You should be able to fire both events when moving just 1 lever with programs like FSUIPC, Spad, AAO or Easycontrols ( my own little program available at flightsim.to)
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Thanks for the 2 videos, one in Spanish and one in English.
Greetings to all and the Wing42 team for your madness
Ok, so here are my latest observations on the oil consumption. I’m flying my first world circumnavigation with this brilliant airplane. I’ve done 8 legs till now (141nm shortest - 283nm longest) from Cologne (EDDK) to Agidir (GMAD). I didn’t have ANY problems with the engines till now, everything went fine, when staying “inside the numbers”.
BUT on two of my legs my oil consumption was 90-95%!!! (Screenshot is made after my last 8th leg - 224nm)
This happened on my 5th and 8th leg. All other legs were fine (max consumption was like 30%)!
Oil temperature, oil pressure, manifold pressure, RPM and everything was in balance, but after landing almost all of the oil was used in the mentioned legs. I always top up everything before start. I still don’t know why this happens.
wish you happy flying!
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I Just finished up an 8 leg 2,455NM journey along the East Coast of Aus from Cambridge(Hobart)|(YCBG) to Horn Island (YHID). Longest leg of 378NM and shortest of 202NM (avg leg works out ~307NM). All these distances are just what was planned, in reality they all worked out a bit longer (avoiding some bad weather etc).
I didn’t run into any weirdness with the oil or anything else at all. It was a really nice journey.
It’s interesting some people are having the oil issues (or engine issues in general) and others, like myself, aren’t.
I haven’t run into problems on any of my flights actually, not even an engine failure yet.
Curious what we might all be doing differently. (All my realism settings are turned on btw)
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This is quite a marathon and congratulations for completing it.
I am one of those who have had more failed flights than not. By a ratio of about 3 to 1. I did repeat a flight I tried a few days ago that ended in me losing the right engine and having to make an emergency landing but this morning I was able to keep oil temps and pressures under control but it did take a lot of work with constant adjustments on prop, throttle, mixture, shutter and carb heat. It was quite satisfying though being able to complete the flight per the flight plan.
The flight took me from Milan Italy to Geneva Switzerland (LIMC-LSGG). The only real problem was that I was barely able to get enough altitude to get up and over that section of the Alps. I could only pull about 14,000 ft. which was just barely enough to get up and over but far short of the ceiling for this A/C.
But I maintain it is still the most exciting aircraft to actually “fly” that I’ve had the pleasure of piloting. I also love the Flying Iron P-38 but this 247D is a level above.
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Any suggestions for how to reduce engine temperature? My cylinder temps are hovering around 420-450, and my understanding is we want to keep the engine temperature in the 200-350F range. I’ve got full mixture. Carb temperature is at about 100F. OAT is about 55F. Airspeed is around 125 MPH. Throttle is 29". I’ve tried RPMs in the range of 2000-2300 and it doesn’t seem to make a difference. Oil pressure is 70 psi and temperature is about 105F. Oil shutters are open and carb heat is around 90% hot (needed to keep the carb temperature above 100F). Altitude is about 6,000’ MSL.
That flight didn’t end well 
The engines totally overheated and failed while descending, most acutely when I dropped the gear and slowed down. I’m guessing that’s because the airflow was too low to keep them cool. I raised the gear to try to speed up, but I think they were beyond saving at that point. They soon totally stopped providing any thrust. I glided a tight pattern and tried to drop the gear on final, but evidently it didn’t budge or I didn’t give it enough time because I landed gear up. It was a beautiful gear up landing though, right on the center line. Fun flight. Mechanic will be busy with the repairs.
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Can I ask what is probably a stupid question. I’m not an MSFS newbie but I am having a horrible time trying to manage my viewpoint inside the cockpit of the 247D. The mouse wheel doesn’t give me enough movement backwards and when the clip board is out I can’t work out how to see around it to the engine switches. I can’t seem to get a view that has both the wobble pump handle and the fuel pressure gauges in sight at the same time. Am I missing some MSFS view control in the cockpit view that I haven’t needed elsewhere? Mainly just using the mouse and the cursor keys. (PS - I’m using the Sim Update 9 Beta if that makes a difference?)
Can you hold your right mouse button to move your view around? That’s what I do.
At 19:55 I’m starting one of the engines and you can kind of see what I mean.
¿14000 f? This plane does not have pressurised cabin. I hope you remembered to take your oxygen bottles!!
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By the way, I bought a piece of software called Axis and Ohs just to be able to assign a lever to those oil shutters and now my life is a lot simpler!!
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how strange
I can’t do anything to get the heads above 120!
I’ve flying in Australia
Tinted windows of this plane is really nice for VR players. Below photos show the difference very well under the sunny weather.
My question is whether this tinting is real depiction of the difference between old glass material and modern acrylic plastic or just practical design for better visibility. Similarly in case of Ju 52, the original version has similarly tinted glasses while the retrofitted one doesn’t. Does anyone know the reason?
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So, I have bought this recently and am experiencing “memory cannot be read” errors while using the plane that result in MSFS being closed. I have conducted multiple tests with and without other add-ons and this issue only happens when using the 247D, generally 5-10min into the flight (but also on the ground).
As I have not heard back from Wing42’s support yet, I wonder if someone else has also experienced this.
Thanks
That RPM range seems high for cruise. Have you tried pulling the props back to 1600 - 1700? A lower RPM should result in lower cylinder temps.
Thanks for the suggestion! I will give lower RPM a try. I didn’t try anything lower than 2000.
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Yeah, it is a bit strange that an aircraft with a 25,000 ft. ceiling and non-pressurized cabin does not have on-board oxygen as standard equipment. I’ll admit I was feeling a little light headed as I crested the tops of the Alps, sliding through a narrow pass to avoid the higher peaks. 
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brains needed less oxygen in the 30’s, because the air was less polluted 
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The ceiling indication is (often) very theoretical. The aircraft was routinely operated below 10.000 ft.
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Would not be useful unless you also provided oxygen to the passengers - which is somewhat impractical.
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