I am a pure-gamer-newbie who bought the SWS kodiak just 3 days ago and have flown it about 10 times so far.
As for my thoughts…
The Kodiak’s center of gravity is incorrect if there is weight in the luggage compartment at the back of the cabin.
When msfs2020 has one pilot and nine passengers on board, the weight is distributed to the luggage compartment in addition to the passenger seat, making takeoff impossible due to the wrong center of gravity.
When taking off from the runway, the Kodiak must have a VS value of 400 ft/min or less. If the VS value is larger than this, the speed will not increase. Because of this, it cannot reach 90kias, its altitude drops, and it eventually falls.
When landing on the runway, no matter how much I fine-tune the throttle, the Kodiak doesn’t go through the Vapp and Vref speed phases. The Kodiak will immediately slow down to Vso. Therefore, if you force the throttle up and down to create Vapp and Vref speeds, landing will become extremely unstable. Just let the speed drop to Vso. You only need to touch down before Vso.
Really? That’s the solution, just put any weight in the baggage? I always leave it zero.
After spending countless hours trying properly land, I’m about to give up. As others explained, the plane tends to lose speed rapidly with very fine throttle adjustments. Getting a stable approach is extremely difficult and I’ve been simming since MSFS 1998!
I flew high to perform some slow flight maneuvers to see how it behaves and was never able to get anything that matches POH nor Missionary’s Pilot bush landings. Is this SWS or MSFS issue or both?
Are you loading the plane manually, or auto-loading it using the slider/volanta/something else? If you are auto loading, then it will be out of balance.
What speed are you trying to climb at? Also note that if your inertial separator is open the sim will cut a lot more torque than happens IRL, leaving you vastly underpowered.
I need some torque settings to replicate this. We know that doing very low torque settings on approach doesn’t work as we are limited, but I need numbers or a video.
I’m glad to see other people sharing the same feeling. everyone praised this plane and considered it to be one of the tops even though it seemed catastrophic in terms of landing flight pattern, once a little loaded. the same is true of the cessna414 by the way, although I have not tried the latest update.