But it shouldn’t happen - the aircraft should be trimmed by the AP (pitch anyway)
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Well the AP is constantly trimming it just depends on where it is when you disconnect the AP. This may occur in the real a/c.
You should light a fire under Flightsim.com who still is serving up 1.3.3. despite several emails to prompt them.
Last time I buy anything from them.
A question regarding icing on the Kodiak:
Are there any icing effects simulated? Visually or also in terms of flightmodel, engine, prop?
Because I just flew through massive rain with -5° Celsius and I did not notice any visual icing effects or any flightmodel changes…
(and yes, icing is turned on in my options)
Does that not work? Not simulated, not even visually?
It should not occur in steady flight. But yes, if you come off the power and around the same time disconnect the ap the nose will drop.
I still do not see the update and the Kodiak has been having issues with the engine just blowing without even touching anything still shows 1.2.2 for me here on Xbox
My avionics went black today mid flight in the Wheeled-tundratyres-mixedinterior-iak (version 1.3.5 as Orbx didn’t provide the latest update yet).
Checked all circuit breakers, enough fuel, generators and alternators were on etc.
Does anyone know if this is a bug or what could have been the cause? Never had this happen before.
No, this one’s on us. We contacted ORBX & FlightSim late.
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Well even in steady flight I can see the trim wheel moving all the time. Maybe to counter turbulence?
Is there any update on when the amphibious kodiak is coming to sim market for purchase on Xbox also where are the updates because my kodiak is still on 1.2.2 and I don’t see the updates. This version is littered with bugs which I’m assuming is fixed in the update
It has been submitted to MS. They release on their own schedule.
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Yes it will be making small adjustments at all times to maintain steady flight, just as you would be if the ap wasn’t engaged. The ap controls pitch on the Kodiak using elevator trim.
It’s still very annoying though!
What peripheral do you use? The V1 for instance, doesn’t truly return to zero every time elevator(and can creep back to true zero, when you turn off AP it can jump a bit in trim, because you set AP on when it wasn’t truly zero(without a dead zone that matches your individual yoke). Some aircraft have much more sensitive trim than others as well, and adding some negative sensitivity tones it way down, including when you toggle out of AP.
Copy that. I have the update now. Thanks for clarifying.
Just testflew the latest version. Seems to fly a fair bit better and less trudder trim needed on takeoff.
though even just 1 stage of flaps seems to really bog her down a lot on aproach, really easy to get into trouble in the short final. .
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Does anyone else have their ITT indicator jump when the engine is stabilizing after engine start?
I love the Kodiak but it is still way off the numbers. I did the following test flights. I welcome anyone to try to substantiate/dispute the results:
0 wind for all flights, approximately 2300 ft altitude, 100 percent on prop lever, virtually empty(pilot and copilot only-50 percent fuel)
0 notches flap- 1000 torque yields approximately 124 kts speed at level flight
900 torque yields approximately 117 kts speed at level flight
800 torque yields approximately 111 kts speed at level flight
*700 torque -aircraft is unable to sustain level flight (has to be off)
1 notch flap- 1000 torque yields approximately 115 kts speed at level flight
900 torque yields approximately 110 kts speed at level flight
*800 torque yields -aircraft is unable to sustain level flight
2 notches flap 1000 torque yields approximately 97 kts speed at level flight
*900 torque - unable to sustain level flight
3 notches flap *1000 torque yields -aircraft is unable to sustain level flight
Under any configuration, for example, I am unable to fly 75kts airspeed and sustain altitude.
As I stated above, it would be great for others to test these. I also performed these tests with and without auto pilot.
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As I said, flaps need to be reworked as they dont produce enough lift currently. Speeds/torque results you are mentioning are correct, I got the same numbers before release. I did some maximum wndurance testing and was doing 124kts@250pph and about 1000ft-lbs.
I have been able to fly 70-75kts at a low power setting and flaps 20°, but at 700ft-lbs and 11
4° prop pitch we are hitting a limitation of what we can do with the propeller FM. TLDR we are working on flaps performance for the next update, but this will take time.
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One feature that seems not to be right is that the aircraft is unable to fly at a stable altitude when trimmed. It constantly starts ascending or descending after some seconds without manual elevator input, and the trend (which in most planes would diminish due to rising speed and hence rising lift when descending, and decreasing speed and lift when ascending) increases. One can literally watch the variometer needle wander away from zero. Changing trim by one or a few notches into the opposite direction will start the game with opposite sign.
Is this really the correct behaviour of this aircraft? To be not misunderstood: I don’t expect the aircraft to hold altitude without any elevator input, but not with this increasing trends.
Another problem which makes it nearly unsuited as bush plane for very short strips in the present state is the instable flight characteristics with full flaps.
As I only can speculate about the real flight characteristics it would be nice to have some comments of RL Kodiak pilots. At least, what I can see in the videos of Missionary Bush Pilot it should be a bit different.