10 minutes ago, St Mawgan said:

Doesn't bother me anywhere near not having a pilot or my own reg number. 

It's the opposite for me, the pilot and reg number I only see in the outside view. As I fly inside the cockpit the landing and taxi lights lights are more important to me.

Anyone else having a difficult time starting the engine?

I place the fuel selector on both, prime several times, makes sure the mixture is in, crack the throttle a little but turning the start key only makes the prop turn over, it won't catch and remain running.

Anyone know what I'm doing wrong?

5 minutes ago, Boeing_Driver said:

Anyone else having a difficult time starting the engine?

I place the fuel selector on both, prime several times, makes sure the mixture is in, crack the throttle a little but turning the start key only makes the prop turn over, it won't catch and remain running.

Anyone know what I'm doing wrong?

Move the mixture button with your mouse first and then with your controller.  This seems too open the fuel cut-off valve.

On 3/20/2025 at 11:53 AM, ryanbatc said:

Yes.  A few bugs that I've found, the altitude doesn't seem to capture very well even with ARM selected.  But the default KAP140 is terrible.  I wish they'd use the GFC500 or something.  Actually a few of us are trying to see if a mod is possible.

The pitot heat cover flag doesn't blow in the wind even though the cowl ones do hehe.

And the Glide Slope shows in VLOC but the Glide Path does not in GPS mode.  I will write them and see if they can fix it.

Overall a nice bird - the price is pretty cheap.  I remember buying their Mooney for 2020 for 40 USD lol.  This half and looks a lot nicer.

Yeah. Not sure about this. No offense. Just very skeptical of anything made by Carenado. Had two of their planes and regretted the purchase, no support for bugs, etc using outdated stuff etc.

But it does look good. A nice addon if people are looking for this type of thing.

Edited March 22, 20251 yr by Sonosusto

24 minutes ago, Alvega said:

It's the opposite for me, the pilot and reg number I only see in the outside view. As I fly inside the cockpit the landing and taxi lights lights are more important to me.

Yes, I also only fly inside the cockpit. From where I cannot see the taxi lights and until I have landed, the landing lights. The reg number is usually on the panel though, right in front of me. 

6 minutes ago, St Mawgan said:

Yes, I also only fly inside the cockpit. From where I cannot see the taxi lights and until I have landed, the landing lights. The reg number is usually on the panel though, right in front of me. 

Hmm, you should see the taxi lights illuminating the taxiway from inside the cockpit. In the 182RG you don't see them because they are bugged and pointing down.

27 minutes ago, Boeing_Driver said:

Anyone else having a difficult time starting the engine?

I place the fuel selector on both, prime several times, makes sure the mixture is in, crack the throttle a little but turning the start key only makes the prop turn over, it won't catch and remain running.

Anyone know what I'm doing wrong?

That's strange, it works for me doing the same.

Just now, Alvega said:

Hmm, you should see the taxi lights illuminating the taxiway from inside the cockpit. In the 182RG you don't see them because they are bugged and pointing down.

99% of the time I fly by day so I wouldn't see that. Especially in 2024 where most exterior lights are barely visible anyway in any aircraft. Anyhoo, I've disabled it now so, it's irrelevant. 

29 minutes ago, diajohn said:

Move the mixture button with your mouse first and then with your controller.  This seems too open the fuel cut-off valve.

Hmmm, this solution didn't work for me.  :o/

Is the default head position (and therefore visibility) out the side windows in a lower position where you can actually see out the side windows well enough?  The 182T's side visibility is so bad in my opinion that I can't really enjoy the plane very much.  If I Shift Q the camera down enough to see out the side window the front view becomes too low.  I'm flying on a triple screen setup so that side monitor is basically just showing the area above the window and then a pretty small slice of the ground towards the bottom.

14 minutes ago, KevinS137 said:

Is the default head position (and therefore visibility) out the side windows in a lower position where you can actually see out the side windows well enough?  The 182T's side visibility is so bad in my opinion that I can't really enjoy the plane very much.  If I Shift Q the camera down enough to see out the side window the front view becomes too low.  I'm flying on a triple screen setup so that side monitor is basically just showing the area above the window and then a pretty small slice of the ground towards the bottom.

Isn't that how the real one is?  I mostly fly low wings but I've flown a 172 a few times and I have to like move my head down to see out the window and raise it up to see over the panel.  

In the sim I use track IR or even VR so it's not really an issue.

17 minutes ago, ryanbatc said:

Isn't that how the real one is?  I mostly fly low wings but I've flown a 172 a few times and I have to like move my head down to see out the window and raise it up to see over the panel.  

In the sim I use track IR or even VR so it's not really an issue.

I don't think it is this bad IRL, but I've only flown a 182 for a few hours, most of my ~250 hours is in a 172.  I get what you are saying it just seems kind of extreme on this plane.  I also think it is super noticeable for me on my triple screen setup since the side monitor is basically looking that direction.  I may try to figure out how to post a screenshot sometime.  I really like the 182 and would love to fly it more

Here is my default view rotated almost 90 degrees

Edit - this view is from C182T, not the Q

 

Edited March 23, 20251 yr by KevinS137

Obtained it today. Love it!

 

No issues thus far. Starts no issues and everything seems to be working fine.

Did a flight from KHMT to LAX and back to KHMT and was a great flight along with AIG (Going into LAX was awesome with all the traffic), Sayintentions (Partner) which was awesome.

After yesterdays (Blank) show, Im back to a Happy Camper status!

Ill post my flight pics in the screen shot forum.

 

Does the NAV flag on the HSI turn off when on an active GPS route?   In the 182 RG,  it stays visible.. I wonder if this 182 version has this bug fixed..

 

Edited March 23, 20251 yr by Bert Pieke