Leaning airplane at cruise (FL260) does not change EGT or CHT temps at all
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I'm a bit new to this airplane but not new to study level type of planes or GA at all. I am leaning the grand duke at 26,000 feet. Watching the EGT , as I pull the mixture back there is no change at all in EGT on any cylinder. What should I be doing differently or what should I look for?
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Leaning the engines should produce a tremendous difference in CHT and ELT, even to the point of damaging the engines, so I'm not sure exactly what you're seeing. Could you give me a little more information? Perhaps screenshots or a video?
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Here's a link to a video I made. Anything else you need let me know. Also seems there's no difference in GPH when leaning. Or a very small change, which may be normal? Thanks for any help!
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Excellent. A video says 1000 words 30 times per second. Yes, that behavior is totally incorrect, and I've never seen anything like it. Do you have developer mode enabled in the sim, or use any kind of 3rd party binding tool that would allow you to inspect some variables? I would be interested to know what "L:BKSQ_MixtureLeverPosition_1" is doing, and what "A:GENERAL ENG MIXTURE LEVER POSITION:1" is doing in relation. My best guess is that you might have some hardware control that's spamming the internal variable for mixture position, while the lever is somehow only following my variable (though I would have expected the latter to synchronize to the former when you let go of the lever. You don't have auto-mixture enabled in the simulator's options, do you? I've never checked to see what that would do to the aircraft, but this seems like a plausible outcome.
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It seems turning off auto mixture did the trick! I use my one axis for throttle input. Thank you!
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Glad it worked. Thanks for letting me know! Now I know how that setting affects my aircraft.
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Truly an amazing airplane. Thank you for building this product. I'm sorry if this is answered elsewhere, do you have plans to implement full state saving? Like engine wear and tear state saving, etc... Or is that already implemented?
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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!
