12 minutes ago, enright said:

BTW - Did the IRL pilots mention what power / prop settings they used when crossing the threshold?

Wouldn't this depend on a lot of factors though? Wind, pressure altitude... 

I'm also happy they've tweaked the landing characteristics a bit, as more often than not my landings in the 310 have not been pretty.

4 hours ago, ryanbatc said:

@bofhlusr did you pick it up yet?

I've got dual TDS GTN 750 XI's here which fill the panel nicely and a @Ron Attwood paintjob (many at flightsim.to)....

 

@ryanbatc No. Very tempting but I don't think I will. I'm content with the P3D version for now.

The picture with the TDS looks really nice. It made me check TDS for more info. TDS and VC integration with future releases (eg. biz jets) is a question mark, and that's an issue I want to avoid. I plan to make MSFS simpler compared to P3D. Also, the Longitude and the TBM in MSFS got me started using glass cockpits and I'm edging towards preferring them over their older versions.

Keeping it simple in MSFS sceneries is difficult though. I thought I'd limit my buying to a few sceneries with the Premium Deluxe version. But "unfortunately", MSFS scenery has more to offer than P3D. That few is now approaching two dozen sceneries!

6 minutes ago, bofhlusr said:

Keeping it simple in MSFS sceneries is difficult though. I thought I'd limit my buying to a few sceneries with the Premium Deluxe version. But "unfortunately", MSFS scenery has more to offer than P3D. That few is now approaching two dozen sceneries!

I hope you have discovered the MSFS Addons Linker 🙂

22 minutes ago, Bert Pieke said:

I hope you have discovered the MSFS Addons Linker 🙂

Do you mean this? My no longer simple MSFS? 😁

2 minutes ago, bofhlusr said:

Do you mean this? My no longer simple MSFS? 😁

 

Looks good to me 🙂

1 minute ago, Bert Pieke said:

Looks good to me 🙂

Thank you. I'm still waiting and hoping for biz jets in MSFS. Btw, I'm still appreciating your mod for Carenado's Phenom 300 in P3D. Really nice. Deserves another thank you.

3 minutes ago, bofhlusr said:

Thank you. I'm still waiting and hoping for biz jets in MSFS. Btw, I'm still appreciating your mod for Carenado's Phenom 300 in P3D. Really nice. Deserves another thank you.

Happy you like it... but for me, P3D is ancient history.. I have not flown in it for well over a year. 😉

1 minute ago, Bert Pieke said:

Happy you like it... but for me, P3D is ancient history.. I have not flown in it for well over a year. 😉

Yes. Quite a few look at P3D as obsolete and something to be discarded. But drive storage now is cheap and it was good, if not arguably the best (and the only game in town) at a point in time. So I keep P3D alive on my desktop and FSX Steam on my old laptop. They're very compatible and live peacefully together very-well, age-wise. 

I view them like works of art? Like an antique furniture. Or a book that can be read again.🙂

1 hour ago, Cpt_Piett said:

Wouldn't this depend on a lot of factors though? Wind, pressure altitude... 

I'm also happy they've tweaked the landing characteristics a bit, as more often than not my landings in the 310 have not been pretty.

For sure - but the standard practice in most prop planes is simply to cut the throttle when over the threshold and/or at about 20 feet off the ground - do that in a 310 and you'll be eating a nice big pavement sandwich, and you will be funding an undergraduate degree for at least one of your chiropractor's children.

Just wondering if there is a rule-of-thumb that real world pilots use for a more graceful landing. E.g. maintain X amount of manifold pressure and/or Y rpm until the wheels touch the ground, or pull back, but never go below 20% throttle to avoid a stall. Or maybe don't touch the throttle at all - just flare and only cut the throttle after touchdown.

1 hour ago, bofhlusr said:

@ryanbatc No. Very tempting but I don't think I will. I'm content with the P3D version for now.

The picture with the TDS looks really nice. It made me check TDS for more info. TDS and VC integration with future releases (eg. biz jets) is a question mark, and that's an issue I want to avoid. 

There are no jets that would use the GTN in MSFS at this point anyway.  In p3d I think only the FSW lear, falcon and the Carenado C550 natively allowed for it.

The citation CJ4 as you've discovered uses the pro line 21 which is already really nice (but for some reason won't display properly for you), the Longitude will use the G3000 (somewhat soon to be updated by WT) which will make it much more enjoyable.  Still it's lacking systems depth and no working HUD.  Anyway, neither of those would use a GTN.  I believe FSW is making the Lear 35 for MSFS.  And at that point I'd assume the TDS GTN will be incorporated.

31 minutes ago, ryanbatc said:

The citation CJ4 as you've discovered uses the pro line 21 which is already really nice (but for some reason won't display properly for you), the Longitude will use the G3000 (somewhat soon to be updated by WT) which will make it much more enjoyable.  Still it's lacking systems depth and no working HUD.  Anyway, neither of those would use a GTN.  I believe FSW is making the Lear 35 for MSFS.  And at that point I'd assume the TDS GTN will be incorporated.

Yup. Lots of things inoperative or missing in the default planes. The Longitude has the G5000 in real life but uses the G3000 in MSFS. I'm looking forward to what the modders can do with decryption of the cfg files in SU10.

The CJ4 panel is unreadable to me. I'm hoping there's something available to make it readable (eg. bigger fonts?). 

3 hours ago, ryanbatc said:

@enrightthis is fixed - I've been beta testing SP1 for a while.  It's true you still need to carry some power though.  I was on the devs for making it stall well before end of the white arc but the pilots on the team say the landing characteristics are tricky and extra power is required.  Most guys wouldn't go below blue line until short final.  That was a lot faster than I thought.

Ryan, question on the WT KAP 140 mod; does that mod apply only for use with the G750 or is it also applicable with my G530/G430 for the C310? 

2 minutes ago, Les Parson said:

Ryan, question on the WT KAP 140 mod; does that mod apply only for use with the G750 or is it also applicable with my G530/G430 for the C310? 

I'd like to know if the radio stack panel without any GPS will get a good simulated KAP140... The current default one nor the modded one are on par with the rest of this plane. 

Flying the 310 up in Alaska now towards Anchorage. I guess I will see how the anti ice system  works. I got everything switched on. 

Edited August 26, 20223 yr by Bobsk8

33 minutes ago, Les Parson said:

Ryan, question on the WT KAP 140 mod; does that mod apply only for use with the G750 or is it also applicable with my G530/G430 for the C310? 

I don't use the mod - neither the mod nor the stock works very well imo.