I'm not sure how a real Seneca II would feel in pitch, I found the Seneca a bit twitchy too. I adjusted the pitch_stability in the flight tuning section of the aircraft.cfg as follows:pitch_stability = 5.0Seems to rotate nicely now--but again my tweak is hardly based on the judgment of a qualified Seneca pilot.Regards,John

Works a treat John. Much more pitch friendly.Perhaps one of the RL Seneca pilots would care to comment on Caranedos flight dynamics.

The visual model is fantastic. A bit too twitchy for me in flight though. The sounds are not well done. I used to be lucky enough to be a passenger on a number of occassions in a Seneca, and the sound isn't quite correctly put together at the various MP and RPM stages. Start-up and idle sounds are spot on. Maybe Christoffer Petersen will come up with something.

I agree with you 100% on these two points. The graphics etc are perfect. Wish it would fly and sound as good as it looks. Perhaps Carenado will produce a patch.I am a little disappointed as i have most of Carenados products for FSX and am quite satisfied. With the Seneca I have flown it for about 1hour and have hanger ed it. Really hope there will be a patch.

Works a treat John. Much more pitch friendly.Perhaps one of the RL Seneca pilots would care to comment on Caranedos flight dynamics.

Not that great on dynamics, I was really expecting something better! for some reason something is happening with them I have the problem as the arrow trying to do a short field takeoff, here in Venezuela where I live the runway is at 3300FT and has only 3280ft long! Im trying to do what I do in real life wich is to put full throttle while apalying brakes with the first notch of flaps and at 65 I aply a second notch and it goes like an helicopter this is when im at full load! dont try this at home hehe! but it really works, this is soemthing I cant do on the Carenado, for some reason its really unstable when landing I dont know why! I found that alternators switches are inverted they works in a position when they really are in off! and not only that they put the to left and right togheter and in real life you have left and right in one side and left and right on the other!

I also find this aircraft extremely twitchy. I have just done a test flight and i could pass from a VS of +1500 to -2000 simply moving the yoke a liiiittle bit down :( . It also turns in a dime, don

So is this thing worth the $30? I am a real Seneca I pilot but not really sure I want to spend money on something that isn't that well put together.

So is this thing worth the $30? I am a real Seneca I pilot but not really sure I want to spend money on something that isn't that well put together.

Yes worth it! I will post some mods that I made to it later :)

What make/model autopilot does the plane have. I looked at Carenado's website and it said it had the original autopilot that came with the Seneca II. I think this is the Century IV autopilot but am not sure.- Could someone share if the Carenado Seneca's autopilot is indeed a Century IV? If so, does it operate materially the same as the real world counterpart?- Are there any high quality FSX aircraft that also might use the Century IV autopilot?Thanks

What make/model autopilot does the plane have. I looked at Carenado's website and it said it had the original autopilot that came with the Seneca II. I think this is the Century IV autopilot but am not sure.- Could someone share if the Carenado Seneca's autopilot is indeed a Century IV? If so, does it operate materially the same as the real world counterpart?- Are there any high quality FSX aircraft that also might use the Century IV autopilot?Thanks

The only Century IV I've seen yet is with the same day release of the Beech Duchess. I bought it more for the Century IV as that is what my Baron has.. The Carenado Seneca is most definately not a Century IV-the Duchess is closer but leaves out many of the real workings...

the autopilot on the seneca is the Altimatic IIIC

Yes worth it! I will post some mods that I made to it later :)

Can you post those please? :( I'd like to see them before I buy this thing, I am on a pretty limited budget at the moment. However I dont have any payware planes either, which sucks!

Can you post those please? :( I'd like to see them before I buy this thing, I am on a pretty limited budget at the moment. However I dont have any payware planes either, which sucks!

I can post them, but how you will see them if ou don't have it?

I can post them, but how you will see them if ou don't have it?

Just wanting to know what you have changed in the file.

I bought this also, I fly the "Flying Club" Seneca from Just Flight, and my primary issuewith that is its exterior looks a bit 'simplistic', on the other hand the cockpit has alwaysbeen a favorite, i just love that retro 70's look :) Furthermore, the thing flies like a dream, its always been the plane of choice to go do some touch and goes with whenI'm in the mood.So, on to the Carenado, the exterior model is an A+, its gorgeous, further, the soundis an A++, I think its the most realistic small prop sound I've heard.OK, thats the good news, handling is a different story, on taxi its less than stable, onthe roll down the runway it was more work to keep straight than I think it should be.Once it got in the air, well, good grief is this thing SENSITIVE, I am used to FSX inmaximum realism settings, and yes, I can handle it, but the slightest twitch is metwith WAY too much reaction.I could go trying to tweak the config, but I really would rather not, PLEASE FIX THISCarenado, because this is just a wonderful plane in all other regards and I want tobe flying it!Cheers,

Firstly, I own every plane that Carenado have ever released for FS2004 and FSX.Their strengths are clearly in their exquisite modelling and texturing .................... BUT;Carenado flight models in FSX are pretty awful ! ......... I've had to tweak every recent aircraft from them, but the Arrow and the Seneca are the worst. I suspect the developers yoke/joystick is poorly calibrated and hence he's setting up pitch according to that hardware! ...... for the rest of us, the flight (and often ground) handling is awful !!!The only way I can get by flying the Arrow is because I put the .air file in from the Dreamfleet Dakota - not realistic I know, but a hell of a lot more realistic than the supplied flight dynamics.I wish Carenado would 'contract in' someone like Rob Young for the FDE, because their releases are getting much worse in this regard.No faulting the gorgous models but the planes are becomming less and less enjoyable to fly.I mean, flight dynamics wise, fly the RealAir Duke, the Eaglesoft Twin Commanche or the DA Cheyenne, then fly a Carenado plane ............. they're miles apart!Come on Carenado!

Anyone else notice the rocker switches for lights are backwards?If the ON side of the switch is depressed the lights should be ON right? As it is the lights are ON when the label side is depressed....