Cessna Longitude – help – tips

Hi,

yesterday I did a flight in the Longitude on VATSIM KATL/MYNN. It was pretty crowded and I was hoping, you folks could give me some advice.

 

I like the airplane and I hope some improvements in the future.

Here where the problems I encountered, maybe you could give me your thoughts…

 

1.       RNAV       RNAV departure was given at KATL with a runway change just before takeoff (VRSTZ TWO DEPARTURE). Well I messed up. I was not able to find the given RNAV departure route fast enough on the GPS. Maybe there is no RNAV departure route on the Garmin. I will check this later the week.

 

2.       HEADING DEGREE In flight the controllers had to give Mach speeds for separation and heading. Unfortunately I was unable to fly heading by the degree. I guess this is because of the honeycomb yoke. I read about in the forum. Is the any workaround without changing the buttons on the yoke. Because I wouldn’t want to do that. I really enjoy them, while flying the 172.

 

3.       MACH     The controllers were always asking for the current Mach speed. Or they where giving certain Mach speed. Ok, after a while I figured how to switch the speed from FMS to Manual. But when I pressed the button for speed change to Mach, nothing happened. Nothing was shown in the PFD. I could only read the indicated speed in knots. Do you have any advice how to use this? An could you tell me, if your auto throttle is working? But it must also be possible, to manually fly a certain Mach speed, right?  Maybe it is a bug, or I am just to stupid…

 

 

Another thing what was very odd.  Over the Atlantic the controller gave me a heading to fly (90). Because I was unable to fly 90 degree / the heading bug just gave me 85 or 90, I attempted to fly it manually by disengaging the heading on the autopilot. It was FL 300 on full speed. I was not able to hold the direction / the plane war drifting always a bit to the right. After a couple attempts, I reactivated the autopilot the plain would go crazy. It started to do barrel rolls. I turned off the autopilot an gave it a another tries. Same thing happened; I only did barrel rolls. So, I hade to cut the connection to VATSIM. Pretty frustration after an hour of flight….

 

MSFS2020 – The Airplane looks beautiful the weather graphics are stunning. But doesn’t really helps, if one is unable to fly as a simulation. By now it fells more like a game, and not a simulator.

 

Happy Landings

Manuel

I've had similar A/P problems in the Baron G58.  I won't say that it is 100% validated, but it appears to be a problem related to adjusting barometric pressure away from the default 29.92.  I did three flights on VATSIM yesterday, all were no problem.  2 others from last week, A/P would do anything but what you wanted/expected.  Flying in ROLL / PITCH HOLD - say I was at heading 060 and climbing 700 FPM.  I would set heading bug and enable HDG at 080.  it would do literally anything but take me to 080.  Same for altitude bug and then VS with nose up - it would dive, roll, basically try to kill all simulated persons onboard.

I need to verify that it is tied to baro, but thats my 2 cents.

The plane is flyable.  It just climbs and 3,800fpm all the way to 40,000ft, has tiny fuel tanks, and lands like a 737-900 (which might not be a bug as you shouldn't be landing with half or full fuel tanks).  Landings are so much better with 10% fuel left in them.  I'd be curious to see how it shakes out once Asobo is done with it as to how sensitive it is to load when landing.  We all should understand why it's important to dump too much fuel when doing an emergency landing and this is the first FS aircraft to simulate that to this detail.  I have to fly the plane with 'Unlimited' fuel settings to get it to reach destinations it does in the real world.  I have to remember to reduce the fuel at top of decent for a smooth 148kts over the runway glide to touch down.  I can only imagine very precisely needing to calculate fuel (once the plane is fixed and bugs sorted out) to get down to 10-15% fuel at destinations for a decent approach that's not to fast to keep it in the air.  Fuel management is real world work.  

So all in all the plane has it's issues but I love flying it.  I've learned to get around them and look forward to a fix.  They need to finish that cabin and get the HUD working... 

Edited September 21, 20205 yr by Dillon