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Have had this quite a few times from Carenado and Alabeo installations and I suspect it might be that those font files already exist from an earlier installation and for some reason the installer calls it an error instead of just moving on.

Great stuff as always Matt!

Excellent thank you Bernd!

Use the combined switch to turn on strobes/beacon then use keyboard "O" to turn off the strobes.

Mine has worked as Bert says since v1.0 - slow and steady wins the race with these knobs.

Have assigned cowl flaps open and close to a rocker switch on my Saitek Quadrant and they have worked perfectly since V1.0

Thanks mate for the great paints, paticularly for that Aussie VH job - beauty!

Yes Scott - to check the number of approved mods, factory/FAA/non USA AAs, to the earlier Navajos, particularly of the IO-540 variety, would require many hours of hard paper research, if you could locate them! All very interesting at the time but of little relevance now.

As always backup Orig aircraft.cfg before changing entries copy and paste over: This will get ATC to identify right type and model: [General] atc_type=Piper atc_model=NAVAJO editable=1 //0 Well balanced aircraft with extra back seats "moment arms" from FAA and old company load sheet, use wing lockers if desired, adjust fuel to suit, aircraft has a great max ramp weight: [weight_and_balance] station_load.0 = 190, 1.5, -1.8, 0 station_load.1 = 190, 1.5, 1.8, 0 station_load.2 = 170, -2.45,-1.8, 0 station_load.3 = 170, -2.45, 1.8, 0 station_load.4 = 170, -5.0, -1.8, 0 station_load.5 = 170, -5.0, 1.8, 0 station_load.6 = 150, 7.9, 0, 0 station_load.7 = 200, -9.8, 0, 0 station_load.8 = 170, -8.1, -1.8, 0 station_load.9 = 170, -7.8, 1.8, 0 station_load.10= 0, -2.55,-5.0, 0.2 station_load.11 = 0, -2.55, 5.0, 0.2 station_name.0 = "pilot" station_name.1 = "copilot" station_name.2 = "Pax R1L" station_name.3 = "Pax R1R" station_name.4 = "Pax R2L" station_name.5 = "Pax R2R" station_name.6 = "BagFwd Max150" station_name.7 = "BagAft Max200" station_name.8 = "Pax R3L" station_name.9 = "Pax R4R" station_name.10= "WingL Max150" station_name.11= "WingR Max150" Better rudder control, use A2A Accufeel to soften suspension if desired: [flight_tuning] rudder_effectiveness =0.5 //1.0 Smoother taxy but watch your landing speeds closely as in real aircraft [brakes] toe_brakes_scale= 0.4 //0.7 [Flaps.0] flaps-position.1 = 15 //20 flaps-position.2 = 25 //30

Been off sick for a while so sorry for no response Scott - try looking up "ramming" and "supercharging" in the various mechanical sites as both these techniques were used in early Navajos before turbocharging became recognized as the proper safe standard. All the early Navajos I was involved with were retrofitted with turbos eventually. The major differences in Turbo settings for Navajos was largely dictated by operational requirements: the loads to be lifted after all the nice club seats and wooden adornments were removed in favour of extra seats; the length of airfields to be used and most importantly the ambient operating temperatures and altitudes. In the tropics in semi-STOL conditions with rapid weather changes, heavy PAX and freight demands, operators wanted powerful lift and climb capabilities - that's what 46" gave them. Understand you frustration Jesse with lack of information, the Chieftain was an entirely different ball game mechanically and structurally from the Navajo, the three different types of Cheiftain fuselage extensions and associated configurations resulted in quite different aircraft - all very nice and more stable than the Navajos with greater load capabilities. Better more powerful engines as well - no mods need there! Hope Carenado can come out with one of them for us to play with.

Back up your aircraft.cfg and replace your "station loads" with this amendment for proper "moment arms" according to POH W&B and FAA specs (adjust fuel accordingly): station_load.0 = 180, 2.00, -1.15, 0 station_load.1 = 180, 2.00, 1.15, 0 station_load.2 = 170, -0.50, -1.15, 0 station_load.3 = 170, -0.50, 1.15, 0 station_load.4 = 170, -2.66, -1.15, 0 station_load.5 = 170, -2.66, 1.15, 0 station_load.6 = 170, -4.90, -1.15, 0 station_load.7 = 170, -4.90, 1.15, 0 station_load.8 = 170, -7.06, 0.00, 0 station_load.9 = 170, -7.06, 1.15, 0 station_load.10= 250, 11.9, 0.00, 0 station_load.11= 350, 7.50, 0.00, 0 station_load.12= 200, -1.60, -6.40, 0 station_load.13= 200, 1.60, 6.40, 0 station_load.14= 400, -20.00, 0.00, 0 station_load.15= 200, -21.33, 0.00, 0 Loaded to the max like a working GA 'plane should be - decrease loads for more fuel as required for those long hops but watch your CoG. If you have A2A Accufeel you will find turbulence more exciting as well.

Yes Jesse and Scott it is a bit confusing - my last post relates to trying this airframe with PA31-300 standard non-turbcharged engines IO-540-M1A5 as initially constructed by Piper - this is an entirely different performing aircraft to the turbocharged PA31-310 but they both have identical airframes but not equipment. FSX has bug and will not read the Max Mfp entry setting (40 for the 300) unless Turbocharger=1. By setting critical attitude=0000 you effectively turn the turbocharger off at the same time but FSX will read the MfP entry and the MfP gauge will work correctly. Otherwise FSX will take the MfP back to calculations based on a carby engine. It is entirely possible to have an injected engine red lined at 40 and in some instances these engines were taken to 42 or 43 - but that is a complicated engineering exercise beyond the scope of this discussion. I had fun trying it out against the 300 POH and the numbers were good. I'm leaving this now to play with W&B in both models and experiment with adding wing lockers as well.

Correction to the last post if you want to try the PA31-300 settings: Turbocharger=1 must be set, even though the aircraft is not turbo - FSX wil not read the Max MfP otherwise. Sofor clarity: HP=300; RPM=2700; Turbo=1; MfP=40; Alt=0000. It operates quite realistcally to the POH for PA31-300.

Yes Lmaire that is the only altitude setting in engine section of aircraft.cfg which is a piston engine's critical altitude, being the maximum altitude at which an engine can maintain its full, rated horsepower with turbocharger, and as clearly stated in Type Approval/Lycoming quote is "15800". Interesting to note that Carenado have included in the cfg behind the excluder "//" for Mfp, HP, RPM and critical altitude "46", "300", "2700" and "0000" which, except for the MfP which would be "40", are the settings for this airframe with Lycoming IO-540-M1A5 engines - thus becoming the PA31-300 if Turbocharger=0 is set in cfg of course. Could be fun to try that B)

"2,575 r.p.m. at 310 hp. from sea level to 15,800 ft. altitude. Maximum 46.0 in. hg. manifold pressure cumulative total with automatic density control and altitude adjustment. Do not exceed the following manifold pressure limitations: 46.0 in. hg. manifold pressure at and below 15,800 ft. altitude, 31.0 in. hg. manifold pressure at 24,000 ft. altitude. Straight line variation between points given." Both the Type Approval and Lycoming engine manual for the PA31-310 with TIO-540-A2C fitted as modeled by Carenado state the above limits. Accordingly cfg file should state max rpm=2575, maxMfP=46, turbo altitude 15800. The engine has an automatic density controller as part of its turbocharging system as mentioned above and a decrease in MfP should occur automatically after 15800 from 46 to 31 at 24000. Have made these changes and all works well so far. Now to try and adjust the W&B figures (grrrr)