December 3, 20241 yr I have been having a bit of fun in the FS2024 default Cessna Caravan exploring my backyard flying around the San Juan Islands. The detail in this region is definitely improved over FS2020. Also performance with the Caravan and flying around this region actually exceeds what I get on FS2020. Caravan flies really nice and level. No autopilot needed! Only issue I had is the Caravan has done something kind of weird and dangerous a few times now. I accidentally was able to go into reverse pitch in flight which I don't think the Caravan is certified to do. Literally the engines make an odd noise and the plane will instantly nose dive towards the ground. Also an annoying pop up comes up saying I hit a throttle detent and must hit F4 to fix it. The throttle detent affect does not bother me but being able to reverse the the prop in flight is rather dangerous. The few times it has happened I was able to level the plane before a crash but odd it is allowable in FS2024. Anyone notice this?
December 3, 20241 yr You can do it in the real plane too. You shouldn’t, but you can. In the real plane, there is a detent you need to lift the safety over to pull it into beta and reverse, but you can absolutely reverse the prop airborne. Ask me how I know lol.
December 3, 20241 yr Often used with SkyDiving. It's not the only turboprop of it's type that does it IRL. Flying gliders since 1980 Flightsimming since 1992 AMD Ryzen 5600x, 32GB RAM, GPU Nvidia RTX 3060 Ti 8 GB, 1 TB and 500 GB nvme2 SSD drives, HP 27" 60Hz LED monitor @ 1920x1080, T16000, Hotas from old X52 Pro, Saitek Combat Rudder Pro (2010 model)
December 3, 20241 yr Great to see this is finally (somewhat) implemented by default in MSFS. Milviz simulated this in their PC-6 a long time ago.
December 3, 20241 yr Author I know some turboprops can but I was not aware that the Caravan can do it but its cool if you can. It's definitely something you have to be prepared for since the nose drops rather abruptly. I don't think it modeled a safety detent for that. I simply pressed F2 on my keyboard and instead of stopping at idle it went right past idle and into reverse. I set my keyboard to mimic FS2020 key commands. Probably why MicroAsobo did not set it up like that to begin with. I was flying over Mount Constitution on Orcas Island when it went into reverse. Luckily I was just over the crest of the mountain and most of my dive was on the downhill slope heading for Cascade Lake. So I was able to recover nicely. I did notice a detent when coming out of reverse thrust and into positive throttle territory but not the other way around. More test flights will determine if that is factual or not?
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