calypsos wrote:Kikko, unless you retract your undercarriage before reaching 185kts IAS (easily done with a light load), your hydraulics will fail. To get the gear down, bounce it off the runway :o :o and it comes down locked! There may be an emergency air bottle method, but I have yet to find it!
Trev,
There is a Red Button above the normal gear handle and it is labelled EMERG GEAR.
One small thing I have not found how to do, is remove the pilot from the cockpit...My ground power yellow machine rumbles away nicely, but how do you get the pilot to get out and leave his parachute on the wing?
I'm loving this machine...Done one short flight but spent the rest of the day sitting in this fantastic cockpit and going through the use of every switch...Quite wonderful and very noisy with the ground power grinding away and all the advanced AIBlast of a normal day at my base
OK...Solved that one by going "Cold & Dark" :flying:
Been looking forward to this, downloading as we speak. Avsim must be experiencing some heavy downloading, at 12kb/s I'll be here until tomorrow morning downloading this, but it'll be worth it! :roll:
What a stunning model! The attention to detail is incredible. Thank you so much, Jan and the team. It's simply amazing. The 3d cockpit has exactly the same detail and resolution as the 2D! Quite extraordinary. I can't imagine how many hours of work has gone into this model.
I'd like to say I'm speechless - but I'm obviously not!
I did one successful flight after a quick scan of the manual and just kept replaying it to see it from all angles. I shall definitely put a few hours aside to read it properly and explore the cockpit detail. Wow!
In reference to engine starting, the throttle has to be at fuel cutoff before the start sequence. Bring up the throttle panel and drag the throttle back to the fuel cutoff position (as far down as it will go) by using the mouse on the throttle. Or use ctrl+shift+F1 or whatever key assignment you have for fuel cutoff. Commence the start sequence as per the manual and then when the engine spools up above 3-5% advance the throttle to about halfway between the fuel cutoff and idle position. Do this by using the mouse and dragging the throttle, if you use a joystick throttle slider it will advance the throttle too far as the slider will only move the throttle between idle and full throttle. Using the joystick slider on initial startup seems to overfuel the engine and cause it to overheat. When the engine catches then you can advance the throttle to just above the idle position using the joystick slider but keep an eye on the EGT.
