[RELEASED] Wilga 35/80 Series | Got Friends

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Raising/lowering flaps on flare/touchdown depends a lot on the cockpit.

If the flap is controlled by a humongous lever hanging from the roof that is quite different to a small switch immediately next to the gear lever with the potential to raise the gear by mistake

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Had a bash at this. No issues here tbh. Tried a crosswind landing on “not a runway” (hard to see how flat it was until I landed, but it was more bumpy than I expected!) and then on flat ground into headwind, then with a tailwind. Only like 10kt wind though

There is some weird-as scenery here lol

If you want me to try same place you did, let me know how I can get there :wink:

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I did some landings and retracted the flaps immediately as well as pulled the stick: no issues anymore.

Pulling the stick helps more than retracting the flaps.

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Awesome! Now try landing here :wink:

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I know this nice little airfield, I already flew to in P3D.

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Yeah it’s super nicely done! It’s not a particularly hard one length-wise but you need to keep well straight.

You want a hard one?? :smiley:

While I’m posting videos
 here I am testing a race for a Wilga event I am hosting tonight.

If anyone wants to join, you can find the info in the Calendar here :smiley:

1622

Now that’s awsome!

I will try 42ST and PZ28, didn’t know them .

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42ST is payware, but man it’s so good. If you don’t have it yet, definitely get it.
Nearby is 42HB and 42MG. Makes a nice little trio of bush landings all close to each other.

42HB is my American “home” now :slight_smile:

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Side 46, 88

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Finally (almost) finished my Wilga cockpit. It can be set up and taken down from the desk within a minute or two.

I have found a way to key map everything using LVARs except the Wipers. Does anyone know if it is possible to map the wipers to an external key?

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That is Awesome!! But you need a flap lever above your head somehow mate! :smiley:

I don’t know about LVAR’s, sorry


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Thanks! Im actually thinking about building another flaps lever that is easier to pump up and down. Dont know how to put it above my head though. :slight_smile:

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If I had that, I would never take it down,
unless I needed to change it out for a Boeing cockpit :grinning:

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Solved :rofl:

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EDIT: More seriously - perhaps a desk clamped monitor mount “arm” that can angle up and reach high up would work and be strong enough?

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Well, Im not sure my wife would approve of the hair dryer solution. Something about aesthetics.

Maybe some kind of handbrake-ish flap lever could work.

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Other option would be to move your whole desk up towards the ceiling and get in with a ladder :slight_smile: The Wilga is pretty massive so that would add to the experience :wink:

Your wife would be happy with more floor space too :smiley:

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:smiley: Yeah that would propably work well.

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1633

Go into dev mode, behaviour. Find the toggle and see what commands/vars are associated with it.

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BUS_INDEX: 1
CIRCUIT_INDEX: 6

Controls the Wipers

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Thank you, but Im not sure what this means. My build is based on Arduinos using the SPAD.neXt serial interface. From there I can access SIMCONNECT, LVAR etc. Is it possible to access those BUS_INDEX and CIRCUIT_INDEX in a similiar way?