Mr Filbert did a fun vid into Lukla.

 

Plane sounds great to me.

ns

18 minutes ago, Prpn said:

As far as I am aware, even with boots installed it is still not certified for flight into known icing conditions.

FAA failed to certify (for icing) all older Cessna twins except 337. There was article about it in some magazine .

Aldo why would someone offered STC boots without icing certification ?

 

There's a salient difference between encountering ice enroute, and knowingly flying INTO icing conditions...the STC probably addresses the former, not the latter... but please, let's get back to the Twotter and discussion in re. the fixes needed to have her blossom into all that is possible.

C

Edited January 27, 20224 yr by cavaricooper

2 hours ago, bean_sprout said:

Mr Filbert did a fun vid into Lukla.

 

Plane sounds great to me.

ns

 

Question?

 

How did you de-ice the AC since the De-Ice Boots don't function?

I have mostly flown her in the Caribbean so far… do the boots really not work, or are the visuals not depicting correctly? 
 

Often, whilst flying her on the edge of my seat, I get a glimpse of what could be with this aeroplane, and fervently hope that Aerosoft has that as their ultimate goal. If it takes another update or two, it will be well with it. There’s a reason she still ploughs furrows in the farther reaches of the world… even the round noses 🙂

C

They were certainly working on the initial release as i used them during a flight over Canada on release day. In external view i noticed ice build up on the leading edges of both wings, switched on the de-icing, and it went. So i don't know, maybe the update messed something up?

Yes, I’m increasingly concerned that the update did not propagate correctly… there are certainly some issues thought corrected that remain unresolved.

C

13 hours ago, bean_sprout said:

Mr Filbert did a fun vid into Lukla.

anyone able to tell what that top bar is in his vid, the DEP/ARR and ETA part? Is that an addon?

Edited January 27, 20224 yr by DAD

15 hours ago, sd_flyer said:

Amazing split of opinions ! People praise absolute default of Carenado 337 and criticize absolute default of Twin Otter . Well, I can give Carenado credit   for round wheels and better for sure. But it strip de-icing equipment and no one even complains LOL

None of the previous Carenado versions of the C337 seemed to have come with de-icing equipment and it's also getting on for 1/3 cheaper than the Twotter (oh plus the sounds aren't an abomination and company representatives didn't attempt to gaslight customers in order to pretend there was nothing wrong with the initial release version)

Edited January 27, 20224 yr by Matchstick

2 hours ago, Car147 said:

They were certainly working on the initial release as i used them during a flight over Canada on release day. In external view i noticed ice build up on the leading edges of both wings, switched on the de-icing, and it went. So i don't know, maybe the update messed something up?

There are some people in this this thread purposely injecting false claims to stir the pot..... like the flaps deploy when battery is off, just nonsense...

2 hours ago, DAD said:

anyone able to tell what that top bar is in his vid, the DEP/ARR and ETA part? Is that an addon?

I believe he uses streamlabs, only visible to the viewer.

I have posted topic about it on aerosoft forum but it's been closed. I'm looking into pitch attitude in straight and level flight and it's negative

Also Twotter AOA in cruse looks like it actually descending 

If we look at video like this it's clearly shows positive pitch attitude during cruise flight

 

1 hour ago, sd_flyer said:

I'm looking into pitch attitude in straight and level flight and it's negative

Are you sure that shows  a negative pitch? Those light coloured bars are the FS steering bars and you are looking down from above. You can also see that the VSI doesn't look centred. Even if the pitch steering bar is centred I'd wonder if you are just seeing a parallax error. The attitude indicator itself appears to be sitting very close to the horizon and again, it may just be showing parallax error but smaller (since it sits closer to the ball than the steering bars do). Also, IRL, isn't the centre position adjustable by turning the knob? I don't think it is in this model.

Edited January 27, 20224 yr by MarkDH

40 minutes ago, MarkDH said:

Are you sure that shows  a negative pitch? Those light coloured bars are the FS steering bars and you are looking down from above. You can also see that the VSI doesn't look centred. Even if the pitch steering bar is centred I'd wonder if you are just seeing a parallax error. The attitude indicator itself appears to be sitting very close to the horizon and again, it may just be showing parallax error but smaller (since it sits closer to the ball than the steering bars do). Also, IRL, isn't the centre position adjustable by turning the knob? I don't think it is in this model.

Yes I'm sure and VSI centered. Also I'm no referring to flight directors but pitch on attitude. Those old fashion attitude indicators don't have nice big screens as PFD so it's hard to spot the difference. To confirm my suspicions pitch angle when looking from outside relative to horizon line looks like aircraft descending .

Also aircraft was well withing CG when I took that screenshot 

 

In contrast SWS Kodiak shows correct pitch attitude on PFD and visually!

33 minutes ago, sd_flyer said:

Yes I'm sure and VSI centered. Also I'm no referring to flight directors but pitch on attitude. Those old fashion attitude indicators don't have nice big screens as PFD so it's hard to spot the difference. To confirm my suspicions pitch angle when looking from outside relative to horizon line looks like aircraft descending

Yes, from outside it looks a bit nose-down but maybe that's how it flies? I don't get what you're saying about the instruments, they looked centred?