I don’t know if it’s down to the aircraft model, the sim or Neofly, but I regularly find that the fuel gauges are not indicating anything. On one flight yesterday, they jumped up to around 75% after I’d taken off, with an actual 23% filled via the sim, and next moment were dead on the bottom stoppers again.
I have some screens - one in VR during a flight, where you can see that the needles are at the bottom, and a couple I jumped out of VR to take, showing the amount they should have in, and again the needles showing nada.
edit - if I got it wrong and those gauges are fuel flow, not quantity, there is still an issue.
The fuel quantity gauges are on the overhead, above left and right of the compass. I’m currently flying over North Wales at 6,500ft and the fuel flow needles in your screenshot are rock steady at just under 17 with throttles at 23" MP, props at 2300rpm and mixture levers at 36% - 14 gph on the other Fuel Flow gauge.
The gauges on your last screenshot is the Exhaust Gas Temperature, used to lean the aircraft. Nothing to do with flow or quantity. They are a function of the Mixture Lever, Throttle and Altitude.
Basically the higher you go in altitude the more lean you want to have your Mixture. Too rich (e.g. levers forward) and the EGT is very low and you lose performance. Then when you pull back the levers you see the EGT rise. Up to a point. Then it becomes to lean, the EGT will drop sharply and the engines turn off. There is a couple of philosphies for leaning. Either x degrees rich or lean of peak. I prefer rich of peak as it is the safer operating procedure.
And this constantly changes with said altitude. and of course with throttle. When full throttle I tend to keep it just below the 16 on the gauge and in cruise between 13 and 14 (I cruise 22 squared. so 22MP and 2200 rpm.) Gives about 123 knots and leaves headroom for weather and maneuvering.
The flow is in the center instrument pack, the quantity above.
Edit: also rich of peak → maximum power, lean of peak → maximum gas mileage.
Since you are still looking at things, there is one more small issue. The Islanders engines are started with the bus in external power (even if you have to restart midair). If you do that and then start the left engine first, then the right, the bus switch gets set and locked to Battery Power (isolated Starters) automatically. However if you start the right engine first and then the left, you can freely switch the bus switch by yourself. I prefer the latter behaviour. Which one was the one you intended?
I want to ask if the acceleration on the takeoff run is close to real? I have no idea how the real Islander does it but I have the impression that in the sim it is a bit too fast.
I am reliably informed that BN2 Users will find an update on the marketplace now or a little later tonight …
THIS NOW FIXES THE CTD ISSUES ON THE BN2 ISLANDER !
(Many thanks to the Marketplace team and Asobo, Microsoft guys)
Later this month we will also put out a new update adding a Proper WWISE Sound Pack with all that that entails Plus a few tweaks here and there like Fuel pressure gauges, More accurate CHT and possibly some more Options for you
I was reading on the Pilatus Porter thread, and they too have an ADF with no adjustment knob. However theirs is slaved to the DG, or in their case an HSI. There is a video of this in operation in that thread.
Is there any chance of configuring it in a similar fashion here? It would make the ADF more useful.
So the course to the NDB is only indicated exactly if your course just happens to be North? For all others, you have to work that out yourself, so if you were heading East, and the ADF indicated it was off your left wing, you would have to head North?
