5 hours ago, ark said:

Where are the Kodiak procedures described, such as the engine start procedure?

Thx,

Al

Hello Al,

The procedures are covered in the in-game checklist. These were copied verbatim from the POH.

A great plane to fly. The update has improved things a lot. Thanks Dev. Now I have this small remark on the model side of things. I always fly in VR and there was one thing that I immediately noticed, the yokes are kind of small. While everything else seem of good proportion the yokes are a little smaller than the real ones which are also not big btw. When I imagine in VR that I grab the virtual yoke I can easily connect my L&R hand fingers behind the yoke, which I can't on my Saitek. Not a big deal, just something I noticed.

4 hours ago, Bobsk8 said:

How do you get Beta range on throttle? I tried F2 but nothing happens and F2 isn't assigned to anything. 

I have a button assigned to my joystick that works as a toggle: after pressing it, I can use my throttle lever to go to the beta range and to go to normal operation again I have to press the button once more. This toggle works perfectly fine in for instance the FBW A320. However, for some odd reason I have to HOLD this button in the Kodiak in order to use the beta range (using my throttle slider). This is odd because MSFS itself offers two options for this: you can assign a HOLD button or a TOGGLE button for reverse thrust. Apparently the Kodiak thinks the toggle button is a hold button... When you assign a button to the HOLD option in MSFS it simply won't work in the Kodiak. Only the TOGGLE option works but you have to use it as a HOLD option.

Anyway, in the MSFS control section search for TOGGLE THROTTLE REVERSE THRUST and assign a button to it. Then in the sim press and hold that button to use your throttle lever to go to the beta range.

Another little bug: when using the beta range in the sim I see the throttle lever go up AND down at the same time, so I see two sort of transparent levers! And I also get a ticking noise. I can't make a screenshot of it because you can only see it in motion: it's as if the lever goes fully forward and fully aft a few hundred times per second. Looks a bit odd. I think the devs may have to look at this a little bit.

 

Amazing that my TCA throttle Q works well with the Kodiak. Only idle is a bit on the tricky side finding the wet spot. Otherwise, RT and beta works, engine cut off and parking brake as well including flaps.

 

Will need to work on the power range though,

Doing many short VFR flights in the South Island NZ into uncontrolled airstrips and small airports and the VNAV function for the G1000 NXI works flawlessly and a total joy to use in marginal conditions. I didn't realise this function was working yet. Activate the approach and select VNAV direct on the GPS and hit VNAV on the AP and bingo.... Awesome aircraft.

Has anyone tried the Honeycombe Bravo throttle?

When moving the throttle down past "Flight Detent" does that put the aircraft into reverse ?

 

Out of curiosity, did they model the correct Pt-6 behaviour of Fuel Flow with RPM adjustments, at constant Condition / Throttle / ALT , namely not varying ?

Very few simulations of the real Pt-6 equipped aircraft, like the B200 from ELITE XTS in my Avatar, do it correctly.

Edited December 26, 20214 yr by jcomm

Wow honestly, this addon is going to be hard to beat. Especially with the latest update. Its one of them planes you dont want to stop flying. The model, the flight dynamics the sound its all one great addon. Fits perfectly into this sim going in and out of small airstrips. 

 

2 hours ago, tup61 said:

I have a button assigned to my joystick that works as a toggle: after pressing it, I can use my throttle lever to go to the beta range and to go to normal operation again I have to press the button once more. This toggle works perfectly fine in for instance the FBW A320. However, for some odd reason I have to HOLD this button in the Kodiak in order to use the beta range (using my throttle slider). This is odd because MSFS itself offers two options for this: you can assign a HOLD button or a TOGGLE button for reverse thrust. Apparently the Kodiak thinks the toggle button is a hold button... When you assign a button to the HOLD option in MSFS it simply won't work in the Kodiak. Only the TOGGLE option works but you have to use it as a HOLD option.

Anyway, in the MSFS control section search for TOGGLE THROTTLE REVERSE THRUST and assign a button to it. Then in the sim press and hold that button to use your throttle lever to go to the beta range.

Another little bug: when using the beta range in the sim I see the throttle lever go up AND down at the same time, so I see two sort of transparent levers! And I also get a ticking noise. I can't make a screenshot of it because you can only see it in motion: it's as if the lever goes fully forward and fully aft a few hundred times per second. Looks a bit odd. I think the devs may have to look at this a little bit.

 

It looks as if the "toggle reverse thrust" button binding is discarded and replaced by "Decrease throttle", then after reducing the throttle to "Idle", pressing and holding the "Decrease throttle" button smoothly moves the throttle into the "Beta" section.Moving the throttle forwards again returns the throttle to "Idle".

Edited December 26, 20214 yr by Reader

Has anyone noticed that the Honeywell Hobbs meters reset to 0 after every flight?

7 hours ago, ark said:

I use FSUIPC7 with a Saitek TQ which has a switch at the bottom of the throttle range. Do you have FSUIPC7?

 

Al

Yes I do...

Just now, jcomm said:

Out of curiosity, did they model the correct Pt-6 behaviour of Fuel Flow with RPM adjustments, at constant Condition / Throttle / ALT , namely not varying ?

Very few simulations of the real Pt-6 equipped aircraft, like the B200 from ELITE XTS in my Avatar, do it correctly.

It doesn't on the MV Porter. I am happy to have an  aircraft as close as possible to the real one but is this parameter really significant for our simulation ?  The RPM range is quite narrow, 1900 for a quieter ride to 2000 rpm. Is there such a difference in the Fuel Flow that we should really worry for an aircraft which is basically a short-hauler. Isn't it kind of rivet counting ?

1 hour ago, Aristoteles said:

Has anyone noticed that the Honeywell Hobbs meters reset to 0 after every flight?

Would that be the "Block Time" meter? That shows the same value (hours) that is written in "state.cfg". I only checked the Kodiak with pod cuz that's all I've flown.

"Flight Time" is 0.0 at startup.

8 minutes ago, Dominique_K said:

It doesn't on the MV Porter. I am happy to have an  aircraft as close as possible to the real one but is this parameter really significant for our simulation ?  The RPM range is quite narrow, 1900 for a quieter ride to 2000 rpm. Is there such a difference in the Fuel Flow that we should really worry for an aircraft which is basically a short-hauler. Isn't it kind of rivet counting ?

Not for the impact in fuel comsuption but rather for the correct modelling of a free-running turbine.

3 hours ago, Beagle12 said:

Has anyone tried the Honeycombe Bravo throttle?

When moving the throttle down past "Flight Detent" does that put the aircraft into reverse ?

 

I use the Bravo.  I did no configuration at all,  so was very surprised when moving the lever down past the detent I got the Beta range.  I left home for Christmas so haven't checked the configuration. Will check when I get home