New Release: Aeroplane Heaven P-51D Mustang

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Okay Iā€™m sure I sound like an idiot, but Iā€™ll ask anyway. I havenā€™t flown this one in a minute, and I tried again in FS24. I cannot figure this warbird out.

I set MP to 40, I dance on the rudder and keep it (sort of ) straight. But it feels like the P-51 doesnā€™t ever actually want to leave the ground. If I can get it up in the air, it feels like itā€™s just a few knots from falling out of the sky no matter what the airspeed is. Any slightly wrong input also makes it fall to earth like a meteor.

I suspect Iā€™m just bad at this, but has anyone had a lot of difficulty with this one??

Edit: this happens in FS20 as well.

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I have the same issueā€¦

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Itā€™s very strange, isnā€™t it? Iā€™m trying not to gaslight myself into thinking itā€™s normal. It doesnā€™t feel right at all.

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Although it remains a significant challenge to take off smoothly, it can now be done with this addon.

Suggestions:

  • Practice in zero winds conditions, clean no external load, AND ZERO fuel in CENTER TANK, to establish a baseline feel to adjust from when you later use live weather and/or external loads.
  • Make sure you lineup on runway rolling straight before locking your tailwheel by pulling back on the stick (or however you setup your ground handling tailwheel lock)
  • Re verify youā€™ve set the appropriate trims to compensate for torque effect and P-factor (left yaw tendency).
  • Ensure you have the lastest version - which is much more forgiving on the takeoff roll torque effect and P-Factor (contributing to left wing stall on overly aggressive liftoff).
  • At about 100+ mph, Smoothly AND Gently use stick movements to make the transition to flight - Donā€™t yank on the stick like itā€™s Ace Combat, fly the addon like itā€™s a historical treasure you donā€™t want to lose.

NOTE: Iā€™m not a real pilot. However, the above suggestions help me with this addon.

P.S. Donā€™t give up. The Microprose B-17G needs you to make it off the ground :grinning_face: :+1:

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This isnā€™t a matter of warbirds being a handful. Somethingā€™s wrong.

I think I figured it out. Apparently thereā€™s a cheater autopilot in this thing. The addon seems to load with the autopilot enabled. Before anyone asks, no, itā€™s not in the manual.

As soon as the tail lifts off the ground, the autopilot panics. I noticed this because while the thing was sliding along the ground like a drift car, the ailerons were actuating on their own.

Ctrl+1 is the keyboard binding for Toggle Autopilot Master. Obviously any other binding you have on your hardware works too. When I made sure to toggle AP off before doing anything, it was much easier to control, and was actually able to get in the air.

Edit: Confirmed. Systems.cfg:
[AUTOPILOT]
autopilot_available =1

I set it to 0 and now it feels more like a warbird. Annoying, but manageable. Why in Godā€™s name would AH program this, default it to ON, and have no way to turn it off in the cockpit???

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I have also experienced this (when you hot start in the air). It still hot starts on the ground with the AP engaged, but it doesnā€™t cause the addon to make wild adjustments compared to remembering to deactivate the AP before a hot start takeoff roll (at least for me). It only affects me when I try to trim the elevator after airborne and realize I forgot to disable the AP before rollout.

I agree with the autopilot ā€œbugā€, but I just accepted and adjusted for it to use the addon. Aeroplane Heaven is not known for fixing bugs like this - at least not for months or years.. We get what we get, unfortunately.

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I need check this too, thx!

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Thank you for sharing this fix, worked like a charm and I got a couple of hours of quality flying in with it today.

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