Gregg Seipp

Oh, I've got a huge pile of virtual dollars for all kinds of equipment. I just reach in and grab a handful and throw it at the mechanic and he laughs and laughs and laughs... Really, honestly, if they wanted to make it 'painful' for us to have to replace something, they'd force us to have aircraft downtime while the repair is completed. Three at that point...not counting a couple previous starts. I was working on it while I was typing. Add a couple more afterward. Kinda forest for the trees way of looking at it.

Interesting thought but I'd say the time should be different for those. Also, I had, perhaps, 5 hours on the airframe, tops...300 minutes?

My airframe was practically new (as my habit of pranging aircraft in crosswind is, apparently, much higher than average ). I never turned on accelerated wear...don't even know how to...but I'll try to find it. Gregg

Anyone?

Okay, while I'm waiting for the engine to cool down some more, I've tried doing dry motoring for 30 seconds several times to get a good start. The temperature has been well below 150 C and I keep getting them. No luck so far. I notice my starter shows runtime is 1132 minutes and is "very worn"...it's probably got 2 minutes of run time. 5 attempts...only got it started after I replaced the starter motor. Gregg

I´d say shutting off the fuel might be wise to keep the fuel away from the hot engine, though I haven´t looked at the checklist. Just curious if you tried to manually lower the gear.

I'm (virtually) mega and ultra rich so I have two TBMs (at least)...one at Santa Barbara and another somewhere tooling around Florida. I like to go to Santa Barbara and fly touch and goes (cuz, you know, I'm virtually mega rich) and then go back to Florida for some real trips...for the snakes and humidity, of course. It would be cool if I could have different frames in each place since touch and goes can be pretty hard on landing gear and it's such a pill to fly it all the way across the country to do touch and goes even if the airport is gorgeous. From what I see, you have to put the airplane there and then change the airframe. Wouldn't it be cool to have it do it automatically...keep one airframe at one airport and the other one at a different airport. Load up the sim and the right airplane is there. How cool would that be? Gregg

Okay. It's the first CTD I've had in 10-12 flights so I may run the risk a bit. I already removed WT3 and I'd rather have something up there with me.

Just started the TBM at KSBA which I've done quite a few times. Sitting on the ramp going through the after-start checklist got a CTD... Log.txt TBM900_Log.txt EDIT: After the crash I tried restarting the sim but it kept hanging loading the TBM900.acf file. I deleted the "state" dir but that didn't help. I rebooted and, finally, it loaded up. So, maybe the crash was hardware related? Gregg

I just want to say this about P-factor on the runway. Yes, from what I understand, there is a tendency for the aircraft to want to steer left on takeoff. But, what this means is that the forces push the airplane left which makes the nosewheel want to turn to the left. This means that, in the real airplane, you can feel the right pedal trying to come up under your foot.. A real pilot has to apply right foot pressure in order to keep it from coming up...to keep the pedals even and the airplane centered. However, unless you have force-feedback pedals with your sim the two pedals are going to stay centered...which *should* mean that your nosewheel *is* centered. So, with your nosewheel centered, if you press your right pedal in the sim in order to simulate the foot pressure real pilots do (making it further down than the left pedal) you are going to be turning the nosewheel to the right and, if your airplane staying centered, you are skidding...which is *not* what you want...at all. So, while I'm all for having P-factor and torque effects in the climb, I'd be very cautious about making such changes while the airplane is on takeoff roll. Gregg

Thanks.

i'd recommend loading up another airplane with the LR G1000 to just see what happens in terms of the CTDs. At the end of the day it's the same G1000.

It doesn't matter that much. Trim is used so that you don't have to use so much hand, or in this case, foot control. If you don't have enough trim in then you just compensate by using more of your foot. I've seen some TBM pilots say that they use a lot of "right foot to keep the airplane aligned." During my PPL test the examiner took control of the airplane and added a bunch of up elevator trim and gave me the airplane back. I had to push the yoke hard to hold the airplane in the right attitude. So, you use trim so you can take manual pressure off the controls but if you didn't have it, you compensate...you make the plane do what you need it to do.

Out of spite, I gave my new airframe the same registration. I mean, if we're going to be meta....

Maybe. Setting aside the fact that it was left there with the gear down and has a ground safety switch. One wonders what would happen if you did that in the real world.

