Firstly, I’m really enjoying this aircraft! I’ve done a few flights today and managed to not break the engines so far Best £15 on an aircraft ever - You guys should be really proud of your work!
I’ve had one CTD sitting on the ramp, but haven’t been able to replicate so unable to accurately state the cause.
One thing I would like to see is an improvement of the tool tips. Some aircraft (Milviz Corsair springs to mind) gives you the current state of whatever you’re about to click on / move. Some of the numbers are so small, it’s impossible to read in VR. Having the tool tips give you a reading would make the VR pilots experience much easier
It’d be nice to have the trim position on a tooltip as well as twisty bar thing isn’t really intuitive for reading how you’re trimmed, especially for taking off after another flight when you’ve been messing around with the trim and it stays in that spot.
Hi thanks for all the suggestions, I will give them all a try when I fly next, but what puzzles me was that I started ok when I first loaded the plane, based on tips I found on YouTube! Also BTW the undercarriage doesn’t seem to want to retract when airborne so had to resort to the emergency gear lever!
I’m also curious how people manage to set the engines on fire. I have damage enabled but had to “work” really hard to get one engine on fire, the other one just quit.
I dont know exactly what I did but I had 3 engine fires in a row in my first 3 flights. I think it was related to having accidentally left the oil cooler closed (the state of which was saved). I was trying to fly around without having fully familiarized with the critical systems. On my 4th flight I managed the oil coolers appropriately and also kept a close eye on MP and RPM and everything was fine (except for an oil pressure spike at some point which I dont know the cause of).
But yeah first 3 flights I had 1 engine catch fire followed shortly by the other quitting lol.
About an hour with this plane so far, taking it real slow, getting used to the engines, used to taxiing. Did one circuit, nothing fancy, took off and landed like a dream. I will be spending a lot of time in this plane, for sure!
For what it’s worth, I get CTDs if I load GAIST ultra with this. Not sure what that’s about.
Also, like some others have said, I’m not in love with all the mouse dragging. Half the time it’s like my mouse gives up halfway through the movement and I have to click and try again. Not very immersive.
Contrary to what some others have said, however, I think the taxiing is really well done. I can actually feel the free-castering tail wheel, and combining rudder and differential braking use the inertia of the tail to swing it round. Quite the visceral experience. But I can imagine this would be difficult or even impossible without rudder pedals.
So every flight i take ends up in flames lol or at least with dead engines. Usually 15 minutes into Cruise my Oil Pressure starts to slowly decrease until my engines die, Oil Temp stays at around 80°F the whole time and i tried different oil types (outside Temp on Cruise 20°F). Nu clue what i’m doing wrong.
I have the very same thing. Is the oil temperature in Fahrenheit even? If not that would explain it as 80C is way above 80F and would be over the deterioration threshold. Sadly there is no unit given in the meter. What do people who have no engine fires keep their oil temps at?
This isn’t the type of plane you can just spawn on the runway and takeoff. You need to go through the whole startup procedure and manage the systems. The engines probably cut because the plane spawns in a cold and dark state and the fuel selectors as well as ignition is off
Finally managed a good start on both engines (took a few tries) and it’s idling along nicely now with nothing cutting off although the right engine oil pressure is a bit higher and the right oil temp is moving around a lot compared to the left one. But everything is purring along nicely.
Managed a short flight around Catalina Island starting cold & dark. I have found, as someone suggested above, that I have to not only ensure I have the correct weight oil for my expected conditions, but also - while the engine is being spun up - prime it two to four times, then wobble up to 5 PSI or higher, and then mesh the gears. That process would be easier if the clipboard didn’t cover up the priming pump.
That said, I stalled it coming into Catalina (gusty winds and an airfield at 1,600’ MSL at the edge of cliff face isn’t very forgiving if you lose track of airspeed Now after THAT, I could not start the engines to save my life when I tried to restart the flight from the same location.
So then I picked a brand new airport (PHNL), spawned cold and dark, selected a lighter weight oil for the 25 degrees warmer conditions of Hawaii compared to California today, did a complete oil change, and then I was able to start up, fly a nice gentle 15 minute circuit and land back.
So far, given my own experiences (and mishaps) I think that perhaps following an engine failure, crash or whatever, something is being mis-set or not reconfigured properly for a subsequent flight, which may explain why some people sometimes cannot get engine started.
But hey, the ashtrays work and the emergency escape hatch is there for any surviving PAX the next time I set something on fire.
Best £15 on an aircraft ever - You guys should be really proud of your work!
