mattag08

Could you confirm you had all levers on the throttle console fully forward when you recovered from the stall and that carb heat was ON. I just tried 3 power off stalls and could not replicate the problem. However, I did try it with carb heat off and had engine trouble. Turning the carb heat on recovered the engine to normal operating speed. I doubt it is a Duchess bug and I will explain why. When animating the gauges, Blender doesn't recognize the 180° angle. It only recognizes up to 179.999 and then it goes straight to -179.999 and back up to 0. That is Blenders circle and it is a pain to work with. Especially with circular gauges. The way I animated the Tach gauge was positioning both needles at 0 BEFORE adding an armature to it. The armature moves the needle through its animation and also has the dataref attached to it. So both needles were animated in the exact same way using the exact same values, EXCEPT for the part number of the dataref used. They both use the same dataref (same line of code written by the x plane programmer) but part numbers are given (where available) to distinguish between part number (engine number) 1 and part number 2. So eliminating everything and assuming you had all levers fully forward and carb heat on, I would say the problem lies elsewhere. Redline and Blueline indicators on the ASI will be added in the next update. Good to hear about the ASI. I have the carb ice warnings turned on, so I would've been aware if that was the problem with the tachometer. As I said, I tried just about everything (including a shutdown and restart) to get the needle to move and no dice. It's only happened once or twice, so it's not a huge deal, but I just thought I would report it. I know the answer to this one! There's two rows of buttons on the audio panel. Regarding navaids, the top row is 'on' and the bottom row is 'off'. For some reason (almost certainly a limitation of X-Plane) if you're halfway through listening to the ident and press the off button, the sound continues until the ident's finished playing. Unfortunately, the statement I emboldened is not how that B-K audio panel works in real life. The latter statement I understand and is acceptable to me. I'm familiar with stormscopes. I was mostly referring the fact that the buttons don't work. Good to hear about the lights. As far as the brakes, I have toe brakes on a pair of Saitek pedals. When I had this happen I was applying full brake pressure. I haven't had it happen since I started only applying about half pressure unless stopped. As an aside, I haven't adjusted any parameters on the aircraft at all.

This is incorrect. Turn Coordinators display rates greater than 3*/sec. What should happen is the turn coordinator should display rate of heading change and will peg out at about 5*/sec with the artificial airplane pointing its wing to a point that is about 50% further than the standard rate marking. Rate of turn (angular rate or heading change per unit time) is indirectly related to bank angle, but is also a function of speed, so you cannot say that the turn coordinator should or should not peg at 20*.

Found a few bugs/discrepancies: 1. I have what I believe is a bug with the tachometer. After running the engines through various phases of flight and doing some of the FAA Commercial Multi-engine maneuvers. I recovered from a power-off stall to find that my left engine's tach needle was stuck at about 1400 RPM and would not move no matter what control inputs were applied. However, the engine continued to run perfectly, so I assume it was just the needle. 2. The engine temps seem to get extremely hot for no reason. Ambient temp is set to 75*F in my sim and I'm getting red line CHT and Oil Temp readings just idling on the ground or in cruise flight at about 130 knots and a 20"/2300 power setting. I know for a fact that only a malfunctioning engine (or gauge) would generate readings like that in real life. The gauges act like the engine temps are directly related to the cowl flap position and are not actually being based on any sort of engine temp modeling. 3. Fuel gauges show readings even when the battery is off. They should show empty until the battery is on, then about 1/2 full until the engines are started, and then accurate thereafter. 4. Can we get red and blue lines labeled on the ASI please? That's kind of a big deal. I only know of VERY old twins that don't have Vmc and Vyse labeled on the ASI. Certainly the Duchess I fly in real life has them and it has never had its ASI replaced. 5. The loadmeters have smooth needle movements sometimes and instantaneous movements at other times. For example, do an alternator check and one needle will POP to zero while the other needle smoothly increases to around 50% (the latter being an accurate animation). 6. The HSI appears to be drifting even though it is a slaved gyro. Along the same lines, will we ever see a true slave/free gyro control with the ability to adjust the gyro for errors? 7. The audio panel buttons to don't have animations so there is no way to know if they are on or off. Somehow I got one of the nav audio buttons depressed and nothing I did would turn it off. 8. The stormscope is inop. I read a review where the pictures showed it working, so I'm not sure what's up there. 9. The instrument flood lights and post lights are operating backward. The post lights knob turns up the flood lights and the flood lights knob lights the posts. 10. Turn coordinator should turn past the standard rate markings with increasing turn rate, but it does not. 11. Do the brakes get hot and lock up or slip? It seems that if I apply full brake pressure for more than about 5 seconds the brakes cease working for an undetermined amount of time. Other than those picky things, great product. I'm using it to help augment some training in the Duchess.