several people asked for this one:
interm (0006) by JanKees Blom, on Flickr
interm (0005) by JanKees Blom, on Flickr
interm (0003) by JanKees Blom, on Flickr
interm (0001) by JanKees Blom, on Flickr
https://flightsim.to/file/51508/de-h...n-air-services
You can find most of my repaints for FSX/P3D in the library here on the outhouse.
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Ok, stupid question. I’m trying a repaint, of the Ansett-MAL caribou that was flown in PNG during the seventies.
How do I move the registration from it’s spot on the empennage? It should be on the tail for this paint job.
JanKees- your weathering is becoming really superb!
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So here's what happened, after I thought about it a bit. The real plane has auto-rich and auto-lean settings on the mixture levers, as would be expected from a Stromberg-equipped R2000, and the gates are even marked as such. A/R is full forward, A/L is about 50%. What I failed to realize, and this was made worse after a lot of flying the AH DC-3 that has it (and the PMDG DC-6 that has a flight engineer), is that ORBX didn't bother to enable those particular settings. I had been flying the plane according to the POH, and was super confused as to why I was getting no altitude power.
I tried it again today playing with the mixtures like it was a Cessna and got well into oxygen-needed range. Live and learn.
Another thing added to the list of This Really Needs To Be Corrected along with the lack of an autopilot, the power-setting gauges, and lack of window de-icing and wipers.
Still well worth it, though.
The window heaters do work, but the switch is disabled. I just added a key mapping.
I can’t find a command for windscreen wipers, though.
It doesn't have autolean, sadly. In real life AR is full-forward on the mix levers and AL is at about 50%. The mixture gates are marked as such, but the algorithm for auto-rich and auto-lean don't seem to have been implemented. I just use "automix" in the assistance tab for the Caribou.
Auto mix is probably a global change so you need to turn that off when you switch aircraft?
There is a key binding in controls that is something like "set best mixture," I'm going to see how well that does. But even with a supercharger, engines are going to produce less power at altitude. I'm beginning to think the Caribou was really built for under 10k ft.
That's absolutely the case.
Unlike turbine engines, piston engines don't burn appreciably less fuel at higher altitudes, so an aircraft like the Caribou would have been optimized for lower altitude performance, with altitudes above 10,000ft or so only being used for things like ferry flights (where the higher true airspeed and favorable winds would come into play) or situations where high terrain was involved.
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