Glenn Fitzpatrick

Unless it is a Hershey Bar Cherokee as they turn into house bricks with power off full flaps low and slow. But as far as I know we do not have any early PA28s with the Hershey Bar wing in the game yet. 90 mph is probably for max gross with a safety factor. Almost no-one flies max gross in game unless they are doing Neofly missions or something (as opposed to real life where you often stuck deciding whether to leave luggage or take on less fuel). Your quoted 80 mph is probably pretty spot on for a typical MSFS spawn of 50% fuel, pilot/copilot and no baggage. As a very rough rule of thumb if your gross weight is 20% below max the approach speed should be maybe 10% lower. Alternatively you can take the POH Stall speed for your new lower weight and reduce your approach speed appropriately. (if you continue to use the "max gross approach speed" at a lower than max gross weight you are obviously going to float for longer simply because you need to wipe off more airspeed before reaching the new onset of stall). Note we are talking "in game" calculations here - not real life. This article is about Va but the principles are similar: https://www.aviationsafetymagazine.com/airmanship/finding-maneuvering-speed-at-light-weights/

Yeah, at least it is easier than a real Sting where you need to unlatch both sides then reach behind you and release the rear latch as well and push up while also holding it firmly in case the wind catches the canopy and turns it into a parasail. The other issue with the canopy in the real Sting is, on a hot day, it seems to focus sunlight on the dash like a magnifying glass and try and almost set the plane on fire 😄

You are absolutely correct. It is just the left hand (Pilot side) lever. It does need to be rotated all the way past the green "Open" section to begin opening but that one click spot does the job.

No access to the game at present but the click spot should be somewhere around where the real life latch sits, just above your head, dead centre between the seats. You can see the latch lever in this real life photo.

No worries, the TLDR is if it was a humid day and he was on lowish or mid range cruise settings, carb icing is a distinct possibility regardless of the OAT.

Sorry seriously not the case. The indicator of carb icing risk is humidity not temperature. According to the FAA, carb ice is possible from 10F to over 100F (-12C up to 38C) , with serious icing possible from 20F to over 90F (-7C to 32C). That is because carb icing is a result of the Venturi effect and can occur regardless of the OAT. Think of how a gas cylinder or can of compressed air gets cold and develops ice even on a hot day when gas is released. Same effect at work. Low-ish to mid range throttle settings on a warm to hot, very humid and sticky, summer day is a classic scenario for carb icing. It is a big issue in places like PNG. FAA on carb icing: https://www.faasafety.gov/gslac/alc/course_content.aspx?cID=33&sID=150#:~:text=Expect carb icing when relative,pressure (constant speed propeller).

I think this is a known bug with the 530 where you need to cycle the CDI on startup to initialize the 530 correctly or it only half works.

Online Polls With regard to online Polls they generally provide minimal useful information. This is for a variety of reasons: 1. Biased/Loaded Poll Questions: Online polls often have a biased question or restrict the users responses. Exaggerated somewhat silly examples: 2. Selection Bias in the responder sample Only certain people will actually respond to any given survey. In the case of a rare obscure airport or aircraft for example it is highly likely only those people with a specific personal interest may respond and that sample group may, for example, be more tolerant of faults as are keen to see their favourite addon worked on, or alternatively actually be more particular than normal as they are familiar with the real world subject matter. 3. Selection bias due to the place the poll was posted Posting a poll about how good MSFS is will get totally different results posted on an XPlane forum compared to a MSFS forum. if you post your poll in a thread about a particular addon there is no point whatsoever having an option that says Not interested, never heard of this aircraft for example as those people will never be in the thread in the first place. 4. Time related variation in responses The trend in MSFS is for responses to products to be a bit like Statler and Waldorf in the Muppet Show. Running a poll when a product is released will generally get very positive and enthusiastic responses. Running a poll a little later when the enthusiasm has worn off will get mixed responses. Running a poll when the product has been out a fair while will generally only attract responses from detractors who are unhappy with the product.

