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EHM-2033 Miguel:
Just made the first flight and I gotta say that is a slow plane on landings!! But I love it and it's really fun to fly! :]
Can't wait for the second leg! :8
And many thanks to Hector for the explanation on how to use the autopilot.. I wasn't managing it very well before..
EHM-1001 Robert:
It was a challenging flight. After I could not use the altitude hold feature of AP, I switched to manual flying.
The propellers have fixed BETA. You can adjust together the thrust with mixture to control proper airspeed and fuel useage. This is also important to not eat all the gas onboard before landing :P
EHM-0654 Murray:
And don't leave the engines running at full power for more than a minute or two, you'll burn out the pistons! The HTML checklist for this airplane is really detailed and gives loads of operational things... I suspect this is how Herr Dr. Hoyle managed to fly the flight in under a half hour but burnt fuel up the wazzoo!
EHM-1442 Luis:
Hi
Hector sayed it all, but if you want more information,
try this link to read about sperry AP......this is for the Dc3, but the sperry AP is similar to the Ju52.
http://www.dc3airways.com/train_top_2004.html
And always remember, it is a plane with a cruise speed about 130mph,...be patient,..don't overheat the engines and take some care on this old lady...(Tante Ju).......lol.....
Practice to trim the aircraft correctly(pitch and throttle) and 'll see the sperry AP working like a charm on altitude and attitude.
About the turbulence and G forces, in my opinion the cause is the weather updates (Winds updates) and I only have success to avoid this with a rigestered fsuipc version.
I have a different problem.....sometimes the engines don't start( Murray mencioned this before in another forum - JU52 help- if i remember it well) and sometimes when the engines starts, I don't have the sperry AP neither the radios working....and when this happens I have to do all the flight by hand (always with the hand on the joystick).... but I think this is some problem in my software installation, because another times everything works all right
Cheers
EHM-0654 Murray:
Re: starting the engines, follow the checklist to the line and they'll fire right up. One word of warning though, a number of the controls in the virtual cockpit don't work! The fuel valves (yellow and red handles on the throttle quad) are amongst the ones that don't function in the VCockpit, but without them being Aus, you're not going anywhere ;)
Another thing to mention is that the Ju's Sperry is an older model than that we had in the DC3 (for the American Pioneers event), but it does work if you're patient with it.
Finally, don't forget to mix lean during climb to conserve fuel. The engines on the Ju happily run very lean at the sorts of altitudes you'll be flying most of this event at; less burn means less fuel needed, which means less weight/more distance.
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