This is not a rebuttal, because I definitely understand what you’re saying. I’ve had vent blowers fail and they are simply non-op (or squeal horribly from bearing failures) rather than an electrical wiring/load fault that causes a fuse/circuit breaker to pop.
That said, I’m not sure how the blower failing and not popping the CB would make the simulated experience all that more interesting, other than being most likely more realistic, in terms of how electric fans fail.
In a way, having the CB pop is more “fun” given the use of a modeled CB that in non-failure-based aircraft are pointless.
So far I only had a fuel leak during a night flight with the Caravan. I did not realize before it was to late and one tank was empty.
Anyhow did shut off the damaged Tank and manged to land on the nearby Fliegerhorst Landsberg (German Airforce Base).
Was real fun to “manage” the situation and try to find a landingspot nearby. Needless to say I was above the 200 lbs difference between the two sides.
I love that failures are simulated (mostly) accurately in these aircraft! It speaks to the level of modeling - not just the pretty stuff like the panels, interiors and exteriors - but the actual systems modeling. It’s pretty incredible, really. And the fact that these simulated aircraft cost as little as they do yet have such depth of systems (and the interconnection of systems to form chains of complexity!)… it’s just amazing!
For me, however…. I usually fly with them turned off Two reasons - 1. I fly almost exclusively on VATSIM these days since my sim hours are more limited… and it’s hard to fly on a busy VATSIM event when you have a failure severe enough to warrant 7700… The VATSIM folks don’t like to handle emergencies on these events and 2. Having had various systems fail IRL, I don’t want the stress when I’m relaxing in the sim
But! That takes nothing away from how amazing it is that these systems are simulated in a way that we can HAVE realistic failures. Nor should my comments take away from those who enjoy them!!
In both the Baron and Bonanza I experience the AP loosing NAV mode. If I switch it on to follow a VOR radial it will extinguish after 5 or 10 minutes and no lateral navigation mode is engaged. I just can switch it on again (until it disengages once more).
Anyone also experiencing this?
Also, when approaching (closer than 10 nm) a VOR while a lateral navigation mode is active (NAV, APR or BC) sometimes the Baron (and the Bonanza) starts to dive in excess of 4000 ft/min. I have to switch off the AP and set it up again.
I was experiencing both incidents in the normally aspirated Bonanza and in the 58P.
Yes, I’ve definitely noticed this behavior in the Caravan and the Duke. I haven’t tried this in the Baron/Bonzo yet, but I’ll guess this is the same thing:
In the Caravan, when using TDS GTNXi in VLOC mode, or when using old-school avionics and tuned to a VOR, it changes from NAV mode to ROL mode every 2-5 minutes.
In the Duke, very similar behavior, except it changes from NAV to HDG mode, as the plane has no ROL mode.
GPS Mode works fine, no issues.
Curiously, it seems to revolve around using SPAD.Next. When I shut off Spad and use my mouse for everything (AP buttons, hdg/CRS knobs, etc.), no issues whatsoever. Do you use Spad or any other 3rd party control mapping tool?
Here’s the Caravan-specific thread in the JF Forum with Nick’s thoughts:
Try flying without FSUIPC and see if the behavior goes away. This would be great corroboration to my theory. I suspect that you’ll need to start a flight without ever launching FSUIPC, because I was still getting the behavior after I shut off SPad mid-flight.
If true, I might try deactivating different parts of my Spad profile to see I can narrow down.
But it’s strange. I flew from Goose Bay to LOWI and had no single incident regarding this. I did many flights in Austria between LOWI, LOWS and LOWW with no problems. Then, flying in Venezuela I get this.
GPS NAV does work. I was just confirming that you only have the issue with VOR NAV as I the response above mine stating no issue probably missed that point.
I’m experiencing the same in all more current Black Square planes, NAV disconnects when used with radio navigation sources, often multiple times per flight. No problems with NAV following GPS sources.
Fun fact, same happened in the Blackbird C310 after SU4.
