I just purchased the P3D 2.5 version of the Milviz B/E 55 Baron, along with the avionics pack to use my F1 GTN750. I have put in a request for forum access at the Milviz support forums, but have not yet been activated, so I am posting my question here.

 

Installation went smoothly, and my maiden flight went very well - the aircraft flies beautifully, and the GTN750 integration works perfectly. The only glitch I noted was that on my initial 1.5 hour flight, the aircraft only used fuel from the left tank The right tank remained full. I double checked that the tank selector valves were set properly, and that cross feed was NOT selected on either valve.

 

The only possible cause I can think of is that before loading the Baron, I opened my default P3D flight, which uses the J3 cub. The J3 only has a single fuel tank, so I am wondering if that may have "carried over" to the Baron when I loaded it into the default flight? Curious if this is a known issue.

 

Other than that, I am very happy with this purchase!

 

Jim Barrett

There are proponents here of opening FS versions and variants with a default aircraft before loading a 3rd party model. I have personally only found one instance where that was needed, and honestly that was at least back to FS9 or perhaps even earlier. I fly the B55 often in FSX and have not experienced the issue. Let me suggest you try loading it directly and see the result.

 

Also. Are you starting dark and cold? Do you have a start up checklist? And before taking off have you set your fuel flow selections? Your post does not detail the processes you have implemented.

There are proponents here of opening FS versions and variants with a default aircraft before loading a 3rd party model. I have personally only found one instance where that was needed, and honestly that was at least back to FS9 or perhaps even earlier. I fly the B55 often in FSX and have not experienced the issue. Let me suggest you try loading it directly and see the result.

 

Also. Are you starting dark and cold? Do you have a start up checklist? And before taking off have you set your fuel flow selections? Your post does not detail the processes you have implemented.

Yes, I use the checklist from the POH, and always start cold and dark. I just reloaded the default flight starting with the Baron (without loading the Cub first), and all was well.

 

While I have several complex aircraft that can be directly loaded as a default flight, there are a few that give problems if directly loaded - at least on my system - specifically the PMDG 777, and the Eaglesoft Citation 750. Interestingly the PMDG NGX does not have problems if loaded as the default flight.

Oops - not solved after all. Just purchased the Milviz 310R as well, and it is doing exactly the same thing - only burning fuel from the left main tank, and nothing from the right. This happens when loading the aircraft directly into the default flight of P3D 2.5

 

If I load the default P3D Baron, it burns from both left and right tanks simultaneously, so I'm at a bit of a loss. All other systems on both the Milviz Baron 55 and 310 appear to function perfectly. Fuel flow gauges work properly on both aircraft - I know there was a previous issue with FF on these aircraft in P3D which has been corrected.

 

I'm running the very latest versions of both aircraft, just downloaded from the Milviz ecommerce system today.