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Hello, when I land her on an asphalt runway, everything is OK - reverse thrust is enough to stop her and the brakes works as should. However landing on gravel runways is a different story - reverse thrust does not slow/stop airplane and if I engage brakes (either differential brakes or with B or V key) the brakes stops working immediately - the parking brake lever just pops up and immediately goes back down. Same is on gravel taxiways - no way how to slow down the airplane. Taking off from gravel runways is impossible - the plane just does not move - like the DC-3. Is it a bug or your model just does not like gravel runways by design like the DC-3? Because there are airlines which operated Saabs on gravel runways. I know that western airlines are usually a bit reluctant to operate on gravel or soft runways, but it's quite a pity that the model does not work on them even if it was a bit unusual in the real world. BTW in ISA conditions when flying in FL170 and the weight of the airplane is 20.000 lbs, I should fly at 216 kts IAS according to the manual (page 77 - speeds normal range, max power, ECS on, A/I off). But I got 205 kts. Is it normal (i.e. the numbers in manual are not exactly accurate) or I'm the only one with an issue like this (i.e. I'm an a**hole and did something wrong)? Thanks!

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If you are short on money, buy the airplane. The simulation games should be about simulating, not watching. If you want some game for watching, play the Tomb Raider, you can gaze on Lara's chest ;-) I'm not saying that SkyMax is not worth the money, but I just think that the airplanes brings more entertainment.

Yes, I also like the paints like this without the tail number. Especially the FedEx airplanes can fly virtually anywhere around the globe. My favourite place for flying is Alaska, where I would expect the airplane to have a tail number beginning with N. However if I wanted to have a screenshot from the vicinity of my home town (I live at the edge of TMA around LKMT), I'd rather have a plane with tail number beginning with some European prefix like OK, OM or SP. Not having a tail number is IMHO better than having an inappropriate one :-)

Yes, at least I am and I am going to test it during the weekend. Sorry not to test it sooner, I have a lot work right now so I don't have a time for playing games :-/

Thank you! BTW do you have the plan when the next update will be released, please?

XFEED, the upper one. Now I've read the X-Plane's Log.txt, but I see nothing suspicious there. Should I post it - do you think that it would help you? (software developers always like logs, me included :-) ) BTW thank you for fast answer!

Hello, I run into an issue that the plane uses a fuel only from the left tank (even if X-Feed is off). When I wanted to crossfeed from right to left, I opened the X-Feed switch and moved the R Sby Pump to override. But the fuel was flowing from left to right tank, exact the opposite way it should. When I shut the X-Feed down, the fuel still flew from left to right until the left tank was empty. I added the fuel in the game menu, but even if the both X-Feed and pump switches are off, the fuel is still flowing. It takes approx 10 seconds to transfer 50 kg of fuel from the left tank to the right. Does somebody know how to deal with this issue, please?

Yes. I'm not sure if CDIs were "original" on B-17 or not, because I never cared much about when American military started to use VOR/DME/ILS/TACAN and other stuff. Simple checking the wikipedia provided me some info about that for civilian use in US ILS was certified in 1941 in 6 locations. Since DC-3 is from the end of 1930s, the "newer" DC-3s and C-47s could have ILS installed from factory. And even Luftwaffe used something like ILS during WWII, so I think it's pretty OK to have CDIs in military aircrafts from WWII.

Yes, I have also seen an old Czechoslovakian Zlín aircraft (i think it was a type Zlín 43 ... sport two-seater, looks similar to Cessna 152) with american ILS indicator. Likely it was added quite recently (= not before 1989) because we were generally banned from adding western avionics into airplanes built here. Similar situation could be for this panel in Buffalo DC-3: http://www.panoramio.com/photo/42281910 the avionics is much newer than the plane. This model just has the panel very close to original ones, which did not have the ILS. And I think that it's good that they did not add it to the model. It brings more challenge and entertainment to the game.

I can't withstand a temptation to say that you don't need an ILS to land an airplane safely. Even having it does not automatically mean a safe landing - do you remember the Asiana crash near KSFO? Captain Sum Ting Wong and his F/O Wi Tu Lo had ILS and yet their landing was not good enough to use the airplane again (see the TV report ). On my local airport many planes are landed safely without any instruments but eyballs. The airport does not even have any pavement on the runway, just 2000 ft of grass marked with pieces of white fabric. ILS is AFAIK newer than DC-3 - at least by ICAO it was certified in 1949 I think. DC-3 were regularly landed even at night without any instruments or just with ADF. (And sometimes on grass as well.) This model has a radiocompass and a DME. So if airport you are going to has a VOR/DME approach, you can look to an approach chart which radial you should fly and how high you should be in certain distance from that DME station as well as the desired sink rate for certain speed. It's pretty safe unless you have 150 ft of horizontal visibility. PS: If you are not familiar with that KTVU trouble I mentioned - these are not real names of the pilots; they just had seen a rude and racist joke on the internet and believed it.

