Waco YMF-5

[SeanTK]

The gauges appear to be built directly into the model, no separate gauge files unfortunately.

thank you. My understanding is that there is no panel cfg or gauge directory like in the old sims? How different.

 

[FlyingsCool]

thank you. My understanding is that there is no panel cfg or gauge directory like in the old sims? How different.

There is a panel.cfg (and panel.xml) and gauge directories and gauges. They are quite different, being HTML based natively. But they definitely won't work in P3D in any version. They are 3D model based built into the aircraft model and run with HTML/CSS/JS code as well as WASM I believe.

 

[Radioman123]

Waco YMF-5 flying

I needed some rudder but this aircraft is a lot of fun to fly. It is rapidly becoming a favorite. I have never flown a Waco but I have flown in real life some taildraggers and I always needed some rudder.

 

[UnknownGuest12]

I found that the KB command (that I reprogrammed to my Thrustmaster JS) actually still does lock / unlock the tail wheel - but there is no animation of the lock lever when you use it.
The tail wheel lock lever is animated but only with a mouse click, and manipulating it does lock / unlock the tail wheel.
Maybe in the next patch they will tie the animation of the lock lever to the KB/JS button press? Not a deal breaker if they don't - it would just clean things up

Hi
Updated but unable to find tail wheel lock lever...much less any kind of animation. Find a lever near/above a black wheel related to pitch trim left cockpit side. Every time I try to use that lever pitch trim works. Please help.
Thanks

 

[heywooood]

I can post a picture in a few minutes maybe - but the tailwheel lock lever has no 'tool tip'
just hover the mouse pointer over the center of the lock lever - not the knob, but where the cable attaches to it - at that point you can left click to grab it and pull it back to lock the TW

 

[heywooood]

I needed some rudder but this aircraft is a lot of fun to fly. It is rapidly becoming a favorite. I have never flown a Waco but I have flown in real life some taildraggers and I always needed some rudder.

The problem here though (and I believe 100% it is an ASOBO MSFS issue) is that you should need LEFT rudder to counter the airplane wanting to drift RIGHT based on P factor and torque. But the tail draggers all want to veer hard LEFT at 40kts indicated.
Then when you want to correct that sudden move with right rudder - the faulty rudder modeling is exposed and you get a sudden right rudder effect with only 1/2 of your rudder input applied. Meaning that the first 1-50% of your deflection does almost nothing (depending on your JS calibration effort) but the next 1% of your input results in the aircraft behaving as if suddenly FULL right rudder is being applied. When looking at the rudder animation it looks correct and proportional to your JS inputs - but what the airplane DOES is not.

only a crosswind of some degree of gustiness would cause this odd behavior - but that isn't what we see with this consistency at all. You can set zero winds and this odd left turn will still occur every time at 40kts

 

[UnknownGuest12]

I can post a picture in a few minutes maybe - but the tailwheel lock lever has no 'tool tip'
just hover the mouse pointer over the center of the lock lever - not the knob, but where the cable attaches to it - at that point you can left click to grab it and pull it back to lock the TW

Thanks. If you mean this lever I have to send the bird to maintenance. Nothing happens and I tried all surrounding area. Only pitch trim...unable to get tailweel lock.
Regards

 

[heywooood]

Thanks. If you mean this lever I have to send the bird to maintenance. Nothing happens and I tried all surrounding area. Only pitch trim...unable to get tailweel lock.
Regards

yeah -that is the correct lever and click spot. and you have the updated file from Carenado installed?
you might need to reinstall - I would delete the Carenado YMF-5 aircraft folder and reinstall the Waco. There can be no other reason for it not to work.
Check with ASOBO MSFS for the correct process to delete an aircraft folder first

 

[FlyingsCool]

Thanks. If you mean this lever I have to send the bird to maintenance. Nothing happens and I tried all surrounding area. Only pitch trim...unable to get tailweel lock.
Regards

If it's not working, it sounds like you haven't updated to the latest rev. Go to your content menu and On the left, you'll see a menu with a choice "Updated" or something like that. Select it and update your install.

 

[Tom Clayton]

If you bought it through the Marketplace, check to see if there is anything showing under the "Update Available" section. Even though it comes through the MP, updates don't get pushed. I try to remember to check there once a week to see if any of my other packages have updates.

 

[UnknownGuest12]

Gentlemen, thanks a lot...some itens to update, scenery and plane in "Content Manager". Plane is now ok. Always learning...
Be safe

 

[UnknownGuest12]

Forgot to mention in previous post.
Read in SOH a post about the update, thought it will be automatic as sim updates, checked in Market Place/Owned/installed and there she was with an UPDATED tag. Assumed it was...it was not, that note is misleading. Going to update everything else.
Again, thank you

 

[heywooood]

I agree - it is confusing initially

 

[RRD2]

Looks like Carenado snuck one in on us - or at least me. I haven't heard anything about this release, and it isn't even on their website. The screenshots in the Marketplace look sweet, and at only half the price of the rest of their stuff, I might just be persuaded to get this one.

Did you ever get one, Tom?

After watching a few YouTube reviews about the Waco, I decided to fork over some $ to Carenado.

It's the only add-on anything that I have paid for, so far. Really looking forward to a C-47/DC-3 release some day.

At any rate, I was afraid that on any day Carenado might up the price on this little bargain basement priced bad-boy.

After several days in that wonderful open-air cockpit, I can tell you that I do NOT regret it.

A real-steal, IMHO!

 

[RRD2]

If you bought it through the Marketplace, check to see if there is anything showing under the "Update Available" section. Even though it comes through the MP, updates don't get pushed. I try to remember to check there once a week to see if any of my other packages have updates.

Good advice! I try to do the same thing about once a week.

The ASOBO/MS team as well as the present flock of 3rd party developers are a pretty aggressive bunch and seem to be pushing out updates quite frequently!

Gotta stay up to date!