If they did a Tecnam p2012 traveler it would probably join the Kodiak as the best airliner 
I definitely cannot disagree about that. Especially when drink is involved.
I bet the Venn Diagram of football hooligans that also make YouTube videos about flight simulators has a pretty thin overlap though 
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Your video was very timely for me.
Iāve managed to get my head around how to fly the Kodiak pretty well until I discovered yesterday that I hadnāt landed it in crosswinds (just by dumb luck flying with real weather). It was windy yesterday during a couple of flights and my landings were as miserable as the first in your video.
I know youād already talked about the material in your video in previous posts in this thread, but watching you perform them was extremely helpful. Now I just need to practice.
Glad that I waited to post this one. Tried your slip method in 10 and 15kt crosswinds from about 60 degrees off my left side. Magic! Iāll throw in gusts and other stuff later.
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Yeah, itās nice but I tend not to use it. I fly G1000-equipped aircraft IRL and the knob/buttonology with my button box, save for that function, is second nature.
The slip /low wing method works really well for the Kodiak. As you could see I was using crab for the initial approach and then going into the slip on short final.
One thing I didnāt mention was that it increases your vertical speed (more drag), so more power needs to be added. But the extra drag can be useful too when a steeper approach is required - Iāll often use it to help clear trees on bush strips even when there is no crosswind.
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Huups, whatās happen here?
See Airspeed
Iāve noticed that on several aircraft with the G5 emulation
Thatās not a G5 though. Itās an ESI-500. The Kodiak couldnāt have a G5 IRL for certification reasons. Itās only for use with relativity basic low seat count aircraft.
I remember this being a bug in an earlier version of the Kodiak but I thought it got fixed. Do you have the latest version?
Itās still a thing, I have the latest version from the Marketplace and the bug is still there
Fair enough, thanks for the info! Point is, Iāve seen it on more than just the Kodiak.
No worries. Perhaps they share the same bugged code.
Itās been there for more than a year, and it also happens in other airplanes.
Itās documented in the known issues page.
Since SU10 some numbers on the ESI500 are displaced.
This is an MSFS bug that was introduced in Sim Update 5 when using NanoVG. It has been reported to Asobo here: https://devsupport.flightsimulator.com/questions/6681/bug-problems-with-rendering-of-xml-gauges-in-nanov.html. That is a developer-only forum, so please refrain from posting there.
Can we talk about the Autopilot for a minute? There are some rather glaring omissions and incorrect behavior that Iāve observed, but the worst is the complete lack of stall protection, and in fact quite the opposite, the AP behavior actually makes stall conditions worse if you donāt catch it and disable the AP in time.
The real Kodiakās AP has stall protection built in. It will not pitch up enough to cause a stall.
In the sim, especially on ILS approaches, Iāve crashed more than once due to error on my part exacerbated by the AP trying to pitch up more and more to absurd limits which causes a stall. This should not happen. Worst case it should nose over and fly into the ground 
If you mean the GFC-700 Underspeed Protection and Electronic Stability Protection packages that the IRL Kodiak uses, yes - these are not implemented. Nor is Control Wheel Steering and various other IRL features. Maybe in a future version?
Until then - dont forget to apply power at the bottom of descent. I modded my G1000 using SPAD to get the 200ft aural tone, which can help if you have become distracted with another task.
Yes those are exactly the features I am referring to (And thank you now I finally know what ESP stands for lol! I had a hell of a time trying to google that)
My problem is consistently (which probably says something about me) when moving to flaps 2 or most often flaps 3 on approach. I either forget to throttle up or donāt throttle up enough for the new configuration and next thing I know the AP is rapidly pitching up and up and up to try and stay on GS and if I donāt catch it in seconds its all over. Stall and not nearly enough time to recover.
Would love to know more about that. There are a lot of these settings in the G1000 settings page that seem unable to be set
At flaps 35, set your torque for c1000ft-lbs.
Donāt use the AP at speeds less than 100KIAS (IRL limitation and wise in MSFS too). And I suggest dont use it less than 500AGL.
Getting the tone is not a feature available in the sim. You have to use some 3rd party driver software like SPAD.next to play a suitable sound when you are crossing 200ft of your target ALT SEL. Its not that hard to do in SPAD (paid version only)
Donāt use the AP at speeds less than 100KIAS (IRL limitation and wise in MSFS too). And I suggest dont use it less than 500AGL.
Yes but at this point Iām still slowing down and well over 100 when the flaps start going out, and only dropping below as a result of my mistake and at that point Iām panicking
Generally what happens is Iām about 130, starting to slow down, do indeed put in about 1,000 torque and flaps 1 around 130 knots. Then flaps 2 around 120. But around this point a series of events starts happening too quickly for me to have fully absorbed it but I think something like this is happening:
- 120 knots and flaps 2
- The aircraft balloons a bit (The autotrim for flaps either is also not implemented or just plan too weak IMHO)
- The aircraft slows down quite quickly, and the AP starts to pitch up quickly which compounds the issue and next thing I know Iāve gone from 120 to 80 knots in a couple of seconds!
At this point even full throttle wonāt save it because as a TP there is a delay in torque plus the AP is still pitching up more and more and more to try and stay on GS even though it is impossible.
So really I just need to drop the AP MUCH sooner, but I hesitate to do so on ILS landings because of either visibility or crosswind conditions that are causing me to use ILS in the first place.
Getting the tone is not a feature available in the sim. You have to use some 3rd party driver software like SPAD.next to play a suitable sound when you are crossing 200ft of your target ALT SEL. Its not that hard to do in SPAD (paid version only)
Ah I see what you mean. You arenāt actually doing anything to the G1000, just reacting to the sim data. Iāll look to see if AAO can do that with scripts, but Iāve never looked at writing a script that can react to data as opposed to being driven by events so not sure if it can.
I usually apply the flaps as per limits and let the AP deal with the re-trimming and I focus on power management. But for flaps 35, Iām almost certainly be out of AP by then.
Itās just practice - know that full prop RPM and full flaps is like throwing out an anchor!
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