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Alabeo`s Staggerwing is out!

ryanbatc said:
Actually I did lose the ability to retract flaps and gear like the other poster who had the issue. Before I was flying stock C172... everything was on.

Odd.
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Ryan.....I'm one of the other guys having the same problem ( I'm flying P3D ). Like you, I was flying stock (208). Today I switched to the stock 172, played with the battery switch. Managed to make it thru 4 touch and gos but had to belly it in on the 5th cause nothing was working. I'm not one to mess with cfg files so looks like I'm stuck with 3 take-offs and landings before restarting......
 
bstolle said:
Did you have the battery switched ON before changing to the D17 ?
If that doesn't help try changing the electrics from 0 to 1 in the cfg file.
[electrical]
max_battery_voltage = 24
generator_alternator_voltage = 28
max_generator_alternator_amps = 60
electric_always_available = 0
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OK, yes battery was on. Changed the 0 to 1 in electrical. Sadly it makes no difference.
 
Indeed a beautifull piece of work....going to buy, going to wait a little till I read about mentioned small bugs are corrected...sure they will be in a near future...
Regards
 
I also had problems with the gear and flaps. I also had a problem with the engine not even turning over to restart it after I shut it down.
I seem to have cured all the problems by turning off the battery switch and then turning it back on.

Before turning the battery switch off, I noticed that the ampmeter showed no charge, after turning the switch off and then back on, the ampmeter shows a full charge.
I assume that the gear and flaps are electric, so without the battery showing a charge, they didn't work.
I guess that when you go to Free Flight, the engine is running and the battery switch says "ON", but it isn't really on until the ampmeter shows a charge.
 
Tim-HH said:
That's how it looks from the pilot's seat :)
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staggerwing8s6d4u.jpg


If you like you can get rid of those strenghtener tubes by clicking the air outlet just above the left window sill.

The Staggerwing is without question a beautiful model! :applause:
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Absolutely ! Somehow i still prefer the Waco. Particularly the ground handling seems quite quirky compared to the Waco... They do a great job at cockpit/panel/instruments lighting. Makes for easy instruments reading during the day when flying into the sun.


What's up next? Maybe a DC-3 or a Stearman?
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It may just be that Alabeo will find a DC-3 a step too far.... ( still a chance Manfred will team up with Hansi to produce a VC worthy of his superb DC-3 external model... ) A full blown Alabeo Stearman would be wonderful ! :cool:

How are you doing, Tim, hope everything's well !

Tschüss!, :wavey:
Jan
 
Rudyjo said:
I also had problems with the gear and flaps. I also had a problem with the engine not even turning over to restart it after I shut it down.
I seem to have cured all the problems by turning off the battery switch and then turning it back on.

Before turning the battery switch off, I noticed that the ampmeter showed no charge, after turning the switch off and then back on, the ampmeter shows a full charge.
I assume that the gear and flaps are electric, so without the battery showing a charge, they didn't work.
I guess that when you go to Free Flight, the engine is running and the battery switch says "ON", but it isn't really on until the ampmeter shows a charge.
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Interesting, I never looked to see what the charging circuit was doing. However, I changed my default to cold and dark start. When I switched on the R mag the engine started!!! I continued anyway and flew 8 touch n go with no issues. I have no issues in P3D but that was also a cold n dark start which got me to try the same in FSX.

I guess the aircraft is a bit buggy here and there, but, OH BOY it sure is nice to look at and to fly. At 80 to 85 mph and 25 inches I just love the sweet little touch down feel and the turn onto final is so immersive! The engine sounds on my sub-woofer, just super fine!

Did the mod on tailwheel castor changing it to 33deg as per bstolle and it taxi's as sweet as it looks. Don't need the tailwheel lock on takeoff now!

Bernt Stolle...you are the man!!!
 
Shockwave lights.

Alabeo Staggerwing

Add the following into the appropriate sections.

aircraft.cfg
[lights]
light.1 = 5, -5.8, -10.0, -1.0, fx_Shockwave_landing_light // Shockwave light
light.2 = 5, -5.8, 10.0, -1.0, fx_Shockwave_landing_light // Shockwave light
light.3 = 1, -4.9, -0.1, -0.8, fx_shockwave_beaconb_nl // Shockwave light
light.4 = 1, -13.5, 0.1, 4.3, fx_shockwave_beaconh_l // Shockwave light
light.5 = 3, -4.9, -12.35, -0.2, fx_shockwave_navgre_nl // Shockwave light
light.6 = 3, -5.0, 12.3, -0.2, fx_shockwave_navred_nl // Shockwave light
light.7 = 3, -26.4, 0.1, 3.3, fx_shockwave_navwhi_nl // Shockwave light

panel.cfg
[Vcockpit01]
gaugeXX=shockwave_lights!SW Lights_gear, 1,1,1,1 //shockwave landing light, retractable gear
 
Rudyjo said:
I also had problems with the gear and flaps. I also had a problem with the engine not even turning over to restart it after I shut it down.
I seem to have cured all the problems by turning off the battery switch and then turning it back on.

Before turning the battery switch off, I noticed that the ampmeter showed no charge, after turning the switch off and then back on, the ampmeter shows a full charge.
I assume that the gear and flaps are electric, so without the battery showing a charge, they didn't work.
I guess that when you go to Free Flight, the engine is running and the battery switch says "ON", but it isn't really on until the ampmeter shows a charge.
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Thanks Rudyjo !! That bit of info did the trick .........turning the Master off and then back on activated the ampmeter. I never looked at it because I thought it was working like everything else..... owe you a six-pack.
 
