13 minutes ago, Ron Attwood said:

It's the way you tell 'em. 😄

We need simcoders for MSFS! That is the only chance Carenado aircraft have!

39 minutes ago, Fielder said:

Thanks, that helps a lot.

BTW, I tried increasing the pilot weight to 885 pounds (default is 185), and it gave 400 fps upward vertical speed (and exceeded the maximum total takeoff weight by 300 pounds).

So making the pilot weigh 250 pounds instead of 185 would also help a little bit (not that any of us are overweight, but just saying).

LOL I weigh more than 250 pounds! at just a tad over 6'5! And I don't look fat. Just because someone is heavy doesn't always mean they are unhealthy.

Edited January 15, 20215 yr by jpe828

8 hours ago, sd_flyer said:

I thought it did effect performance yesterday little bit. I will test again

I would expect it too, that's the problem.  Even if you turn icing off in the settings (visual only as there is no actual off) it still impacts plane behaviour.  Even though realistic I find it a nuisance in certain planes like the VGP Powersolo. 

15 minutes ago, stefaandk said:

I would expect it too, that's the problem.  Even if you turn icing off in the settings (visual only as there is no actual off) it still impacts plane behaviour.  Even though realistic I find it a nuisance in certain planes like the VGP Powersolo. 

I just tested Seminole after yesterday patch it get iced up and performance decreases  as expected

32 minutes ago, jpe828 said:

LOL I weigh more than 250 pounds! at just a tad over 6'5! And I don't look fat. Just because someone is heavy doesn't always mean they are unhealthy.

You can squeeze some 300 lbs dude in rear baggage and CG will where it should LOL

8 hours ago, sd_flyer said:

It seems like  one way or another we good  load tail wheel on initial take off run which give reasonable stability!

Yep.

Even without locking the tailwheel you can take-off relatively successfully so long as you keep the tailwheel planted till you rotate.  Though tailwheel locked is better.

If you let the tail lift and the aircraft starts to turn in either direction it runs away on you and becomes uncontrollable.

You have to wonder whether the sim at that point is modelling the plane as flying on just ONE wheel, the inside wheel, which is causing an asymmetric situation and has both the tailwheel and outside wheel off the ground. Though I did try opposite aileron with the run away uncontrollable turns and it was no help.  At least it does not ground loop 😄

 

 

By the way I also get some weirdness with the Altimeter reading 8000 feet at sea level even at a sensible Hpa. 

Does anyone else get this ?

 

 

 

Edited January 16, 20215 yr by Glenn Fitzpatrick

Is there a lever inside the cockpit to show by sight if the tailwheel is locked?

4 minutes ago, Fielder said:

Is there a lever inside the cockpit to show by sight if the tailwheel is locked?

Nothing I could find in the cockpit !

There would be no such thing in real life as a lockable tailwheel without a lock controller inside. Carenado made a mistake.

20 minutes ago, Fielder said:

There would be no such thing in real life as a lockable tailwheel without a lock controller inside. 

Some taildraggers - probably most famously the P-51 Mustang/A-36 Apache - have a tailwheel locking and rotation limit function which is controlled simply by whether you have the stick either backwards or forwards, so there wasn't really a specific control you could find if you were looking for one, you just had to know that's how it worked. Dunno whether any WACO variants utilise that method, but I guess some of them might.

Anyway, some pics. Looks and sounds great. Flies pretty nicely, although like most aeroplanes in the sim, prolonged inverted flight behavior is a bit iffy. It's fun to chuck about though, a bit of an energy-driven aerobat rather than a brute force one.

 

Some tail wheel locks are also activated by brakes so not overly useful in takeoff.

42 minutes ago, Glenn Fitzpatrick said:

Some tail wheel locks are also activated by brakes so not overly useful in takeoff.

Strange, I haven't noticed that. I have differential breaks axis assign to my CH pedals, and button on a stick assign to toggle tail lock. Sometimes when I turn tail wheel get stuck at 90 degrees, then airplane can't move. This is bug for sure. But when I cycle tail wheel button it goes away.

5 minutes ago, sd_flyer said:

Strange, I haven't noticed that. I have differential breaks axis assign to my CH pedals, and button on a stick assign to toggle tail lock. Sometimes when I turn tail wheel get stuck at 90 degrees, then airplane can't move. This is bug for sure. But when I cycle tail wheel button it goes away.

IRL there are lots of variations, here is an interesting thread

 

https://www.pprune.org/private-flying/454596-tail-wheel-lock.html

 

WRT to the CoG so far forward, poor take-off and poor aerobatics (considering the 300 HP motor) - it is almost like they used the performance of the real motor but the weight of a R-3350  😄

 

I was wondering if anyone has access to the WACO YMF-5's checklist. I always love printing out a plane's checklist and then following procedures from pre-flight to take off to landing, parking, and shutting down. Golden Age Simulations always include nice checklists with their releases.

However, Carenado barely includes any documentation at all, and I've scoured the internet and all I could find is the official maintenance manual for the WACO YMF-5. Nothing else seems available.

Does anyone have or know where I could find this plane's checklist?

Thank you.

1 hour ago, The Third Guru said:

I was wondering if anyone has access to the WACO YMF-5's checklist. I always love printing out a plane's checklist and then following procedures from pre-flight to take off to landing, parking, and shutting down. Golden Age Simulations always include nice checklists with their releases.

However, Carenado barely includes any documentation at all, and I've scoured the internet and all I could find is the official maintenance manual for the WACO YMF-5. Nothing else seems available.

Does anyone have or know where I could find this plane's checklist?

Thank you.

 

Waco do have a link to a Maintenance Manual (do not think it has a checklist) but want $15 for the Pilot manual:

https://www.wacoaircraft.com/ymf-revf