Slowing down for landing & Gear data ref

[manofmac]

Three Points (Questions)

1.  I'm having great difficulty in slowing this aircraft down to a manageable landing speed.   Even with full flaps and lowered landing gear, it rockets down the glide slope at around 150 IAS.   Only by reducing throttle to Flight Idle and the condition levers to min, can I get it to slow down to somewhere approaching a decent Landing speed.  Any ideas as to what I am doing wrong?

2.  is there a data ref for Gear Up and Gear Down or even a Gear Toggle.  It does not seem to be in the les/acft/gear section.

3.  In V 1.5 there was a way to show the heading degrees in a strip at the top of the screen. It's been so long since Goram told me how to do it, so does anyone remember how?

Thanks 

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Edited February 22, 2021 by manofmac
spelling error

[manofmac]

The answer to question 3 has been found.

For the interested, its in the Gizmo user Preferences, Heading Selection Popup.

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[Goran_M]

51 minutes ago, manofmac said:

1.  I'm having great difficulty in slowing this aircraft down to a manageable landing speed.   Even with full flaps and lowered landing gear, it rockets down the glide slope at around 150 IAS.   Only by reducing throttle to Flight Idle and the condition levers to min, can I get it to slow down to somewhere approaching a decent Landing speed.  Any ideas as to what I am doing wrong?

AFAIK, this is correct, but we can check with our pilot consultants.

51 minutes ago, manofmac said:

2.  is there a data ref for Gear Up and Gear Down or even a Gear Toggle.  It does not seem to be in the les/acft/gear section.

For now, you can use the mouse to drag the gear up and down.  An update will be released very soon with a command so you can bind a key or button to it.

52 minutes ago, manofmac said:

3.  In V 1.5 there was a way to show the heading degrees in a strip at the top of the screen. It's been so long since Goram told me how to do it, so does anyone remember how?

What @manofmacsaid. The numbers appear in the top left of the screen when you adjust the CRS and HDG.  When you stop adjusting, they go away.