I love this plane. Took it for a 2 hour test drive this afternoon and man
Look! Someone installed miles and miles of street lights out there. (Sorry, couldnāt resist)
Yup, itās a nice aircraft but will file a Zendesk report at Carenado with some small issues.
Curious which ones you found?
- Itā seems at default external view and you pan around 360° or zoom out the small beacon light goes missing.
- recog lights are very dim during daylight compared to the landing lights. @nighttime itās ok.
- switch night dim / day doesnāt work not a big issueā¦at the moment
- Iām not sure but I donāt feel much drag with full flapsā¦
Havenāt noticed point 1, will take a look as well. However I noticed you either have red Beacon or strobes, no both
.2 is normal I think, you can compare them as a combination taxi/turn lights
.3 yep seen that one
.4 flaps 1 is not a lot, put in flaps 2 and it starts dragging a lot I noticed!
.4 Yea I will test some more with the flapsā¦Canāt tell for sure because iām not a PA44 pilot
Yea I also did noticed the strobe / beacon switch, made a topic about it in aircraft section.
I thought if you select strobes you also have a working beacon.
Me neither unfortunately. So far only real experience I have is 2 hours behind the yoke of a C152. Hoping to hear something from a real PA44 pilot about the flight model soon!
I flew a couple of approaches last night. I loved it. Only issue I noticed is that activating one alternator puts a load on both, Like there are simply 2 switches for a single alternator. Also not RPM drop with single mag or carb heat application.
Minor issues that I am sure will get fixed. Nice plane though.
Surely, if its a Carenado Addon, you need to take any BUG issues up with the Carenado āTech Support - Help deskā
ZenDesk ====> Asobo is not going to help. ASOBO is not the one to fix a Carenado Addon
(although Carenado might reach out āinternallyā to Asobo for help if the need it ā or more realistically, if the āchooseā to fix any issues)
Hereās a post I saw in another thread from a Seminole instructor:
OK⦠Great ā someone that seem to know their stuff
Question: Is it using the Asobo KAP140 AP, or a Carenado designed one, and if so, does it āturn onā correctly.
More specifically, if you are in a stable VS of 500ft/min climb, and you turn on the AP, does the plane keep climbing at VS 500 ft / min, or āJERKā down to 0 ft/min **
** or what ever the last VS was set for when the AP was last ON
I only used the autopilot briefly. It held altitude just fine, and the VS mode worked smooth for me.
I can add this. Stalls are a lot of fun. Be ready for a moderately aggressive wing drop, just like the real world.
OMG ⦠really ⦠thatās just too tempting ⦠here goes more cash into the MSFS money pit !!!
Iād be interested once those bugs are ironed out a bit too. Many hours instructing Chinese kids on the PA44!