Bob Denny

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Oh excellent. Thanks. I love flying it. You can hear the propellers out of sync!

I thought you all might enjoy this photo of some DC-3s at the Flabob Airport in Roubidoux California.

Does anyone else have a hack of a time with the fuel selectors? I've killed an engine so many times trying to switch to Aux tanks. I cannot understand the motions needed to reliably turn the valves. I can see the circular arrows, but clicking and moving the mouse in all sorts of directions starting with clicking in various places either nothing happens or I get a surprise move. Mouse wheel just zooms the display. Can someone help me? I just think I am missing something.

As I understand it, the compass selector on the autopilot is supposed to provide a heading hold function. In other words, it is supposed to function like the heading bug on a modern autopilot, with heading hold being the only function the old autopilot provides. On my DC-3 v1.4 the compass selector turns the card but it seems to do nothing as far as holding the selected heading. Also, the artificial horizon on the autopilot doesn't follow the other ones.

I'm not seeing the white navigation light on the tai of the DC-3 V1.4. The red and green lights on the wingtips work fine.

I was surprised to learn that the RMI needles work a bit unconventionally. The #1 needle on the pilot's side is the #1 ADF, and the #2 needle on the pilot's side is the #1 VOR. The co-pilot's RMI works the same way but from the #2 ADF and VOR. This is pretty nice given there are no source selection controls. I am huge fan of the RMI. There is no need for the OBS/CDI as the RMI provides it all including rates. And you navigate the same whether using an NDB or VOR. NIce.

Further info: I am adding a little pop up audio control window with which one can control ADF1 and Marker audio.

PS: I was able to control the ADF-1 audio by using a keymapping CTRL-SHIFT-1 to audio_panel/monitor_audio_adf1 (mislabeled for ADF2 in XP10). It acts as an audio toggle. This avoids my having to tell people to patch my LF Range Experience LUA script to hard-wire the ADF audio ON to be able to navigate with it.

Ahhhhh good. Still need audio on/off switches for each radio.

I absolutely love your DC-3. Attached is a photo of my Mom and me in 1948 at a rural Wyoming airport with the DC-3 (since it is Mother's day here in the U.S.!). Anyway it would be nice to have audio on/off controls for the DC-3 NAV receivers. I am an old goat that learned to listen to the ident of ILS/VOR/NDB while making instrument approaches. I leave it turned down, so having a NAV audio level would be even better. No one else does it though :-( Right now the DataRefs for the audio switches for the NAV radios are all permanently 0. I have created a plugin that simulates the old Low Freq range stations and fan marker beacons. All navigation is done by sound. So being able to turn the ADF sound on and off and up and down would be good. Right now I have the volume tied into the avionics fan control ha ha.

He did it! See the sticky :-)

Thank you, Terry. Yes I understand that the 430s are pretty much needed to navigate in today's airspace. But the DC-3 that we fly doesn't operate in today's airspace, it operates in the old airspace of the past.

Oh geeze, GPS? Come on guys. Fly this thing like it was built. Next they will want an FMS so they can be push button pilots.

Oh good!! I just bought it. I am disappointed that no audio control (well no audio at all) is available for the NAV radios.