Not sure where to put this… Is it aircraft or peripheral? Since the Bravo works fine in other aircraft, thought I’d start here.
First off, I just love this aircraft. I think it’s the first I’ve been flying that feels real to me.
However … I noticed some problems:
The Honeycomb Bravo autopilot buttons don’t seem to affect the aircraft. They’re programmed correctly (I duplicated the Seneca presets) but they seem dead.
Also, the levers were reversed in order … No. 1 lever had to be programmed as No. 2 to operate as No. 1; No. 2 had to be programmed as No. 1 to operate as No. 2. Got that ? It was same for propeller and mixture.
I had stopped using my old Saitek Multipanel because I didn’t see reason for duplicating so many buttons, but I’m going to hook it up again and see what happens.
I use Air Manager on a small monitor for important instruments when doing precision approaches.
Otherwise, I’m very happy with the Skymaster. Great to have the power of a twin but able to watch the scenery go by.
John at KEVV
Thus far I haven’t had any issue with the AP on the Bravo with the 337. Just to make sure somethign didn’t go wrong in your duplication of your Seneca profile, did you do the search by input to make sure they are coming up as the right thing?
The reversed levers confused the heck out of me. I finally created a profile for it that has them reversed and has prop feathering.
I’ve heard mention of the reversed levers in several reviews of this plane… most likely to be a bug in the plane itself (or else a questionable design decision).
I think it was a bad design decision. In the 337 you start the rear engine first, which is the right set of levers, Throttle/Prop/Mixture 2. Then you start the front with the left levers. However, Carenado made the left-hand levers power the rear engine by default. I think their (strange) logic was: “We want people to start the rear engine first, and since it’s the first engine they’ll start we assume they’ll use the left levers.” If that was intentional, they missed one important point which is that it doesn’t match what happens in the cockpit, meaning it was guaranteed to throw everyone off.
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Big Dooohhhh …as usual, the moment I post something, I figure it out. Yes, it was a legacy problem. When I used the Multipanel, I didn’t need the autopilot knob on the Bravo, so I programmed it to adjust the altimeter. But when I put away the Multipanel, I didn’t go back and change it.
So, never mind (except for the throttle issue, which was easy enough to fix)
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