Hypoxia modeling lowered to near sea level…!
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[details=Summary]Did you intend to use the Summary/Details thing instead? It’s here (under the ‘Cog’ icon in the editor on the toolbar, top right):
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Never knew that was a feature. TIL…!
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Not released yet…but the Aerobask Eclipse 550 NG is looking really nice…
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PB16 is out 
Engine ITT behavior now matches X-Plane 10.
I wonder if this fixes hot starts in a few a/c?
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I flew the Quest Kodiak last night, and while the behavior is better, it still requires continual micro management of power, prop, and condition lever to survive a flight. An improvement, because in the previous versions of the XP11 PB, the Kodiak would hot start every time. Now, the biggest challenge is managing a high idle while taxiing and landing. If you place the condition lever in low idle, the ITT quickly rises into the red. So you have to either add power to cool the turbine, or move the condition lever back up and ride the brakes awhile your tires squeal in protest.
When landing you will find yourself in ground effect so long that overshoots are common. The trick is to fly down to the threshold at minimum power, then when you’ve scrubbed off as much speed as possible, move the condition lever toward low idle. Once you are down and slowed, add power as necessary to keep the ITT in the green. Climb and cruise are no problem.
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Interesting, I know of several turbine engines that require a running condition on the ground until certain temperature readouts are below a maximum threshold. Otherwise there is a severe increased risk of ground fire on shutdown. I think they are aiming for that with this updated turbine model. Very interesting!
Can you run in high idle, but just a smidge into the beta range to keep the prop thrust down?
Very good question. I will try that when I get back from a road trip to CHS. The Kodiak developer has said that he won’t work on that aircraft until XP11 is out of beta. So not too surprising. And that other turbines are modeled differently than the Kodiak. The Carenado PC-12 for instance. I just chose tbe Quest because it seemed to be the most tempermemtal. Wondering about the TBM850 now.
Carenado Phenom 100 released for X-Plane…
http://www.carenado.com/CarSite/Portal/index.php?accion=product&correl=191
Some nice looking Washington DC scenery was just released. Definitely something I’ll be picking up during a sale…
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If that’s actually in-game screenshot… wow.
Finally, a nice biz jet for X-Plane.
I seem to recall a (RL) King Air pilot talking about how they would taxi in beta for exactly these reasons. I think it was in an x-plane forum, though I can’t find it atm.
I can try it tonight, but if memory servers, beta is not assignable to an axis, is it?
No generally, no - but some individual aircraft makers have made it so that beta is a certain % of the bottom of the throttle zone. I think the Shade Tree Micro Aviation PC-12 is set up this way, but it is one of the few…
I think STMA set it via Plane Maker:
“X-Plane now supports Beta/Reverse through power lever movement only, without the need to use a keyboard key or programming a joystick button to toggle it. You can adjust these values to fit your particular control setup by opening the model in the Plane Maker utility located in X-Plane’s root folder and going to Standard → Engine Specs and adjusting the values in the “Go to BETA below this throttle lever position” and “Go to REVERSE below this throttle lever position” boxes. Setting both of these boxes to zero will reset the aircraft to require the use of the keyboard key or programmed joystick button.”
This is extremely annoying though. The Q400 has always done this, and the number of times I’ve accidentally moved the lever too far and engaged reverse in the air… Makes throttling to near idle basically impossible. Best I’ve achieved is like 6-7% N1.
I definitely don’t like that. The twin otter is better. I have a toggle button set for that. Throttle to idle, toggle, throttle up and woosh, dead stop.
Oooohhh I like that Phenom!
I wonder if icing is visibly modelled…
I have a soft spot for those small jets. Still heartbroken over that damn flight1 citation mustang for damn FSX…
Ah…I was racking my brain earlier on what other aircraft I had seen that behavior on - and yes - the Q400…! Indeed…flying it all the way to South America, I had to be very careful at my idle power setting. For a HOTAS like my Warthog, which has a lift to enter cutoff detent, I’d love to map reverse to that portion since I figure I can just map fuel cutoff to a button.
Yeah - it looks great. I’m still waiting for some reviews…first blush indications are that it might be a bit rough around the edges, but I’m sure it will get fixed up just fine.
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