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  • Black SquareB Online
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    Great question!

    Well, well, well... at a quick glance, I think we found where the bad range numbers came from for the Turbine Duke. I think I accidentally swapped the two. The Piston Duke manual calls for nearly identical range numbers (at the front of the manual) to what I settled on for the Turbine Duke, while the previous Turbine Duke numbers look almost identical to the performance table numbers in the Piston Duke manual!

    It's good to know that I wasn't just making up numbers from nowhere!

    I want to take just as much time as I took with the Turbine Duke to review the Piston Duke's performance, but from a first glance, the Piston Duke's range should be about 33% better than what's quoted at the top of the manual, and should be accurate to what's in the performance tables. I'm just going to refrain from quoting those numbers here, until I've had time to review the entire picture, which might happen later today.

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      Great question!

      Well, well, well... at a quick glance, I think we found where the bad range numbers came from for the Turbine Duke. I think I accidentally swapped the two. The Piston Duke manual calls for nearly identical range numbers (at the front of the manual) to what I settled on for the Turbine Duke, while the previous Turbine Duke numbers look almost identical to the performance table numbers in the Piston Duke manual!

      It's good to know that I wasn't just making up numbers from nowhere!

      I want to take just as much time as I took with the Turbine Duke to review the Piston Duke's performance, but from a first glance, the Piston Duke's range should be about 33% better than what's quoted at the top of the manual, and should be accurate to what's in the performance tables. I'm just going to refrain from quoting those numbers here, until I've had time to review the entire picture, which might happen later today.

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      @Black-Square said in Turbine Duke Range:

      "the Piston Duke's range should be about 33% better than what's quoted at the top of the manual"

      Does this mean that the Turbine needed to go down by 33% and the piston will go up by 33%, making the piston more of a long range flyer?

      Looking forward to the numbers!

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        @Black-Square said in Turbine Duke Range:

        "the Piston Duke's range should be about 33% better than what's quoted at the top of the manual"

        Does this mean that the Turbine needed to go down by 33% and the piston will go up by 33%, making the piston more of a long range flyer?

        Looking forward to the numbers!

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        @mmcmah I think he means the turbine needs to be increased in range by 33% and the piston decreased. I know that would have helped me last night--after a 5 hour 20 minute flight from California headed to Hawaii, I ran out of gas on short final with the carrier I was going to refuel on. :P I was way behind the power curve trying to keep my landing as slow as possible, so that didn't help either.

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          @Black-Square said in Turbine Duke Range:

          "the Piston Duke's range should be about 33% better than what's quoted at the top of the manual"

          Does this mean that the Turbine needed to go down by 33% and the piston will go up by 33%, making the piston more of a long range flyer?

          Looking forward to the numbers!

          Black SquareB Online
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          Black Square
          Black Square Developer
          wrote on last edited by Black Square
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          This is why I don't like to speak about these things until I've had a chance to look at them carefully. I now believe that the Piston Duke's range will stay the same as quoted at the top of the manual. Please stay tuned until I publish my full review of the Piston Duke's performance in one of the other threads on this forum shortly.

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            This is why I don't like to speak about these things until I've had a chance to look at them carefully. I now believe that the Piston Duke's range will stay the same as quoted at the top of the manual. Please stay tuned until I publish my full review of the Piston Duke's performance in one of the other threads on this forum shortly.

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            @Black-Square Thank you for the update. Would you mind posting a link here to the thread where you end up putting your analysis?

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              Random question tho, i dont know why the autopilot isnt capturing the GS anymore, like 2 days ago it was working and now it doesnt wanna capture the GS... any idea why ?

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                @Black-Square Thank you for the update. Would you mind posting a link here to the thread where you end up putting your analysis?

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                Black Square
                Black Square Developer
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                @mmcmah As you requested :)

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                • Black SquareB Black Square

                  @mmcmah As you requested :)

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                  @Black-Square Thank you, kind sir. I have already read it and much appreciate the detail and the time it took to analyze things, fort both planes.

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                    MAJOR ISSUE. UNFLYABLE.

                    Every other aircraft works. When I am in the duke throttle levers work yet I don't gain any RPM. From idle to full is just 1200 RPM. I cannot fly this. Any solutions? If not I have to get a refund

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                      MAJOR ISSUE. UNFLYABLE.

                      Every other aircraft works. When I am in the duke throttle levers work yet I don't gain any RPM. From idle to full is just 1200 RPM. I cannot fly this. Any solutions? If not I have to get a refund

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                      @Creech23 said in Turbine Duke Range:

                      MAJOR ISSUE. UNFLYABLE.

                      When I am in the duke throttle levers work yet I don't gain any RPM. From idle to full is just 1200 RPM.

                      I have my throttles set up so that full travel is normally from 0 to 100, in this case full beta to max power, and when I want to slow down after landing I have a hardware switch that toggles the reversers on and full travel becomes 0 to -100.

                      When what you've described happens to me it's invariably because I've knocked the physical switch and the plane is trying to go backwards. Try toggling your reversers.

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