Kodiak Review Thread

[ark 1,288]

41 minutes ago, Bert Pieke said:

The "fixed" version is V1.0.4

You get it from wherever you bought the plane.

Thanks Bert.

Out of curiosity I went to Control Panel > Programs and Features to check the version of the Kodiak I have installed, and there was no entry there for the SWS Kodiak, which surprised me. Wonder why?  I did find the ver # listed in the Addons Linker app.

Al

Edited December 26, 2021 by ark

[lianpu 0]

Ok, the hotfix makes this aircraft a lot less hot on take off. I have never flown a turbine SEP in RL, but just could not imagine an aircraft would fly THAT jumpy, wobbly and over sensitive to stick or rudder input. Hard to even hold certain pitch agles during take off roll. Reduced all sensitivities by 20 percent and installed the Xmas Hotfix and voila - it flies just beautifully. 

Probably some people will say, now it is not as real anymore, adapted to the C152 flying masses, well, so be it. I just jumped from one Nepalese airstrip to the next and then into India with a Garmin 100p VNAV enabled approach into a small field. Terrific. Great plane.

And a plane for people that like to use a rudder in-flight and not just on the ground. The old saying, "Glider pilots are the better powered flight pilots", gets a whole new meaning with this aircraft. If you come too high it also slips very smoothly with beautiful transitions in and out of the slip. Not sure if it is supposed to be slipped IRL. 

Anyhow a superb aircraft! I love it.

Christoph

[webstef68 52]

Have a look here, works fine 😉 

 

[Bobsk8 12,522]

1 hour ago, pcartier1960 said:

From JustFlight, not sure if they have any hotfixes yet, wish I purchased the plane from the vendors site.

They are off for the Christmas Holidays apparently, you will probably get it tomorrow. 

[ryanbatc 12,775]

A finished a mini review in the screenshot subforum - if there's anyone else left on the fence (we've all caved, and for good reasons lol)

 

[MarkW 1,490]

This is more of a Kodiak question rather than review.

1) On a LOC approach, the G1000 correctly selected the LOC however, I could not find the distance anywhere on the display.  How do I get this to show up?  The approach I was doing was a step down over mountains so the distance was rather critical.

2) On the W&B, I switched to a PAX version and loaded up 6 PAX of various weights.  The pilot appeared but no pax.  On the cargo version I am getting the FO and cargo to appear.

[Brownshortz 26]

2 hours ago, pcartier1960 said:

From JustFlight, not sure if they have any hotfixes yet, wish I purchased the plane from the vendors site.

You and me both lol. Hopefully we get it some time before 20222. 🙂

[Bobsk8 12,522]

2 minutes ago, MarkW said:

This is more of a Kodiak question rather than review.

1) On a LOC approach, the G1000 correctly selected the LOC however, I could not find the distance anywhere on the display.  How do I get this to show up?  The approach I was doing was a step down over mountains so the distance was rather critical.

2) On the W&B, I switched to a PAX version and loaded up 6 PAX of various weights.  The pilot appeared but no pax.  On the cargo version I am getting the FO and cargo to appear.

Doesn't distance show up on the top of the PFD

[ryanbatc 12,775]

40 minutes ago, MarkW said:

This is more of a Kodiak question rather than review.

1) On a LOC approach, the G1000 correctly selected the LOC however, I could not find the distance anywhere on the display.  How do I get this to show up?  The approach I was doing was a step down over mountains so the distance was rather critical.

2) On the W&B, I switched to a PAX version and loaded up 6 PAX of various weights.  The pilot appeared but no pax.  On the cargo version I am getting the FO and cargo to appear.

Do you mean dme?  Some localizers don't have that.  What approach to what airport was it?  You may have to identify descent restrictions using crossing radials from a vor etc.

Edited December 26, 2021 by ryanbatcund

[SAS443 1,714]

34 minutes ago, MarkW said:

1) On a LOC approach, the G1000 correctly selected the LOC however, I could not find the distance anywhere on the display.  How do I get this to show up?  The approach I was doing was a step down over mountains so the distance was rather critical

If you use G1000 NXI mod:

try PFD OPT (options) key, and enable the associated bearing pointer. This will also add a display window with additional information (DME if available, bearing, Station ID etc)

[MarkW 1,490]

6 minutes ago, ryanbatcund said:

Do you mean dme?  Some localizers don't have that.  What approach to what airport was it?  You may have to identify descent restrictions using crossing radials from a vor etc.

Ryan, that may be it, I think the DME was not there and I needed to tune a VOR for distance. Will try it again to check.  
It was the LOC approach to runway 01 at LIPB. 

[Bobsk8 12,522]

6 minutes ago, SAS443 said:

If you use G1000 NXI mod:

try PFD OPT (options) key, and enable the associated bearing pointer. This will also add a display window with additional information (DME if available, bearing, Station ID etc)

See the distance in red at  the top of the PFD?  That is the distance to  the runway in this case. 1.8nm

Edited December 26, 2021 by Bobsk8

[Bobsk8 12,522]

On 12/25/2021 at 3:16 PM, ark said:

For those with a standard MSFS store install, that file is located here:

C:\Users\your_namel\Documents\Al's Flight Simulation\MSFS 2020\Community AddOns\sws-aircraft-kodiak-wheels\SimObjects\Airplanes\SWS_Kodiak_gear\panel\SWS_ESI500

Al

This is not where mine is. It is simply in my community folder, 

[ark 1,288]

38 minutes ago, Bobsk8 said:

This is not where mine is. It is simply in my community folder, 

Well that's interesting. There is no SWS_ESI500.xml file in my Community folder.  🤔

Al

Edit: I now realize that file on my system is located in a unique place because I use the Addon Linker program and have define a directory for my addons.

Edited December 26, 2021 by ark

[Bobsk8 12,522]

2 minutes ago, ark said:

Well that's interesting. There is no SWS_ESI500.xml file in my Community folder.  🤔

Al

I found it, under Community\sws-aircraft-kodiak-wheels\SimObjects\Airplanes\SWS_Kodiak_gear_CP

I couldn't edit it however, so I gave up. Love this aircraft and don't want to break anything. 

 

BTW I found out that the Hobbs meter, for Flight time resets to zero after flight. Not sure if this is supposed to or not. This is another meter for block time, but it indicates way less than what I have flown so far.