Milviz C310R Official Thread

Rogers that…

Hope you’re back to the modern world soon!

So it’s not true that the internet is an unbreakable system? (for the end-users at least).

I got them all worked out if you want I published it under FreeBird on the spadnext profile download page.

Yes it works well.

:thinking: Beta 10? Have I missed something?

The next MSFS update SU10 is available in beta if you want to try it. I won’t. Beta 9 deleted my logs.

Thanks for that :+1:

Folks,

Just purchased the 310 and took my first few flights with it yesterday. One observation that occurred immediately - On takeoff specifically, the 310 seems very sensitive in pitch. Is this normal? I don’t think it’s a joystick setting issue and I had the 310 trimmed properly. Also, coming in to land, lightly loaded, I was on speed but after getting to around 300’, sink rate increase and despite increasing power, I continued to loose speed when I tried to address the sink rate. I also seemed to run out of elevator authority and the plane pretty much landed hard on it’s nosewheel.

Any thoughts on what I am doing wrong here? Also - is there any kind of written tutorial flight available? I find these to be immensely useful when learning a new aircraft.

Thank you!

I recently purchased the plane too. Not finding pitch too sensitive on takeoff, quite the opposite in fact. But with landing I find you need to keep throttle open for longer than other aircraft in order to enable any kind of flair and only cut the throttle very late.

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Did some reading / you-tubing. You are correct, this thing needs to land at a higher speed that I originally understood. Gonna take her for a spin shortly and see how things go.

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Try 100kias for the approach. Full flaps (and gear down, obviously!)

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Try 100kts over threshold and reduce throttle gradually.

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After I have adjusted the sound volume for the engines on the ground to my liking, I have to lower the engine sounds when I reach the cruise level for the sound level to be tolerable, I wish the sound level would be more balanced overall, otherwise the sound quality is superb.

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Turn on headset simulation in the audio menu. Makes it perfect, to my ears.
Just beware if you go to outside view, it’s pretty loud out there with some power applied. :slight_smile:

Slowly getting up to speed on the very impressive 310. One question that I am struggling with - how to you properly “lean” the mixture? So far, I haven’t found detailed information on this procedure.

When I installed teh 310 I got the manual presented in my browser. I haven’t been able to find the file again. Can anyone tell me where the manual is to be found? I’d love to get my hands on the performance tables and such.

Nice question. Took me years to work it out and it turned out to be easy, in fact so easy that nobody ever bothers to explain it :smiley: This applies to pretty much any piston engine airplane - find the EGT gauge then slowly pull the mixture levers back until the needles start to go up. You’ll be shocked at how far you have to pull the mixture back for anything to happen. If the engines start spluttering you went too much too fast, slam the levers forward again and start over more slowly.

Once the EGT needles start to go up just continue to move the mixture levers back a bit at a time watching the needles, where they peak is “peak EGT”. Then move the mixture levers a bit to nudge the temperatures down 10-20 degrees.

If you lean the mixture even further to get the temperature down that’s “lean of peak” which you do for economy, if you add fuel to bring the temperatures down that’s “rich of peak” which you do for power. Sim fuel is cheap, I run rich of peak :slight_smile: When you hear people casually toss around expressions like “10 degrees lean of peak” that means they got the EGT to peak then leaned a bit more to bring the temperatures down 10 degrees.

Remember to add some fuel on the descent then full rich for landing :slight_smile:

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That’s a good explanation. Except for fuel is liquid and that’s why it cools.

Rich mixtures actually are cooler in the combustion because not all of the fuel is burned during the combustion stroke because there’s not enough oxygen in the cylinders. The fuel that doesn’t get burned evaporates. And that takes energy. That energy comes from the combustion this cooling the gas and the cylinders down.

Sorry I had to go nerd mode here :wink:

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No problem at all, I had to read it a couple of times to wrap my head around it but thank you, I’ll edit my reply :slight_smile:

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Nerd mode is far preferable to

  • Stupid Mode,
  • Rude mode,
  • Ignorant mode,
  • Entitled mode
  • etc etc

From one Nerd to another … :nerd_face:

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