Rod

Is anyone else having problems with autopilot ILS appraoch? I've only done 2 flights so far, but both times the autopilot did not follow the approach course or glideslope. This with the GPS off and both Nav coms set to the ILS approach frequency, and both times I was on the glide path well before the glideslope intercept. (Rwy 5 at KRDU and Rwy 24L at Kday).

Dale

I am thinking of buying the Ovation 

1) How do i UPDATE the database ( Airports, Waypoints, SIDs, STARS)  if I do NOT install  GTN750 ?

2) Does the Autopilot panel have a functional VNAV button?

 Best Regards

 Hari

I might be overlooking something and I admit I just purchased this aircraft, but this is bugging me greatly. So, the problem is when I try to tune an NDB frequency with the ADF tuner knob, I can dial the ones and the hundreds digits just fine. If I click on the button, I can even dial the tenths digits. But whatever I do, I just cannot dial the tens digits of the desired frequency. 😞 I purchased this aircraft because we are doing an around the world tour with my friend and we'd like to do it without GPS, just radio nav, but if I can't tune in NDB frequencies, that would be bad... Anyone can offer any wisdom here?

bought recently the M20 Ovation and have serious problems with keeping the aircraft straight on taxiway or runway. I am aware of p-factor, propwash and torque of the engine etc. At low speeds situation is somewhat manageable, but at higher speed during the takeoff run it is almost uncontrollable: the aircraft veers to the left (caused by p-factor etc.) then I apply right rudder: no reaction, the a/c still veers leftwards, applying more right rudder, again no reaction, more right rudder then suddenly the aircraft turns VERY sharply to the right, then kicking fully down the left pedal has absolutely no effect, the aircraft goes wildly the right only after a while the aircraft starts to turn back. It looks like that there is a (too long) time lag between a control input and the reaction of the flight model. First I thought, that the null zone of the rudder is the culprit, but narrowing the null zone to 5, showed no effect. And yes, of course I have calibrated all control axes. My questions to you Mooney pilots are:

1 Did you experience the same behavior?

2. Did I miss a particular setting? ( I am with P3D v4.4)

Experiences and comments are highly appreciated - thank you,

Dscho

I have version 1.1 of the Mooney. A few days ago the SPAD/Saitek gear lever would not raise or lower the gear, and using the mouse on the cockpit lever, while it moved gear up and gear down, it did not actually move the landing gear at all. When the lever is in the up position, the gear is still down.

Any ideas?

http://www.alabeo.com/index.php?accion=product&correl=131

The only thing i can find is in the Checklist.
Before Taxi: Elevator Trim Switch = ON
...and that's it

Thanks
Raller

Any thoughts?

one flight i noticed, that the PROP-DEICE Sign was activeted!

Is this turned on automaticaly or is there a switch somewhere?

Raller

I switched FSX to the Milviz C310 and caught up by loading my flight plan back into the GTN.  The C310 gained back to a normal cruise speed.  So at that point I reloaded the M20 and it too maintained a normal cruise speed at the top of its cruise range in IAS.  Everything stayed normal for about an hour, then the speed bleed occurred again.  This time it bled down to about 110 knots GS, then it was time to descend from 6,000 to 3,000 for initial approach altitude.  After entering descent the M20 came back up to a more normal speed and maintained it through the duration of the flight.

Has anyone else experienced an unexplained decrease in IAS and GS well into a long flight, say two hours or more in?  Really perplexed.

Still having a blast with the Mooney. Decided to take it a bit further and made a custom checklist for those Mooney pilots that have the GTN750 installed. It's based off of a real world checklist I found here.

You can find the Dropbox download link here! Simply download, and place in to your Alabeo Mooney M20R home directory (C:\...\FSX\SimObjects\Airplanes\Alabeo M20R_Ovation)

Bonus: Video from my final approach in to KTEX using FlyInside FSX. Not the best landing but the video looked like a real life Go Pro recording so I wanted to share.

Look at INT1 _BUMP and INT1_bump as an example, similar in the INT2 names..

Is this sloppiness or is there something "clever" at work?