Because they think people that fly out of small airports own Steam Gauge 140s and stuff perhaps ?

I would check you have latest 530 fix update as well.

It is 250 HP and not actually all that slow. It is not a Warrior or 172 bumbling along at 110 - 120 knots . Max cruise 165 knots; 75% power: 157 knots; 65% power: 154 knots . ( Max Range is 1275 miles at 45% power 142 knots) Service ceiling is 20,000 feet.

To the contrary, a batch of close by airports are actually great for VFR dead reckoning flights flying with no GPS or nav aids. Especially if they were available at a slight discount as a bundle.

I love the Comanche and all the in depth stuff. I am just saying it is like McDonalds versus the expensive Italian Restaurant down the road. Carenado is the quick and easy but reliable "McDonalds" of flight sim addons and they have a clear target market for whom their products are a good match. If you just want something different that is a good price and you can just jump in and fly Carenado might well suit you. For other people happy to invest more cash and more time into learning the intricacies, A2A is a better match and well worth the money time and effort. Nothing wrong with A2A or with Carenado, they just target entirely different types of simming style.

There are reasons other than money to have access to resources outside Navigraph. For example when planning multiplayer flights a Navigraph licence is personal use only and does not permit distributing your charts to the rest of the flight.

So when I run it nothing happens at all.

Probably carb icing. But yes, Carenado are popular for a reason, their target market is people who have minimal interest in anything other than stick and rudder and navs and set and forget autopilot and want an aircraft that looks nice and is easy to fly. Nothing wrong with that, for you the Comanche was probably just a mis-match.

Yeah my piston single go-to list is has now become: STOL and bush basher - Got Friends Wilga (was the Zeneth) Low and slow/biplane - Ants Tiger Moth (was the Stearman) Fast Touring SIngle - Black Square A36TC (was the JF Turbo Arrow III/IV) and last but by no means least ... General low/mid range touring single - A2A Comanche 250 (was the JF Warrior)

There is a bug where the logbook has issues after too many flights are logged but apparently that will be fixed in the next sim update. Also note if you are in developer mode flights are not logged.

There are a few minor things you need to learn like removing chocks and tiedowns if spawning at parking and also a historically correct but unusual gear lever which you need to remember to cycle back to the central "off" position once the gear is fully up or down (some people complain it does not work with things like Logitech switch panels but if you remember to return it to the central "off" position with the mouse after the gear has been raised or lowered the external gear levers work fine for the actual raising and lowering) . Other than that it is pretty much like any other light GA single in terms of flying, just way more immersive. Well worth getting, you can even pay it off over 4 installments with Paypal if you wish 😄

I am not sure I would fly with an uncaged cat. if it decided to get stuck under the rudder pedals life could get interesting very quickly.

The database is is not encrypted so if you download a freeware database editor you can pretty much give yourself whatever money, aircraft and endorsements you want - though that sort of takes away the entire point of have a "career" . Again you can use a database editor to change the livery of your current aircraft if you want. I use the freeware DB Browser for SQLite the file you need to open for V4 is ..\AppData\local\Programs\Neofly\std.bin

How long is a piece of string. Most users report somewhere between 165GB and 200GB once all updates etc are installed . I assume the difference are in things like whether rolling cache is enabled ? Regardless, allow about 250GB as even if it is still under 200GB right now it is going to keep getting bigger.

ah ... they do their liveries different to the MSFS standard way then. Why am I not surprised 😄 I am intending to pick up the Comanche shortly - so once I grab it will have a look at what they are doing with the liveries and will post back here if I find an easy workaround to let you swap out different cockpits between liveries.

You should be able to go to aircraft.cfg, scroll down to where the livery with the green panel is described and locate the " panel = xxxxx " line. Copy and paste that line over the panel line in any other livery section where you want to use the green panel. Do make a backup copy of your aircraft.cfg before messing with it just in case.