C441 great plane

[mikebxb 20]

got back in FSX after a 2 year hiatus. Running Steam now and so far so good

Expanding my fleet of GA birds. Aside from the Duke T and the 310R Alabeo This is my new favorite. The 441 climbs out and handles great. Worth it just for the Avidyne alone. The GTN 750 and an Avidyne are an unbeatable combination.

Everything in this 441 works! The autopilot does what commanded. Everything is predictable and the knobs are easy to find and tune.. The documentation is a little weak as I have no idea where to set these conditioners.

[signmanbob 592]

I'm surprised that everyone hasn't gone over to 64bit now that it is available.  I uninstalled all forms of FSX.

The only reason I still have P3Dv3.4 is for the Majestic Q400 and FSL A320.  When they come to 64bit, it will be gone too.

I felt like flying the FSL A320 the other day and got an OOM before leaving the airport, after getting the whole flight set up.

 

Bob

[mikebxb 20]

I'm unaware 64 bit is available

 

[Chock 17,769]

The Alabeo C441 still needs some love from a patch, there are typos on the panels (for example, the manual operation ignition system switches are labeled IGNITION OVERDRIVE instead of IGNITION OVERRIDE and there are some errors in spellings on cockpit tool tips).

The thing is still way over-powered too when you taxy it and the prop locks don't work as they should, i.e, you can crank it up without even bothering with any of that. You can work around all this stuff of course, and so I do still occasionally fly it, but the moment the vastly more realistic Fly SimWare C441 is patched to work in P3D V4, the Alabeo one will become a hangar queen lol.

I won't deny that the Alabeo one is prettier than the Fly SimWare one, but I want a simulated aeroplane to act like the real thing and not simply look like it.

[mikebxb 20]

Fair Enough. I feel that no home simulator can ever duplicate vibrations, G's, Turbulence like being in a real airplane. But it CAN simulate proper procedures, flight, climbing, descent, engine management and everything but "seat o' the pants" feel.  For that reason I'm happy with Alabeo/Carenado and THRILLED with Real Air. 

Cheers

[Chock 17,769]

True. And really, the only important thing anyone has to ask of any flight sim aeroplane they have is: 'do you enjoy playing around with it?' If the answer is yes, then that's all that really matters.

[signmanbob 592]

1 hour ago, mikebxb said:

I'm unaware 64 bit is available

 

64 bit is wonderful and available in both X-Plane 11 and Prepared version 4 (which is a descendant of FSX).

http://www.prepar3d.com/

http://www.x-plane.com/

[FDEdev 955]

On ‎25‎.‎07‎.‎2017 at 2:15 AM, Chock said:

The thing is still way over-powered too when you taxy it.

Poor mikebxb, that's definitely the wrong forum to post something positive about Alabeo/Carenado. LOL

That being said, did you even install v1.3?  If yes then your throttle calibration is way off or something similar, because with the condition levers in start & taxi she isn't moving at all.

Even with these levers at max she doesn't exceed 20kts.

Btw, knowing Flysimware's Joe Z. is reason enough for me to stay away from them.

 

[Chock 17,769]

6 minutes ago, J35OE said:

That being said, did you even install v1.3? 

Yup, that was with the latest P3D V4 version, which is 1.3. That does still have all those typos in its VC and is still a way overpowered simulation of the Garrett TPE331. Like I said, you can still fly the thing and it is very pretty, as are most Carenado/Alabeo aeroplanes, but it really does need a proper beta test from someone who really knows this particular aeroplane properly, and getting someone who can spell might help too lol.

[FDEdev 955]

Again, in this case something is seriously wrong with your setup.

[Gregg_Seipp 565]

Did they ever fix the start-locks?

[FDEdev 955]

2 minutes ago, Gregg_Seipp said:

Did they ever fix the start-locks?

There's nothing to 'fix'. That's the way Alabeo tried to simulate the startlocks.

[Gregg_Seipp 565]

Just now, J35OE said:

There's nothing to 'fix'. That's the way Alabeo tried to simulate the startlocks.

I don't have the plane so I don't know much about the issue.  The only startlocks I've ever used were on the J41 which worked pretty well.  I guess I should change my question to, do they model the real world.

[FDEdev 955]

No they don't.  (On the RAZBAM Metro they work as they should). 

[whamil77 183]

13 minutes ago, J35OE said:

No they don't.  (On the RAZBAM Metro they work as they should). 

Can you explain how they are supposed to work?  I have been doing some work with the UPDATE file where the start locks are implemented and I may be able to fix them if I knew how they are supposed to work.  The way they work now is that you can't advance the throttles if the start locks are engaged (i.e. you didn't go into reverse to disengage the start locks after engine start).