Piston & Turbine Dukes

Sorry for the late follow-up. The modelled cowl flaps were always open, they didn't budge at all, and they were matching what's visible on the tablet -> control issue. While the audio cues for the electric motor gave me a false sense of working controls, FSUIPC interfered for SOME reason. I didn't have cowl flaps assigned to any hardware controls, but FSUIPC inherited the calibration settings for cowl flaps axes from another profile. When I turned that off (ie. when I reset the calibration settings for the unassigned axes), the cowl flaps started working. Thank you, Nicotine, for pointing me in the right direction with the images of the open and closed cowl flaps. I never checked their state, for some reason I had this idea that the cowl flaps were internal and I hardly pay much attention to the outside of my planes unless the dev forces me to do a walkaround. I learned that I can actually observe the left-side cowl flap from the pilot seat.

@Maverick85 I have this exact same issue, sometimes it recovers and sometime it doesn’t. Completely locks up the sim and it’s super annoying. Have tried everything to work out what is causing it but still not found it.

@Randolf Definitely. It requires .cs file fromat, I suspected it won't be as easy as saving the script in text editor then renaming it to FILENAME.cs. Currently browsing the forums to how to even create a script.... I never did such thing, used to modify existing ones back in the days for FSX and GTA:SA, but those were different times. Anyways, thanks for your help, I will figure this out from this point.

MSFS default controls have 2 axes to choose from - one is 0-100% and the other just throttle axis. Suggest swapping to the other and seeing what happens?

Thinking about it, I was also playing with the numkeypad. Perhaps I hit something there that increased the bank angle? I'd hate to think this Duke has a major recall fault on the AP.

I've used this "feature" in real airplanes to hold the heading bug in a constant position relative to the aircraft's nose while the compass card rotates underneath (for example, to start a left turn before you've decided upon exactly what heading to roll out), but not I've never read anything that suggests this was the intent behind the "feature", of it was done purely out of mechanical convenience.

Cowl flaps have a significant effect, as does airspeed, ambient temperature, side slip angle, pitch, and even the extra load from the air conditioning compressor. Just set up in cruise and configure one cowl flap open, and the other closed. When all combined, these effects can cool/heat the cylinder heads by as much as 200°F.

@CoolGunS the problem may be that when you turn, your software also detects moving left/right, you could try to set the axes in your tracking software to limit left/right movement, and only keep rotation. I'm using trackIR original, and I don't have this problem when turning, although the left panels in the plane are admittedly a bit close.

So yet again I need to open my eyes! - tbh I downloaded both manuals immediately at the announcement from JF so never even looked in community Thanks!

ok - I will blame my reading fail on the hypoxia Just off to do another turbine flight - getting so much out of these aircraft!

@CoolGunS well yes, I guess, you should use the igniters in accordance with the pilot handbook, this is just a workaround to your controls problem

So... I don't have SU15 yet, so what is the general opinion of those that do have it? Your answers could help me sleep more soundly tonight A bit like Christmas eve actually.

Thanks for the replies and I just found all your tutorials. Good work, cheers.

OK! Thanks for the additional information. I dared not click the window in flight, even though I have the overstress option turned off, due to same issue catching me out on on take off in the Caravan many times before. With that sim option turned off, it will be interesting to experiment with trying to open the window now I've owned the Dukes a week but only managed one short flight so far, such is real life. I did at least get an hour on the ground to run through the Turbine's checklists and experience all the click-y goodness in the cockpit. It was a very enjoyable hour even though the chocks never came out! I've barely scratched the surface but both aircraft are phenomenal. Your engagement here is also second to none. The community seems overjoyed too, so keep up the stellar work and thank you!

Nick, I can only second that what was said. I was so looking forward to the Duke, since I had the privilege of flying in one of the real ones frequently (many years ago). And boy, I was not disappointed. The Dukes (both of them) are most likely the best GA planes available for MSFS, and I really own a lot of GA planes for MSFS, but yours has become my all time favorite, so I find myself in the Duke cockpit practically whenever I startup MSFS. Just viewing the wings with the turbines flex from the inside of the cockpit is just a dream... Brilliant job with a brilliant plane, thanks a million for all your work, keep it up, can't you do a King Air 350i with a glass panel, that really flies like a King? Don't get me wrong, I love your MOD for the default, that was my favorite before the Duke, still would love to fly a 350i with your well known quality.

IMHO point 3 would confuse people who would be posting here and saying they can't remove the chocks and therefore can't move the aircraft at all. Same for the engine covers and pitots. It may sound logical to you, but not to someone learning the A/C. Maybe in a future walkaround app this would make sense.

tinted windows would be better, I'm sure someone will post a livery with some

ok..good to know. Thanks for looking into this

@themoore117 you can solve this by using external program like AAO, FSUIPC or Spad to calculate and send higher/lower axis values directly. If interested, I can provide details on how to do that with AAO or FSUIPC (full version required most likely).

Excellent! I'm glad there is a built-in setting for it. Thanks for the video. It's always good to know what these things look like on the other side for my users.