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How I use the ES 30 to fly with peace of mind while waiting for future repairs…
2 major problems: batteries and backflips
For the batteries, I turn on both external power supplies (there’s a 10,000nm cable…lol) and I cut off high-voltage buses 3 and 4, plus low-voltage bus 1. As a result, the potential is stuck at 33% and 41% indefinitely. (See photo)
Restart during the approach phase to have all 4 propellers in perfect sync.
To avoid backflips, make sure the motor throttles are in neutral and not reverse. (See photo)
I know there are other difficulties, but these already allow for long flights without these problems.
Try and Happy flying!
Flew this today in Career mostly without issues. Mostly.
It’s fairly unstable on the ground. I was trying to take off in a 32kt crosswind (because I forgot to check) and the second I had any speed it started to roll uncontrollably. Just barely kept the wing tips off the ground. To be fair, I think there is a general MSFS24 ground handling bug where some kind of rotational force is applied in the wrong direction when there’s a wheel or skid on the ground - especially bad for helicopters. Similar problem on landing with a much lighter crosswind.
Power management is…weird. Seems to be a bit overpowered. Overspeed on the initial climb with a full load. Cruising at 200 kts with about 10% electric power and 50% on the turbines. There’s definitely something wonky in the pitch control on the electric motors. Bumping the Simrate up two or three notches gives you weird spiking rpms every few seconds - jumps into redline instantly then back to normal. Even at normal rate it didn’t really want to find an equilibrium and settle into a consistent airspeed, but it at least wasn’t spiking.
It’s still skipping just after you enter the cockpit to taxiing, no loading or startup, and there’s no way to get the throttle axis to go to ground idle or reverse, but I didn’t really encounter most of the bugs that have been reported. Not sure if they’ve been fixed or I just got lucky.
Not really a bug, but you’d think there would at least be alternators on the turboprops for the low voltage batteries. My flight was nowhere near long enough to drain either bank, but it’s weird to have a time limit on your flaps working.
Had some troubles with missing segments of the fight plan going from the EFB to avionics. But it’s easy enough to activate the next waypoint with the touch screens, and the AP seemed to work fine all the way to final.
At the moment it’s still not super fun to fly, but it’s at least possible to complete a flight without much fuss as long as there’s no crosswind.
