Piston & Turbine Dukes

Do you use FSRealistic?

@Black-Square Bumping this thread because this is wrong and because the cockpit XML for piston duke needs fixing. I've been trying to get both engines started through SimConnect for 4 hours. That is until I realized the cockpit XML is different for each engine mag switch. When using the behaviors variable list, "BKSQ_IgnitionPosition_1/2" is only writable 0-3. Setting it to 4 auto-reverts back to 3 and setting it to 5 does nothing but animate it to START while starting nothing. i finally managed to start the left engine with A:GENERAL ENG STARTER:1 and K:SET_STARTER1_HELD. And start the right engine with A:GENERAL ENG STARTER:2 and K:MAGNETO2_START. Nothing else worked for me. I tried all the SimConnect magneto and starter set/toggle events and achieved nothing. The prop would just twitch or do nothing at all. The plane appears to require the usage of A:GENERAL ENG STARTER:x and doesn't respond to standalone K events. Please correct this section: [image: f8787597-7d12-4d8f-b4f3-b54c6fde0795.png] [image: 8e2b2df9-45b0-4758-bf0d-cc4801311d30.png]

No Luck so far.

@Black-Square Wait, I mean I knew that turbines are significantly lighter than reciprocating engines, but I hadn't ever thought much of the fact that the empty weight on the piston Dukes is lower, and by a few hundred pounds that can't all come from the second battery. Where could all that extra weight come from? I thought other than the engines, second battery and the requisite differences to the HVAC, pressurization systems and panel they were largely identical?

Understood.

@Black-Square Thanks for the detailed explanation, Nick. That makes sense, and I understand why it’s not a quick fix. Given the current limitation, where fuel flow first increases when leaning before it starts to decrease, could you please advise what procedure you would recommend to achieve the most realistic results in practice? For example: should we ignore the initial increase and simply continue leaning until we reach the expected EGT / performance values, or is there another “best practice” you’d suggest until the new fuel/mixture system is implemented?

@Iconography think i finally solved the issue just in the fenix now same thing don't see anything moving, so instead of using my key board short cut, i used the menu bar to go to external and now i see every thing moving

I was using Su4. I've just tried it again with the SU4 update from last night and it seems to be OK. Still got the VR problem but at least they are moving now. My bad for not trying it with the current release

I just checked this, and everything appears to be in order, and no different from MSFS 2020. The sequence of aircraft loading in MSFS 2024 is all sorts of confused compared to MSFS 2020, so I suspect the aircraft is still in "motion" when the flight loads, which disables to chocks before you have a chance to see them.

@Mustang said in Ear Discomfort Index: perhaps the sounds could be slowly dulled until you simulate 'popping' your ears I actually thought of this too. It would be a lot of fun, but as you can imagine, I'm always worried about our many niche features resulting in confusion for the more casual users.

@Black-Square you can turn off light shafts in graphics, I just want to see shafts sometimes, like in clouds so I leave it on for now. Would be cool if you could add a realistic landing lights option in tablet maybe.

@Zwoop68 Thanks for the link. I had seen that thread, but given the title, I skipped it. I confirm that's the problem, and now I've solved it. Thanks.

@Zwoop68 That did the trick! Unfortunately, the copilot seems to twitch in the seat a bit. I really hope Asobo rethinks their motives for taking away these options from 3rd party developers.

No worries! I’ll sit tight and wait for SU4 to hopefully fix those issues!

@Mustang said in v1.2 quick feedback & couple of nitpicks: the cooling lines were coloured green vs everything else in orange For future reference, when the air conditioning system is fully functioning, the refrigerant lines will be orange and blue. Orange on the return line, and blue on the feed line.

So begins the 7½ years of waiting for Microsoft to get the update to Xbox.

Latest update today, fixed it.

I'd definitely love to see external power available on demand! Some airport designs just don't have parking properly coded.