Has this airplane always been for sale in the marketplace. It's very inexpensive, but is it any good. Perhaps with FSRealistic? Or just be patient and wait for the A2A version and not be disappointed?

23 minutes ago, ryanbatc said:

Someone said one of my liveries makes the plane uncontrollable.  It's the 1975 retro one to be specific - can someone check as I don't them much but usually just to position them for shots.

https://flightsim.to/file/38264/1975-retro-livery-for-carenado-microsoft-bonanza-v35b/324020

Ryan I flew around Manila and Sitka and had no problems hand flying or with autopilot. Lovely flights and livery.

Great one for an excellent price! Love the interior modelling and already downloaded all of @ryanbatc's liveries 🙂

But I can't seem to get the GNS530 to work correctly. I've selected an RNAV approach, but I'm unable to activate it. Any advice?

Anyone got access to the POH? I haven't tried doing a Google search on it yet. Or anyone got any advice on MP and prop settings for climb and cruise?

EDIT: So the way the 530 works is apparently to fly to the last waypoint in the flight plan, then to the first waypoint of the approach. I've no idea if it's possible to go direct to the approach. I hit the menu button when having the first waypoint of the approach selected, but "activate leg" is greyed out. 

Edited August 19, 20223 yr by Cpt_Piett

The current state of the Garmin gns530 is very poor.  Thankfully WT is updating it heavily in the coming months.

For now I only use the GNS for point to point simple nav and use VLOC and vor or ils for the rest of my navigation.

8 hours ago, bobcat999 said:

Obviously the modelling is superb on this Carenado model, as you see from the pictures, and it does fly alright.

I think for £12, as Ron says, it is a steal.  Whatever flight sim I have, I always want one of these in my hangar.  I just love this aircraft.

Does anyone know why it was called the doctor killer?  I know flying doctors used them in Oz in particular.  Was it due to an aerodynamic peculiarity with the V tail?

I got it for sentimental reasons - because the announcement made me dive for my old Logbook and I was endorsed on 

this baby April 24 1974 and flew one quite a few times in Australia but didn't know of any Doctor Killers

She flew heavy  - but I found the high sitting of the nose and little front move disconcerting on landing

1 hour ago, ryanbatc said:

Someone said one of my liveries makes the plane uncontrollable.  It's the 1975 retro one to be specific - can someone check as I don't them much but usually just to position them for shots.

https://flightsim.to/file/38264/1975-retro-livery-for-carenado-microsoft-bonanza-v35b/324020

That livery is probably my favourite so far, and in fact I'm flying it right now. Don't have any issues, manual or autopilot. 

30 minutes ago, ryanbatc said:

The current state of the Garmin gns530 is very poor.  Thankfully WT is updating it heavily in the coming months.

For now I only use the GNS for point to point simple nav and use VLOC and vor or ils for the rest of my navigation.

OK, it's probably not user error then, lol. Not this time anyway. Very much looking forward to an upgraded version, as I think I'll fly this plane a fair bit. I'm currently flying over fairly remote parts of Quebec, where VORs are a bit scarce. 

1 hour ago, Todd2 said:

Ryan I flew around Manila and Sitka and had no problems hand flying or with autopilot. Lovely flights and livery.

 

Thanks for the report.

40 minutes ago, ryanbatc said:

The current state of the Garmin gns530 is very poor.  Thankfully WT is updating it heavily in the coming months.

For now I only use the GNS for point to point simple nav and use VLOC and vor or ils for the rest of my navigation.

I don't generally fly with the 530 - so is it correct that in it's current state you cannot use Direct or manually enter a fp? I found no way to get the cursor active to input anything. Essentially it is a poor moving map - or have I missed something?

11 minutes ago, vgbaron said:

I don't generally fly with the 530 - so is it correct that in it's current state you cannot use Direct or manually enter a fp? I found no way to get the cursor active to input anything. Essentially it is a poor moving map - or have I missed something?

I'm able to manually enter a flight plan. 

11 minutes ago, vgbaron said:

I don't generally fly with the 530 - so is it correct that in it's current state you cannot use Direct or manually enter a fp? I found no way to get the cursor active to input anything. Essentially it is a poor moving map - or have I missed something?

You can direct to and enter a basic flight plan.  Once at the FPL page just use the smaller knob (mouse wheel on your mouse) to start entering characters.  Outer larger knob to go to the next text or field.

28 minutes ago, ryanbatc said:

You can direct to and enter a basic flight plan.  Once at the FPL page just use the smaller knob (mouse wheel on your mouse) to start entering characters.  Outer larger knob to go to the next text or field.

That's the issue - the knobs light up and move but no cursor on the screen. I'll check to see if I have something else enabled that interferes. Basically knobs do nada.

FWIW, installed the PMS530 and am able to input a Direct to but not manually create a fp. There is no cursor block. Uninstalled the PMS530 and basically can only change pages but no cursor shows to allow input.

BUT - if you guys say it works I'll dig into my setup and see if there's a conflict.  😞 

1 hour ago, vgbaron said:

That's the issue - the knobs light up and move but no cursor on the screen. I'll check to see if I have something else enabled that interferes. Basically knobs do nada.

FWIW, installed the PMS530 and am able to input a Direct to but not manually create a fp. There is no cursor block. Uninstalled the PMS530 and basically can only change pages but no cursor shows to allow input.

BUT - if you guys say it works I'll dig into my setup and see if there's a conflict.  😞 

You may have to push in the inner button to get a cursor.. if you have your interaction set to Lock, suggest changing it to Legacy for this to work.  The PMS 530 is OK and worth having..

Edited August 19, 20223 yr by Bert Pieke

3 hours ago, Cpt_Piett said:

Anyone got access to the POH? I haven't tried doing a Google search on it yet.

http://www.fsd-international.com/Hangar/V35B/Pilot Operating Handbook.pdf

22 hours ago, MattNischan said:

things to come

Hurry up! 😁