and uh, what are you going to do about it??? seems this issue is very widespread in the
gaming industry, stopping with gaming is not an option haha
but i think ppl make too much drama about lil things not working.
If you have a hardware panel with two position switches and assign them in MSFS you will always force the variable of this switch position. Itās always āsetā. SO if you have a master switch in the cockpit that would activate both battery and alternator but have a switch set to āalternator offā it will be off in the sim. Itās a problem with Asoboās design decision and is also the reason that many people have problems with aircraft like the CRJ or DC-6. Variables are set in the background and there is no (possible) indication in the cockpit.
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Simple, vote with wallet.
No fuss, no drama, thatās stuff for forum fighters.
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Itās a vent to let in the nice, cool, summer air.
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I can smell it now 
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It should spin, too, so you can direct it straight at your nose 
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True study level feature right there.
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Thatās truly funny!
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canāt bang on āstudy levelā hard enough far as Iām concernedā¦keep up the good work
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Yeah I try the lean in method and end up with my stomach muscles cramping. It must be infuriating if your disability makes that impossible.
The little bit of moaning I did was to Just Flight and not Carenado. They wouldnāt lower themselves to talk to individual customers. They just told me they would look into the problem with the Ovation, and then never did.
Agreed. They just donāt care about VR yet. If it hit them in the pocket then they would start caring but We are just not important enoughā¦Yet.
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Same here, I really like the bird, but my landings are horrible in comparison to other aircraft. No matter how well aligned my approach, itās always a bounce-fest.
Have you found a way to improve your landings yet?
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Still experimenting. Best one Iāve done so far was a three-point āfull stallā (maybe a misnomer, but the stall warning buzzer was going off) touchdown with no flaps. Iāve seen some people on the internet say the normal technique with this plane is a wheel landing with no flaps and I cannot make a wheel landing in this without bouncing to save my life.
In general I canāt figure out if the flaps are actually needed/helpful for most landings, with 30-40 degrees of flap it seems like you can really make the plane drop like a rock which could be useful for some short field approaches but at a ānormalā field is a little hair-raising. Of course the original 170 (being basically a 4-seat 140 with a little more horsepower) had no flaps at all, and the 170A had much smaller and less effective flaps, only the final 170B had these flaps which are basically the same as the ones on the 172. I am leaning towards the conclusion that this plane doesnāt need flaps at all unless youāre doing really tight bush flying stuff and Cessna put the relatively āadvancedā flaps on the 170B as a marketing feature to make it seem more modern and complex!
It seems noticeably less bouncy on grass fields although it still does want to bounce someā¦ of course I would expect this to be the case to an extent, but it almost makes me wonder if the shocks in the landing gear are too stiff. But this may be realistic because when this plane was built in the early 50ās grass fields could have been the expected environment for most light GA aircraft? Not sure.
I can say that just comparing Carenado tail-draggers the Waco is much easier to set down (although of course much more of a handful on takeoff).
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Interesting. Having watched several YouTube videos on the new plane, the full stall landing indeed seems like the best option. Iāll give it a go next time I have a chance to fly. Thanks for the tip, pal! Iāll also try to verify the grass field theory and experiment with fewer flaps.
Oh, and I couldnāt agree more, the WACO is a real challenge on take off, although my personal nemesis in that regard is definitely the P40 from Big Radials. Love the bird very much, but both take off and landing are a struggle of special extent.
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All my landings thus far were comparable to a basketball.
Iām terrible landing tailwheel planes. 
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It is way too bouncy on landing. It will bounce the full length of the runway if you let it.
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Are you nosing down to try to keep it on the ground, or are you reducing power, and pulling back slightly to bleed off airspeed? It sounds like your plane still wants to fly.
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No, no matter how gently I try to put it down, it bounces. Even trying to stall it onto the ground like others have stated.
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If you are stalling it youāll want to land on all three wheels. No expert here, just what I do in the sim.
Hereās an example of a nice landing https://youtu.be/3yqYtxj86MA?t=1582