yo what?! what are those janky final numbers youre throwing?? how come 80-110 ias, 250-900fpm is “final”? those are huge ranges. you’re never gonna land a caravan at 110 kts lol.
Have you even tried putting some weight and fuel or are you flying empty? put it at MLW and see how much torque you need to keep 75ias at -500fpm, its almost 50% power…
Flying the caravan down final at 120 flaps 10 is more or less standard technique for a straight in IRL. I start slowing at about 500ft to cross the threshold slowing through 100 knots. For larger airports 120 is considered slow and you risk getting sent around.
thank you! how much power and fpm for those straight ins?
If it helps anyone, these Spad.Next values set on a Honeycomb Bravo axis will keep you from going into Beta when you reach the idle detent on the device.
And these settings will put you into reverse when you pull axis lever past the detent and trigger the Bravo’s reverser button:
If you’re not interested in realism, you can engage reverse in flight and use it to make a very steep and recoverable dive, and this is permitted in Career Mode without penalty usually. You can also drop the condition lever to Low Idle in flight and this cuts the torque by 500 and will slow you down if you’re coming in too hot on final.
WRT the descent rate you can see it in the chart above 120 KGS is ~600 fpm, 100 KGS would be interpolated as ~500 fpm.
Want to learn to fly the Caravan, go to places like Nanwalek, Alaska 
i’m not saying i once climbed to cruise with condition in Low Idle but i might have 
And that’s why we have checklists 
The numbers I have from the manual for the -EX version are: 95 (10 flaps) - 110 (clean) > 500ft full flaps > and landing:
8500lbs > 78 Kias
8000lbs > 75 Kias
7500lbs > 73 Kias
7000lbs > 71 Kias
I didn’t find the rate in the manual, but I verified in the simulator that a climb rate of ~500 fpm is possible. However, as you mentioned, such speeds are not recommended in a busy airport.
I luv it! I love getting on the nerves those fast jockeys liners. Full flaps and 75Kias X’D. And on the threshold, send him a kiss. For all those times I’ve dealt with your wake turbulent remnants. BTW stop out the rwy is a good practice for one pilot aircraft like C208.
Thanks, that all makes sense. I was also flying at min weight so a bit of load will help too.
I’ll try it again in a few days, have to get through some medical procedures right now.
… I didn’t say they were pretty landings, and I’m using a 2800 metre runway at my home airport , … and yes, a bit more weight will help, thanks.
For me today it followed the course very well until on final approach, the AP caused severe lateral oscillations around the LOC, GS was tracked good. Had to handfly it down.
If you setup your Throttle lever using THROTTLE SET and use the Honeycomb Bravo, it does mimic the real aircraft controller. You just need to be very careful using THROTTLE SET. There is no dead zone between Low Idle and Beta Mode, and if you pull back into Beta Mode during decent and/or approach, you will likely crash. That has been my experience so for.
Autopilot is the first thing that needs fixing. Cannot adequately follow the magenta line. Oscillates like it is drunk. Nothing seems to fix it. BORKED.
i don’t have a Bravo, but does it not have a detent near the bottom of the axis for reverse (like the TCA)?
It does have a detent, but the analog axis ends at that detent and only a switch is activated if moved below.
Interesting. I’m curious to know which simvars are feeding those. Either there are multiple simvars holding different values, or one instrument is not displaying the correct data accurately.
It does, but I don’t see a reason for using it when using THROTTLE SET. THROTTLE SET creates three ranges on the Bravo throttle axis: 0-15% = Reverse propeller thrust; 16%-30% = Beta Mode; 31-100% = Forward propeller thrust (%'s are approximations). Forgive me if my explanation of my experience using THROTTLE SET is confusing and not correct. The last thing I want to do disseminate bad information to the community.
