport Northwest Territories. I was filling the port side main tank and only got 40 US gallons in when the fuel pump quit. They can’t get the part(s) for over a week and I want to get down south of here fairly quickly as it’s early September and the temps are dropping (it’s 2024 during my Epic Cross Canada Quest). Right now I have 150 US gallons in the starboard main and 190 gallons in the port main; there’s nothing in any of the float or drop tanks. Theoretically I should have enough fuel to get me to Hay River/Merlyn Carter Airport NT. METARs show I’m going to hit 10 knot headwinds part way but with judicious leaning and throttling back I should be fine.
Is there some way, while on the ground, I can transfer fuel from the port main to the starboard main to even the amounts? Will I have to just suck it up (pun intended) and run both engines off the port main while in flight until the fuel gauges show equal?
Thanks in advance.
Bob
@AerobaticAce Short of sitting on top of the wings, connecting a hose from one filler cap to the other, and trying to siphon… there’s no way to crossfeed tanks on the Albatross.
I think you’ll have to go with the pun option, and a little bit of aileron trim. 
Good luck!
I’ll have to go with the pun; I’ll be hitting Canadian Tire to get a battery operated fuel transfer pump when I get somewhere with a CT store!
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Oh boy, a British lad must wonder what kind of tire we have in Canada! (I am from Montréal) 
Well, I made it to CYHY Hay River with ~47US gallons in each of the the mains. What Mike said worked just fine.
Then I find out there isn’t a Canadian Tire here in Hay River but there is one in Yellowknife. It would’ve been 45 nautical miles closer than Hay River.
I read somewhere here that “The only time you have too much fuel is when the aircraft is on fire.” I certainly didn’t have too much fuel when I shut down!
For those international folks: Canadian Tire is a country-wide retail chain with a good selection of hardware and home supplies. Back in the old days (says the old gummer - me) you used to get paper Canadian Tire money at, I believe, 2 or 3 cents on the dollar. It looked like Monopoly money but you could redeem it for anything in the store:
Nowadays it’s all high tech on plastic.
Anyway, thankfully I can gas up and be on my merry way to points south then west traipsing across our wonderful nation.
Bob
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Hey y’'all, i bought this plane yesterday on the MSFS 2020 store but for some reason i cannot get the plane to roll in either direction. Yaw and pitch work fine but it wont move an inch in either roll direction. Im using a simple mouse and keyboard and my binds are all set and work fine on any other aircraft. Am i missing a step with some kind of hydraulic system? Thank you lots in advance.
Gust lock? The lever is up on the brow panel forward of the throttles.
Gust lock is to the disengaged position and yaw and pitch are moving fully but roll won’t budge at all
@Cornelius7040 Well that’s a new one!
When you try to roll, is the yoke turning, and/or ailerons moving at all, or nothing?
Maybe try cycling the autopilot on and off?
Does this happen in both Albatrosses (HU-16 and G-111)?
Thanks.
Heya, the yoke does not move left or right and the ailerons themselves do not move either, the ones on the tail work fine. I’ve tried to cycle the autopilot on and off via the switch on the center console and also the AP/trim disconnect handle at the back of the upper console. this problem persists on both versions of the albatross.
@Cornelius7040 You’re absolutely right… ailerons via keyboard aren’t working at all. Wow. I wonder when that happened. It used to work fine.
Sorry about that, it’s not something I test very often. I’ll figure out what’s going on there and get an update submitted as soon as possible. In the meantime if you have an xbox controller that should work fine.
Cheers.
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Oh no worries! I figured maybe i was missing a step during startup haha, all the other systems and functions work perfectly, thank you very much!
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I believe I have a small issue to report. When you do not use the refracted windows, there’s no rain effects on the 4 front most windows.
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@TheBlackWind977 Thank you! Yup, you’re right, and it’s fixed in the update I submitted a couple of weeks ago. Should be available in February I think, hopefully.
Cheers!
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Hi everyone. The 5th major update for the Grumman Albatrosses is now live on MSFS 2020 (v1.3.1).
