Hello,
As I gave some tips to better use this add-on to a friend on a French forum that I frequent regularly (pilote-virtuel.com), I thought I could translate it for you.
First, during the first contacts, I advise you to validate the "info-bubbles".
Second, this plane takes into account the outside temperature at its first start so the first thing to do is to look at the outside temperature indicated on the gauge just below the fuel lever.
Depending on the temperature, the oil being more or less cold it is necessary to take this data into account for the mixing of the propeller and for the use of the primer.
In case of a too large temperature difference between the outside and the engine, it is necessary to make 5, 3 or 1 propeller mixing through the internal view dedicated to pre-flight (see CAMERA menu). if the "tooltips" are checked, you will have this indication directly by hovering over the helix with the mouse.
Then the use of the primer follows the same logic, and a tooltip will tell you what to do.
This being done, and depending on the outside temperature we shunt or not the oil radiator (the red lever at the bottom of the dashboard) to accelerate engine heating.
We can also for "lazy" use CTRL + E but it will still be necessary to monitor the temperature of the oil before taking off.
For this, a tooltip shows you the oil temperature in°C when the mouse hovers over the oil gauge. You also have the same way oil pressure and temperature of CHT (cylinder heads).
Once this temperature starts to approach 35°C, you can release the parking brake and start driving by monitoring this oil temperature.
If it reaches 40°C before you are on the runway, disconnect the shunt lever from the radiator. Until the oil reaches 40°C, the manifold needle will be fraught with tremors that are detrimental to engine health.
You are on the runway, the oil temperature is OK, you can put the power gently and play with the tiller. The plane should be able to take off quite quickly with 1800 RPMs or 2000 RPMs but do not go too high and watch the tiller: the 450 HP are there!
Once you take off, you can stabilize at 2000 RPM and start to climb a little more or set the right course for your destination.
Do not forget to check if the radiator is not shunted and you can also turn off the overfeeding pump.
We can go into the red zone temporarily and quite short, the engine will support it but do not insist too much ...
Acrobatic figures are allowed but with a certain altitude: the barrel is in 6s approximately and the looping is very nice to achieve without talking about the "hammer" and other joys. Keep kinetic energy so altitude.
On arrival, think that there are no "flaps" so learn "the slides" if you do not know this maneuver. It’s not complicated, you arrive at a reduced speed and with the rudder you turn to full speed in one direction then with the control you put yourself in the opposite direction, the plane will start to advance in crab and by tilting slightly the plane in the other direction, you will see the speed drop more or less quickly.
Once you are about 50 metres from the track and in the right angle of arrival, straighten the plane’s course and you land gently either 3 points or on the front gear and you brake slowly ... the brakes are effective so be careful not to plow the track with the propeller.
Do this a dozen times and you can then get rid of the tooltip and have fun with this "little aircraft".
The black lever on the left allows to heat the air admitted to the carburetor so if the temperature is too low (in winter on Canada for example), think about it!
At altitude, check also if you need it: you have the outside temperature gauge ... and this is not a luxury because you are in an open air cabin!
Engine management is programmed to display a fire effect in the event of overheating (oil above 260°C or CHT above 550°F) and engine failure.
Unfortunately during my tests, I never saw the effect, which happened to some of you, right DennyA?
In the management interface accessible via the toolbar, in the last tab you have in "real" time some essential values of the engine that are displayed to see if you "pull" on the engine or simply to have a digital "dashboard".
You will be able to see the wear of the engine and anticipate the failure in the wrong cases.
This aircraft allows to manage "two kinds of liquid": fuel and engine oil. In the management module, oil consumption is taken into account and you should not take off or use the engine if the level is too low (less than 1.5 gallon).
There is also a 20 gallon fuel tank in addition to increase the range provided by the 45 gallon in the wing.
To fill up the oil in the parking lot and engine stopped, you must think to open the "BY-PASS" left of the shunt lever of the radiator then in the general interface of the simulator play with the cursor. Do not forget to put the lever "BY-PASS" at the end of filling with oil.
You can also fill up with the outdoor animations: at the end of the animations, the respective fills are made.
You have a more lively plane, which will be more personal in its use: good flights!
Screenshot (14542) by JanKees Blom, on Flickr
Screenshot (14544) by JanKees Blom, on Flickr
Screenshot (14545) by JanKees Blom, on Flickr
