tegwilym

Ah! That must be what I'm doing wrong. I swing right and move backwards. I'll have to start over from the start with priming the brakes. I did find that knob for that finally. I did see it before, but then stupidly skipped over that part. RTFM for this plan for sure! I cheated last night, set power and put the plane at 2,000 just to see how it flew. Seems to fly nice, but I think my power was all screwed up. Can I please get a type rating from the FAA after learning this sim? Tom

I think I must be missing something with the brakes. Says to "prime the brakes" but not sure where I do that. I finally get all engines started and runining, high rpm, add manifold, release brakes, tailwheel locked (I start on the runway), and the plane rotates around to the right and goes backwards off the runway into the lake (I like to fly out of my real-life airport Renton, WA [RNT]). I finally saved the situation where I can load the sim with engines started to save time and try again. ....backwards into the lake every time! I'm really screwing up something, but not sure yet. I think when I master this, I need to find a real B-17 and beg, bribe, and donate a kidney for some real stick time for my logbookg - I'll have a good idea how to fly this bird then! :-) Beautiful work on the plane, and thanks for giving it away free. Tom