Flew this plane for 2 hours last night and the throttle doesn’t respond right, neither does the mixture.
Plane red lines most of the time, have to drop throttle to 40% or less before it makes any difference to engine speed at all.
On the ground, throttle at 0, Mixture leaned all the way, engine still running at 800rpm.
Really difficult to land it smoothly when your throttle range is basically 0 to 30% on the power and the engine ignores an actual bottom range.
Saw really old archived posts saying much the same thing over a year ago, guessing it’s not been fixed.
Diamond’s normal idle RPM (according to Diamond manual ) is 720 to 780 RPM.
The TDI and NG are both diesel I believe, and have no mixture control, so I’m not sure how you leaned it.
My controls do not exhibit that behaviour.
The default Diamonds are extremely wrong. Normally these planes have a full Fadec system taking care of engine boost, rpm and mixture depending on the power lever setting. The default versions have nothing but a very sad attempt of recreating this behaviour. For PC there are great mods available but the time the modder put into this fadec and further fixes is beyond any feasibility for Asobo. I doubt they will fix that.
Don’t claim to be any kind of expert on planes, but surely the throttle should make some difference to rpm before you get it below 40%? Redlines all the time, pull the throttle out a long way before anything changes. Why would anyone make a plane work like that?
This is on XBox, as stated.
No idea on mixture then, did not know they were diesel. I just pulled the knob out on the yoke.
This is another odd one.
I can’t replicate it, (just tried again)
But it seems you aren’t the only one.
Here are a couple links to existing threads I have found.
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On an XBox Series X, new install of MSFS 1.26.6.0 with just World Updates (no additions, no modifications) I tried the Discovery flight in France with the Diamond DA40 NG. It spawns in mid air with the RPM in the red, and it only lowers slightly when you bring the FADEC throttle back below 30%. And it’s not the only one. I also tried the JMB VL-3, which has an RPM controller that is visible, and you can adjust it - but it doesn’t actually affect the RPMs, which are also in the red. I spent 1 day on MFSF, trying different aircraft, and there were too many bugs to count: Taxi ribbons taking me off the ends of runways in to a lake, push-back IN to the side of parked fuel trucks, and the stock planes in the promotional Discovery flights don’t work.