Can we have it to where, if you start the sim with your gear handle in the up position that the aircraft ignores it and just loads the aircraft in whatever state it was at last load? I loaded up my sim and I guess it detected that my hardware gear handle was up and raised the gear of the aircraft. Ugh! EDIT: To rub salt into the wound, I stopped the sim, made sure the gear handle was down. Restarted it and the aircraft spawned in, again with the gear up and dropped the aircraft, causing it to catch fire. It was hysterical...hysterical and annoying. What? We didn't destroy the plane the first time? Hold my beer.

I think the overcontrolling is made worse by the 'squishiness' (for lack of a better word) of the gear. It delays corrections and then acts sort of like a spring to launch the airplane in the opposite direction (instead of responding immediately to the correction, the airplane tends to lean and then lurch as it steadies back...more like a van than a sports car). I read an article about the TBM8/9s that said that the gear is 'quite firm', which makes sense with those gear doors hanging so close to the ground. I also looked for any evidence of the aircraft leaning, even in the slightest, on tight turns on youtube...didn't see any. So, perhaps there's an adjustment possible there. Also, could be a benefit if the nosewheel steering at high speed had reduced authority some. I know that ground steering, especially with crosswind, is tough in XPlane. I hope it's on their radar to keep improving it.

Okay, so we need a life raft...and heated seats. Speaking of which, wouldn't a cargo version of this plane be nice. Removable seats? The soft glow of the G1000 around the cabin at night and screen glare.

I took about 8 flights since that shut down...no problems since. Yes, it'd be nice to have WT3 back but this is one crazy addictive plane to fly nonetheless. I only wish it was a twin so I could fly it over open water. Gregg

Maybe tomorrow. I have had it happen twice (out of three flights)...not sure what the logs would say. I don't use any LUA. BTW, today I've taken two flights...no popping airplanes and everything's very stable. Kinda lonely tho.

Is it possible that the TBM is, somehow, forcing default AI on?

My gear handle, nav and strobe lights work. Nothing else. Looks like most of the available commands are toggles which I don't use for these panels since you can never tell what the state is.

Curious about this myself. Last night I flew into KJAX and couldn't see the switches very well when I pulled off the runway. I had to click the Access light (hard to see as well) so I could see. I haven't used my Saitek with this plane much at all yet (except for the landing gear handle) and might not be so inclined to use the switches by their name so much since a number of them don't even apply.

Yes, I remember that post. I'll work on my plugin set as you have suggested. For the record, this is the currently installed set of plugins on my sim: XCamera* Headshake* X-ATC-Chatter* Active Sky (it has a plugin component)* XSaitekPanels* StopZoomingDammit* World Traffic 3* TerrainRadar XChecklist BetterPushback AviTab AutoGate DataRefTool I don't use XEnviro, any shader tools nor any enhanced clouds. The * items are the ones I've actively used with the TBM. (I recognize they're all loaded if I have them installed.)The bolded ones are the ones I consider essential to having a good experience with the TBM. I also use ortho and downloaded airports (from x-plane.org, mostly). The ortho is all on separate drives. I don't use FlyWithLUA. I also haven't used rain effects nor terrain on the PFD so far. I don't use ATC. My sim is an X-Plane 11.30, i7-8700 32 gig, GTX1070 8 gig, a few SSDs, 4K monitor, CH Yoke, CH Throttle, Saitek pedals and one Saitek panel. My settings are fairly low, (no reflections, 2xFXAA) my video memory is never close to fully used. My framerates with the TBM is typically in the upper 30s. It's stable as a boulder.

Yes, WT3 loads through plugins. I wonder if there should be an approved list of plugins somewhere or, perhaps, a list of known incompatible ones. I hope it doesn't come off as harsh but one does wonder what the TBM is doing that the Zibo, FF A320, Epic E1000 and others aren't doing that makes it so challenging to use fairly ordinary plugins (no LUA...nothing exotic), scenery, and drivers. I'm supposing that I may have to have a separate install for it. I hope you'll pardon my sighs. I will say this...I sat there staring at my desk trying to figure out if I wanted to reload the flight again or just give up for the night. After a while, I decided to try again so I restarted the flight where the sim exited and continued to Jacksonville. No flashing AI this time. It was gorgeous, just after sunset, flying in that planes with all the sounds and the lights below, slowing down onto a visual approach runway 8. It was magnificent...just beautiful. Now, if I can just get it consistent.