Not necessarily all the time.

 

Ray

Guess I need to fly in better weather!

 

The Carenado models, (not all of them but most I have flown) seem to always have the same unexpected attributes for me. The first being the handling characteristics at slow speed. The SR22 seems to be the worst one yet as the elevator seems to get more sensitive at slow speeds. The opposite of what I would expect. I also find that most of their models require a lot of power on approach or they sink very fast.

Odd on my setup at least I can do throttle at idle and mixture leaned and a very calm cross the fence at 80 knots, with no severe control or trim movements.

 

It's staying level when high and slow where the controls start to get squirrely and then, for the first time in my life, I'm inclined to try out the AP functionality.

 

I usually climb at 75% power and cruise at 55% with mixture leaned above 6,000 feet.

 

Still haven't figured out how to use/interpret the "assist" function on the Engine MFD, though.

 

A good indication of the quality of the systems on this aircraft is that fact that the "IAS" mode on the GFC700 Autopilot, turns on the autothrottle to control speed (rather than by using pitch, as the mode is supposed to operate).

 

While the IAS mode is activated, the power lever cannot be adjusted (as it's being used by the FSX autothrottle!) which is hugely unrealistic.

 

So....... to say again......... here we have a SR22 ....... with an autothrottle. :unsure:

 

That, and the fact that this GA aircraft, with light systems coverage, is the heaviest aircraft on Frame Rates and Stutters, I have ever used in FSX, means that this is a big regret for me, and I would not recommend this release to anyone. (I've bought every Carenado release ever made BTW).

 

:(

A good indication of the quality of the systems on this aircraft is that fact that the "IAS" mode on the GFC700 Autopilot, turns on the autothrottle to control speed (rather than by using pitch, as the mode is supposed to operate).

 

While the IAS mode is activated, the power lever cannot be adjusted (as it's being used by the FSX autothrottle!) which is hugely unrealistic.

 

So....... to say again......... here we have a SR22 ....... with an autothrottle. :unsure:

 

That, and the fact that this GA aircraft, with light systems coverage, is the heaviest aircraft on Frame Rates and Stutters, I have ever used in FSX, means that this is a big regret for me, and I would not recommend this release to anyone. (I've bought every Carenado release ever made BTW).

 

:(

 

Yes, quite heavy, I do agree. I hope they can give it a tune up. If not, that will be the last glass I buy from them. They have something going on that is killing it and I hope they can optimize.

 

Bob

A good indication of the quality of the systems on this aircraft is that fact that the "IAS" mode on the GFC700 Autopilot, turns on the autothrottle to control speed (rather than by using pitch, as the mode is supposed to operate).

I agree that there is no servo to control the throttle, but thus far I've been unable to find any documentation from Garmin that actually explains how the "IAS" hold function operates. Simply changing pitch to control a fixed airspeed would likewise engender altitude excursions... :blink:

It's a pitch mode.... sort of like FLC in bigger jets...

 

So if you want to climb at 110 kts that's what you set... with climb power of course...

I agree that there is no servo to control the throttle, but thus far I've been unable to find any documentation from Garmin that actually explains how the "IAS" hold function operates. Simply changing pitch to control a fixed airspeed would likewise engender altitude excursions... :blink:

 

Yes as Ryan says bill, like a "Speed" or "IAS" mode in any GA aircraft, it holds speed by adjusting pitch, relative to a given power setting, in the climb or descent. While IAS is engaged, the throttle does not become 'locked' or 'managed' in any way.

 

I have tonight finally made my peace with this product.........

 

........ by merging the external model from the Eaglesoft SR-22, into the Carenado...... a striking improvement in performance and reduction in stutter! (although not perfect, due to the Carenado G1000 PFD and MFD). :(

 

For those who own the ES SR-22, it's a very simple merge; copy the 'normal' (external) .mdl file for the ES SR22 G3 model, into the 'Model' folder of the Carenado. Change the reference, in the Carenado's model.cfg.

 

Now copy over all of the 'GTSx' Texture folders from the ES aircraft, into the Carenado's main folder, and change the references within the Carenado's aircraft.cfg ............ job done.

 

Unfortunately, there were problems with the above, so still needs some work!

Yes as Ryan says bill, like a "Speed" or "IAS" mode in any GA aircraft, it holds speed by adjusting pitch, relative to a given power setting, in the climb or descent. While IAS is engaged, the throttle does not become 'locked' or 'managed' in any way.

 

I have tonight finally made my peace with this product.........

 

........ by merging the external model from the Eaglesoft SR-22, into the Carenado...... a striking improvement in performance and reduction in stutter! (although not perfect, due to the Carenado G1000 PFD and MFD). :(

 

For those who own the ES SR-22, it's a very simple merge; copy the 'normal' (external) .mdl file for the ES SR22 G3 model, into the 'Model' folder of the Carenado. Change the reference, in the Carenado's model.cfg.

 

Now copy over all of the 'GTSx' Texture folders from the ES aircraft, into the Carenado's main folder, and change the references within the Carenado's aircraft.cfg ............ job done. :wink: :Ying Yang:

 

Can you post some pics?

 

Thanks

Bob

Hmm, we're interested in pics as well since that is a unique approach.

We've not yet completed our "Perspective" Turbo GTSX but if our CAPS System Gauge is included then our CAPS System may work in that configuration.

Mind you we have no "HD" Version and our current SR22 Turbo only contains Avidyne Avionics.

Bob, when I first attempted the merge, the internal textures were spot on (in the VC model) but the merged ES model was textureless.... I then got the textures sorted on the external model, but have just realized that the VC textures have now gone! .... So my apologies, this still needs some work.

 

One thing I can say....... anyone who is not at all bothered about external models, and is happy to spend 100% of their time in the VC, simply 'comment out' (using '//' see below) the external model, within the Model.cfg, and you get fantastic performance! ....... and you still get to see wings, front of the plane, etc, form within the VC. Just no model at all when in the outside views ;-

 

 

[models]

//normal=sr22

interior=sr22_interior

 

@ Ron - I have just tried out a 'transplant' of your Avidyne into the Carenado SR22 which was partly successfully but with loss of radio control (obviously because the G1000 has integrated radios, whereas the Avidyne has seperate radios, so with this transplant, the Carenado is left with no radios! .... sure that could easily be addressed)

Ha ha, we didn't say it would be easy or even that it would work...we were just curious if folks had had success. B)

This is just in retrospect and impossible now, but there are plenty of programming tricks to reduce render of things that are not seen in the current view. It's a standard optimization practice in any 3d rendering system these days. It does tend to require situations where you can more rigorously predict what can be hidden or not, but I suspect it's something FS/FSX never did, for whatever reason.

 

If P3D were able to revise the software to do more of this, as is mentioned in this thread, potentially huge performance benefits.

 

FSX tends to use a detail reduction scheme with options instead, which is similar in concept but not as efficient (though more end-user customizable.... which may be the point!).

 

I purchased this and am thoroughly enjoying it. I am new to glass cockpits though and am wondering if it's possible to enter in multiple waypoints here. I can't seem to figure it out after reading the manual. I can do a direct to without any issue.  Thanks for any help here.