Hawk T1/A Advanced Trainer

@katchaplin said in Pressing ESC to enter settings screen shuts engine down:

@astro_liam When it happened to me, I had my Mixture slider set to 0, I set it to 100% and no problem. Then I unmapped it for the Hawk profile, since it doesn't use Mixture.

Thank you so much! That did the trick!

I couldn't workout what was going on but that seems to have fixed it

@martyn oh okay thanks, for the update and confirmation lol

@corvus5624 The actual performance seems to be for DI 0 in the clean training configuration. Now that they've added drop tanks as an option, not sure how they are modeled. Someone posted a link to the full manual, but I haven't really investigated whether it addresses the Drag Indexes for the Hawk.

@gabe777 There is a limited failures tab on the aircraft menu.

@retiredman93231 I have found that when doing a "Runway" start, if you wait until ATC has completed giving you your full takeoff clearance before pressing "Ready to Fly" the engine and hydraulic systems will have had enough time to fully stabilize.

@bjm62

Hehe... two can ... play at that game 🦅

@martyn said in AHRS PUSH TO SYNC + RMB powers off HSI and AI:

"In the slaved and DG modes the HSI and the main attitude indicator power failure warning flags are displayed while the PUSH TO SYNC control is pressed."

Aha, so that's how it is supposed to work. In the Lock interaction mode nothing happens if you just press with LMB, with LMB+RMB it actually presses the button (hence the flags) and with LMB+MMB you release the button. A bit quirky, but it works. Thanks for the explanation!

For people who are struggling with the Lock interaction mode (like me):
LMB: Lock to the control. Move mouse pointer to operate the rotary (i.e. change heading).
LMB+RMB: Push the button.
LMB+MMB: Release the button.

@b3lt3r That is also fixed in the update

@tjburni

See: https://community.justflight.com/topic/2853/earthquake-in-the-hangar

@b3lt3r Agree. I've started doing most of my directional control below 50-60 kts with the brakes (and rudder trim) and it works a lot better than when I tried to use the rudder. Sounds like we're using the same landing technique too, I just wish it worked on taildraggers where even gentle brake applications tend to leave you staring at the ground through a "you crashed" message :)

Shakes in the hangar screen for me too

@martyn I finally got it to work. Thanks for the hand holding.

@martyn Fantastic - thank you! Now I understand.

Much appreciated.

@retiredman93231

.....Gorgeous 😍 Thnx

@morti Thank you!

@bbcm Hi Bob. The first update has not yet been released but should be available this coming week. The drop tanks can then be selected from the EFB payload section.

I am now much better able to manage take-off and landing after spending a serious amount of time tweaking sensitivities on the rudder and (critically) toe-brakes. It's now at the point where things are not too mortifying...

I have the following observations remaining (I stress this is ME so probably my flying):

On take-off the rudder is only beginning to become really effective just before 90kts so any attempt to switch to that when the toe brakes have been used to stay straight actually introduces instability so I find it best to ignore

When in a simple straight line taxi at very low speeds, I find the aircraft will veer from the centreline without compensating constantly with rudder (steering). The deviation is pronounced and I wonder how sensitive the real aircraft is to wind? My tests were done with an 8kt 90 deg crosswind which doesn't seem extreme.

When I switch wind off I can taxi and take-off with zero directional inputs. I would expect deviation on take-off as speed is so much higher, but it's purely the scale seems quite large.

Still spending inordinate amounts of time in this and generating a lot of smiling :-)