Guess I will buy the Mooney tomorrow.  . Thanks. 

2 hours ago, Chock said:

 

On the plus side, you can actually open the DV panel in flight to see out of those iced up windows without the sim thinking you've overstressed the airframe:

 

Not for me, unless I am in dev mode it is an instant airframe overstress .  Regardless of that little annoyance, I do fly the Moonie a lot, it is a handy little thing and nicely modelled.

Reasonable on FPS as well.   Interestingly if I switch from cockpit to external view I gain 5 fps and it changes from saying  "limited by main thread" to saying "limited by GPU" .

Edited February 8, 20215 yr by Glenn Fitzpatrick

1 hour ago, Glenn Fitzpatrick said:

Not for me, unless I am in dev mode it is an instant airframe overstress .  Regardless of that little annoyance, I do fly the Moonie a lot, it is a handy little thing and nicely modelled.

Reasonable on FPS as well.   Interestingly if I switch from cockpit to external view I gain 5 fps and it changes from saying  "limited by main thread" to saying "limited by GPU" .

You have to disable crash detection, Another little bug Asobo needs to rectify, One should be able to open this side window up to speeds specified in POH without having an airframe melt down.

There is always this that I posted in another thread.  This way you can have the icing and defrost the screens in any aircraft within about 20 seconds.  I use it al the time, as I just love watching it melt for some reason.  Is that a fetish?  

 

Edited February 8, 20215 yr by bobcat999

9 hours ago, Glenn Fitzpatrick said:

Not for me, unless I am in dev mode it is an instant airframe overstress .  Regardless of that little annoyance, I do fly the Moonie a lot, it is a handy little thing and nicely modelled.

Reasonable on FPS as well.   Interestingly if I switch from cockpit to external view I gain 5 fps and it changes from saying  "limited by main thread" to saying "limited by GPU" .

To get a few FPS lower in cockpit view, at least in previous sims, is something I have frequently seen with various aircraft. Not surprising.. 

I'm still waiting for an update that would fix the FPS drop me and others experience when turning on exterior lights...

6 minutes ago, Turpentine said:

I'm still waiting for an update that would fix the FPS drop me and others experience when turning on exterior lights...

Yes Turps, I actually measured it for the first time the other night by graphing the GPU usage when I turned the landing and taxiway lights on and off. 

Each light was taking about 6 or 7 percent more usage, depending what else was going on at the time.

It is double the load with both of them on.  I am wondering if it is some kind of inefficient volumetric lighting that is causing it.

5 hours ago, bobcat999 said:

Yes Turps, I actually measured it for the first time the other night by graphing the GPU usage when I turned the landing and taxiway lights on and off. 

Each light was taking about 6 or 7 percent more usage, depending what else was going on at the time.

It is double the load with both of them on.  I am wondering if it is some kind of inefficient volumetric lighting that is causing it.

Just checked my new install FPS lights off  40 , Taxi and Landing lights on 43 

Anyone that flies this bird know how to get VS climb higher than 500 feet per minute? I set in 800 for example, and hit arm and it goes to 500 FPM.

 

 

7 minutes ago, Bobsk8 said:

Anyone that flies this bird know how to get VS climb higher than 500 feet per minute? I set in 800 for example, and hit arm and it goes to 500 FPM.

 

Arm the VS first. it will default to 500, then adjust the climb/descent rate. Works 100%, Not sure if this is an accurate method IRL.

9 minutes ago, RW1 said:

 

Arm the VS first. it will default to 500, then adjust the climb/descent rate. Works 100%, Not sure if this is an accurate method IRL.

Thank you, I was doing it backwards. It works now!!!

Edited February 8, 20215 yr by Bobsk8

11 minutes ago, RW1 said:

 

Arm the VS first. it will default to 500, then adjust the climb/descent rate. Works 100%, Not sure if this is an accurate method IRL.

More specifically...

Once you set your altitude, press the arm button and you'll climb/decend at 500 like Bob mentions....to adjust the rate....this is where it gets tricky in terms of having a steady hand and hopefully no turblance....

There is a click-spot in the center of the dial....nevermind....looks like you got it Bob 😉  (but carefully click on the center of the knob and you'll see the VS.....use the INNER dial to adjust by 100s.....touch the outer knob by mistake and crank it 4-5 times....your climbing/decending by 1000s...so 4000/5000 fpm just like that...Hehe.   The Mooney is a little rocket...but not THAT powerful. 😉 

Oh and its best to let it stabilize at 500 before you adjust....it hunts a lot when its trying to do what you ask it and its not comfortable at the current rate....don't suggest using it under 1000 feet either in case you accidentally hit the outer knob and turn the wrong way and send her into a a 5000fpm nosedive you probably won't recover from. 😉 (talking from experience sadly....but the good news I only killed some fish off Catalina island and of course my virtual self in the .....incident) 😞 

 

Edited February 8, 20215 yr by Steve Dra

3 hours ago, Bobsk8 said:

Just checked my new install FPS lights off  40 , Taxi and Landing lights on 43 

Lucky you.

Does  anyone know the exact name of this aircraft in Ms2020, trying to make a profile in EFB, and the exact name is required. With MSFS 2020 file system, it's like finding the Hoiy Grail. 

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