Sounds like a spectacular upcoming update JPL, can’t wait to get a taste. Many thanks for your continued efforts. Out of curiousity, did you by any chance manage to solve the unlit switch labels when using panel lighting?
At this moment, this mod is so awsome; the panel lights, DME and digital transponder, AP option, doors and windows opening and a nice aircraft behaviour (I dont know if the aircraft model is like IRL, but I enjoy it).
Don’t you thing that ground effect is to strong or air resistance to poor? in the final phase of landing, the plane tends to hover for a very long time, the speed drops too slowly before the touchdown by idle power
I’ve mentioned this before. Even the stock C152 floats a lot more than a real one. There is something wrong with ground effect. If I fly the same speeds I do in the sim as in a real C152, I float way past my normal touchdown spot and end up getting off 1 taxi way further.
Hi, decided to try your mod, doing my first flight in NorCal and enjoying it very much. One question/request. I don’t see an EGT gauge to use to lean the mixture, and the engine sound doesn’t seem to vary enough to adjust it by the sound. Are you planning to include an EGT gauge in a future update? Otherwise, it’s a great little plane to fly.
I’ve flown 0 150/152s that had an EGT guage. How I was taught is to set RPMs to 1200 pull the mixture until rough (or starts to die) push the mixture back in until you get within 50rpms of 1200
Edit for taxiing. Similar once in cruse with cruise power
So set the prescribed RPM, then tinker with the mixture until you get the best RPM and adjust? What about on climb out? Actually, never mind, on climb out, it’s sort of a ■■■■ shoot on EGT anyway. Thanks for the advice, I’ll try that next time. I guess I just got dependent on an EGT gauge in the 172 and Warrior, have never been in a 152.
well below 3000 feet it is full rich. higher airports you might lean on the rich side a little. For cruise I always go with the “big pull” method to stay away from getting the cylinder heads to hot. Mike Bush A&P/IA has some great youtube videos on leaning an engine.
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Right, I meant above 3000’, I usually cruise around 6000’ to 7000’, is that high for a 152? The charts seem to show them to be fuel efficient altitudes
Yes for climbing I go rich of peak and then for cruise back to lean of peak. It is a little more art than science without an EGT. You really want to look at cylinder head temps over EGT since EGT can lag behind a bit but better than nothing.
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Yes! One is planned in the future as a selectable option, along with a other surprises 
The POH actually mentions one as “optional equipment”.
I usually keep the 152 below 5000. You can definitely go higher, just keep in mind that the stated climb rates are around 500 rpm at sea level and just go down from there as you climb 
I”m not sure if this is a max power climb or a cruise climb power setting, I don’t have it in front of me atm.
I’ve been looking through a POH for the 172 recently, and it contains some information on using the egt. It mentions only leaning by egt when your at a 75% power setting or lower, and to NOT use it when at a full throttle.
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All you want to know about leaning: Leaning The Advanced Class - YouTube
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Anyone test this with SU8 Beta yet?
I tested it and it worked fine.
When I was shutdown the engine, the propeller was still rotating, I figure out that was a wind interaction with the new propeller physics (bahhh, I dont remember this before).
Just finished my first flight in this FANTASTIC airplane, and WHAT A FLIGHT. I was only pretending to ferry it from the current home airport of the first C152 I ever flew in the real world (KCQF) to my current home airport, (KRYY).
It’s a long flight, but do-able. I took off and made it past LaGrange, Georgia. I was having a full glass of cabernet sauvingnon, and got a little drowsy. I left it on AP and went and sat in my rocking chair, thinking I’d be back in about time to hit ATL.
I was wrong. I woke up about an hour later. No VORs were registering. No ADFs. Everything was blank. PANIC.
I use SkyVector, so I started quickly looking at N.E. Georgia. I dialed the Harris VOR (109.8). It was somewhere to the northwest of me. I could see mountains against the otherwise pitch-black sky. Next I dialed up Athens (109.6). It was somewhere to the south of me. Finally, I dialed up Foothills (113.4), and it was DUE EAST. I was SUCKING FUMES!!!
I decided to fly to Foothills and then due south to - hopefully - Toccoa, Georgia. As I flew, the CDI started moving to one side, slowly. I adjusted my heading and it came back. Then it started moving again. Eventually, it fell off completely, and I turned due south. BANG! There was Toccoa, right in front of me!
I landed uneventfully, having drawn nearly EVERY OUNCE of avgas out of that 152. My virtual AND real life hands were shaking as I pulled up to the dude with his glowing wands over his head. “Filler’up” indeed!
This sim and this airplane ROCK.
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If I’m not mistaken it won’t be implemented unless the aircraft is updated to use it? So will have to wait for JPL to update it to use the new flight model features.
Yes, but I really dont remember that kind of interaction propeller-wind before SU8.
Hiya. Ive always loved this mod, and ill go as far to say it’s probably the best mod in the game. I’m really excited to see V2. Just how do you improve something that’s already this good!. We will just have to wait and see.
How is the next update coming along?
thank you for the mod.
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Is this compatible with SU8? How about the new prop aerodynamics?
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Yes, it’s fine with SU8. The new prop stuff however will probably not be seen until we release V2 or maybe not till after SU9 as I’ve read that’s when there will be more aerodynamics updates.
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