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On a scale of 1-10 (with 10 being best), how do you rate the Flight Model and Aircraft Systems?
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On a scale of 1-10 (with 10 being best), how do you rate your Overall Enjoyment of this aircraft?
I can’t get it to start, even with CTRL + E. There’s no engine display on the screen, and the PERF page says Cessna Model 700. No interior cabin, can’t open either the cockpit door or entry door without being teleported.
I couldn’t find how to adjust the altimeter. There is no knob that does it.
There is no information about the engines.
You can’t see any difference when you press the buttons. You don’t know if it’s on or off (pumps, hydr. bat, pack, etc.).
There is no way to enter passengers, cargo, fuel.
I didn’t see if there is any range indicator with the current battery charge and fuel.
When I activated the AP it started to behave erratically, turning, descending and ascending without control.
For reference I have hundreds of hours using the G1000 and G3000, both in C172 and TBM930. (i know this is a G5000)
After this catastrophic failure, I tried the Cirrus Vision SF50. Everything can be configured without any problems, a pleasure to fly.
Beyond the bugs noted, this one really needs a better set of instructions or at least an expanded checklist to guide us through starting it.
I can jump into most aircraft and generally figure out how to get it started, but this one being electric is a very different beast. The engine start section of the checklist wasn’t very helpful, lots of steps omitted.
So the version modeled is actually the turbine-hybrid-electric version. (I guess Heart is building two proof-of-concept aircraft, one hybrid and one fully electric.)
I was actually able to start it from cold/dark and get airborne, but that was purely for sport as the cockpit is totally incomplete. I noticed that the overhead switchology had many similarities to the ATR cockpit, so I just approached the systems that way and was able to start both turbine engines (1&4), then through trial-and-error got the electric motors online (2&3).
But anyway, huge bits of missing functionality in the avionics (no engine or systems indications). Button/status lights on the overhead inop. Etc.
Im honestly surprised we never got a United Express livery or the air Canada one for the default livery’s while we got a default United livery option for the max 8
I cant seem to get the Taxi/TO lights to work. The landing light works.
As mentioned by others all of the engine readouts are missing on the display.
And I don’t know if I can adjust the screen brightness. As with most the planes in FS24 the screens are way too bright at night and wash out everything so you cant see.
The nose wheel steering feels very twitchy and the nose suspension feels “hard”.
Also as previously mentioned by others, the autopilot beings to “spaz out” when you start flying above 250 knots. I’m not sure if that is supposed to be the speed limit of the plane and the red tape isn’t showing or what but its pretty goofy.
And yah an interior cabin and so we can see the passengers and also being able to use it for airline and passenger missions would be cool as well.
Overall I really like this airplane. I think its pretty. Its a unique hybrid airplane. It would be very simple and easy to fly. And turboprop commuter planes are always welcome!
EDIT: I cant get reverse thrust to work. I move all the throttles to their reverse position, nothing happens. When I move them back up to neutral, I get a “burst” ot reverse thrust then nothing.
I have to say I’m really not impressed with this aircraft in FS24. I tried to fly from KTOA to KSLC and just after flying past Los Vagas my batteries run out (why the gas engines aren’t charging them confuses me), and when you loose the electric motors, your flaps go out (despite having hydraulic pump switches overhead) and a little while later, the whole cockpit goes dark. Not that the displays had any engine information anyway so it didn’t matter. Had to divert to KLAS in a dark airplane with no communication or instruments. And none of the propeller feathering switches work as well.
The plane is broken completely… and there are so many other things broken in the career mode, that the player just has to repeatedly “grind” missions to get their money back after selling the aircraft that simply do not work.
It would be a good decision to have some more QoL features, like selling new or almost new planes back at 99% of the money, not at 75%… or transfering viable planes between companies… even if there were no bugs at all. But with the extreme amount of progression breaking bugs, its absolutely necessary.
I first managed to get (after the LONG time spent with Cessna sightseeing) the Vision jet. It works perfectly, very happy. Then the Cessna Grand Caravan, which works less perfectly, but its functional… but when I got to the properly interesting tier, stuff broke down - I bought the Pilatus for Medevac missions… there is not a single medevac mission for the Pilatus. And because we cant tranfser the plane, I had to sell it, undoing several missions of progress worth of credits.
So I bought the Medevac Grand Caravan… and had to sell it because the payout for the MORE ADVANCED medevac missions is 3x lower than for a shorter medium cargo mission. Another loss of several missions worth of progress.
And then I bought this thing - the ES-30 … and its broken completely. It cannot fly to its target without losing the engines, I managed to restart them once, then they died again, then the main engines died to. I restarted them. They died. On 4 separate missions I had this problem. Both when skipping to descent and when not skipping at all. And only in one case was I able to restart the engines for long enough, to drop the landing gear (which has no emergency release and need electricity, which is only up when the engines 2 and 3 are up) and to keep the main engines running long enough afterwards to make it to the runway (which is hard, because both main engines running cant even keep the plane level with gear down)
And this one will be at least 10 missions worth of progress loss upon selling it.
Very disappointing how the amount of bugs and unfriendly design of the progression makes the career mode extremely frustrating, even when the player tries to use every workaround possible.
Are you not losing engines 2 and 3 every time, losing all power due to it? I have not managed to complete a single flight without these engines shutting down, all going dark and me not being able to restart them… also the batteries seem to be nonexistant - the engines die and you have about 1 minute of juice to operate avionics.
It’s a good aircraft, however I don’t really see the need for electric aircraft other than the regional market and the cape air routes market due to being limited on the electric range because long haul can’t really waist space for batteries by less passengers
No, but the idea would be like that. The Prius can run on electric mode a few miles before turning on the ICE to either recharge the HV battery or provide extra power to the front wheels. This plane doesn’t recharge its electric motor batteries yet while the ICEs are running.
It’s a proof-of-concept plane, not ready for commercial service, yet, but I’m sure once Heart Aerospace finds out how to keep the electric motors running in parallel like a Toyota Prius, this airplane will be a great replacement for ATRs and CRJs in short routes.
