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No
Have you disabled/removed all your mods and addons?
I don’t have any mods or addons.
Brief description of the issue:
The defect is the SR22’s refusal to reduce engine RPM on reaching altitude when reducing engine power for the cruise phase of flight is required. In the real world, SR22 pilots are trained to climb to cruise altitude at full power which will produce a prop speed of 2,700 rpm. On attaining cruise altitude and accelerating to cruise speed (roughly 170 KTAS) an SR22 pilot is trained to throttle back to 2,500 rpm. There is no independent propellor speed control in the SR22 as the prop speed is integrated with the throttle. Interestingly, the current version of the MSFS 2020 SR22 will correctly reduce prop speed on the ground, but not in the air. If I hold the brakes on the ground and run the SR22 to full power and then throttle back the SR22 will correctly reduce rpm as the throttle is reduced. It doesn’t work that way in flight. When airborne, the rpms remain at 2,700 until the throttle is pulled nearly back to idle. When doing this, the simulated engine sounds are unaltered so the aircraft sounds the same at 21 percent power as it does at full power which is deeply disturbing because engine sounds are integral to the pilot’s situational awareness. As one would expect, keeping the rpms at 2,700 at nearly the full range of throttle positions also makes it difficult to slow the airspeed when descending. All of this ruins the flight experience.
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Shortly after takeoff and climbing. Throttle full and rpm is correct at 2,700
On the step at 7,000 feet altitude and throttle pulled back to 65 percent power. This should have reduced the rpms but it did not.
Reduced throttle to 21 percent power and rpms remain incorrect at 2,700.
Detailed steps to reproduce the issue encountered:
The description of the issue contains the detailed steps to reproduce. Just fly the SR22 to cruise altitude and then reduce throttle and watch the prop speed (rpms).
PC specs and/or peripheral set up if relevant:
My PC is a high end Velocity Micro that can run MSFS 2020 with all settings at Ultra.
Build Version # when you first started experiencing this issue:
I don’t recall the build version when this happened but it was associated with the developers tweak that increased engine power from the under-powered SR20 engine to the appropriate SR22 engine.
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