Alright, just a quick and dirty and abbreviated mini checklist from the 1939 manual. Hope this helps:

Take-off

Lock tailwheel
Flaps 25°

set 1 min take-off thrust 2050 rpm

take off speed 110 km/h
 
take off distance at 10.000 kgs (no wind)
take off roll 330m
lift off to 20m 580m

Climb

Flaps 10°
Speed 140km/h 
 
after 1 min set throttle to 30 min power
 n = 1950 rpm at 0-900m
 n = 2050 rpm above 900m
 
Cruise

optimum cruise altitude ca 1000m

max sustained power = 1925 rpm
cruise power setting = 1850 rpm

cruise speed
240 km/h at  500 - 1000m altitude
220 km/h at 2500m 
175 km/h at 5000m

endurance at cruise power setting at 2500m and 2500 kgs fuel= 5h 30'

fuel consumption at 1000m 
max sustained power = 181 l/h per engine or 543 l/h total
cruise power setting = 150 l/h per engine or 450 l/h total

 

Landing

landing speed at 10000 kgs ca 105 km/h

landing distance (no wind) with brakes
    touch down to full stop 320m
    20m altitude to full stop 600m
    
 

Edited September 28, 20214 yr by Thorolf

So far so good. I took a couple flights out of Luebeck in Germany to the nearest airport. FPS were all over the place for ten minutes, but finally everything got cached and I got 30 FPS on every flight after that.

I didn't think I'd be able to set up a new cockpit view for the cabin, but it turned out if you scrunch down you can move from the cockpit into the cabin and take a seat. CTRL-ALT+number locked the view in solid, so I was able to put the plane on autopilot, turn on the rain, and sit back and reflect with ALT+1. 

I'd love to see a gyro pilot like the DC-6 has. 

2 hours ago, HiFlyer said:

Perhaps they will learn something from the Steam version, since those are not encrypted, apparently.

As far as I know, all marketplace planes purchased thru Steam are encrypted. I do believe that this JU-52 steam version is encrypted (because I can't see the flight_model.cfg file for this plane like I can for most 3rd party planes not bought in the marketplace).

Edited September 28, 20214 yr by Fielder

I love the orange float version. Just hard to settle down off the step with out the bounce. It handles very nicely. same problem with the C-172 water landings.

34 minutes ago, dobee51 said:

So far so good. I took a couple flights out of Luebeck in Germany to the nearest airport. FPS were all over the place for ten minutes, but finally everything got cached and I got 30 FPS on every flight after that.

I didn't think I'd be able to set up a new cockpit view for the cabin, but it turned out if you scrunch down you can move from the cockpit into the cabin and take a seat. CTRL-ALT+number locked the view in solid, so I was able to put the plane on autopilot, turn on the rain, and sit back and reflect with ALT+1. 

I'd love to see a gyro pilot like the DC-6 has. 

How did you manage to turn on autopilot and which model you fly?

Oooo the modern pit makes it a little bit more desirable. 

9 hours ago, Matchstick said:

Not yet - the "Available Now" release promo video IS available now, but the plane...not so much.
 

In the promo video at 0:55 -- is that Heligoland?

50 minutes ago, sd_flyer said:

How did you manage to turn on autopilot and which model you fly?

It looks to me like on the 1939 version you turn the AP on with a switch behind the pilot yoke between the yellow handles, then on the heading indicator there is a lever to set the heading and you push in on the round button with a fan-type label to activate the servos.

Doesn't seem to capture well but in my case it is probably operator error.

Using Logitech Mutipanel (i.e. their Autopilot panel), it reacts like all planes without an autopilot, it does nothing. It works fine in planes that do have a standard type of autopilot, but nothing in the Junker (I'm using the 1939 default livery).

Does anybody here read German? These look like AP

27 minutes ago, ZoblebV8 said:

It looks to me like on the 1939 version you turn the AP on with a switch behind the pilot yoke between the yellow handles, then on the heading indicator there is a lever to set the heading and you push in on the round button with a fan-type label to activate the servos.

Doesn't seem to capture well but in my case it is probably operator error.

Thanks I loaded 1939 model. Autopilot seems doesn't do anything. However, AI pilot was able to hold course.

The first retrofitted version I tried AI pilot takes JU52 straight to the ground

1 minute ago, sd_flyer said:

Thanks I loaded 1939 model. Autopilot seems doesn't do anything. However, AI pilot was able to hold course.

The first retrofitted version I tried AI pilot takes JU52 straight to the ground

Did you hit the round button with the fan label to activate the servos after setting the on/off switch behind the yoke? In my case it immediately rolls when I push in that round button and appears to try and capture the set heading. Seemed like it was directional gyro only with no attitude control.

5 minutes ago, ZoblebV8 said:

Did you hit the round button with the fan label to activate the servos after setting the on/off switch behind the yoke? In my case it immediately rolls when I push in that round button and appears to try and capture the set heading. Seemed like it was directional gyro only with no attitude control.

I think I did. mY German is none existing so I figure EIN would mean ON and AUS OFF?

Also I have autopilot bind to my honeycomb bravo, When I press HDG that switch under yoke goes to EIN, but when I use dial to change hading nothing happens. Very odd

I'm probably doing something dumb, but I can't for the life of me figure out the flaps.  I get that there's a knob you push down for trim, then you use the wheel to set trim, I can do that no problem.  But when I pulled the knob up to try and set flaps with the wheel, they seem to be stuck at 40*.  The wheel mostly doesn't move by using the mouse.  Sometimes I can turn the wheel using my standard keyboard flaps up key but once I let go of the key the flaps go back to 40*.

10 minutes ago, sd_flyer said:

I think I did. mY German is none existing so I figure EIN would mean ON and AUS OFF?

Also I have autopilot bind to my honeycomb bravo, When I press HDG that switch under yoke goes to EIN, but when I use dial to change hading nothing happens. Very odd

You could turn on tooltips for a little while until you are familiar.......