Hello pilots!
Sorry about the climb rate and beacon light. It never shined through the floor with me and a couple of others on the team. It did for one of the testers and on his, and also with his, the dome light wasnt working, but it worked fine with ours. I had a problem with the VS rocker switch on mine, but no one else did, so I wrote it off as a personal computer issue, which happens rarely, possibly a setting in my sim.
The dome light is the same one Asobo uses on the bellies of their planes. the coding on the effect shines it downwards. So I am at a loss as to why this is happening. For me, its fine, for other testers, it was fine. One pilot complained about the beacon saying it was shining upwards. I wonder if there is a project out there that put in their own beacon into the sim’s package, overwriting the stock beacon effect, and now many have a beacon that shines upwards? Does this happen with Asobo planes that have a belly beacon? If so, I think it could be a beacon that is corrupting the stock Asobo beacon file.
I was the main person tuning the flight model. My focus is nearly always, getting the speeds down, then how she takes off and touches down, hitting the speeds right on the mark.
Sad about stall speed, as I thought it was right on. I attempted several routes to adjust that so that I had ground effect (first direction of tuning this part) as the flaps are huge and landing setting is an extreme angle. She should float down at the 6 feet / 2 meter zone with full flaps. It should effect her lift and speed and attitude moderately and I was happy with it.
Also note… When using a standard MSFS weight loadout, 2 souls on board, half tanks of fuel, you are talking a lite loadout. So keep that in mind. If you load her with 4 adults and full tanks and some luggage in the back, you will get a totally different handling plane. Some people were complaining on airliners that their figures were off, but those figures are for a fully laden bird.
I’ll go through her climbouts and see what I missed.
Its not easy doing flight files. Speeds, stalls, climbs, fuel rates, turn performance, and flaps performance, is not an easy task. I was quite happy with it when we launched. But for me, I was seeing the speed numbers and engine settings and fuel rates and was seeing exactly what I needed.
What do you think of her other features? I am loving that autopilot, the C-III. RonH coded that. He did an amazing job. Some pilots who are Viking owners told me all about it. One gentleman filmed it, clicking the switches. If you flip off the ROLL switch, all switches should flip off. Very interesting unit. Great for holding climb after a take off so you can start setting up the flight, getting HDG Bug adjusted, etc.
Bill
Lionheart Creations
) were the reversed toe brake axes and the beacon light reflecting off everything in sight. 
