Does anyone have tried to start the Porter from cold & dark ?
Does it work ?
If yes, how did you do ?
Yep, struggled a bit as the checklist doesnât highlight or focus the camera on whatever control itâs referring to (something Iâve only experienced in third-party aircraft so far) but muddled through and got airborne.
Didnât feel like the rudder was doing itâs job as I was taking off - narrowly avoided veering off the runway into a hangar, despite having assistance set to true-to-life.
Landing was fine however.
Do you mean that you succeeded to start the engine following the check-list ?
I also managed to start the engine from cold and dark with the checklist. As mentioned above the highlights are missing, so if you are not familiar with the cockpit layout, it will take some time to find the correct switch.
The Porter is a beast, and you need to pay attention to proper trim settings before take-off (note that large sticker on the instrument panel).
The IRL POH says this on the before take off checklist:
- Rudder trim GREEN MARK (7° right)
Alright thanks, Iâll check that out later.
Is there anyway to get the Pilatus PC-6 to spawn cold and dark? Mine already has some switches turned on.
Well, it seems that there are significant differences between steam gages and glass cockpit versions. I managed to start and fly the steam gage version yesterday, but not the glass one today. Weird.
Also, the glass cockpit version has a working gust lock, the other not. I also miss the rudder trim indicator, or any kind of feedback on the trim status before taxiing. The steam gage version has an elevator trim indicator, at least.
Same here, battery and gen is on, also Garmin displays.
Same here. Thought I was missing an assistance setting
Got the glass cockpit version working, what part did you get stuck on?
Whats even worse: unlike the Milviz version this one is unable to go into Beta-modeâŠ
Kinda sad - its a unique feature of the PC-6 after all
As well as all the active switches, the beacon is also on for me when opening the PC-6 in the Hangar, from the menus. (Presumably the same cause - it spawns in the hangar with almost everything âonâ.)
Might be worth moving this to the bugs forum?
It does not react to the throttle. This issue seems to happen randomly to me (both in the glass and steam version), and I have to dig into the details. I really want to understand whether it is a bug, or I do something wrong.
I have already seen that others have filed reports with similar issues.
If itâs not reacting to the throttle, make sure the fuel valve is in the correct position. I donât believe itâs labeled, but it should be pointing in the vertical position. This confused me because the Milviz version has it in the horizontal position, so itâs opposite in this version. The fuel valve is located in the bottom left corner area. Youâll know itâs right if the ITT starts to climb.
With a quick check yesterday I wasnât able to start the PC-6 with CTRL + E (âauto engine startâ). Yes, I know, I know⊠CTRL + E.
But I wanted to give it a quick try. What happened was that the propeller did indeed start to rotate, but there was no distinct engine sound to be heard. Also, the tooltips kept reminding me to âauto-start the engine with CTRL + Eâ. And releasing handbrakes (yes, I did that ;)) and pushing the thrust upwards did not make the aircraft budge.
So anyone else having more luck with CTRL + E? I will try to follow thec checklist next, but again, wanted to give it a quick try yesterday and failed with CTRL + EâŠ
UPDATE: The problem persists (so it wasnât a freak incidence yesterday). But for whoever this may be useful, a workaround (besides properly following the checklist ;)) is to:
First, make sure that âAssisted Checklistâ is turned on:
- Go to settings (ESC)
- Select ASSISTANCE OPTIONS
- Select PILOTING
- Enable option ASSISTED CHECKLIST
- Apply & save settings
Then at the parking space (âcold and darkâ):
- Enable checklist (SHIFT+ C)
- Select second menu entry âSTARTING ENGINEâ
- Click the AUTO COMPLETE PAGE
Et voilĂ , the engine starts properly. I havenât figured out yet what this checklist does what CTRL + E does not do - maybe someone else has spent more time with the checklist yet?
And yes, also referring to the Asobo PC-6 version here.
Can anyone tell me where the rudder trim gauge can be found?
Hello,
donât know if this is your issue but Iâve discovered that after Update sim brokes my assistance settings completelly. After reassign all again I can start it without problems but main stick/yoke doesnât move, rudders and throttle ok.
All assistance options were indeed all (re-)set to âEasyâ, so I adjusted those to my preferred settings.
But whatever the assistance options are, they should not prevent CTRL + E to auto-start the engines, of course. But either way, CTRL + E does not seem to workâŠ
Whatâs more, I just realised that FS 2020 has reset all my assistance options back to âEasyâ again. Duh. But thatâs another issue thenâŠ
YES.
I discovered this strange issue after Update finish and load Porter first, at parking. Some strange Tips and messages appeared that I knew that something was broken with Assistance. But when I had look at that, that mentioned Tooltips are OFF set so I did next options as I need and quit FS. After that, Porter can start with CTRL+E but that main stick doesnât move, in other planes what I tested all is ok.
Oh, so you are saying that CTRL + E actually does start the engine for you, but you simply cannot move the steering stick? Thatâs interesting.
And it might indeed be related to key assignments (I hardly change them ever from their default settings, but I remember some past update where my keyboard / mouse / joystick profiles were indeed set to âCustomâ and hence some important new key assignments were not done (which, from a technical standpoint might have been correct: âdonât automatically modify custom profilesâ).
So if this CTRL + E runs some startup sequence which relies on (new?) default key sequences then this might be something to check then.
But with my workaround above I can move the steering stick around (and also the throttle), or in other words: once the engine is running, I can fly with the PC-6 just fine.
By the way my assistance settings are now kept as well just fine, so not sure what made them reset to âEasyâ before (I did, however, uninstall the LSZH airport from Asobo - perhaps that caused a âresetâ of the assistance settings?).