Jakob Ludwig

I can only agree on dvlourie's statement here. Having now over 250h on this airframe, I am quite confident in all stages of flight. Take-offs and landings, even in 10-20kts crosswind conditions are manageable, once you experience how it behaves and what it does of you try to control it. Same goes along for gusty wind conditions and short landings and take-offs. You need to learn her and you need to know her. This is not a 737 or a A320, where you just push a button and hold your controls a bit to cope with any environmental condition. The TBM is an overpowered light weight diva. This was my approach on how the get into the aircraft, basically how I learn every new airframe: 1. Read the documentation, POH, References, Limitations, Flight Patterns etc. Print out the most important (abbreviated checklist, reference numbers) 2. Practice the standard procedures several times - I practiced take-off runs and landing rolls, by doing normal take-offs and rejecting each at 85 knots. With normal braking at first, than with thrust below flight idle and with reverse at last. Over and over again. I did that on a 14000ft runway, so I could do up to three of them in a row, turn-around at the end and start from scratch. I progressively changed wind conditions to make it harder every time. - For take-off and landing practice I did touch-and-goes as per POH, about 20 in a row. First in calm winds and then with headwind only, light crosswind, heavier crosswind, gusts... In this stage I learned how to work the rudder, how the optimum flare works and how to control the TBM along the critical stages of the flight. - In this stage I adjusted my hardware to make it more comfortable with the TBM. Hard to recommend something here as it will vary with different setups, but my experience is to have the controls setup to have the most direct and fastest reaction... 3. Do some complete flights and take care of a good preparation. "proper pre-flight planning prevents poor performance". Guess the 6 P of aviation... And the most important thing anyway in my opinion: Learn the checklists.... These are the path you walk along in the TBM. I am now in the stage of verifying my knowledge and reviewing my actions and tasks, as they can be possibly optimized or changed ,because of a false pattern... I have never experienced such a sophisticated virtual aircraft through 20 years of flight simming. A beauty to watch, delightful to handle (once you learn how) and demanding on my brain. I learned a lot about turbines, avionics and systems. And I feel I still haven't figures it all...

Hotstart's developer (toto) is aware of it...

you guys may be interested in this little script as well https://forums.x-plane.org/index.php?/files/file/49312-universal-de-ice-tool/

As I can read from the log, the initial source of the fire was a prop strike. Do you have some custom scenery installed at Manchester? I remember some place in Norway caused a similar fault with my TBM, because there was a bump in the runway, caused by HDMeshv4.

Wow. Glad you made it to ground. With that much ice, I imagine you'll fall from sky flying to slow. Haven't experienced that much ice with the TBM...

Actually with 11.30 you have a white circle on map view showing the TOD, but that's it mostly. And you need to setup your VNAV descent profile first to see it.

Work the throttle lever with care. Smooth and slow changes. During landing roll reverse thrust shall be disabled reaching 40 knots anyway.

Did you update the TBM to version 1.1.3 ?

Plugins - TBM 900 - Configure visual effects

It's on by default and comes with the aircraft. It simulates the larger amount of physical power needed, to move the yoke with increasing airspeed of the aircraft. Basically you are fighting against the wind force applying to the ailerons and elevators. Just try to handfly the aircraft at high speed. You can turn the stiffening off in the TBM menu.

Well its always about what you like. Yoko is really precise from the lowest angles, so it is better for me to fly it with more direct control. If you like it a bit more wobbly, I would play first with the "control response" sliders at the control sensitivity window within X-Plane, before creating custom curves. At first I had the pitch axis slider set to about 20%, which gives you even more precision controlling the elevator, but I had more difficulties doing good landings, as I had to pull the yoke almost all the way back. Which is a bit of a struggle with yoko.. So at the end I left it back at 0% and managed superb take-offs and landings. Together with the MFG Crosswind pedals, (Had a complete CH Product setup before), it's close to flying IRL. It feels naturally and immersive... And thanks to Toto's control stiffening feature it also has a bit of force feedback at higher speeds...

I do, but came across the best experience with the yoke all set to default. I experimented a lot and tried all various curves...

And man this helps... The blur looks unrealistic in 11.30...

What I came across and may help the one or another here. Disable the TOPO drawing in the MFD map and also on the PFD map inset (if you use it). On a 3 hour flight today from Sweden to South France I couldn't see any loss of frames. Give it a try...

Also check the Page number on the lower right. If there is more than one page to an open chart, you can access the other pages via the "CHRT OPT" softkey...

In map view on the MFD, rotate the fms inner knob at the keypad clockwise. You should see the traffic map first, followed by the wx radar and than the TAWS page

Not at the time.. But the dev is working on this feature...

On the TAWS page (G1000 - MFD) hit the Sofkey above the term INHIBIT.

The FPL window should stay on unless you hit FPL again or press CLR a few times. It never closes by its own. Do you have some sort of custom command assigned elsewhere?

Is that file still available? I get this trying to view it "Sorry, there is a problem We could not locate the item you are trying to view." Error code: 2D161/2

Does the AP annunciator on the PFD show ALTS (altitude selected) during the climb to your desired altitude? Normally it will capture this altitude and change to ALT hold mode.

Looks like your screens are in composite mode, which should be used for the startup sequence as IRL one of them could fail and than you have the relevant engine data still visible at one of the other screens. Left of the PFD at the lower end of the audio panel, there is a larger red button. This cycles between normal and composite mode.

I did several takeoffs yesterday and can confirm that you can achieve a better directional control during the take-off run using none to very little right rudder trim. That has changed a bit with version 1.1.3 on X-Plane 11.30

So has something changed meanwhile? I do not want to reinstall TM again and loop in texture reloading for 15 minutes...

SMP 4.7.3 / RWC 1.1 / FSGRW 404 / XP11.30RC1 Does Broken Stratiform look like this? Looked diffrent in 11.26