PMDG DC-6 this friday

***ColoKent*** · June 21st, 2021, 17:23

Originally Posted by StormILM

Hey Kent! Hope all's been well with you Sir! I agree, I was a little stumped the C-118 and VC-118 (Independence) liveries weren't in the stack as well but hopefully they will show up sometime in the near future. I agree, PMDG hit a home run here and it's great to see FS2020 maturing as such which in my opinion is perhaps a bit ahead of the long development curve that plagued FSX and P3D at various intervals during their insipient and intermediate stages.

It's so good to finally see a simulator with the visuals for both the aircraft and scenery and with very reasonably priced addons and nice freeware showing up as well. I missed the DC-6 more than any other model leaving P3D behind but I'm good now!

Bryant!

Just did a short hop from LAX to BUR (ORBX's well done rendition) in 1958 Western Airlines colors. I have pretty much downloaded all repaints available from the .to website (Western, JK's TEAL, a TAA variant, an FAB military DC-6B). I keep waiting for the excitement to wear off, but so far, I see NOTHING to dislike on the DC-6 (and I can be a curmudgeon!). Just love this airplane, and really enjoy it with the extra fidelity/realism the MSFS eye candy affords. I may become a propliner only guy! (In addition to AH's C-7/DC-3 and FR's C-54/DC-4, would LOVE to see JF's F27 released for MSFS....and would REALLY love an L-188 Electra [both pax and cargo variants])

Man, this is GREAT flying!

Kent

**c87** · June 21st, 2021, 18:19

These screenshots look amazing! Virtually all of them look like photographs. JanKees, those paints with the mix of bare metal and paint look awesome.

**DaveWG** · June 21st, 2021, 22:59

Lovely paints Jankees.

Is a British Eagle one on your to do list?

**banjoman1960** · June 21st, 2021, 23:20

Someone doing this?

it´s the only DC 4 wat Lufthans use,i have no dc 6 found,
so try to do this..............

**banjoman1960** · June 22nd, 2021, 07:43

try to get it in the colours........................

**StormILM** · June 22nd, 2021, 12:28

Kent, I spoke too soon! Right after I responded last night, I found these at Flightsim.to. I hope we see the VC-118 "Independence" soon as well.
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***ColoKent*** · June 22nd, 2021, 12:51

Yep...I saw those too. I suspect more military variants will come out. So far, I have also seen a Brazilian AF version on .to as well.

Kent

**ce_zeta** · June 23rd, 2021, 02:19

There is something weird with my engine No.4

Others are well. Just after the start in prder to warm up the engines. when I trottle up a little bit to set 10.000 rpm my No.4, Manifold RPM and BMEP goes crazy.
I repaired the engine 3 times without success. I damaged my engine yesterday

No blower, Booster pumps in Low. I have low oil pressure as I couldn´t warm up that engine properly but I dont see anything else.
Other engines are okay with the same config. Any idea?

**ce_zeta** · June 23rd, 2021, 02:21

There is something weird with my engine No.4

Others are well. Just after the start in prder to warm up the engines. when I trottle up a little bit to set 10.000 rpm my No.4, Manifold RPM and BMEP goes crazy.
I repaired the engine 3 times without success. I damaged my engine yesterday

Low blower, Booster pumps in Low. I have low oil pressure as I couldn´t warm up that engine properly but I dont see anything else.
Other engines are okay with the same config. Any idea?

**cavaricooper** · June 23rd, 2021, 02:27

Do you have a spurious axis commanding? Please check EVERY attached controller for signal being sent to Engine 4.Try just using F3 to increase to 1000RPM to verify it’s an input problem.

**ce_zeta** · June 23rd, 2021, 10:18

Got it. Thank you Carl. That was the problem.
Really appreciated. I understand now why you felt in love with this beauty.

**cavaricooper** · June 23rd, 2021, 11:38

So glad you found the culprit- enjoy her, I do!

**StormILM** · June 23rd, 2021, 14:33

One thing I discovered was that I have to move my Thrustmaster HOTAS Warthog Throttles VERY slowly or the physical position of the VC throttle levers will not stay uniform. So when I retard the throttles to idle on landing, I have to slowly retard them or one or more will not be at the idle stop and the reverse prop lockout gate won't release. Of course, on the real DC-6, throttle and pitch lever movement had to be slow to not shock the engine and/or put stress on the shaft and gears.

**cavaricooper** · June 24th, 2021, 02:16

Storm- sounds like you’re sending 2 axis’ for Throttles. Either set 1&2 left and 3&4 right- or pick one axis for all 4.Yes, RW Throttle operation on transport category radials is always slow... lots of moving metal.

**Seahawk72s** · June 27th, 2021, 02:48

Going thru the individual PMDG tutorials has been a complete joy.
There is so much to discover about this aircraft and its systems.

The video about cockpit lighting nicely shows what PMDG has done with the ASOBO realistic light effects.

**ST0RM** · June 28th, 2021, 06:16

Hoping to see some Air Tanker liveries come out for this as well.

Interesting info on the throttle movement speed. On takeoff, I've been noticing my #1 engine is 2 knobs higher than the rest. I'm assuming for P-Factor assistance?

**tankerguy72** · June 30th, 2021, 05:50

Originally Posted by ST0RM

Hoping to see some Air Tanker liveries come out for this as well.

Interesting info on the throttle movement speed. On takeoff, I've been noticing my #1 engine is 2 knobs higher than the rest. I'm assuming for P-Factor assistance?

Agreed. I think Im going to start on this TBM Inc DC-6 N90739. It began life for American Airlines "Flagship Georgia" Then was used by the Monkees for touring and then ended up as an airtanker for TBM until it met the scrapper.

***manfredc3*** · July 13th, 2021, 21:30

Originally Posted by ColoKent

Now....if we can just get the Aeroplane Heaven C-47/DC-3 and Flight Replicas DC-4/C-54 released for MSFS...we'll be in classic prop liner heaven!

Kent

I could not agree more. I'd even add a Connie in the mix, lol. C'mon A2A!!!

Seeing the liveries like the Transavia, The Flying Dutchman, and others blew it for me.

I was no longer able to resist the itch to hit that "Purchase" button.

Purchased last night, and am now working my way through the videos. Can't wait to bring these radials to life and hear them purrr..

**Panaka** · July 20th, 2021, 10:39

A quick question.
Does the plane have minor random failures as a feature?

On a recent flight I noticed that the cylinder head temp for number 3 was low and closed the cowl flaps another notch. The temperature didn't go up. When I went to check the engine visually the cowl flaps where stuck open in their take off configuration and wouldn't close. Is this a bug with the auto flight engineer or did I run into a feature I didn't know about?
Engine damage was turned off at the time.

**Pere** · July 20th, 2021, 13:04

Originally Posted by Panaka

A quick question.
Does the plane have minor random failures as a feature?

On a recent flight I noticed that the cylinder head temp for number 3 was low and closed the cowl flaps another notch. The temperature didn't go up. When I went to check the engine visually the cowl flaps where stuck open in their take off configuration and wouldn't close. Is this a bug with the auto flight engineer or did I run into a feature I didn't know about?
Engine damage was turned off at the time.

Well, I don't know if a random fault system is being modeled, but on a recent flight I lowered my flaps lever and although I heard the hydraulic noise of the hydraulics the flaps did not go down and the flaps indicator marked position 0