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-Damien

those us who owned the duke v1 got a nice upgrade price for loyalty so i expect the same from the turbine v2 when it arrives.. no excuse not to own it now it feels quite different from the piston.. actually the closest immersive exp i think i can get to flying a small jet in fsx (imho only)... i actually love that you need to take care of the engines if you dont want to lose them at 18000 during one of those amazing climbs..

 

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Hey All

 

It may sound blasphemy at first but I beg to be forgiven. I dont know how to make the V2 piston Duke a "complex" airplane. How is it possible that you can redline the engine for n+1 hours and nothing happens, no overheat, no oil pressure issues, nothing.. What settings do you need in FSX/the plane itself to have a decent airplane which behaves as it should? In addition, is there icing modelled on the airframe, prop blades and engine? It seesm that the swithces are there but the actual icing never happens.

 

Cheers

 

Csaba

Well, I've had the flaps fail when I lowered them at too high a speed, and trust me, you are in trouble when that happens..

 

As for the engines... do you know what happens in the real airplane if you push the throttles to the firewall?

 

In the Turbine Duke (in the sim) , the engines fail, quite spectacularly - that I do know.

 

Back to the piston Duke - if you fly it nicely, it will "behave as it should", in my experience.

Thanks for your response. All throughout my 600+ hrs of real world flight time, I never attempted to firewall the throttle for more than necessary, hence, I only know from books and tales what happens when the engine is under constant load with insufficeint heating.  I also have the Turbine version, and I have several times smoked the engines

 

BUt with the piston Duke, I have a feeling that you can practically abose th engine as much as you want - no penalty to be paid.

Well, I've had the flaps fail when I lowered them at too high a speed, and trust me, you are in trouble when that happens..

 

As for the engines... do you know what happens in the real airplane if you push the throttles to the firewall?

 

In the Turbine Duke (in the sim) , the engines fail, quite spectacularly - that I do know.

 

Back to the piston Duke - if you fly it nicely, it will "behave as it should", in my experience.

 

I can confirm the Turbine Duke engine failure simulation. Happened to me once, not sure what I did wrong pretty sure everything was in the green but BAM! went my left engine.

 

 

BUt with the piston Duke, I have a feeling that you can practically abose th engine as much as you want - no penalty to be paid.

 

The Turbine Duke models engine failures, but the Piston Duke, like most FSX planes, does not.

 

Scott

I can confirm the Turbine Duke engine failure simulation. Happened to me once, not sure what I did wrong pretty sure everything was in the green but BAM! went my left engine.

Although an engine failure will occur sooner if you don't follow all the rules of operation, there is also the possibility of random failures, the frequency of which can be adjusted through the configurator. Although I haven't flown the Turbine Duke for a couple of months now, if I remember correctly, the left engine always tends to run a little hotter than the right, so if your failure occurred during a relatively high power climb, it may have been related to this.

 

Bill

 

Edited: Well I didn't remember correctly - it is the opposite way around, the left engine oil temperature tends to run cooler than the right so that was not the cause of your engine failure. Just to show how rusty you can get on procedures if you don't fly a type for a few months, as I was too busy watching the engine oil temperature gauges, I forgot to raise the flaps after take off and a couple of minutes later I had a different kind of BAM!