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Very beautiful Tom. How it will work with SMP? Cheers, AJ

Agreed 100% John. That is also good news. Cheers, AJ

John, my words are kind but I do like it, really totally objectively. BMV, I wish it was a BMW for the $300 payment, lol,lol. Sorry for derailing that thread but it was the last response off topic. I am going to put MAXX FX on my budget, I AM getting it. Cheers, AJ

Oh YES! Better start saving money NOW. damn budget after new car purchase, gotta count every penny now. Great job John and the SkyMaxx Team, really, makes a abig difference, will definitely go for it. You wanna get together for lunch today? :lol: I took a vacation day, I hope this is the last snow this year. Cheers, AJ

Thank you Monbeg, does it mean that I should see the taxiing reverse after Jim makes some adjustment in next update? Cheers, AJ

Canox !!! I thought you "quit". Good to hear you are still here just busy. As you know I have been busy myself but things got better now. I bought brand new Toyota Camry LE 2014, $300 for 6 years. Made a super detailed Excel budget so we can still eat., lol,lol Elevator trim on heavy take offs, well I might have it too high. Your method seems to work nice assuming that you do not need to climb at Vx , I guess it is all relative and linked. Yes, this plane keeps your learning curve going, love it. Enjoy your flights and keep sharing your experiences. Cheers, AJ

Gentlemen, I was about to start the flight on FSE http://www.fseconomy.net:81/index.jsp and the sky looked so good that I decided to shoot a video. No comment needed, just enjoy the video. Cheers, AJ P.S. I almost forgot, I was not drunk on take off roll, lol,lol, I just wanted to record the video live so you can hear the sound of my Saab340A. Unfortunately, X-Plane reply cuts the sound in external views. P.S' I also posted that video in SkyMaxx Pro Forums. If that is considered a cross posting, please remove this reply. I hope that it is not a cross posting since the video refers to Saab and Sky Maxx, many pilots just read one of the forums , I assume.

Gentlemen, I was about to start the flight on FSE http://www.fseconomy.net:81/index.jsp and the sky looked so good that I decided to shoot a video. No comment needed, just enjoy the video. Cheers, AJ P.S. I almost forgot, I was not drunk on take off roll, lol,lol, I just wanted to record the video live so you can hear the sound of my Saab340A. Unfortunately, X-Plane reply cuts the sound in external views.

Wow! I guess you kept your fingers crossed because I am still virtually alive. Tried at Aspen, Colorado KASE 8440 MSL, 80 deg F around 27 deg C Fuel for 2.00 Hrs TOW 27273 lbs. From the charts CTOT should be set to 72%. First attempt failed. Could not get enough speed for take off, aborted. To be able to take off, I had to lower the TOW down to 20,000 lbs and did not use CTOT. Kept the PL so the oil temperature did not go over red range, barely took off, you can see that the main wheels were a bit on the grass for several feet before I was airborne. Of course I got the stick shaker warning as well... In other words, tremendous difference. I do not know how to do it but maybe someone could tell me how to calculate maximum TOW for a particular conditions ( elevation, temperature, barometric pressure ). Anyway, the experiment was completed. Next time I will experiment with hypoxia and then visible ice accumulation. Enjoy ! Cheers, AJ

Hi John, Thank you for kind words but I have NOT mastered LES Saab340A , at least not yet. Unfortunately, I do not know how to taxi smooth without using brakes. Check this thread , it seems to be a normal behavior unless Jim will touch it down a bit. The interesting part is pasted below. Now I have learned that I can use Power Lever in REV ( Reverse ) range to control taxi speed. Enjoy this awesome aircraft, there is tons to learn. Cheers, AJ http://forums.x-pilot.com/topic/6532-plane-start-moving-while-engines-in-beta-and-throttles-in-groud-idle/

