Wow, the F406 and your P3d V3 are looking great!

That first picture looks amazingly real Jim, magnificent light and shadow.

Thanks very much for all the nice comments everyone, it's LM and Carenado that're responsible for the purdy pictures though! :smile:

JYW how'd you make out on the Corvallis? Did that trick help at all? I did notice that the mousewheel doesn't do anything on the VC mounted autopilot, you have to actually click (right click increases speed hold setting, left click decreases speed hold setting - I think)

@Phil: I swore I wouldn't buy another Carenado until it hit the shelves at FSS after a download fiasco with the Titan. I totally get what you're saying with the patches too, I guess I was overcome, lol. I was suckered in on the Navajo too! I have no discipline, I couldn't even wait till the off-peak to download it!

Mitch I watched that Premeir/Eagle Co video and now I'm on a KEGE thing, lol. I gotta go get Orbx KEGE now and try that approach! That's on the agenda for tomorrow, "thanks" right back atcha buddy

 

Guys I can't say I'm wishing I had my money back on this one. Maybe I dunno what I'm lookin' at but I like it. I haven't heard anyone mention the hand flying qualities of the F406 yet but IMHO it's the best yet of the props, that may be heavily influenced by the fact that I just disabled my joystick and assigned all the axes through FSUIPC. Doesn't seem as heavy on the ailerons and doesn't tighten up in the turns as much as the Titan does, maybe that's the result of the Citation style tail. There seems to be some quirkiness with altitude and speed hold values between the Aspen and the autopilot. Maybe they're not meant to coincide at all times but they behave like two independent altitude selectors at times and at other times not. Maybe the one on the Aspen is supposed to be an independent altitude alerter and that's all. I don't feel like I fully understand how it works, I need to fiddle with it more. Anyway I can get everything done I need to with the AP alone for a smooth flight (after some practice) so I'm happy.

 

Gotta go sneak another flight, thanks everyone! :smile:

Great pics Jim

How did you get the gtn750 working in V3?

David, there's a v3 compatible version from Flight1 now. v1.12 IIRC and they've all been updated to use the newest v5.13 Garmin trainer:

 

http://www.simforums.com/forums/forum_posts.asp?TID=53826&title=gtn-patch-112

I did a review if anyone is interested in the plane but on the fence

 

Thanks for the video, nice landing BTW! :smile:

Nice pics Jim! That USA edit is actually my kinda thing

Thanks very much for all the nice comments everyone, it's LM and Carenado that're responsible for the purdy pictures though! :smile:

 

JYW how'd you make out on the Corvallis? Did that trick help at all? I did notice that the mousewheel doesn't do anything on the VC mounted autopilot, you have to actually click (right click increases speed hold setting, left click decreases speed hold setting - I think)

 

@Phil: I swore I wouldn't buy another Carenado until it hit the shelves at FSS after a download fiasco with the Titan. I totally get what you're saying with the patches too, I guess I was overcome, lol. I was suckered in on the Navajo too! I have no discipline, I couldn't even wait till the off-peak to download it!

 

Mitch I watched that Premeir/Eagle Co video and now I'm on a KEGE thing, lol. I gotta go get Orbx KEGE now and try that approach! That's on the agenda for tomorrow, "thanks" right back atcha buddy

 

Guys I can't say I'm wishing I had my money back on this one. Maybe I dunno what I'm lookin' at but I like it. I haven't heard anyone mention the hand flying qualities of the F406 yet but IMHO it's the best yet of the props, that may be heavily influenced by the fact that I just disabled my joystick and assigned all the axes through FSUIPC. Doesn't seem as heavy on the ailerons and doesn't tighten up in the turns as much as the Titan does, maybe that's the result of the Citation style tail. There seems to be some quirkiness with altitude and speed hold values between the Aspen and the autopilot. Maybe they're not meant to coincide at all times but they behave like two independent altitude selectors at times and at other times not. Maybe the one on the Aspen is supposed to be an independent altitude alerter and that's all. I don't feel like I fully understand how it works, I need to fiddle with it more. Anyway I can get everything done I need to with the AP alone for a smooth flight (after some practice) so I'm happy.

 

Gotta go sneak another flight, thanks everyone! :smile:

Yeah...I was looking that ORBX offering, over again.  The say that it is one of the most dangerous approaches...but with watching the video...I dunno.  Could be those mountains faces to the pilot side of his landing approach.  I'm excluding elevation and weather, of course.  Premier Driver did a fantastic job of it. BTW, I truly wonder who was his plane charter (the woman passenger), with her two girls.  You have to have money, to charter your way there, in a private jet!  I wonder if she minded being videoed (showing her face as the charter passenger)....I probably would not want that splashed upon Youtube!!!!  Anyway....

