Is there a fuel selector switch for the C185 and if so, where is it. If not, what is the procedure to balance fuel tanks. Currently, my C 185 fleet is drawing only from one tank, not both. thanks.

Sherm

Last evening, during an online flight with some friends i had a strange issue flying with the C185F Tundra.

Reaching approx 3500 ft, flying over the Alps in Italy, the engine stops suddenly without any visiblecause.

I started to fly down for an emergency landing but the engine re started by himself idling without responding at the throttle lever.

I try to re start it using both cockpit and hardware commands without success.

I use a trustmaster T Flight Hotas-X

I changed aircraft without problems. 

Someone can help me?

Does anyone has by any chance has C185 Pilot's Guide Book which @Beaverdriver posted 9 years ago?

This was discussed in the topic below but all sources dried out 😞

Cheers

Has anyone else ran into this issue and were able to resolve it?

Default livery:

Livery downloaded from Avsim:

Carenado repaint:

My livery:

Having issues with night lighting on the C185 Tundra/Bush.  Can't get the red nor the white cabin lights to illuminate the cabin at night.

Anyone having the same issue?  I do have the latest version installed for P3Dv4.

Thanks.

Greg

The other question is about the fuel and pax and baggage loading. In my plane, it is impossible to get the CG at the proper place using the chart in the menu. It looks to be very far to the rear. The plane seems to fly ok, but there should be a better chart for this. Anyone?

1. Starting. This may just be me or my PC, but I could not manually start the engine. No matter what combination of events I tried, it would crank, but not start. It would, however, start using the Auto Start feature (Ctrl/E). I then found that after starting it once using the Auto Start method and shutting it down to a cold and dark cockpit, I could then manually start the engine and it would run fine. I could shut it down, leave the sim running for 30 minutes with no action and come back and again manually start the engine. After doing this a few times, I saved a flight at my favorite starting airport in the cold and dark situation and closed down the sim. I came back several hours later, started the sim and went to Load, and selected my saved flight and Viola' the engine starts manually. I have tried this a dozen times and it works every time. I don't know why I have to do it this way, or if everyone is having the same problem, but if you are, then try this method.

2. The rotating beacon does not work. There is a red refection showing up on the skin of the plane, and you get a dull red flash in the cockpit, but the beacon itself does not show any movement or red light. I have moved over from FSX all the effects files that P3Ddidn't have, but still no joy. Not a big deal, but still I would love to know how to fix this.

All in all, I am enjoying flying this plane in the Alaska Bush with all the nice scenery from Orbx and Tongass Fjords.

Howard

Thanks.

After installing some liveries from the sim on my other pc, I found that the rudder on one side was missing the paint for each of the planes. So I went to the Carendo website and ran both the patches which were supposed to fix the issue, one for each version of the plane. However, I'm still having the problem on this computer. Could it be that I need to run one of the optional patches? And if so, is the order important? I know there is probably a simple way around this because it works fine on my laptop.

I'm having a problem with the tundra version. I have installed Bernt Stolle's excellent FDE and I'm still trying to land the tundra version without bouncing. On those very frequent occasions when I look like a pogo stick going down the runway after the first touch for some reason the tail will sink into the ground up to the elevator stabilizer. I end up seeing even more of the sky than usual but I don't get any crash sound or automatic resetting of the flight. While taxiing and setting still I've never had this to happen. I know there are some adjustments that can be made in the contact points section but I thought that was only for when the plane is setting still.

Has anybody else had this to happen? Any ideas how to fix this?

Mark

I have yet to find any conclusive evidence to suggest this being possible or not.

Any takers?

I was wondering about the CG though. In the tundra version I load the plane as follows

Pilot seat 225 pounds

Right front 200 pounds

Middle row 150 pounds a piece

Back row 175 pounds a piece

baggage area 44 pounds

I realize that this is a very full load, however, I don't have any trouble getting the plane off of the ground, but it does seem very tail heavy. With the trim set at neutral the plane almost immediately stalls. In this configuration the only way to stop this is to trim it to about 2/3 nose down trim and then it still wants to climb at 800 to 1000 fpm. When loading the silly little CG gauge in FSX shows really far forward CG. Does the way I'm loading the plane seem wrong or is the trim supposed to be like that in RL? Any suggestions?

Thanks

Mark

The fuel quantity indicators appear to function with the master switches on. I'm assuming they shouldn't, so does anyone know if its possible to correct this somehow?

Thanks

Mark

What I am looking for is a view similar to the 337? When flying the 185, it just seems, to me, that the whole "instrument panel/firewall" is too intrusive. Too much "airplane", and not enough scenery!

Help appreciated!