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After a flight spent pinned down in between hills by freezing level, in rain and almost zero visibility, making my own parallel tracks to avoid the granite, and these two thinking why this keeps happening to them... https://dl.dropbox.com/scl/fi/gp4ns4ji3aoykuhe26ssq/prayers.PNG?rlkey=8cu40xhefbnfz7...

Oh my how different it would be. :) The A2A Comanche in MSFS is just about the first proper simulation of the dihedral effect on the platform, where you can properly bank the airplane with some rudder (or by slipping it otherwise, including by not paying attention). As far as I can figure it out, t...

ParkerKeller wrote: ↑12 Apr 2024, 07:35 I am new here and have some questions, Can I ask them?

Well, of course! And welcome!

-Esa

Anyways, the more I exercise the idea of maybe hopefully having Aerostar in the sim one day, the more I like it. While the type is a bit niche, it still is properly fast, well into 200s in knots. It also has wing loading at the high end in what comes to the pistons, but comfortably not quite in the...

For whatever reason, I find the aforementioned A320 being the easiest thing to sim-fly I've got. When you get reasonably fluent speaking Airbus, it is usually rather easy to accomplish most goals assisted by automation, and the systems all but take care of themselves, all the way to reminding you to...

In real-life context, I'd recommend strongly against extending oil/filter changes unnecessarily. While hitting the schedule precisely is nothing to obsess about, changing the oil regularly and more or less as recommended - and especially respecting calendar intervals with less-flown frames - is perh...

There is not much you can do from inside the cockpit to immediately cause such issues. Are you using the auction option, perhaps? I am not sure why it would be particularly advisable to only lower the nose of the plane when descending, as a general rule, if you don't find it working out as desired. ...

R-2800-59 wrote: ↑07 Apr 2024, 08:06 Doing freight operations with old props in alaska,[...]

Yes, please!

Personally, I am looking forward the most for aircraft that come with higher complexity. For me, managing a simulated aircraft is at least as big, or more likely, a bigger thing than simply flying it.

-Esa

Nice glimpse of Mount Edgecumbe. You're also the second person recently that I've heard / seen call Wrangell "Wrangler". Funny that there's commonality there. The other one was a new-hire at my airline... Thankfully we got her corrected before she showed up to do her Southeast OE trip. 😁 ...

I recall in one of the launch videos that if you simply top up the oil, it will mix the old & new together, so it'll go from very dark to a lighter shade. Neat feature, and knowing that makes it easier to understand that, as in real life, to completely change the oil you have to empty it first,...

Thanks from my part, Rob - always interested how people do things and in particular, their reasoning behind! :) This goes a bit off topic, since I was using RNAV, but by accident I happened to encounter, just while you posted, an instrument approach I did not originally plan for. I thought about gra...

It really depends, but for en route phase of flight, I often have the next outbound radial selected in NAV2, both as a reminder of the next track and to allow for momentary outbound tracking while I switch to the next station and select the correct radial in for the NAV1/HSI. I avoid using ILS as so...

I understand that you simply reduce the amount to zero and then add oil to fill it up to desired quantity. That's how I do it, at least. (Obviously, you'd change the filter while at it as well. ;)) The official word is to change the oil every 50 hours or 4 months, whichever comes first (with footnot...

I must say just one of many things I do like in MSFS Comanche is precisely that I did not like how it landed. All too many "simulated" airplanes are watered down to be easily likable, their described real-world characters diluted beyond any recognition in reproduction. :) Not very many peo...

Remember that when you switched from the main to the tip tank, your strainer bowl was full of fuel. Even if there was some air in the tip tank line you switched to, the moment you opened the line into the bowl, the fuel would get pulled into the bowl by gravity, pushing any air bubbles in the line w...