Paule wrote:Just bin over on Classicbrits.
Someone called Arthur Melton has commented: "Nice looking aircraft but climbs and dives with the slightest change in flight parameters. Difficult to control."
If anyone is having problems can they let me know here.
Paul
Absolutely not. I've just made a flight today and found it performed
exactly as described in the documentation. The FDEs seem
absolutely delightful, a pleasure to fly.
great aircraft and handles wonderfully. pity it was not out during the early days of cbfs va. i so needed a long range piston prop aircraft. my post is concerning the ( I) button when pressed i get smoke coming, well the shot explains it.
everything else no problem and with the downloaded sounds make this aircraft burst through my sound system and rattle my windows.
Re u/c extension/retraction, Ed Walters makes a good point in his post. Have changed my config to 12, 15 and 15,18, and as far as I am concerned it looks fine, not as drawn out as I thought it would.
Re Smoking York ... On my default FS9 assignments, 'I' signifies "smoke system ON/OFF". Don't really know what it's there for -- aerobatics? -- but it seems to do just what it says ...
I set the cog at minus 0.6 from the Ref Datum; and positioned fuel tanks at this point to minimize weight shift. As fuel is consumed and she lightens speed rises and the tail gets heavier.
To keep the nose down trim requirement at a reasonable level the PN's and kneeboard ref say "when 7200 lbs fuel have been used speed should be reduced to 175 mph IAS"
Using the fuel management transfer system should not affect trim. NOTE, this can only be done if FSUIPC v3.7 is properly installed.
At the end of a long flight (7/8 hours) the trim requirement will be about minus 0.5 (if flying with the loads as set in the aircraft config).
And a little tip. Monitor speed carefully; trim requirement can be delayed by small reductions in prop rpm whilst maintaining 180 mph IAS. You can get rpm changes down to as little as 5 rpm.
Check rpm, tap ctrl F2 once u will lose btween 10 - 30 rpm, then quickly tap ctrl F3 to come back up in 5 rpm increments. Using this technique you can delay trim input till your fuel is at about 88%.
