PA-28 Airspeed indicator not turning red

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Good day, recently when flying a Piper PA28 Dakota in MSFS2024, I noticed that the Airspeed-indicator doesn’t turn red anymore at 148 knots which is the maximum speed for this aircraft.

Is that a bug or a specific setting in MSFS2024? Thanks.

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I am wondering how the Airspeed-indicator can turn red in case of overspeed ?, I am just seeing the needle. What was turning red ?

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WOW!

:open_mouth:

I don’t think I have ever seen - or heard of - a Piper Dakota doing 190kts IAS! Normally the wings would have been gone before that I think. :grinning_face_with_smiling_eyes:

But agree with the comment: not sure what can change in an analog indicator? In the following shot you can see the different colour zones a bit more clearly. The yellow caution zone starts at around 138kts and the red VNE marker is at around 173kts.

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I do not use the sim’s HUD at all so I am not familiar with that behaviour. Does the HUD’s colour change perhaps?

As always: a screenshot with a bug report is worth a thousand words…

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As per this post, VNE is 173 kts:

Not sure if they have fixed the issue reported there where the crash detection was occurring a 150kts instead of 173kts.
Anyway still wondering where you were seeing a red alert. Maybe if you have the cockpit HUD enabled as mentioned by @SlabsFly ?

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Activating the cockpit HUD I can get a red alert (bottom left) around 200kts, I assume it is too high and should be triggered at 173kts.

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173 kts = 199mph, could be another unit disagreement or conversion error.

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Sorry, indeed that was what I meant. The digital Airspeed indicator in the cockpit HUD in the left bottom corner doesn’t turn red at 148 knots anymore like it should for this type of aircraft. This issue is since like a couple of days ago.

I wonder if that’s a MSFS2024 bug or a specific setting in MSFS2024.

Thanks.

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It does not turn red at 148kts (this VNE speed was incorrect) but it does at 200kts (still not the correct speed), you can make some tests. It should turn red at 173kts that is the VNE speed.
So I would say the issue you’ve reported is linked to the existing one Piper PA28-236 Dakota: structural failure far below VNE. They’ve made some change to the VNE but it is not correct yet.

Moved to User Support Hub since issue reported here is linked to the one mentioned in above link.

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Thanks for your reply!