Airspeed consul
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Hurricane91
SOH-CM-2023
Your Consul is fabulous David. I really like the fine cockpit instrumentation and animations. And it's a delight to fly.
djs1
Charter Member
Having finally found the time to try both the Oxford and Consul, I am wondering if anyone else is having the same problem that I am.
On starting a flight, ie, engines running and ready to go, both aircraft are toddling along nicely at an indicated 15 kts without any help from me. The throttles appear to be 7% open (easily sorted), but the revs show a "tickover" of around 1100 to 1200 rpm, surely way too high.
I use a Saitek X52 so the first thing I did was to check the calibration, which seemed to be OK, but recalibrated it anyway. No difference. I zeroed the throttles using the pop-up but the revs still did not reduce, steadfastly remaining at slightly over 1100. Shutting down the engines and restarting had no effect. No problem on the Envoy which, on starting a flight shows a tickover of between 500-600 rpm.
Any ideas please
David
On starting a flight, ie, engines running and ready to go, both aircraft are toddling along nicely at an indicated 15 kts without any help from me. The throttles appear to be 7% open (easily sorted), but the revs show a "tickover" of around 1100 to 1200 rpm, surely way too high.
I use a Saitek X52 so the first thing I did was to check the calibration, which seemed to be OK, but recalibrated it anyway. No difference. I zeroed the throttles using the pop-up but the revs still did not reduce, steadfastly remaining at slightly over 1100. Shutting down the engines and restarting had no effect. No problem on the Envoy which, on starting a flight shows a tickover of between 500-600 rpm.
Any ideas please
David
Sorry that is one thing I forgot to look at, I was concentrating more on the ability to get the boost & rpm as near correct as possible!
Anyway a quick & dirty look has shown that in the aircraft.cfg piston engine section:-
Idle rpm mechanical efficiency scalar = 0.75 //1.0
idle rpm friction scalar=1.75 //0.95
will give about 730 rpm tickover.
I don't think it has affected anything else.
Keith
Anyway a quick & dirty look has shown that in the aircraft.cfg piston engine section:-
Idle rpm mechanical efficiency scalar = 0.75 //1.0
idle rpm friction scalar=1.75 //0.95
will give about 730 rpm tickover.
I don't think it has affected anything else.
Keith
djs1
Charter Member
Keith,
Many thanks for that. I did try a bit of trial and error on the relative values but unfortunately went the wrong way!!!
However, your adjustments did the trick so I went a little further and adjusted the values as follows
idle rpm mechanical efficiency scalar = 0.65
idle rpm friction scalar = 1.90
With the "pop-up" throttles zeroed this gives a tickover of around 550 rpm, much more appropriate for an elderly round engine don't you think!!
Once again thank you
David
Many thanks for that. I did try a bit of trial and error on the relative values but unfortunately went the wrong way!!!
However, your adjustments did the trick so I went a little further and adjusted the values as follows
idle rpm mechanical efficiency scalar = 0.65
idle rpm friction scalar = 1.90
With the "pop-up" throttles zeroed this gives a tickover of around 550 rpm, much more appropriate for an elderly round engine don't you think!!
Once again thank you
David