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B-17 Accusim Released!!!
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Snave
Guest
The Accu-sim manual makes specific mention to the possibility that the hand crank may not work, so I think they saw this coming...
Almost perfect two-engine landing!
Any idea what you did to break the gear?
Almost perfect two-engine landing!
Any idea what you did to break the gear?
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tigisfat
Guest
The Accu-sim manual makes specific mention to the possibility that the hand crank may not work, so I think they saw this coming...
Almost perfect two-engine landing!
Any idea what you did to break the gear?
I have no clue. My perception could be off, but it seems there is a fine line between having your crew applaud your landing and having them grunt from the force. Once they grunted from a 'hard' landing so I watched it in replay only to see the aircraft land as soft as ever like I thought.
I had an idea this was coming because the maintenance screen warned me about dropping the gear at high speeds (I've never dropped it above 130) and hard landings. When I retracted the landing gear the copilot told me that he 'thinks the right gear is stuck". When it came time to drop them, it stayed up.
BTW, I did use the menu command for a manual gear drop. I don't know who actually did it.
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tigisfat
Guest
New wierdness: Upon loading the plane the co says "captain we've got a problem" instead of greeting me like normal. I checked the maintenance hangar only to find every single component failed and requiring replacement. Every time I shutdown, I maintain the aircraft and replace everything in yellow. I don't get it. This happened twice and I had to overhaul everything to get it going again. I certainly didn't leave it like this. As much as I love it, there are shortcomings with accusim.
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gajit
Guest
Gotta say I dont get that prob after a major overhaul - everything starts fresh and my guys greet me with respect :salute:
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tigisfat
Guest
Maybe they're at odds with me because of the loops, rolls and hard pull-ups they've been subject to at airshows.
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gajit
Guest
Maybe they're at odds with me because of the loops, rolls and hard pull-ups they've been subject to at airshows.
LOL I always make sure they stay warm as well
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Snave
Guest
The problem isn't Accu-sim, it's Flight Sim. I've noticed on a couple of occasions that after switching to the B-17 from a default aircraft the Boeing has crashed on a static runway with the gear up. My guess is that FS can't tell the difference between gear `up` and gear `neutral` as defined in the B-17 so you can have problems if the gear selector toggle is in the `wrong` position when you switch to the aircraft - so for example if you switch to the Boeing on the ground, yet the toggle is in neutral, you can get a gear failure. Likewise if you switch in the air, with the toggle neutral you can get gear damage when the sim gives a mixed message about whether the gear is up or down. I have also seen this with other addon aircraft that use `outside the sim` key commands - so it's not exclusive to A2A, or Accu-sim.
The solution is NOT to use a default aircraft that has fixed landing gear as the preamble to loading the B-17, as the gear state is then read and understood so up means up, down means down and neutral doesn't impact on the previous state no matter up or down.
ALSO, specifically for Accu-sim, ensure the B-17 gear toggle switch is in NEUTRAL before you leave the aircraft.
GypsyBaron
Charter Member
When loading saved B-17G flights it is often a good idea to load them
a second time once in the cockpit, as occasionally some items do not
get initialized on the first load. This seems to be somewhat system dependent.
Paul
a second time once in the cockpit, as occasionally some items do not
get initialized on the first load. This seems to be somewhat system dependent.
Paul
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tigisfat
Guest
well, I was doing a bit of this when I dished out of a loop:
I barely touched and headed back up, now doing this:
Well guys, it floats.
I barely touched and headed back up, now doing this:
Well guys, it floats.
Snuffy
Happiness Consultant
for how long?
Some cases of aircraft remaining afloat after ditching were 45 minutes or more ... depending on "holeiness"
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tigisfat
Guest
No, you better believe that they yelled at me the whole stinking time. If you haven't abused this plane, try it and see what your crew says to you. I won't ruin it. The gear up landings are funny too.
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tigisfat
Guest
Here's a new one that kills realism. Leave it open overnight, with the engines shutdown and everything turned off. When you come back to your computer in the morning, just about everything will have broken. That stinks.
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tigisfat
Guest
Bill those vandals are port overs, very hard on performance. What you need is AirportVandals X(tm) That's where it's at these days.
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Snave
Guest
My new one is even worse - leave it a year in the open byt the seaside and the wings fall off...
I'm calling it Rust Environment Extreme. It's a surefire winner from TinWorm Developers!
