These words from my first CFI have saved me more than once, “Fly the plane until you park it.”
Sage advice.
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Yes indeed!
I mapped the landing light to my two way Bravo rocker switch using a generic Microsoft MobiFlight command (Chechen Hubhop).
Also, not sure if this is of use
Oh boy, I never knew you could experience so much fear by just operating a flight simulator. I’m running the plane in the owned setup with all realism settings checked. Just was on a quick 20 minute flight with the C310 and prepared for landing. Set the plane up for the descent when 5 minutes out of the airport it started jerking around and I realised that one of the engines was failing - no idea why - all was in the green before the flight and looked good. I was already quite low but managed not to crash and could set the prop of the failing engine to feather and set the mixture to idel cutoff. The landing was not pretty but somehow I managed. When inspecting what might have gone wrong after touchdown I’ve seen that I set the fuel pump of the now faulty engine accidently to high instead of low idle. Goes to show that you should always check what you are doing twice. Thanks Milviz - this plane really let’s you forget sometimes that it’s all a game simulator 
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Hi! I love this plane. I have one question though. I fly owned, full realism etc. with the failures turned to occasionally. I have about 30hrs on the plane an didn’t encounter any failures yet. Is this expected behaviour?
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Hi, thanks! which mobiflight command was that? I looked on hubhop but couldn’t find something for the C310.
I also tested the flightsim.to one, but it doesn’t do any of the more unique functions either
Here you go:
(86) Real C310 pilot flys Milviz C310R - YouTube
(86) Real 310 Pilot’s Guide to the Milviz 310R - YouTube
EDIT: Not ILS but useful for approach speed, flare, touchdown.
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To get the landing lights to extend and switch on
0 (>L:C310_SW_LIGHTS_LANDING, enum)
Retract and switch off
2 (>L:C310_SW_LIGHTS_LANDING, enum)
Milviz did a great job, listing the variables in the User Guide page 87
When are we getting a panel light upgrade? They are so dim, it really takes away from an otherwise awesome airplane.
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As previously stated, it’s in the SP.
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Cheers. Too much to read to find that info. I notice on my Honeycomb the 310 doesn’t allow for my rudder trim bindings to work either…
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that’s an issue that you will have to resolve with others who have the Honeycomb hardware as we do not/cannot buy every single piece of hardware and guarantee it will work with our software… sorry.
What do you use? The trim wheel on my Honeycomb Bravo works fine.
Controlling descent solely by power and not touching the controls is not a proper technique on any aircraft.
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The elevator trim electric button, and trim wheel works great. Its the electric rudder trim that does not. I know there are software options out there, but figured I would inquire.
@anon50268670 I do use a bit of elevator for fine control, but power is my primary control for rate of descent. I am open to advice though! What do you recommend as the proper technique? My IRL flying skills are a bit rusty to say the least (and most of that was in gliders haha!)
I try to stick to ‘Method 1’ in this reference: Pitch For Airspeed, Power For Glideslope? Or The Other Way Around? | Boldmethod
When flying an a/c with Flight Director it ends up being more like Method 2, but I prefer to not rely on the Flight Director since any Cessna I am likely to fly IRL won’t have one
But really it is more a combination of the two. I use pitch more as I get closer to touchdown (and try to have a few knots spare so I can pitch up a bit and not worry about airspeed dropping too much).
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Power for altitude and pitch for airspeed is the correct method on final from my experience. I find it makes it very easy to manage with that mind set. Of course, you need to stay ahead of the airplane. If you fall behind and are making lots of rapid changes to catch up, it’s probably time to go around.