Well I'm glad you got it sorted :)>>Its too bad that for a payware they have used the default guages except >>for the ASI...which is correctly done (Its in mph). Maybe this is a >>candidate for using the reality-XP T-guages and get around the ugly >>default guages. I sort of perhaps agree, but I'm not a candy man so it doesn't bother me. The thing that really annoys me is the Yoke hiding key instruments in the excellent VC view (I only use VC for this model).>>Engine out is not realistic at all.I think that is the worst of it frankly. I get the impression FS is pretty horrid at this generaly. I tried an engine at VTOSS just after rotate in ELITE and it was the handful it should be with the need to go for Vxse whilst cleaning it up. Clearing a landing would have been in order for real!>>It flies a little too nicely. The realy Seneca is a fairly nice to >>fly..but its not this easy.I have to say that the Seneca III I fly is sooo easy to fly, very stable and quite heavy on the controls too. I felt that Just Flight one to be spot as best as a PC sim could be in this regard. The ELITE version is dyanmically good but much more figity than the real one. I find the speeds and throttle settings very comparable with the 220hp Seneca III.

Remember a Seneca is turbocharged, it does say somewhere if you exceed the limits the engine will fail, something I found out the hard way on the FSD Seneca V, when thick black smoke started pouring from my overworked engine over Hawaii, followed by a failure and a distinct lack of ability to maintain altitude, ah well, we live and learn and thankfully this is simulation we always walk away. I've been more careful since so don't know whether the Flying Club version models the turbo failure at excessive Manifold Pressure.

The real Senecas have an overboost relief valve that actuates at about 41" They are very unlikely to fail due to overboosting unless that valve jams closed. However, even at 39" and 2700 RPM the engine is only rated for 10mins. MCT is 34" and 2400 RPM. If you exceed these non-overboost limits the engine will break. FWIW, with the turbo aircraft it is quite tricky to get nail max power (39") on both sides so occasional and brief forays into or past 40" are infrequent but inevitible, especially on go-arounds! This is not helped by the variance in the controls between left and right engine, little details that sims never capture well.

From an average Simmer, installed this about two weeks ago and trouble is, that I always go back to the Seneca rather than messing with the many others (payware and freeware)........it is so easy and fun to fly, it is a must for anyone who has only an hour or less and still want to practice:D

OOPs, forgot to ask if anyone has a link to the patch for the Seneca, I read about this somewhere but now can't find it