@Krazycolin great add on, exceptional VR experience and generally just a fabulous job on this plane! Thank you.
I do have one suggestion/request – Departure with an unlatched door should not immediately result in a catastrophic ‘overstressed’ event. I am not sure if this is due to MSFS or if it is add-on controlled. I know the A32NX also inexplicably explodes if it leaves the ground with a door open too.
Regardless, most aircraft this is a minor issue and certainly not an end of life kind of problem.
So if it is MSFS, maybe you 3rd party devs can lean on them a little? Or if its within your control, perhaps you can fix it? On a plane like the 310, all an open door would really do is make you feel like a fool for missing it, and cause your cabin to be loud.
Anyhow, this is easily the best GA plane in the sim right now, thanks for your efforts.
The “open door bomb” is, unfortunately, not on us. We could “fix” it by controlling it ONLY using the EFB… but if we want to use clicks… then you cannot open it whilst moving/in the air… BOOM!
You can take off with open cockpit just fine with the FlyingIron Spitfire. And click the canopy to open again during landing approach. What makes Milviz products different from that? Or are doors vs. canopies fundamentally different in MSFS code?
On the other hand, I just tested and you can also fly the Spit with the canopy open and the side door both unlocked and open. It’s not like they have disabled airframe damage by default or anything either, you can still total the airframe in deep dive for example.
I don’t have this plane, but I’d love to see it on PC-6 if you can somehow manage it.
Just want to say I love this plane, my new favourite GA aircraft.
The potential of failures, wear+tear add a level of immersion that was very much needed for this sim.
Thank you Milviz!
NOTAM: Due to the fact that another dev is working on a proper KA140 and there’s a pretty good freeware mod out there, we will not be doing any further code on the AP.
We will, in SP1, provide a link to the mod in the manual along with instructions on how to install it.
Thank you for making paints without tail numbers. It seems every time I find a livery I like for almost any plane, it has an included tail number. I really don’t understand why people do this.
Given your power settings, IAS, altitude and temperature, that looks just fine. You are doing ~170 KTAS, which is completely plausible based on the book. FF seems a bit high, which is consistent with what I’ve seen wrt book power settings. Also, the EGT drops off for me as well at lower power settings.
When leaning is it best to do it the traditional way of peaking egt then going richer / leaner by 50f?
I’ve been looking up the power % corresponding to my pressure altitude, temp, mp and rpm settings in the cruise tables then leaning using the fuel flow guage green tick scale. This produced almost exactly the ktas and fuel flow tabulated.
The setting seemed significantly lean of peak compared to the traditional egt based approach. Not sure if I’m doing this right.
Also when climbing I’ve been leaning using the blue ticks on the fuel flow gauge and adjusting as I feed in more throttle in the climb.
That’s the best i could do at the moment (see photos below). Can’t raise it more than that. I don’t think i’m going to use Auto-mixture in assistance settings with this aircraft. I usually leave it on all the time when i use other GA but i think i’m gonna turn it off.
Need to restart the flight and try again with auto-mixture OFF and repeat that scenario and see what i get.
Here’s where i am now after i turned off auto-mixture in the assistance menu.
I think the expected approach is to lean for the desired %BHP on the digital engine temperature gauge, but doing that disagrees with the green ticks on the FF gauge. For me, if I lean based on the green ticks on the FF gauge both my %BHP on the digital engine temperature gauge and TAS are much lower, but if I lean to %BHP on the digital engine temperature gauge, my TAS is more plausible, but my FF is too high and well above the corresponding %power setting on the green ticks of the FF gauge…
There is a guy on Flightsim.to that made a mod for a brighter landing light on the Twin Otter and the Islander. Perhaps he can be pursuaded to do one for the 310 - or perhaps you can learn from him?
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