Not on SimMarket yet...

It's out on JustFlight. Now I've just got to rememberhow to make the JustFlight installer work since it seems to suffer from MS long file names disease.

The marketplace version has been updated.

Flies like a different plane, in a good way! Much more stable and predictable... in the past I was always fighting with the rudder/rudder trim to try and keep it coordinated. Now I can set full right rudder trim on takeoff and not touch it again until cruise. Turns don't send the turn coordinator flying all over the place anymore, I can easily predict how much rudder it needs. Pattern work was much less work than prior to the update.

Short final was also predictable. I won't resurrect the Kodiak vs BS Caravan thread, but @sd_flyer , you can now bring this bird in fully loaded at 75kts without falling from the sky. I floated it to test the stall speed and it matched up to the speed tape, although I don't think it's normal to bring it in that slow IRL (and controls were unbearably sluggish at those speeds).

I just did some pattern work and a quick skydive career mission to make sure that was fixed (it was), but my initial impressions were good. The Kodiak has been collecting dust in my hangar, but suffice to say I will be flying it a bit more now. I'd encourage anyone else who has shelved it to give it another go!

I was just wondering if SWS had updated the Kodiak flight model recently and sure enough. Any others flying the latest release in 2024? How is it trying to land with lower torque? Sounds like that’s improved.

8 hours ago, Virtual-Chris said:

I was just wondering if SWS had updated the Kodiak flight model recently and sure enough. Any others flying the latest release in 2024? How is it trying to land with lower torque? Sounds like that’s improved.

I forget what torque is supposed to be on final IRL…?

I was shooting runway approaches today and I think torque needed to be around 900lbs to maintain 75-ish kts with full flaps. W&B was around 6900lbs, 35ish % cg.

I have to look at the POH again for the steep approach procedure. IIRC it’s idle power and 75kts. I wasn’t able to get that, but it could easily be me approaching too steeply…? I was either over speeding on one approach, or needing power to maintain 75kts the next.

Overall my impression is that low speed handling seems to have been further improved - not as wallowy

Seems like rudder work has been cleaned up somewhat too?

And maybe drag still needs work - ie, still too high when fully configured…??

So, all in all, it seems further refined to me, but I haven’t been flying it that much to speak definitively.