1 hour ago, Ianrivaldosmith said:

I do not believe there is anything to fix? Works fine here, just map the different keys under a new profile.

The only way to get most things to function is by using the "toggle" command.  Even if you do start cold and dark with all switches in their proper places prior to startup...the sim seems like it rapidly is trying to toggle the switch between on and off.  You can see it especially if you use the gns530, the screen rapidly flickers. 

32 minutes ago, TomCYYZ said:

OK this is probably not the normal procedure for using trim, but in my case I guess it is just a workaround to my issue. I was using Altitude HLD (Piper Logo) and when I removed the HLD I was able to Trim the aircraft in the normal way, either by using the Trim wheel or my assigned buttons on the Alpha yoke. So it has something to do with the ALT HLD in combination with the Trim Controls, for myself anyway. Also when I takeoff the Nose wants to point upward and I have to use forward pressure on the Yoke to compensate for the uncontrollable Up Trim of the plane. I dunno, I will send that along to Just Flight as well.

It’s the best and easiest aircraft to trim. The problem sadly is at you end. You seem to have a control problem or conflict.

Make a new profile for the aircraft, copy the original/duplicate, delete all key board flight controls you will assign to controls.

Edited March 13, 20215 yr by Nyxx

I tried an ILS landing tonight for fun, but it was not one of the strengths of this aircraft, it was corrected very slowly during the approach and missed the runway by at least 75 meters, I will only use this aircraft for VFR anyway, so there is nothing I care about, but it is good to know that it is best to leave this bird in the hangar when it is bad weather.

2 hours ago, TomCYYZ said:

Anyone with Steam, do you have two folders named "justflight-aircraft-pa28-arrow-iii", one in the Packages folder, and one in the Community folder? That is what I have. Just want to make sure my installation is correct.

I also have two folders, I think one of them contains your account information at Just Flight and a receipt that you own it etc. 

1 minute ago, Ixoye said:

I also have two folders, I think one of them contains your account information at Just Flight and a receipt that you own it etc. 

Ok Thanks for the confirmation.

11 minutes ago, Ixoye said:

I tried an ILS landing tonight for fun, but it was not one of the strengths of this aircraft, it was corrected very slowly during the approach and missed the runway by at least 75 meters, I will only use this aircraft for VFR anyway, so there is nothing I care about, but it is good to know that it is best to leave this bird in the hangar when it is bad weather.

Just because you can't hand fly ILS doesn't render aircraft VFR only LOL

Here is exert from actual Piper "autocontrol III "

1 minute ago, sd_flyer said:

Here is exert from actual Piper "autocontrol III "

Yes, it's stone age compared to the aircraft I'm used to flying with, but as you say, it's probably safer for a computer pilot like me to fly ILS manually. 😄

8 minutes ago, Ixoye said:

Yes, it's stone age compared to the aircraft I'm used to flying with, but as you say, it's probably safer for a computer pilot like me to fly ILS manually. 😄

 

Yes well, if you buy an aircraft that claims to be an accurate representation of something from the 70/80s with a bit of 90's tech tacked on (the GNS 430/530 were released in 1998 and support stopped in 2011)  then it is what it is.  😄

 

Edited March 14, 20215 yr by Glenn Fitzpatrick

2 hours ago, FakeWayne said:

The only way to get most things to function is by using the "toggle" command.  Even if you do start cold and dark with all switches in their proper places prior to startup...the sim seems like it rapidly is trying to toggle the switch between on and off.  You can see it especially if you use the gns530, the screen rapidly flickers. 

You don't need any toggle commands, you need to use LVARs for a bunch of items, a few can still use SimConnect. It all works perfectly as it should. I have a honeycomb bravo and saitek switch panel fully mapped and everything works great with discrete on and off commands, not toggles.

13 minutes ago, Ixoye said:

Yes, it's stone age compared to the aircraft I'm used to flying with, but as you say, it's probably safer for a computer pilot like me to fly ILS manually. 😄

I would not fly ILS on this autopilot IRL even if I get paid  $1000 in hour LOL Since I tend to do in sim as I do IRL, I would let autopilot to establish on localizer and GS shows up and just disengage and fly manually !

17 minutes ago, Glenn Fitzpatrick said:

 

Yes well, if you buy an aircraft that claims to be an accurate representation of something from the 70/80s with a bit of 90's tech tacked on (the GNS 430/530 were released in 1998 and support stopped in 2011)  then it is what it is.  😄

 

Yes, of course, I do not complain, I have learned a lot during the time I have flying it, but apparently I still have a lot to learn, but that's only fun.

1 hour ago, sd_flyer said:

Just because you can't hand fly ILS doesn't render aircraft VFR only LOL

Exactly. Quite apart from the fact that not all runways have an ILS, but you can still fly to them in IMC if you have the DME tuned, if your radios actually are picking up the signal from an ILS-equipped runway's transmitters, you can simply 'fly the needles manually'. You could have literally no autopilot at all on your panel and you could still use an ILS system to assist with a landing, so long as you've tuned its frequency on nav 1, dialled the course to the runway heading so the needles on your basic gauges are lighting up with the correct steering guidance. This is of course why it is called an instrument landing system rather than an autopilot landing system. Every pilot really should be able to fly an approach using that method, or at least be familiar with it, even those without an IFR rating, since even a VFR-only pilot who doesn't normally take off if there is a cloud in the sky could conceivably be caught out by weather and have to make such an approach.

Edited March 14, 20215 yr by Chock

4 hours ago, Purr said:

I've found that, left at idle, the aircraft builds up to 40kts taxi speed, have to brake frequently. This seems quite overpowered. Otherwise pretty good flight model based upon my experience in RL flying a somewhat similar Piper Warrior II

They have set idle to be 1,000 RPM, which is too high. There is a fix I found on JF's forum. 

idle_rpm_mechanical_efficiency_scalar=0.49 will give you idle rpm of 600
You can change that in engines.cfg

Did it. Works great! And no more rolling away at idle. 

Is there possibly something I could be missing to not get a stall horn or gear warning sound?  I know the manual says the battery master needs to be on...which it certainly is.  I just don't understand.  

 

Also, I'm new to JustFlight products....how do we know / download an update for the aircraft when there is one?