Software development brings a bread also on my table (however it's a boring stuff like business applications, databases and web services). Even in enterprise business I see some users who don't distinguish between owning a stuff and having a right to use something in an unchanged state. Even if something is freeware, it's the similar kind of license like payware: typically you have right to use it in an unchanged state. The only difference is that freeware you can get for free (or for shipping fee). Generally it's illegal to modify freeware, read it's source (even if it's unprotected python/perl/lua scripts, you should not) or distribute it (even for free!) unless the license explicitly permits you to do so. (There is an other type of licenses - open source - which typically permits you to do changes in a source code and then distribute it, however typically without warranty from original author.) If you find something on internet which does not have a license with it, you can't do anything (even download and use it) - it's a property of somebody else and you need a permission to do anything with that. Really, software development is quite a time consuming fun, very costly if you run your own company. I'd also like to ask everybody not to modify anything and then ask for support from original author. It's because many parts of software are quite complex and changing one parameter on one side can break behaviour of another part - if you don't realize all the relationships, it's likely you break something even if you don't realize it on the first sight.

And there is another point in IAS hold: when you select altitude (ALT SEL), accelerate/decelerate to target speed, press IAS hold button, then you may need to adjust throttles, since Q400 does not have autothrottle. Reduce throttle for descend, add for climb. This point is not always obvious...

There are not any on the model. (And if I am wrong and FlyJSim Dash-8 has a speed-brake, then the speed-brake lever is at some kinky place when one would not expect it. Please tell me where it is :-) .)

I mean the FJS-Dash_8_Q400_Manual.pdf which is in aircraft folder\Manuals . For the autopilot, first try to set the target altitude, then begin the descent with IAS button, it should work. Of course may be that I misunderstood your question and we both speak about different models. I mean the one from FlyJSim.

First try to slow down to 250kts, then set the target altitude on autopilot and start descent with speed hold. But I doubt that with 35% thrust you can do 5° descent and stay on 250kts, physics is against you. In the manual there are 3 procedures how to do a descent (all of them works), but AFAIK none is this rapid.

Reminds me the article from Flying mag where a guy managed to go to the Class A airpsace in Cessna 150: http://www.flyingmag.com/technique/i-learned-about-flying/i-learned-about-flying-18300-feet-cessna-150

What tanks have you selected? I had same issue - problem was "the a**hole in the middle between chair and keyboard" - for both engines I selected the same main tank.

Many turboprops (and SAAB looks like one of them) have a "free power turbine" which is not connected to the rest of the engine. It is rotated solely by the hot gas going from the engine. The free power turbine concept cases a little delay between engine start and propeller moving. The same when the engine stops - the propeller is spinning for some time even if the engine is stopped. I have seen a video on youtube where a guy moved a propeller of ATR-42 just by hand and then hold it for couple of seconds when the engine was starting. However DC-3 has old reciprocating radial engines - imagine something like a car engine which has pistons not in line, but aligned to a star shape and without a clutch pedal. When you engage a starter, propeller starts moving immediately. This reminds me my driving lessons a couple of years ago. I don't know which country you are from, but here (Czech Republic) the cars with manual transmissions are very common. During the initial driving lessons we were taught that "Never stop at the railway crossing. If your car engine dies on the railway crossing, put there 1st gear, release the clutch and turn the key to engage starter - your car will "bounce" forward out of danger zone. Then go by a new battery."

Yesterday I was trying to overfly the Austrian Alps and I was not able to even climb to more than FL90 without frying the engines. Plane weight was around 25.300 lbs, QNH 1013 and 15°C at 0 MSL. Is it normal or I did some error? Like improper mixture settings?

You need to turn the roll knob to neutral position when approaching the desired heading. The autopilot does not hold the heading automatically. There is a file "THE SPERRY AUTOPILOT" in documentation folder - chapter 6 of the file is about this.

Yes, but since both PMDG and Carenado develops (or committed to develop) addons for P3D, a lot of people will stay with P3D. PMDG published some of their correspondence with LM and it looks that LM don't care and won't care. Not very safe option if you are a company which gives a work to (and pays) your own developers and surely want your investment to return, but they still considered this option to be safe enough (even if even PMDG announced some development fo X-Plane *). * I hope it will be their Jetstream 41 But AFAIK they did not announce what it should be yet.

I really have to start to laugh when I see comments like this over and over again. Most people I know (and most of those who I see in the MSFS community) just don't care about the license - the just take P3D as a sequel to FS X. LM also does not care. The minority who does care about EULA, has fled to X-Plane (I am one of them).

It should be for setting the desired heading you want to fly. But AFAIK the autopilot does not care about it, so it's purely for you - for easier reference.

Jim, I understand that it's sad for you and that it can make you a bit angry. I also bought couple of things whiche were in discount/free a week later and not just planes. But these kind of actions can be actually good for the both side of the business. I personally never gave much care about eastern-block airplanes, mainly because our flag-carrier airline (ČSA) were forced to use them during communist era and my friends who used to fly during that time were very far from being hapy about the planes and the service overall (and I still hear some scary stories from friends who have business trips to Rusia and are forced to take the Aeroflot's domestic routes with old soviet planes). I tried this one after it was released as freeware and loved it - ok, it has some glitches, but flies nice. I immediately bought the An.24 from the same author, which is very nice plane. Without this released as freeware, I would not have another nice plane and Felis would have one sale less. I can imagine that I am not the only one .