Agree completely with the RPM issue. It should easily get to 2700 static (sitting on the runway). There’s something wrong with the engine or prop model, and it makes it very underpowered compared to real world XCubs. Probably needs a bug report.
Agree also on the gear - it shouldn’t be so responsive. The plane wants to bow onto it’s wing with the slightest of rudder input, even at very low speeds. It’s almost as if the gear springs and tires have no give to them.
There’s a few things that are not quite right or just not working in this plane.
I agree with what has been said by others here: The suspension is too stiff. You would think a plane that is built to land and takeoff from airstrips in the bush would have a much more compliant suspension. The XCub feels like trying to go off-road with a stiff racing suspension. This leads to constant landing gear failures in career mode. Even when landing at < 250 fpm.
The prop modeling is weird, like others have said. It doesn’t act like a constant speed prop until you get some airspeed.
Quickview 45 degree (QV 45) view bindings are backwards. QV 45 left actually does QV 45 right and vice versa.
The green circle flight path marker on the mfd does not work right. I think someone mentioned this earlier. It does not show the actual flight path, there’s some weirdness there.
Master Avionics binding does not work. I tried every combination of bindings from the general airplane bindings to the airplane specific bindings. None of them actually toggle the master avionics switch in the plane.
The g3x mfd is tied to the master avionics switch instead of master battery. I don’t know how it’s actually done in real life, but in MSFS 2020, the mfd came on when the master battery was turned on. Other planes, like the C172, have their mfd come on with battery, not master avionics.
The compass heading in the g3x is affected by gyro drift. I don’t think this is correct. Other glass cockpits have their heading indicator slaved to a magnetic compass. There’s also no way to correct the heading unless you use the “Set Heading Indicator” binding. There is no setting for this in the actual g3x. This leads me to believe the gyro drift is unintentional, here.
Engine torque might be a little too much. In cruise flight with cruise power, there is significant roll to the right, which requires constant left aileron to compensate for. You can compensate for this by applying less right rudder, but then you’re in a constant slip. It wasn’t like this in 2020; you could just about fly hands-off in cruise flight without slipping.
They’re asking us to use a plane as light as a piece of paper for rescue missions! Except I’m more at risk flying this thing than the injured person is! I completely flipped over just because I rolled over a 2 mm rock 