May 10, 201214 yr Commercial Member Have a good read of the manual Rick; you can very safely say something was missed (even though the ticks are green). This thing drove me mad during the beta, but once you figure out which part of the checklist wasn't done right, things drop into place nicely........until you're in the air. Once you figure out all the things that need doing to get it started and keep it running, this is a great airplane to use! Cheers Paul Golding
May 10, 201214 yr Thanks for that tip, Paul.Will do. Pity there isn't a Tutorial included. I must agree the visual texturing and the texturing inside in the VC is superlative. An object lesson to others, I'd say. Just by the by, you would not happen to have list of water parks/airports to take-off/land? Rick Almeida
May 10, 201214 yr Sounds like maybe forgetting a switch on the rear bulkhead, if it isn't cranking at all. Al Alan Bradbury Check out my youtube flight sim videos: Here
May 10, 201214 yr Sounds like maybe forgetting a switch on the rear bulkhead, if it isn't cranking at all. Al Thanks Al. Did not not even see that switch. Will look. Rick Almeida
May 10, 201214 yr Author Just by the by, you would not happen to have list of water parks/airports to take-off/land? There is a very comprehensive pdf file listing all the water airports in FSX. I'd give you the link but I'm at work atm and don't remember where I found it exactly. Another thing I've notices but not solely with this plane...... If I start in the water and just sit there for a while looking at different camera views and such. FSX seems to make the plane jump upwards slightly then come down with a huge visual splash effect (most noticeable in 3rd person cameras). Actually happened so hard that it once killed the engines on the Catalina and must of damaged it somehow cause the engines would not restart, had to reload the plane. Just wondering if others see this issue too and is a normal glitch to FSX.
May 10, 201214 yr It will have been caused by overheating (watch the cylinder head temps and mixture settings and note that an over-rich fuel mixture can actually assist in cooling, since before it ignites, it will actually briefly cool the cylinders a little, although you would probably get backfiring if doing that for too long in reality), or plug fouling (caused by not blowing the cylinders clean with a burst of throttle to burn oil off the plugs, typically if you descend with the throttles at idle, so you should occasionally use a burst of power to burn off the oil accumulation on the plugs), or shock damage (climbing or descending too quickly without allowing the engines to either heat up or cool down gently, so watch the engine temps and the OAT and moderate the engine settings to prevent rapid engine temp changes). Ummm How do you know so much stuff? :Nerd:
May 10, 201214 yr The ability to retain far too much largely useless crap probably has a lot to do with it. :LMAO: Al Alan Bradbury Check out my youtube flight sim videos: Here
May 10, 201214 yr The ability to retain far too much largely useless crap probably has a lot to do with it. :LMAO: Al :LMAO: :LMAO:
May 10, 201214 yr The ability to retain far too much largely useless crap probably has a lot to do with it. :LMAO: Al An ability that is of so much benefit to the rest of us though! Cheers Al Cheers! Iain
May 10, 201214 yr An ability that is of so much to the benefit of the rest of us though! Cheers Al +++1 :clapping: :clapping: :clapping: :clapping: Rick Almeida
August 18, 201213 yr Author Can someone help me out. I don't understand the difference between cowl flaps and cowl gills? They must not be the same thing?? The check list says gills and gets a green check mark if I use the keyboard shortcuts but not when using the cockpit cowl flaps switches. See pic.
August 19, 201213 yr Author Figured out the cowl thing, cowl gills and cowl flaps are one in the same on this plane. Also, you need to click and hold on the 3D cockpit cowl buttons for them to move fully to Open or Closed position. Actually, Open you can left click on and it will stay toggled up. Close toggle position works too but you have to sort of swipe downwards with the mouse before releasing the mouse button. Anyway..... Anyone have any clue what proper V1, VR and V2 speeds might be for this beast? Is there a way to figure it out through trial and error?
August 19, 201213 yr Bumpy - there's a 440-page manual for this aircraft - under "Aerosoft" in the FSX root folder. :o i7 [email protected] | 32GB RAM | EVGA RTX 3080Ti | Maximus Hero VII | 512GB 860 Pro | 512GB 850 Pro | 256GB 840 Pro | 2TB 860 QVO | 1TB 870 EVO | Seagate 3TB Cloud | EVGA 1000 GQ | Win10 Pro | EK Custom water cooling.
August 19, 201213 yr Author Bumpy - there's a 440-page manual for this aircraft - under "Aerosoft" in the FSX root folder. :o LOL, never even knew or noticed that. Thanks. Yup, found info, its 83 87 91 btw.
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