This aircraft wastes 5 hours of my life everyday, after a 5hr flight , I get to entry pattern , the smallest dip to decrease altitude and the aircraft turns to dusts apparently and I crash while in the air . I was at a speed of 120 and began my descent and then BAM, exceeded aircraft speed. 7th time now it does this. I feel as if the only correctly modeled aircraft in this game is the first Cessna you get, everything else is trash and nothing but issues. I’d like to see a credit compensation as An apology in the future. Might give it a 1 month break of playing this in general. Nothing but issues
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In the past 4 years I have never flown anything else than Low Idle, standard and Black Square. So, never too old to learn something new but it looks like there is no difference or not noticeable.
Looking forward to the new Black Square Caravan, maybe it will be simulated or we’ll notice the difference in behavior in that one.
I haven’t read a lot of the comments in this post but I wanted to get in here and say this plane sucks lol. I’m a casual simmer so I have no idea if rpms going into red when trying to idle is real but I hope not lol
@SlamminRDixon Did you fly the Caravan in FS2020 and did you fly the Black Square? This version is not that far off in light of the problems you encounter. I dealt with the same issues years ago and came to the conclusion I was the one who was not flying the Caravan correctly. I takes some time to get comfortable with this plane, it’s not a ‘simple’ Cessna.
I realized that the torque values do not match between G1000 and analog instruments. G1000 shows 1958 FT-LB whereas the analog instrument shows 2400.
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I’ve noticed other discrepancies between the G1000 and displayed information in the C172. If you look at the TAS reported by the G1000 vs the TAS reported on the external camera screen with full hud, the external camera usually shows a speed that is 5kt greater. You’d think, like the torque gauges, the info would be identical.
I just lost it … it does not appear in the list anymore… Just because I added a livery…
How can Asobo messed it up so much … planes and liveries are mixed in the list, it’s unbelievable.
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The whole UI is messed up. FS2020 was more intuitive on this point.
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This plane, like other broken msfs planes, has a misaligned center of gravity and a bad flight model (even adding cargo weight). The pitch moves overly when the throttle is up and down and the overall is sux
another totally borken msfs aircraft
Sometimes it acts like a small ship fighting against the high waves in a storm. And that’s with clear skies and no wind on autopilot.
Third party liveries are non-functional in general right now.
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I was coming here with the question you already answered. Started flying in career and going through icing conditions I lost air speed indication and looked at the wings to check for ice build up. There wasn’t any but turning on all of the de-icing systems including the pitot heat solved the air speed problem.
Went on to do further testing in free flight, and there I could start to see some icing effect but mostly going through very dense clouds and with OAT between 0 and -10°C (there seems to be quite an abrupt limit where outside these temperatures there is no build up at all).
Experimenting with the de-icing equipment I also observed no difference in terms or ice reduction on the airframe, the other systems worked fine.
Also worth mentioning, in the free flight testing I was using “2 clicks” of increased sim rate, hopefully there is no difference there
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Hi,
Thank you for this post.
I have tried tried a long flight, I did get the throttle up to 100% for literally a minute or so at take off, propeller was 100% the whole time, but I very quickly reduced the throttle to only 75% and flow like that, and my respect aircraft condition score was something like 91%.
I think with my last post, my engine was already pretty cooked, hence why I was having so many issues, but your advice is sound.
I think I will be a lot more careful with the engine on this plane going forward.
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well, Asobo somehow managed to screw up the Throttle 1 Axis (0 to 100%) for the Caravan.
unlike every other plane with reversers, where Throttle Axis (0 to 100%) allows you to use a throttle with reverser detents (like the TCA Quadrant), the Caravan doesn’t have ReverserInAxis set in the config file (which we could fix if it wasn’t encrypted and streamed…).
this means that the bottom 30% of that axis (which should be beta/reverse) does nothing – so you have to perform annoying workarounds as listed in the other replies.
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“the only correctly modelled Asobo aircraft in this game.” fixed that for you.
in fact, the C172 (which Asobo obviously spent the most time on because it’s the aircraft most casual gamers will fly) is quite overperformant compared to the real thing (again, because they want the average gamer to have a good experience with their main noobmobile).
by contrast, the IniBuilds aircraft are astonishingly good by MSFS default standards, within a cat’s whisker of study level, and the Carenado aircraft are as expected from that developer (nice 3d model, basic but at least mostly functional system model).
So you wouldn’t notice a difference in the real aircraft either, until you pull the power to idle. All the condition setting does is closes some of the injector nozzles at low power settings. When you power up they all open regardless of the condition lever position. The big problem with leaving it in low all the time would be in landing. if you’re used to chopping power at 50 feet for example- if the handle was in low condition you’re going to have a really quick drop and likely a hard landing.
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I’ve been having an issue where the aircraft wants to “wobble” on landing. That is, it oscillates in a left/right roll on touchdown. Usually not enough to cause it to tip, but I’ve had some bad crosswind landings that did result in a wing-down tip before.
Is this a characteristic of the aircraft, or am I doing something wrong on landing? I only have this happen on the 208b.
it’s the well known C208B-attempts-to-kill-you-on-landing-in-Career-Mode bug. many posts about it up above. curiously, it doesn’t exhibit this behaviour in Free Flight.
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I suspect it’s how the Caravan flight model is interacting with the Career mode’s weather settings. The gust interval in Career is way too high, and the turbulence is also exaggerated. Maybe the Caravan is using the new CFD flight model which reacts badly to these conditions. The Sky Courier, on the other hand, is much more stable and controllable in the same Career mode missions.
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that had occurred to me too, as a possible explanation for the Caravan’s inability to keep a NAV path without dutch rolling all over the place, despite having the same drop-in autopilot logic as every other plane (probably written with the simpler, older flight model in mind). that’s a charitable explanation for a very annoying feature, to be sure, but it does hold water.