The identical matching update for the 2024 Albatrosses, (v2.2.8), should hopefully be arriving soon.
This update addresses a number of minor remaining bugs, incorporates some tweaks and small improvements, and adds three significant new features (two of them user requested)…
- New variants of the G-111 with the Garmin G3X Avionics suite
- Realistic engine power limits with potential for damage/failure (optional)
- Realistic nose wheel steering implementation (optional)
If you try out some of these new features I would appreciate any feedback you would like to share, and as always if you have any questions or issues please let me know and I will do my best to help.
Further details are below, and the pilot’s guide has also been updated:
Improvements in 1.3.1
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(HU-16 & G-111) New option added: User selectable realistic ground steering mode, with a castering nose wheel actuated through differential braking. If this option is turned off then ground steering is accomplished as usual, through direct nosewheel steering via rudder control. This setting can be changed at any time during a flight via the options clipboard, and it is persistent between sessions. Please note, this setting is initially turned off by default, so you will need to activate it first. See the updated manual for more details.
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(HU-16 & G-111) New option added: User selectable realistic engine limitations and supercharger damage modeling. This option can be turned on or off at any time via the clipboard. This setting is persistent, and is also initially turned off by default. If turned on you will need to respect the engines’ maximum manifold pressure and RPM time limits, or risk potential engine damage and/or engine failure. Please see the supercharger control section of the updated manual for more details, but in general you will need to restrict your usage of maximum continuous power and RPM to less than 5 minutes, and allow plenty of cool down afterwards, just as you would in the real aicraft… or bad things may happen. 
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(G-111) Added New variants (both normal and long range tank versions) featuring the Working Title Garmin G3X Touch avionics suite. The original G1000 equipped variants are still present.
Fixes in 1.3.1
- Slightly increased the effectiveness of differential thrust on yaw rate when operating on water at low speed
- Fixed occasional supercharger initialization failures during initial flight load or after changing aircraft
- Fixed engine starter motor sounds cutting off prior to engine start. The sounds will now continue for as long as the starter motor is engaged.
- Throttle input range near idle rpm improved
- Fixed incorrect master ignition cutoff pole functionality
- Fixed minor bug in manifold pressure gauges
- Tweaked propeller inertia to allow for faster throttle response across the entire RPM range
- Changed propeller RPM control switch tooltips to display each governor’s target RPM setting instead of percent of maximum RPM
- Exceeding a speed of 20 knots in the water with the landing gear extended will now over-stress and destroy the aircraft (you’ve been warned!)
- Minor fix to landing gear extension / retraction sounds
- Fixed Squat Strut erroneously appearing on other Albatrosses in multiplayer
- Improved prop wash and bow wash effects, and fixed some multiplayer display bugs with them
- (G-111) Fixed Garmin G1000 engine parameter displays (these were not correctly matching the analog instrument values)
- (G-111) Added missing Garmin G1000 warning annunciations (low oil pressure etc.)
- (G-111) Fixed missing rain effects on windows when windshield refraction is disabled
- (G-111) Fixed propeller RPM occasionally exceeding red line
- (G-111) Fixed some missing aircraft selection screen variant localization text
- (G-111) Fixed some minor electrical circuit bugs
- Updated marketplace / library version history details
Cheers, and happy flying!
-Mike
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Oh wow, this is an exciting update. I look forward to experimenting with the castering nose wheel. But also, I haven’t started my world tour yet in the G-111 long range, and I might actually make use of all those new features for it. Thanks for all your attention to the plane, Mike.
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Thank you once again for your hard work!
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Thanks for this great update and added features to one of the very best aircraft in the sim!
Looking forward to buying whatever you develop next!
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An Update for the HU16 ??
Time to fire up the sim. Thanks for your continued dedication to this already outstanding project
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I’m having an usual failure on the G111/G1000 version. I cannot get the engines to start. Even with external power the starter doesn’t have enough to get them to fire and catch. The HU16 version still works with the APU running, they fire right up and go. Not sure what I could change, I’m following the checklist, priming, etc and cannot get the non-APU version to fire up and go.