Hello Gentlemen, Did you miss me? I hope so. Seriously, I did not give up my all time favorite LES Saab340A and willingness to share my experiences with this great aircraft in this thread. Real life was just super busy last two weeks or so, I had to buy a new car, freaked out thinking about making payments, adjusting expenses wherever possible and making bulletproof Excel budget sheet so I can enjoy the car and still eat, lol,lol. It seems that things are sorted out to the degree that I can continue to share my joy of experimenting with and flying Saab with you. Where did I left off? OK, Canox was taking off in the tropics with heavy loads and probably high temperature and asked for any hints on take offs. Unfortunately, I am not a real pilot but I have done some studies and decided to share my findings here. I would like to ask Leading Edge Simulation Team members who might read this reply,please correct me if I am stating something that is not true, I would hate others trying to use my hints in a wrong way. I am going to have 2 extreme conditions take offs, light, low and cold versus heavy, high and hot. In both case, I will have ECS-ON ( Air Conditioning) ENG A/I - ON ( Engine Anti Ice) in cold weather and I will use standard barometric pressure 29.92 in Hg for simplification. 1. Light Load, Low Temperature and Sea Level Takeoff Fuel 2.00 hrs set from X-Plane . Payload 0.00 lbs. I looked at the charts from Saab Documentation folder ( see attached) and figured out my CTOT and V speeds as below. CTOT 108% V1 = 102, Vrot = 106 and V2 = 108 I have set trim as per my usual take offs, soon after rotation nose pointed up A LOT, see video. I deliberately left this part in video for fun. It reminds me of the Fat Albert ( Blue Angels) Take Off with the little rocket engines , lol,lol. If you have ever seen Blue Angels performing, you will know what I am talking about. Played a bit with video editing, adding text, music , transitions etc. hope it looks more interesting. Enjoy the video, moving on to Aspen KASE ..... for a heavy , hot and high altitude take off, keep your fingers crossed..... they had a crash in Aspen recently. Cheers, AJ

Guys, not a big deal but curious. I have run on some videos where Saab taxi back in Beta mode. I am not able to do it in simulator. Is it set like that on purpose or maybe Version A was not capable of doing it? Cheers, AJ

I did just like Flo . I was tired of assigning CL to axes all the time and I am just using mouse, much faster. Cheers, AJ

Agreed 100% Cheers, AJ

Hey Canox, that is weird, I also thought that pressure was set automatically. Are you sure you had the switch on AUTO and the valve closed? I am happy you got your heavy load take-offs sorted out. I was very busy last week, had to buy a new car, lots of stress but it seems like I can start enjoying Saab again very soon. Anti-icing... no matter what you do, you will crash if you stay too long in the severe icing conditions using only Saab's available devices. It is an X-Plane fault, icing is modeled too drastically. All you can do if you want to stay in icing conditions and not to crash is to assign a button or key to "anti-ice_toggle" command. At least that is what I do if I have to. I will fly more and do some videos also soon. I missed LES Saab340A. I still have many things to practice, videotape and share. Cheers, AJ

Yes, I did not fully understand the question. Sorry for a partial confusuion. Cheers, AJ

Gentlemen, thank you very much for replies. It is a great pleasure to fly and experiment with LES Saab340A , it takes some time and effort to make the videos and post them but it is YOUR input that keeps me motivated and willing to spend time so I can share my time in Saab here with you. @Tsetsoh: it must have been a lifetime experience, I can only imagine that. I loved your comment about non-pilot passenger. It is always funny AFTER, isn't it? @trevg: wow, that was normal weather? It must take a long time to fly in the winds like that comfortably. I was almost sure that conditions like that would call for diversion to alternate. You are a brave man , in real life it would be more than a challenge. @Canox: keep flying and painting buddy, always fun to read your comments and watch your videos. Cheers, AJ

Lol,lol I know, well, that is what what requested so....

A little bit of subject... I added some decals to my LES Saab340A livery to show the appreciation for all people who made the flight simulation experience so great in last few months. Thank you again X-Aviation, Leading Edge Simulations and Maxx Teams. I honestly see the day to night difference that happened recently. Cheers, AJ

Hi Bob, It is a limitation of X-Plane. SkyMaxx Pro is NOT a weather injector, meaning it does not create weather, it just makes look awesome whatever X-Plane weather is. I think I did not put it grammatically correct with my Polish English but I hope you understand what I was trying to say. Cheers, AJ

I wanted to make sure it was not just a good luck with landing so I took off and landed in the same weather conditions. It was hard but possible. Enjoy! Cheers, AJ P.S. I will be working on video for take off with extreme loads and temperatures, it will be interesting. Then after that I will start working on approaches suggested some time ago by Jim.

OK Gentlemen, I DID IT!! Some time ago trevg wrote: NZWN landing on RWY 34 with 45 KTS NW winds and Gusts 70. Maximum gusts setting for X-Plane is 50 so I set it like the, see below. I do not think it would be ever attempted in real life but this is simulation so I gave it a shot. It was probably one of the hardest successful landings in my whole flight simulator career. Enjoy the video, I think it is pretty cool. Cheers, AJ P.S. As always, for the best results, watch in on YouTube, HD and full screen.

Very nice, Canox! You are the Gimp master now. I also repainted my LES Saab340A, added some LES, X-Aviation decals as a way of saying thank you for this outstanding plane, see videos in next reply.

Toby, just get better computer. Cheers, AJ