Sod the Connie, give me a DC-3! 🤣 Come on PMDG; you know you want to...

Any of you guys have experienced solid icing in DC-6 yet? I'm not sure what I did wrong but I lost all my four engines!

So I'm finally getting a chance to play with this.   I'm sure someone else has run into this already but I can't find any mention of it here:   if you have an Alpha yoke, unbind the magneto switches or your AFE will be unable to proceed through the preflight.

Has anyone else run into any other switches it's best to unbind to avoid future problems?

Has anyone found or made an A&O config for this for the Honeycomb stuff?  I have the demo of A&O and playing with it I found it registered a whole ton of DC6 variables but it looks like they need to be put into a script.  I not only have no idea how to do that, but there's literally 100's of them and they're all pretty much just labeled along the lines of "DC6_variable3678901".  That's not an exact name but basically they start with DC6, have a little text, and a number and there's 100's of them with very few having any other info on what they do.  I tried to assign it to a button but it just ignores it when I do that.  I played around with simple scripts in Joystick Gremlin before the fix for always on switches was implemented but that was much more simple and just activated in sim accessible keybinds.

1 hour ago, kaosfere said:

Has anyone else run into any other switches it's best to unbind to avoid future problems?

Batteries.  I pretty much unbound everything except axis and autopilot disconnect. 

On the Bravo (if you have one)  set water rudder to a switch for activating reverse props, and "set parking brake" still works along with the gear lever.  None of the lights work.  You can leave heading/loc/appr hold bound as those also work with the gyropilot.  That seems to be about it without 3rd party software and a whole lot of knowledge on how to use it. I also found a quick trick of rebinding the knob used for incrementing/decrementing the various AP bugs normally and setting it to open/close all the cowl flaps a step at a time.

Edited June 24, 20214 yr by flyinion

Some great repaints for this have appeared overnight at flightsim.to.  Swissair, Cathay, and plenty of Aussie stuff!  Superb! 

Just now, bobcat999 said:

Some great repaints for this have appeared overnight at flightsim.to.  Swissair, Cathay, and plenty of Aussie stuff!  Superb! 

Yes I've downloaded quite a few like Flying Tiger Line and Military Air Transport Service

I hope the patch comes out to day. Fed up flying alone 😞

11 hours ago, sd_flyer said:

Any of you guys have experienced solid icing in DC-6 yet? I'm not sure what I did wrong but I lost all my four engines!

Not Solid, but I got ice went I went through clouds and got Ice all over windows. If you look up you will see anti ice switchers and to you left and up you will see window de ice, I turned all on, no problems with engines and windows started clearing and all was well. I do have all engine realisim on.

Edited June 24, 20214 yr by Nyxx

Love the look of these 3

 

Superb pics.  Loving the panel lines on the Swissair.  This would be nice to go with it.

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Balair_Douglas_DC-6_Basle_Airport_-_1976.jpg

I think Balair were their charter/holiday flight division.

For me it is a real bummer that you can't do a belly landing without crashing in the plane. :l

12 hours ago, flyinion said:

Has anyone found or made an A&O config for this for the Honeycomb stuff?  I have the demo of A&O and playing with it I found it registered a whole ton of DC6 variables but it looks like they need to be put into a script.  I not only have no idea how to do that, but there's literally 100's of them and they're all pretty much just labeled along the lines of "DC6_variable3678901".  That's not an exact name but basically they start with DC6, have a little text, and a number and there's 100's of them with very few having any other info on what they do.  I tried to assign it to a button but it just ignores it when I do that.  I played around with simple scripts in Joystick Gremlin before the fix for always on switches was implemented but that was much more simple and just activated in sim accessible keybinds.

Check out this thread in the Lorby forum area.   It looks like it will be pretty easy to identify what all the variables are.  There's also an example script on how to operate the gust locks.   I will eventually get around to building a stream deck config for the DC6 and AAO but hoping someone else gets a template out that I can build off of. 

 

 

19 minutes ago, kakihara123 said:

For me it is a real bummer that you can't do a belly landing without crashing in the plane. :l

Turn crash detection off

20 minutes ago, kakihara123 said:

For me it is a real bummer that you can't do a belly landing without crashing in the plane. :l

if you belly land a plane, that is called a crash.