ahhahaa great good one, let the afe fly it.
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pfew, can be alof of things, did you try to follow the startup youtube from pdmg themselves?
Please don’t Hate us Guy’s. We love the PMDG DC 6 but,…
We have reservations about this PMDG Aircraft. The aircraft is Technically Advanced regarding Systems but the External Visuals are barely Half a Step Up from a well crafted FSX Rendition.
Take a close look at Tail of the DC 6. What should be a clean Curve appears to be Stepped.
There are many other ‘FSX Standard’ visual elements apart from this very obvious example.
Apart from these minor Gripes we’ve decided that 4 Huge engines on this lovely PMDG Classic is much more than these Bears of Little Brain can manage.
For us,… 4 Engines Good,…2 Engines Manageable.
We shall wait for a MSFS 2020 quality DC 3 to come to the Sim. Kind regards to all
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You are not required to have the GPS, there is an option to remove it if you want to emulate how the DC-6 was flown before that technology existed. But, the DC-6 is not just a “museum piece” aircraft. There are still DC-6 aircraft flying every day - mainly in cargo service. In particular by Everts Air in Alaska, whose aircraft do indeed have a GNS-430 mounted in the center of the glare shield.
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Just watched the Gyroscope Video Tutorial.
Nicely done & what a brilliant instrument. I will be able to lock on to an ILS & Hold Altitude & give my eyes a break on the long flights to come.
A couple of quick queries pre wading through manuals -
How do I bring the Artificial Engineer to life?
How to go about installing the 3rd party liveries that I hope will soon come flooding in?
TG
Um, no. That’s flat out wrong. While Valve is also a reseller, they are also a software house and hardware house. On the software side they have numerous very well received titles of their own (cult following, meme status titles), they write and maintain Steam on multiple platforms, are developing Linux-based SteamOS, and also write and maintain quite a lot of VR support in Steam. On the hardware side they make the Steam controllers, developed core technologies used in premium headsets by HTC, HP, and also Valve itself with their own Index VR headset.
Valve is no lightweight in software and in hardware. Valve is pushing the limits and innovates constantly. Microsoft has XBox, the much-loved Microsoft store, and sort of pushes other company’s VR headsets but only has Hololens?
You don’t give Valve near the credit they are due.
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I did. doing exactly what the video tells me but engine no.1 doesnt fire up. rpm goes up for a few seconds and then drops down again. other engines worked fine. tried restarting the sim too but didnt work.
One would assume that Microsoft will need to see the multiplayer bug fixed before they allow the DC-6 on the marketplace.
This aircraft is truely amazing. The sounds and vibrations, and the realistic variation between different engine gauges makes the plane feel alive.
I thought i found some bugs but when checking the manual it was either intended or my own fault. The handling of the airplane is great, and it’s very easy to land if you are at the correct airspeed. The most difficult thing is slowing down the plane for approach without setting power to idle.
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There’s a Video Tutorial on how to slow down.
MP management & progressive flap use.
TG
Seems I need to Invest in a throttle quadrant for this aircraft (and others) as the keyboard full throttle had 2 and 4 at different speeds.
does this help you with that?
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It did, kind of. first restart didnt work but second did 0_o. weird… anyway, problem solved for now!
Highly recommended - a Dayton Audio subwoofer amplifier and a bass shaker bolted to the bottom of your chair. My office chair has a Clark Synthesis shaker on it and I run it with a 100W plate amplifier. I run VR but mirror audio to my mobo sound system and plug the subwoofer amp audio in into my mobo sound. You feel any theme music and others talking if flying multiplayer, but mostly you feel all the thumps, vibrations, and shakes. In VR it’s the next best thing to reality.
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heck mixture set to auto-lean? Also are you at a high altitude airport? I think the start up might be different.
Also I accidentially shut off the fuel flow to engine one zooming in with the mousewheel in the cockpit…so watch for that kind of thing
EDIT - see now you’ve fixed it
have you setup your controller for all 4 engines??? somewhere you miss something.
How are you handling approaches without being able to control the throttle? I tried to “Abort” the AFE but my throttle was still disabled and landed about 100ft short of the runway at KDEN.
aha great, it will get easier after some time..but this is what pdmg is about. endless twiddling, making mistakes, etc etc until you know how it goes..will take awhile.
That’s the experience I had with their 747 in FSX… when it hits turbulence, you feel like the cockpit is gonna fall apart (some claimed it was overdone, but I liked it)… it’s like ‘darn, we’re in some choppy weather’.
It’s those details that make them stand out.
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Me, too. It turned out, on Firefox, I missed the notification up top that PMDG was trying to open a popup. Allowed it, download started.
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