wim1976

The DC-3 is one of my favourite planes to fly in the sky, but yesterday I flied from with a heavy load with passengers en goods from ENGM to ENSO and encountered many problems which I want to share with you. After a quiet flight for about three quartes during sunset and little wind I had to change my fuel tanks to the auxiliary tanks. I switched on the boost pumps and switched the left tank, then I switched the right tank, for some reasons this gave problems. Dragging the manipulator ended in shutting of the fuel flow and nothing helps to switch to the right tank. While struggling with the fuelswitch the right engine lost power and the engine fell out. Problem 1: Why is it so difficult to select the right fuel tank? Because I keep too busy with the fuel tanks, the stall horn warns me for a real problem, so I concentrate to get the plane in a level flight. Then I decided to feather the left engine: right mixture, right propeller and right throttle down, followed by pressing the red feather button. Next step what I did was setting the trim tabs of the rudder and aileron to get a more hands-off level flight. OK in the end I was flying again while loosed about 1,400 feet altitude. With the external view I looked to the propellers, but the right propeller still turns. Problem 2: Feathering procedure doesn't work, doesn't it? After applying power on the left engine I was able to gain some altitude so with 6,000 feet I alsmost scaped the fsjord of Norway 30 nm from my planned destination. After flying again I finally get the fuel tank selected to the auxiliary tank, so I tried to restart the engine, but I could not find a checklist to start the engine in flight, also some guessing of the procedures doesn't result in a starting engine. Problem 3: What is the procedure for restarting the engine in flight? Then after some minutes my monitor turns black and it looks like the GPU-driver restarted. After that the screen turns normal again (I have this problem very often with the DC-3 although less frequent with my new GPU (GTX 770) than with my old one (AMD 7950). Problem4: Is the DC-3 the cause of GPU driver faults? The airfield gets in sight and I prepared the approach, but while lessen to much power my plane lost to much altitude and with ine engine it was not possible to stop loosing altitude, so I decided to make a crash-landing on water. This attempt succeed somehow, after ditching the beach I was swimming in the sea, while the lights of the airfield flashes a wet welcome! See the attached picture of the crash landing. All in all it was quiet funny.

The whole problem is that we behind our computerdesks we can't feel the rolling of an aircraft, so it suprised us many times. If you feel the roll, then your natural reaction will be compensating with the controls. The problem is not X-Plane, it is the simulated situation. We have to live with it, maybe you can compensate this with force feedback yokes or build/by a motion-simulator-base .

Well it seems not that difficult to me at all. Install two copies of X-Plane in the first copy install DC3 version 1.1 (32-bit) with all your other 32-bit stuff and in the second copy of X-Plane enjoy the 64-bit versions.

If I may ask for a feature for this plane, than I would like to have the ability to drop paratroopers out of military versions (C-47) of the plane as a tribute to the hero's of WWII.

The problem of the very large runways almost half the world I have encounterd myself too. But the cause was that I had renamed the runway's, Leaving them on the original names was the solution to my problem.

I have never the option runway follows contours on, because I don't like floating buildings, and the elevating runways mostly I like very much. I have tried several rendering options, but in all cases the problem persists.

I had a similar problem with Chigago Meigs.

What power do you have on the throttle. Too much or too few power results in banking due to the torque factor. Playing with the throttle power for me it is possible to get a straight and level flight with some small adjustments needed from time to time.

Nice joke, I was trapped in at if my daughter had not had many "1-april-jokes". Keep up your tremendous efffort. I know developing is a way of sweat and tears. But in the end we can enjoy together!

I hope you wil also write a good tutorial to get this plane flying. Many, although very good planes, lacks good documentation. I know you did a good job with the DC-3, leaving one wish: A tutorial which describe a flight form begin to end. I might be a quick and dirty tutorial with only the basics. A good tutorial gives a good starting point to learn te aircraft.

Try to work on the quality of the textures. They are to much 'plastic' at the moment and maybe a bit blurry. The 3D-model is good.

I am looking forward to a good quality plane and good planes take a lot of time to develop. I hope this plane will takes the bar higher in flight simulation. I wish you good luck on developing this plane further, believing that waiting brings some very special.