The A2A Simulations Community

Hello.

I thought that it would be a good idea to enlist some of the bugs that the community found with the aircraft, if anyone of you knows anymore of them, please write them down, many of the ones i wrote here maybe already resolved in the patch, no one knows what surprise the people from a2a have for us.

1.Battery problems, some of the lights working with accusim battery drained.
2.Mach tuck-like behavior in a dive -heard that is already solved.
3.Famous engine damage at startup and shutdown- solved.
4.Rudder effeciency in some cases,- flat turns- solved.
5.Artificial horizon can't be tumbled- heard it will be asked in beta.
6.Blue canopy- some don't consider it to be a bug, some do.
7.Some shifting of the aircraft in flick roll- little bug, but with tacpack in the way, one would want the most realistic flick rolls.
8.Really hard to trash the starter- you can drain several batteries only to destroy it-(i drained around 6-7 to see it starting to deteriorate). maybe it should be like that.
9.Can't repair only one row of magnetos.
10.Fog isn't visible in external view.
11.Stucking of airplane in place in some cases.
12.Visual deflection of controls doesn't match deflection of fm controls 100%

Im not sure if it is a bug but the windscreen de-ice switch doesn't affect the ammeter.

De-ice is acheived by flooding the windscreen with de-iceing fluid...fluid is release at the bottom of the 'screen and airflow spreads it upwards...

Have noticed that when changing external views the A/C 'bounces (even when static and engine off) is invariably accompanied by the screech of tyres as if just 'touching-down'....

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Nick

Most aircraft do that in the external view a known FSX problem I think

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Ron
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Two possible new ones:

1.The gear position indicator light stops iluminating after belly landing.

2.When one starts new flight, the throttle lock switch, when pressed, moves the throttle more or less 20% forward, and holds the throttle in that position, after startup, the throttle lock moves the throttle normally to 0%.

What do you mean by "throttle lock switch"? Never noticed this before, where is it??

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There is a rotary switch right next to the throttle, it looks a little like a black trim wheel, when you click it, the movement of the throttle is blocked, there is also another rotary switch that locks the mixture handle.


Also from what i read in the manual, the fluid is pumped onto the windshield, and i thought it would need some voltage to get it going, maybe the speed of the wind achieves the majority of spreading the fluid.

The "throttle lock switch" is the throttle friction wheel. As you tighten it, it can move the throttle forward a little..this means that you are overtightening it! It starts out on an appropriate friction. The Merlin's throttle is spring loaded to "close" in real life and the throttle friction MUST be tight or it can close on you when you change hands to bring up the gear. This is not, as far as I know, able to be modelled in FSX. In reality, the friction wheel was set and left.

The fluid for deicing is pumped by a small hand pump after openning the valve you see in the cockpit. There is no electrical operation at all. The hand pump may be added when the Mk V is done but it is in an extremely awkward place to operate from the VC and still fly straight and level. The valve therefore controls openning and pumping at teh moment. In the real thing the pump falls very conveniently to hand next to the pilot's seat. When pumped out, it does indeed need the airflow of the prop to spread.

The "UP" light on the U/C indicator is wired to a WOW switch (but in this case weight OFF wheels) After the impact of a belly landing one or both the undercarriage legs will be soemtimes be bent back, sag, jump the locks etc etc..this will disconnect the switch which ONLY illuminates if BOTH wheels are properly locked up. This light is on an entirely different circuit to the DOWN lights.


Darryl

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...Some say he never blinks, and that he roams around the woods at night foraging for Merlin parts...

Thanks for correction, like said, these three were ''possible'' bugs, im happy they are not.

After a belly landing, will the light stop illuminating even if i didn't start droping wheels down, and they are safely guarded in their chambers ?

Theoretically no but the mechanism is loaded to be "on the safe side" so that any movement in the U/C will stop the light showing..... So any shifting, torsion in the wing or the gear etc will cause the light to go out. As an example, AR213 had, at one stage, a persistant problem of the gear "floating" in their locks, causing the UP light to go out during normal flight after any sort of "bump" or aeros etc

The theory is that it is better to indicate ANY problem, no matter how slight, rather than risk a problem with the gear going undetected. Some aircraft use a "transition" light for this purpose. The Spit just uses "no" lights.


Darryl

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...Some say he never blinks, and that he roams around the woods at night foraging for Merlin parts...