I won’t round any corners about this. There are a couple of areas in the flight model that are work-in-progress and this is one of them.
When the plane is loaded to its maximum payload, the CG is at 40% back, which is the maximum limit. Per the POH the plane should be trimmed nose-down for take off in this case. The trim indicator (image) has a range that goes from 0% to 75% down trim for takeoff, so this would fall toward the “very” down range to avoid excessive pitching up.
There are two issues here: one is the flight model. I assume (not the FD developer) that propwash and elevator effectiveness are too high and this caused the plane to tilt up from a standstill at full power. Regardless, we are looking into it.
The second issue, one that we can’t do much about, is the lack of a trim indication on the G1000. Neither the default G1000 nor any of the WT iterations support the “L” shaped area that is used on the Kodiak to indicate trim values. As a matter of fact, the default G1000 barely fits the fuel indications. The NXi mod can fit the aileron & rudder.
Neither of the two allows us to make space for the flap & elevator trim indications. I tried a two-column layout like the TBM’s G3000 and it doesn’t work. The “L” display is not supported either. Therefore, pitch trim and takeoff trim have no visible indicator -which can lead to such accidents.
WT are very pressed and I don’t know if they would be able to accomodate the layout extension. We have a hack in mind that can get the work done, but it will not look good in certain situations. Therefore, that’s a problem we will have to deal with after release, until the NXi or default G1000 are fleshed out.
Here’s the actual layout, put side-by-side with the best I’ve been able to do with the NXi. The default G1000 is impossible to get to that stage. You can also notice the T/O trim range on the real instrument.
