7 hours ago, A320_SX ALX said:

This should be a lesson to us and others and I think it should stay in view.

Kudos.

Got around to installing the Tweet today... oh my! This is payware quality!  Very nice addition. I had one challenge; I could not figure out how to shut down the engines after my flight. I could see the 'Engine Cutoff' position on the center throttle, but I couldn't put the handles into that position or spot any other cockpit control to shut off the fuel or engines. Throw me a bone please somebody! 😆 

58 minutes ago, odourboy said:

...but I couldn't put the handles into that position or spot any other cockpit control to shut off the fuel or engines. Throw me a bone please somebody! 😆 

I had to use the mouse to grab them and pull them back to cut off.

4 minutes ago, bobcat999 said:

I had to use the mouse to grab them and pull them back to cut off.

I tried and tried, but couldn't get the mouse to drag them to cutoff. (I could advance them with the mouse no problem.)

She'll shutdown using the two vertical handles (fuel shutoffs) at the top/center of the instrument panel.

The hat switch on the control stick is for yaw and pitch trim according to the tool tip. Yaw would be rudder trim wouldn't it? I ask because there is also a switch on the pilot's left side below the throttles labeled rudder trim. So maybe the hat switch tool tip is wrong and "yaw" should be "roll".  And I don't see any trim indicators to show what the trim settings are set to? 

Al

 

Edited March 26, 20233 yr by ark

15 minutes ago, Paul J said:

She'll shutdown using the two vertical handles (fuel shutoffs) at the top/center of the instrument panel.

Yes... found it!

43 minutes ago, Paul J said:

She'll shutdown using the two vertical handles (fuel shutoffs) at the top/center of the instrument panel.

27 minutes ago, odourboy said:

Yes... found it!

Documentation says:

Engine throttle 1. Engine cutoff is done by right-clicking on the instructor controls. Student commands do not have a cutoff.

That doesn't work for me, maybe because I have the mouse right click assigned to a camera position.

Al

Edited March 26, 20233 yr by ark

Yeah, I read that after my first flights. I've only taken her out for two flights - one to see what it looks like (I'm happy) and then what it sounded like with the Magister's sounds swapped in. I spent some time looking for better sounds, but haven't found any that are close to that of the Sierra Hotel version. Cool uses the F-18's sounds, and they are nothing like the PSH one. I think a Gloster Meteor sounds should work, if one could be found: it had very whiney engines too. I have the original - but it's uninstalled, and can't be re-installed because Flight1 has changed their authorizing software. It's worth pursuing, though, as this one is a quite ok, looks good, feels good, and with good flight characteristics. It just sounds nothing like a Tweet.

36 minutes ago, ark said:

That doesn't work for me, maybe because I have the mouse right click assigned to a camera position.

Bingo! I used Paul's suggestion though which works fine.

Hmm.. what is the red light on the nose of the aircraft?  Tried to find a switch to turn it off.. but no luck..

Lovely airplane BTW 🙂

Edit: Found in the manual:  Lighting: The red "passing light" on the front of the plane turns on along with the position lights.

Edited March 26, 20233 yr by Bert Pieke

Does the DG work as it did (does) in the real plane? Instead of the card rotating so "up" is the direction you are pointing, the needle rotates to indicate your heading and if you want that to be up you would rotate the card accordingly? Seems really strange. Even in a C152 the card rotates. Am I missing the point here somehow?

Unrelated to the above, before takeoff how would you know what your elevator trim is set to (or what any of the trims are set to)?

Al

Edited March 27, 20233 yr by ark

Here's a shot of a real T-37 cockpit.

 

 

And here's a shot of the real VOR/TACAN head. Note the little needle with the circle on the end. Apparently that worked like a RMI and would point to the VOR/TACAN station.  Interesting.

 

24 minutes ago, ark said:

Does the DG work as it did (does) in the real plane? Instead of the card rotating so "up" is the direction you are pointing, the needle rotates to indicate your heading and if you want that to be up you would rotate the card accordingly? Seems really strange. Even in a C152 the card rotates. Am I missing the point here somehow?

You're not missing anything there. That style of DG was fairly common when the T-37 was designed in the 1950's, but it was replaced with the more modern "moving card" style on newer aircraft like the T-38. 

I don't know if the T-37's ever had a newer DG retrofitted, but all the photos I've seen of Tweet cockpits show the "moving needle" style DG.

 

Edited March 27, 20233 yr by ndts

3 minutes ago, ndts said:

You're not missing anything there. That style of DG was fairly common when the T-37 was designed in the 1950's, but it was replaced with the more modern "moving card" style on newer aircraft like the T-38. 

Very interesting  -- thanks. Was the common in-flight practice to turn the card so the needle was pointing in the direction of the aircraft's nose?