First up, thank you to all those involved, Milton and all the other contributors. A really nice job. Tried the Boston (sorry!) out in PNG some feedback but first:
The Havoc (Boston) at about F130 flying down the spine of the PNG highlands.
I noted that this is a Beta model with the usual caveats. A little feedback. General handling was as I would expect for an aeroplane of this size and midwing design. Flys nicely and is good fun to operate. Textures etc are excellent good work.
Not sure what is known or not known but I presume some or a lot of switches etc will be added later or perhaps not. Some views would be greatly appreciated to take advantage of the other crew positions.
I could not get the load sheet popup to work at all, it comes up but nothing is clickable or changes on the sheet data if the mouse is pointed at it,
The blowers (superchargers) levers come up as inop but moving if selected is one such bug. Could not operate the cowl flaps using the levers but usual key commands did make them work. Lights appear to work but no night flying done yet. The Hydraulic pressure gauge did not appear to work at all but remained at 0 the whole way, before and after start. No issue with fuel tank selection after model selection to get it started using CTL+E.
Not sure about the power for this one. Firstly my MP did not change from climb power of 42" after take off all the way to 18,000 ft which is not correct unless the superchargers were working automatically (but they are selectable). You will see from the above screenshot the nose up atittude and it seemed that the aircraft needed about 6 degrees of pitch up to remain level which seems high to me but not unusual for some aeroplanes.
Cylinder head temperatures did not do much in the way of reflecting operating conditions (hot PNG) and basically stayed in the normal range despite a lengthy climb to FL's. Climb rate was good but it seemed to hit a service ceiling of about 15,000 ft after which it would not climb at all and would take some coaxing to get up to Fl180 after which no go!. This lack of power was reflected in the IAS which did not get above 150 for me in the cruise at altitude or otherwise and at FL's settled at 120 kts IAS with full power (46"MP) and 2450RPM, leaned. Does appear to have a tendency to wander to the left if not hand flown constantly, it is a gentle yawing condition but found it hard to keep it trimmed and tracking correctly without constant heading changes.
I have to say I really like this one, it is a delight.
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