May 24, 200422 yr I have been having a great time flying the lyon's apache this weekend and just wanted to post a quick note of thanks.This is the first plane I've flown that has an engine model that audibly and numerically has a peak of engine performance that requires adjustment of the condition and mixture. Now I've flown the FSD Cheyenne and the PMDG Beech1900 - their engines require proper management, but it's more like "reduce the rpm or the engines will fail" kind of management. The apache has a true peak of performance - as the condition lever is pulled back you can hear the engines start to run more efficiently (my only problem is that the stated cruise should be 2400 rpm, while I get poor engine performance about 2000rpm), until you reach the peak, and then they start to sound terrible again. Same is true for mixture - start to lean the engines and the performance sounds better until you lean too far past peak and the engines sound worse and eventually cut out. It's a great effect, and very obvious and intuitive to properly adjust engine performance.A question: Do the rest of the new custom classics have this great engine model?Best,sg [email protected] | 32gb RAM | EVGA GTX1080 8gb | Mostly P3Dv5 (also IL2:BoX, DCS, XP11)
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