Edit: these names are also referenced in the model files, so I guess it is deliberate.. but why we need an uncompressed 65 MB bump texture, is beyond me.. I have added .off to its name - just as a matter of principle..

So have the bugs been worked out on this (seemed like a long punch list) or is this one I should skip ?

Here is a good write up on the RW counterpart for comparison...

Pilot Report Mooney M20R Ovation

http://www.pilotfriend.com/aircraft performance/Mooney/59.htm

It's a good read...

Regards,

Scott

[Vcockpit02]
Background_color=0,0,0
size_mm=512,512
visible=1
pixel_size=512,512
texture=$Panel_2

//gauge00=Radio_M20R!Radio_GMA340,           13,    4, 484, 94
gauge00=Radio_PA31350!RadioAudio,                      13,    4, 484, 94
gauge01=GAUGE_M20R_RADIOS!Radio_KN62A_DME,      13,  113, 485, 100
gauge02=Radio_M20R!Radio_KR87_ADF,            13,  396, 485, 100
gauge03=Radio_M20R!Radio_KT76C_XPDR,        0 ,  242, 512, 130

gauge04=AlaSound_M20R!CarSound,           0,    0,  1,   1

gauge05=ALAM20R_G530!GPS_WX, 0,0,1,1
//--------------------------------------------------------

In the Saratoga it would be this

[Vcockpit03]
Background_color=0,0,0
size_mm=512,512
visible=0
pixel_size=513,513
texture=$Panel_3

//gauge00=Radio_PA32TC!RadioAudio,    0,  0, 512, 99
gauge00=Radio_PA31350!RadioAudio,            0,  0, 512, 99
//gauge01=DIGTTRANS_PA32TC!transponder,    0,101, 512,130
gauge01=B55_XMLGauges!FBS_GTX330,          0,101, 512,130
gauge02=GAUGEPA32TC!Gauge_ENGINE_DIGVC,  0,232, 349,139
gauge03=GAUGEPA32TC!Gauge_Clock,       350,232, 160,162
gauge04=GAUGEPA32TC!Gauge_Anum_TOP,     0, 391, 512, 57

//--------------------------------------------------------

Doing some trouble shooting I installed the Alabeo Cessna 401 and before installing the GTN 750 it flew with the default GPS and the HSI lateral deviation worked.  I then installed the GTN 750 in the plane and lateral deviation stopped working.  Also, the A2A cessna is the same...works with default GPS and does not work with GTN 750.  I uninstalled/reinstalled the GTN but still the same...so I don't know.  Tired of fiddling with this sim and will go fly X-Plane a while. 

This is with a clean install of P3D version 4.1.  As for the GTN I installed using the wrapper installed from flight1 today, but in the update tool the latest version says 1.11 and latest supported Prepared3D is 3.4.9.  So I don't know what the frack is going on.

Problem is resolved.  Just kept re-installing the GTN 750 and lat dev now works.  No clue what the problem was.  Now off to fly the Mooney!

I started at EDHL with Flaps in Takeoff-Position, clear Weather and 5kt Head-Wind. With increasing speed it became increasingly difficult to hold the Aircraft in Lane. Then the Aircraft swung extremely to the right and chrashed into the grass of the edge strip. Because I could not believe it i tried it a second time with the same conditions and again - crash.

I tried it without Flaps and i could start like usual.

I love to fly the Turbine Duke and the Saratoga and so my first amateur-impressions are:

Pos:

• I like the cockpit instruments and arrangements (my reason to buy it!)

Neg:

• Start-Crash with Takeoff-Flaps
• Moving Propeller is not visible from inside the cockpit
• Bad brakes
• Abbreviations on the Annunciator Panel are blurred and hardly legible
• Some Click-Sounds are missing when i operate the Switch with an assigned Key on my Joystick
• The AP reacts very sluggishly
• The Switch-Illumination on the AP is far too garish
• The Speed-Break-Knob is allmost unreachable
• Outside-View is to close to the Airplane and distorted

Thats what i noticed so far - so it is not love at first sight...

Regards
Raller