Piston & Turbine Dukes

I am also curious about a new update as you (Nick) had mentioned finding a bug in the oxygen code. When I have a plane full of heavy people (lol) at 29,000ft, I can literally watch the oxygen pressure going down because the code thinks the cabin altitude is also 29,000ft. Just wondering when we could see the latest fixes for the Dukes. Love them as always, of course, and absolutely cannot wait for your Starship! Omg.

If you have the paint kit, what application do you prefer to use to make the liveries?

Glad to hear it!

@Black-Square With some help for the guys over on Spad discord we got it figured out there are two options that you can have I have Engine 1 as the SIMCONNECT version and Engine 2 as the LVAR in the attached screenshot.RPM Example 3.jpg

All engine damage, performance, and system failure parameters are saved, as well as many flight configuration items, such as fuel and payload. Beyond that, I may go back some day and implement more complete state saving across all my aircraft, but it's quite difficult with the limitations of working within the simulator's JavaScript context, unlike aircraft with WASM and external software to do the heavy lifting. I'm glad you're enjoying the aircraft, and let me know if there is ever anything else I can do for you!

Thanks for the reply. Understood! Another request I would suggest is possible a glass cockpit with the G3X or maybe a panel with G5 stack so that we could get some of the additional benefits that are available with the GTN750NXi? I know you primarily do analog cockpits and that’s why I like your aircraft but it might be regressing to have either of these options available in the Duke!

@Black-Square hi, can you see the sun visors again, because from the external view of the aircraft you can't see whether they are lowered or not.... thanks, great work anyway

I had some experiment with my Thrustmaster Airbus TCA throttle quadrant.

two in-sim throttles to one hardware throttle axis
1.1) both to left
1.2) both to right cross-assignment for two in-sim throttles to two hardware throttle axis
2.1) left to right
2.2) right to left

In EVERY cases, I could ALWAYS see lower numbers for the left engine.

I thought it might have something to do with the inherent asymmetry in the Dukes IRL, like air conditioner etc.
But the statement below excluded that possibility:
@Black-Square said in Left vs right throttle discrepancy:

What the simulation sees: Both engines perform identically for a given throttle setting.

So it was like:
@Black-Square said in Left vs right throttle discrepancy:

I program slight variations in the variables that affect apparent engine performance, so that they appear to be real machines.

Now everything makes sense.

Then I wish that "slight variations in the variables" could be randomized or turned off, because it feels a bit weird to see those "variables" work as if they were "constant" like I observed. Especially if one had slightly uncalibrated throttle quadrant the apparent variation could be unrealistically exaggerated.

However randomizing those variables for every flight might feel unrealistic too.
How about making the "Repair Engine" button on the tablet to trigger the randomization?

Shameless bump for this ongoing issue. Fuel state saving has never worked for me (mainly flying the Grand Duke).

For non AAO users, here's a simple utility that can save fuel state, trim position, radio frequencies and more. It can even save your location so you can move your plane to the exact spot it was parked at (which may not be an actual parking spot on the airfield):
https://flightsim.to/file/26490/aircraftstate/343557

It can auto-save the state when you shutdown the aircraft. Once you've loaded up the sim another day, you can 'send data' to the sim to restore most of your aircraft's state (which works for the Duke's fuel load).

Just adding to this thread to confirm it's still an issue. I've been meaning to post about it for a while but kept forgetting. I have tried going to the modern control mode a few times over the last four years of MSFS, but always end up going back to legacy (and often with tooltips disabled altogether).

Two issues to solve here, I believe:

Clickspot has the wrong cursor for 'open' action Clickspot is too small - it's very difficult to get the mouse in the correct place ('close' clickspot is bigger)

Hope to see this addressed in a future update!

This aircraft is certainly a thing of beauty in how it's been implemented in the simulator. Sometimes, I get a bit of an unnatural break or volume-jump in the sound during startup, when one sound stops and another kicks in (which is more akin to older simulators where the audio was much simpler), but it's not all the time. Not sure why.

There is one developer that maybe just has the edge in the natural-sounding/dynamic startup, but we really have it so good these days thanks to the cream of the crop of add-on developers, that we have little to complain about. Yet still we keep asking for more details and depth... :D

Haha! No problem! I just fly with the plain white livery until my favourite one gets fixed. =) Only had the plane for a week (a busy one) but already have over ten hours on the Hobbs. Definitely on my Top5. Also always nice to see a developer who cares about his/her product and customer.