1 hour ago, Dillon said:

Correct me if I’m wrong but this bird seems to be the first release to properly simulate feathering a prop.  The ability to spin is nice as well.

• I haven't tried it for a while, but when I purchased PA44 I could feather prop and get Seminole out of control below Vmc. Also twina don't spin they Vmc roll 😜

 

Edited April 30, 20215 yr by sd_flyer

47 minutes ago, Chock said:

No rest for the wicked eh? Downloading it now, review on the way later on, at some point I will make that curry I was planning. 🤣

Chock! If you can...would you please comment on how it handles as far as cross controls in heavy crosswind?...also if it requires any rudder in turns or is it plagued with that auto-coordination behavior?

Just now, hangar said:

Chock! If you can...would you please comment on how it handles as far as cross controls in heavy crosswind?...also if it requires any rudder in turns or is it plagued with that auto-coordination behavior?

Yup, will take a while to test all that stuff though, so don't expect a video in the next five mins lol. I've just been abusing the hell out of it turning into the dead engine at low speeds, with one engine stopped and in the real thing doing that stuff, I'd have been a smoking hole in the ground, but it was still flying, but it was only the first stab at it, so nothing conclusive yet.

Edited April 30, 20215 yr by Chock

3 minutes ago, Chock said:

Yup, will take a while to test all that stuff though, so don't expect a video in the next five mins lol. I've just been abusing the hell out of it turning into the dead engine at low speeds, with one engine stopped and in the real thing doing that stuff, I'd have been a smoking hole in the ground, but it was still flying, but it was only the first stab at it, so nothing conclusive yet.

Time for curry. You've had a right busy day Chief.

2 minutes ago, Chock said:

Yup, will take a while to test all that stuff though, so don't expect a video in the next five mins lol. I've just been abusing the hell out of it turning into the dead engine at low speeds, with one engine stopped and in the real thing doing that stuff, I'd have been a smoking hole in the ground, but it was still flying, but it was only the first stab at it, so nothing conclusive yet.

When it comes to carenado flight models  so many of us are hopeless romantics in a way...always getting burned but taking the leap and hoping not to, lol.

Take your time (fingers crossed but eyes rolling just the same)!

3 minutes ago, Will Fly For Cheese said:

Time for curry. You've had a right busy day Chief.

Yup, look what's on the airfield as A.I. in front of the Piper, and that doesn't even take into account me also having been to the stables to do hay nets and muck Snorky out, and go round to my mum's house where I did some DIY too. On a fun note, Menzies Aviation contacted me today and asked if I wanted to go back working for them again. I said yes, so apparently I am indeed a glutton for punishment 🤣

Edited April 30, 20215 yr by Chock

I would say bring them both down to Lee-On-Solent for a flap over the weekend again, but I'm not there.

That's great news from Menzies Chockers - nice one.

In fact I'm a very long way from home.

This is board and lodging tonight (yes, I had a beer and slid down the dish and now can't climb up again - so I've asked them to luzz me down a sleeping bag)

. . .St Maarten tomorrow.

 

Edited April 30, 20215 yr by Will Fly For Cheese

Be Interesting to hear what Chock says. I’ll probably learn something at least.

I downloaded it today and it’s OK, but it made me realise what desperados we are in MSFS and what we lost when we left P3D and Xplane (if you ever did).

A plane with doors that open where most of the important buttons work and the sounds are quite respectable, with ground clutter - and good frame rates, suddenly seems like a breath of fresh air in MSFS. I do fly the CJ4 which is excellent but somewhat incomplete, and of course the JF PA28.

At one time in P3D I would never have bought a Caranado, that is unless Bill had made a mod for it, but now I have to admit I quite enjoyed flying it from the new Orbx Shoreham to Jersey...

In terms of realistic, I’ve no idea. I’ll leave that to likes of Chock and others who seem like they know what they’re talking about...

So, in the interim, it can spin toward the dead engine if you abuse it, and it does feather the prop on the dead engine. Here you can see me having pulled out from a spin at pretty low altitude after I turned toward the dead engine and gave it a very high angle of attack, which is not something you'd do in real life unless you had a death wish, so it does at least have some semblance of a nod toward engine-out behaviour in a twin. Dunno if you can make it out on this pic, but that prop is feathered. Oh, and it does maintain aileron control at the stall, which the real thing does because of the way the wing is designed to stall inboard first, so that's realistic as well:

Edited April 30, 20215 yr by Chock

... and if you don't abuse it, what does it do typically, after engine out?

Edited April 30, 20215 yr by hangar

Just now, hangar said:

... and if you don't abuse it, what does it do typically?

Well, the rudder appears massively sensitive, that I can tell you. I've had to back that off a bit in the sim settings. Still merrily abusing it to see what does and does not happen. Generally speaking it seems fairly okay, but I need to test it a bit more to see whether it's worth having. I mean obviously it is worth having from a specs standpoint of the real thing if you want a big twin with nearly 900 mile range and the ability to carry a lot of people, but we'll see.

Nicely feathered prop. Gis' a look at the cockpit Chock - is she steam or glass?

That's one helluva' AOA; you got to be near the stall with that? Unless you've dived down.

Watch out for those windmills also Don Quixchocko!

Edited April 30, 20215 yr by Will Fly For Cheese

9 hours ago, hangar said:

If it can only be purchased on the MS store then I'm out. Encrypted flight model editing is for the birds 

Thanks for sharing 🙂

I can't get it to go above 55kts on takeoff roll...

8 minutes ago, b1bmsgt said:

I can't get it to go above 55kts on takeoff roll...

Humm.  Begs all sorts of questions, but considering your credentials I do not know what questions to ask.  I had an uncle who was a USAF CMSGT as a Loadmaster on the initial C5A deployments, and previously on such luminary aircraft as one of two B36s converted to mid-air refulers!  KBDR?  You a rotary chief?  Thank you for serving as a career!  

Edited April 30, 20215 yr by fppilot