ATRguy

Absolutely no stutters on my system with it, even flying into Haneda and Kai Tak.

Took off from Kathmandu to Hong Kong and it feels much better. Lots of little bugs are gone, and the flight model feels a lot better in the climb at high altitude, it feels like an older airliner running out of power when it’s heavy at high altitude. Well done! Hopefully some more to come.

It’s just a technique passed along by the people who taught me to fly it.

You don't JUST use it, you just hold down nose up trim, as you enter the flare to ease the control forces on the yoke. It's the only airplane I've ever done this in, and it's not uncommon at all for Caravan pilots to do this. I've gone around plenty in both the 675-hp and 867-hp versions and it's fine, the trim on landing is usually a little more nose up than takeoff. So there you go, 45 years of flying, and you learned something new today 😉 We don't trim the ATR much past 500 feet or so, since it's configured, stable, and all that airline stuff. It also flies like a dump truck, so it's fine not to trim much.

No. You trim it so the controls feel neutral, you aren’t looking for a specific position on landing. Despite the other comment, trimming in the flare on the Caravan is extremely common, almost every pilot I know that flies it, does it. In over 1000 hours of flying Caravans, I’m pretty well versed in its quirks, and that’s one of them.

IRL in the Caravan one of the good tricks is to actually be CONSTANTLY trimming in the flare. The elevators get heavy as the plane slows down, and as I pulled the power back in the flare I would just hold nose up trim till the wheels or floats were in contact. Then the elevators don’t get super heavy as the speed bleeds off

Only to start, like the 340, and you can transfer it to the ini manager later, like the 340. You’re missing out

Disregard

Sweet this’ll be ready when I get home from work in a couple days.

Haha well c’mon…

Thanks! It’s probably one of the prettiest parts of the world you could ever go.

We’re in the pinnacle of flight simming, with graphics that have never been better, more high fidelity add-ons than you could ever imagine, and you’re disillusioned? Man, there really is no pleasing some people. This is the best it’s ever been, ever. I can’t wait to get home to hop in an L1011 out of Kai Tak, and have it basically be as close to reality as it could be.

They’re pretty bright IRL at night. Hilariously, most of them at the airports I fly to IRL are NOTAM’d U/S and set up wrong, so they give you word not allowed guidance. Most of my landing briefings include “just remember the PAPIs are wrong, so ignore them…” This is CYIO at 2 pm local in January (this is on slope)

Nobody who is getting into flight sim is going to P3D. It’s a bunch of people that use it because of the reasons you said, they’ve already spent money on it. I was one of them. MSFS is better in every way, and I’d never go back.

Looks great. Another great airport to get the L1011 in and out of.

Nobody uses P3D anymore, and according to PMDG, nobody is buying their 2020 addons, so they stopped developing for it. ini doesn’t build anything for 2020 anymore, the 350 was the last one, and it’s a far less visually impressive product in that sim. TFDi isn’t doing any more work on the P3D MD-11. FSLabs is so far behind the times I’m surprised they’ve even got a product out, they missed the 2020 cycle completely. Id rather see people push the state of the art in 2024 than spend resources developing for an older version.

Which ones don’t by now? Unless it’s some Obscure one, what addons don’t work in 2024.

That looks absolutely incredible. What an upgrade.

Nice!

You have to manually enter the time at the top, even though it’s already there. It got me too

They’ve been saying that for a while. It’s the reason they don’t make anything new for 2020 anymore.

I brought this up on the JF forums, and Nick said the sim is limiting it at the moment. But yes, you should have 30 seconds of fuel or so before the engine dies.

Should be one on the pilot side as well. Those, IIRC, run off the bleed air (or the air conditioner), so that has to be on providing heat.

The OP posted this on inibuilds forum, and they were receptive to it. They always are, really. The 340 has only gotten better since its launch, I have no doubt the 1011 will too. I had a blast flying it into Kai Tak yesterday and I’m excited I get to keep doing that for years after never having a good TriStar.

Pitot and Stall(?) heat on all the time, everything else only during icing conditions. I don’t have it in front of me, but should be windshield heat, prop heat, and wing deice? Windshield heat would heat the icing plate IRL, in the sim it’s the whole windshield since he said it won’t support an icing plate. Prop heat is the electric prop deice on each blade. It should show 21 amps on the gauge, if it doesn’t, you have a prop that isn’t heating. They’re 7 amps each. If the prop isn’t shedding ice properly, you’d pull the prop lever back to min RPM and then slam it forward, the rapid twist on the blades can shed the ice. Also the first time the prop sheds ice and it’s 2:30 AM and you’re barely awake will scare the word not allowed out of you because it impacts all over the windshield. Wing deice is the boots, and I think the switch is Auto or manual? Auto does the programmed sequence of boots, (tail, struts, wings) and manual blows them all at once. Use the ice light at night to look at the wing. Don’t spent too much time in ice, or you end up like this. This was 15 minutes on a not fun night