 

Yeah Mitch I was kinda wondering what's so dangerous about it myself actually. There are a couple mountaintops you get relatively close to though where you could be dead if you were a thousand feet-ish below the GS. That's probably a danger in IFR conditions I suppose, not much room for error. Did you check out that Premeir Driver's channel BTW? He's got dozens of cool videos there, I spent an hour or so and I plan on going back until I've seen 'em all, lol.

I don't get this KEGE LDA 25 approach, Maybe Ryan can enlighten me? You have no vertical guidance from the GPS and the ILS is offset about 3° to the right which is fine but from watching the Premier Driver video you can tell he was flying straight-in, way too far left to be on the localizer - unless Orbx's localizer isn't right but I can't really find anything on the net that confirms one way or another. So I gather what you're supposed to do is fly the GPS for lateral guidance and tune the ILS on NAV2 so you can manage the glideslope manually? I think it only happens when you have the ILS freq tuned in NAV1 but the GTN will switch automatically between GPS and VLOC about 5 miles out and then the aircraft makes a hard right turn trying to align itself on the localizer. Maybe that's why it's so dangerous, lol. If you override and stay in GPS mode it'll put you pretty much down the centerline of the runway. The chart says "for LDA/GS fly visual to airport 246° - 4.3 NM" so maybe I'm supposed to be on manual control by the time the GTN switches the Nav source. I've probably flown this approach a dozen times and I still don't feel like I've "nailed it" yet, keep messing up my speed and altitude of course I'm still getting the airplane figured out so that doesn't help much either. Heck I dunno, that's the beauty of flight simming, you don't have to know and you're not gonna die or break expensive airplanes over it! :smile:

 

Well anyway here's a couple shots, my "Premiere Driver emulation attempt", lol. Click on the picture if you wanna see more, the flight originated at KAPA Denver Centennial flying the Rockies Two departure. I've flown it 10 times at various times of year with ASN and all, perfect flight for this airplane, here's the last turn onto final at KEGE, this is what it's all about right here!
 

JYW how'd you make out on the Corvallis? Did that trick help at all? I did notice that the mousewheel doesn't do anything on the VC mounted autopilot, you have to actually click (right click increases speed hold setting, left click decreases speed hold setting - I think)

 

Hey Jim, yes it works   Exactly the same principal as you discovered with the F406.  Pressing just FLC will not hold the present airspeed; it will hunt for 0kts, pitching up violently.  But hitting FLC and then the Nose Down button (which requires a click too in the VC), sets the airspeed to the present and it works great.  Great discovery!    Would be nice if Carenado could fix this, as the airspeed should be held just by pressing the IAS/FLC button alone........ but this is a grat workaround in the meantime, that at least makes IAS/FLC mode usable. 

 

 

There seems to be some quirkiness with altitude and speed hold values between the Aspen and the autopilot. Maybe they're not meant to coincide at all times but they behave like two independent altitude selectors at times and at other times not. Maybe the one on the Aspen is supposed to be an independent altitude alerter and that's all. I don't feel like I fully understand how it works, I need to fiddle with it more. Anyway I can get everything done I need to with the AP alone for a smooth flight (after some practice) so I'm happy.

 

Jim, I've noticed that when you change selected altitude on the standalone alterter, it doesn't update to the altitude display on the Espen;  but it does as soon as you hit the 'Arm' button on the alt selector.  As you allude, I'm not sure if this is realistic, but in a way it kind of makes sense that the AP is 'feeding' the chosen variables to the Espen, once they are 'activated'. 

 

I too have noticed that the F406's flight dynamics seem a real step up for Carenado, and it feels a lot more authentic than some other releases.  It's very light on the controls for it's size, and the real world F406 article on oddballpilot.com makes this exact comment about the real aircraft.    The F406 is a real gem;  for me, it doesn't quite pip the Carenado PA31 Navajo to top of the pile (I just love that product), but it's a close second, and I do enjoy it more than the (already good) Alabeo C404.    Blue skies!

Reference the LDA RY25 - I haven't watched the video but was he IMC or VMC? If he was VMC he could have been flying visually to the field (once he had the runway in sight)

 

He may have been cleared for that approach and then picked up the field as he broke out early

 But hitting FLC and then the Nose Down button (which requires a click too in the VC), sets the airspeed to the present 

 

Are you referring to this button as trim wheel - what button are you referring to - thanks 

Great shot Jim love the rolling scenery,  wow that VC does look fantastic.  

Love the dark textures/coloring