Dornier 328 Operation

[EHM-1960 Malcolm]

Hi Everyone,

As a newbie I'll first say how much I'm enjoying flying with Eurharmony, I like the professional feel of the organisation and the automated pirep submission and other processes, fantastic, a good choice for my first VA.

I've enjoyed flying the B1900 but have now graduated to the Class 2 aircraft. Because of the iminent change in the class 2/3 fleet (see topic "Euroharmony ATR-42 problems)   I've decided to fly the 328. (I've found an excellent panel by Marco Spada by the way from this site: www.arch-spada.com/panels). I've been practicing fkying circuits at Seattle.

I've corrected the Aircraft cfg file for the problems regarding cruise speed and nose wheel height, but I cannot find any documentation regarding the operation of this aircraft, can anybody help.

I'm not sure if there is a problem with the model but I'm having problems slowing down this aircraft. With throttle at idle she's travelling at 200kt straight and level, with all the drag deployed speed is still at 100kt, can this be right!!. I'm managing to point the nose to the ground but at the flare she just floats on and on and on and on.

Can somebody familiar with this aircraft point me in the right direction (pun not intended) and explain the approach procedure.

Regards

Malcolm Hendra

EHM-1960

[EHM-1343 Jonathan]

Sorry Malcolm, no ideas on this here...but some help would be appreciated because the DO328 is a nice a/c.

Regards Razza

[EHM-1001 Robert]

Hi Malcolm, welcome to the VA !

I am not sure why, but many times the panels can modify the flight dynamics of the aircraft. I experienced similar problems with an Airbus 330 panel, when I even could not lift it off the ground. I do not know that panel (personally neither like any Marco Spada panel) but you could try to use the advised Ken Mitchell version I think that looks quite good, and accurate, and hopefully you will be able to land that plane.

Anyway, I tried the Dornier at some flighgts, and it is true, it has a very rigid gear, so you should put her down very smoothly, or the landing will be bumpy...I do not know if it is real or not, but that is a fact

Happy landings !

[EHM-1960 Malcolm]

Thanks for that Roberto,

With the Ken Mitchell panel I was slightly phased by the nested zipfiles, the multiple garmin units and was very wary of adding to the generic 'gauges' folder. However I've since learnt while installing the Marco panel that the gauges were placed in the 'panel' folder. I tried this with the Ken Mitchell panel, unzipping the nested zip files into the 'panel' folder and to my surpise it works. Not sure if theres any performance penalty.  It doesnt solve the problem described above though.

With all the GA planes I've flown in FS and RL when you cut the throttle and keep the plane flying straight and level it will eventually slow until the stall. Maybe this doesnt happen with turbo props??.

I can land the plane although it's not particularly elegant. I take the lack of responses implies not many are flying this a/c. I'll carry on with the Beech, which I have no problems with, until I move onto class 3

Many thanks

[EHM-1001 Robert]

Hi Malcolm,

you are right, it is unreal, that planes can cruise at idle power :s I checked the plane, and it really is bad under FS2004. I flew it with FS2002 last time, so did not notice that really...I am looking for a FS2004 dynamics now...

EDIT: I made some very quick adjustment and a file change, and here it is, what I got ! I think it is really much better now. Try to replace these files with your originals in your EHM-DO328 folder. DO328.dynamics.2K4

[EHM-1960 Malcolm]

Roberto,

That change has made a vast difference. I'tll take a few circuits to get used to the change but it certanly is a lot better.

Thanks for your efforts

Malcolm