Anyone notice the wing tip lights are are reversed?

Also, some one needs to check this-my elevator trim is backwards....Or is it just me?



Rick
EDIT:
The trim does work correctly but the animation is wrong-down is up and up is down
I sent an email to Alabeo about these problems
 
I'm having troublle (?) with the trim in as much as - I cannot trim to maintain 90 mph and the trim wheel travel feels odd . Going to dive back in to see if it is backwards in my sim .
 
oh, by the way , it you click on the air vent - extremeL/H side on the panel just sitting on top of the woodwork "arm rest" those interioir structural tubes disappear
 
One other item I noticed besides the battery switch needing to be turned off, then on again, for the gear and flaps to work is that when you start in "Free Flight"....even with the engine running, the
magnetos are on OFF.
So far, the carb. temperature gauge has never moved.
Even with all the little problems this plane has, it's a great bargain for $20.

The only other Alabeo plane I have is the Waco, never had any problems with it.
It looks like they rushed the Staggerwing to production, it should have been tested some more before releasing it.

I wrote to Alabeo about the problems, they said they would look into it. I would suggest that anyone having problems write to them.
If they get enough e-mails, they may release an update.
 
I did not get a long enough flight in to really check it out as some of you have, unfortunately. I did in a short flight around my home airport, KMIW, Marshalltown, Iowa. Some observations, some of which have been covered by others.

Modeling is absolutely beautiful!! Red texture package is beautiful.


Ground handling is attrociuos! Tailwheel is far to active. Will try the setting to full castoring. Should fix it. It seems to be awfull heavy, spongy, top heavy on turns tho. Undamped spring suspension, yes, most of cause. Rudder power couldn't be checked because of tailwheel hooked to it, and set to strong. cfg problem.

I want to try setting my seat just a little higher. All the pics of the pilots seating position I've seen shows higher eye point.

Can anyone adjust radio from VC??? I can't move yoke enough to see it, let alone adjust it.

My sounds were nearly drowned out by wind noise once flying speed was reached. Tried lowering it's volume in both settings, and in Accu-Feel. Way irritating.

Take-off required a lot of rudder dancing, just like my R/C model does, (which TeiscoDelRay owns now, by the way.) Once airborne, it was on rails, also like the R/C model. Handling was smooth and positive. Very enjoyable. My only landing sucked, because I was trying to adjust radio during long approach, and got out of whack when the wife suddenly needed something during final. (Should have gone around. :mix-smi:)

Another flight when I get time will be much better, I'm sure. Glad I bought this one. Alabeo's models are all excellent, of the one's I have. Waco YMF, GEE BEE Z, Pitts, and now the Staggerwing. Looking forward to more.
 
papab said:
Anyone notice the wing tip lights are are reversed?

Also, some one needs to check this-my elevator trim is backwards....Or is it just me?



Rick
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LOL, I can understand me missing the reversed tip lights, but Alabeao?

No problem with elevator trim. OK here.
 
modelr said:
I did not get a long enough flight in to really check it out as some of you have, unfortunately. I did in a short flight around my home airport, KMIW, Marshalltown, Iowa. Some observations, some of which have been covered by others.

Modeling is absolutely beautiful!! Red texture package is beautiful.


Ground handling is attrociuos! Tailwheel is far to active. Will try the setting to full castoring. Should fix it. It seems to be awfull heavy, spongy, top heavy on turns tho. Undamped spring suspension, yes, most of cause. Rudder power couldn't be checked because of tailwheel hooked to it, and set to strong. cfg problem.

I want to try setting my seat just a little higher. All the pics of the pilots seating position I've seen shows higher eye point.

Can anyone adjust radio from VC??? I can't move yoke enough to see it, let alone adjust it.

My sounds were nearly drowned out by wind noise once flying speed was reached. Tried lowering it's volume in both settings, and in Accu-Feel. Way irritating.

Take-off required a lot of rudder dancing, just like my R/C model does, (which TeiscoDelRay owns now, by the way.) Once airborne, it was on rails, also like the R/C model. Handling was smooth and positive. Very enjoyable. My only landing sucked, because I was trying to adjust radio during long approach, and got out of whack when the wife suddenly needed something during final. (Should have gone around. :mix-smi:)

Another flight when I get time will be much better, I'm sure. Glad I bought this one. Alabeo's models are all excellent, of the one's I have. Waco YMF, GEE BEE Z, Pitts, and now the Staggerwing. Looking forward to more.
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You can click on the Yoke support and the Yoke disappears so you can see the radios.
 
dvj said:
You can click on the Yoke support and the Yoke disappears so you can see the radios.
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I wonder why this and the structural tube was documented?? What else is available that we haven't discovered? I noticed that the aircraft.cfg section has four exits listed, but the only one that functions is the door. Guess I gotta do more poking around with the mouse to see what else is animated. :salute:
 
I think that the of gear lever animation is wrong.It should be a pull in and pull out knob like the other, (Park brake , Taiwheel lock), instead it moves vertically on the panel.
I'm wrong?
 
As a customer having bought this product I would like to add that we must be careful not to over-expect from this one. It cost 19.95. Compared to a lot of payware that is incredibly cheap for such work which is demonstrably excellent modeling and painting. Sure it has its glitches and MAY have been released a little earlier than bug-testing should have allowed but it is all fixable in a first patch to make it a gem. Certainly a keeper in my hangar.:engel016:
 
Hear hear

I agree, its already a beautiful bird and very well mannered. An update will fix the little issues and it will be a dream. What a treat to watch this red beauty of mine glide through the skies over KHIO near KPDX in Oregon.

good flights, Cal
 
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