andymartin

Hi all. Any recommendations for PC builders in the UK please? My last flight sim pc was from wired2fire many years ago. I've also heard of chillblast. Regards

I dont have a paid FSUIPC unfortunatly.

I changed the brakes too in the cfg and it makes no difference at all to how much power is needed to get the twotter moving, it just decreases the braking effect when it is moving. Andy

The aircraft levels out ok and holds altitude as well as turning to correct headings. The odd thing it does is that as soon as i engage the IAS button when climbing, it immediatly tips the nose down, almost as though it wants to increase speed, before easing back into a constant speed climb, although 10 kts more than the speed when i first hit the IAS button! The aircraft was trimmed correctly for the climb. After reinstalling its much better than it was when it constantly bucked nose up then down when climbing. Just wish the thing wouldnt stick when taxiing, the autopilot improved upon reinstall, the sticking problem got a lot worse! All very odd. Still love the aircraft though. Andy

Is there not a way to correct it in the aircraft cfg file?

Back to the extended, ive applying that cfg edit and it does rotate earlier now, and more nose down on approach, i guess that edit just increases the efectiveness of the flaps? Weirdly im now having that sticking wheel issue on taxi, which i didnt before! Has anyone found a solution to this? Andy

Im back to the original twotter now, not as pretty to look at as the extended but much more realistic to fly. Andy

back to the original now, although it wont even start for me now!

Hi Aeromaestro, many thanks, that is really interesting to hear from a real pilot. Ive never been in a real twotter(maybe one day) but the extended just didnt seem accurate, especially when i compared the data charts and also videos on you tube of take off and landings. Maybe i will go back to the original aircraft and stick with that ! Thanks again Andy

Im using orbx airports and dont have any ground sticking issues. There is a long lag, true to the real aircraft, between applying power and the engines responding, so you can end up giving it too much welly to get it moving. Small adjustments i think is the way to go. My 2 issues are the data charts, which seem wildly inaccurate. And the autopilot. The charts state rotate at 65 kts average weight aircraft, flaps 20. I find this impossible, Even with maximum up trim it wont rotate much under 75. It then rapidly increases speed even though the charts state climb at 85. I can eventually achieve 85 after flaps up and throttling back, still seems a very nose high attitude. Landing at anything under 80 flaps 2 without getting a seriously nose high touchdown seems impossible too. Im landing at 80, 11-15 hg, flaps 20 or 30 and can get a decent shallow flare at touchdown. The worst thing for me is the autopilot. When climbing out, after trimming, i set the ias on the autopilot and instead of climbing at a steady rate it bucks the nose up and down. After leveling out and trimming i set the altitude hold and the aircraft immediately dives. When i take control and level out and select altitude select again, the autopilot is fine, but it always takes 2 attempts. It seems that the trim is critical in the twin otter before engaging autopilot? Having said all that, i love this aircraft, perfect for short flights and a challenge to manage the engines and props. Thanks for the helpful advice Andy

I have watched that video and i understand how the autopilot is supposed to work but it does do some strange things. As well as diving when initiating alt hold, if when climbing after take off I initiate the ias , it doesnt even hold the speed . I use the fuel and load planner so i presume it accurately takes care of the CG when adding/reducing payload as there doesnt seem to be a way of loading it manually. Thanks Andy

Thanks for the link to the aerosoft forum but ive posted questions on there and found them to be the most unhelpful users and therefore the most useless forum ever. I find the figures in the manual to be very inaccurate, especially the take off speeds/configuration, and landing speeds/configuration. It is impossible to take off or land at the figures quoted, even though they have come, apparantly, from the real world manual. I cant seem to get it to lift off at much below 80 kts, even at flaps 20, and they quote rotate at 65 with flaps 10! The autopilot does a strange thing when i level out and engage it in altitude mode it noses down and dives. The altitude select is higher than im actually at so it cant be that. Maybe it needs to be very accurately trimmed manually before engaging autopilot? Would appreciate any advice Regards Andy

Does anyone fly the above aircraft and could help me out with one or two things please? Regards Andy