Beechcraft KingAir 350

[IAHM-COL]

[bomber]

How have you guys calculated the planes interia values ?

[jwocky]

They are still from Aeromatic, from the very beginning, had no time yet to look at them. Since we had since some weight upgrade to the 350i in most aspects, they are for sure on the light side. But not that much. There is admittedly a lot knitted with the hot needles in this one.

[jwocky]

I spend half an hour watching this and a few other youtubes with KingAirs. Not sure in this one what this one has under the fuselage, looks like a big lunchbox ... but bottom line, when they leave the runway and short before the mountain, they actually do pitch so brutally up and the turns look pretty much the same as in ours. You can even see in some approaches how they oversteer and I am pretty sure, none of them use a Logitech joystick.
Now, you last version should have made the nose a little heavier anyway, so, against everything I planned for today, i go back and play around more with her.

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[edit: IAHMCOL: Fix youtube link]

[IAHM-COL]

beautiful vid JWocky

[Octal450]

Ok. AP will need more Tuning then. Let me know when you done that.

[D-ECHO]

I am pretty sure, none of them use a Logitech joystick.
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Well if it was a lowcost Airbus they probably would.

[IAHM-COL]

ROF... L
Lowcost Airbus...
Good one

[jwocky]

Okay, I ran in a problem that needs opinions. I looked at the cockpit and found a lever for propeller pitch, which is, by the will of Beechcraft, not supposed to set directly the propeller blade angle but the propeller rpm (which is determined by the angle at a constant pitch/airspeed). So, kind of a backwards logic that makes sense.
The problem is, I use currently the automatic constant speed props. Which well, tries to get at a given throttle to a blade angle ... the 2nd stage of backward logic ... and that one rendered in the process the whole manual propeller angle setting obsolete because JSB did it for you. Means, the lever hangs currently on a property that effectively does nothing.

Soooo ... how much do you want to play with your propeller blade angle? I have set manually the blade angle in other planes, but then you have to keep an eye on your propeller rpms yourself. In the Koenigsadler for example, it is a nice thing of fly on the seat of the pants, kind of fly-by-feel and in the Wuerger, it worked fine by me, but I am pretty sure, not everyone shares my taste. On the other hand, with manual control, I can build us a reverser like the real one has
So comfort over authenticity or going a little bit more hardcore? Opinions please!

Also, I am about to push a version with partial clean up in some files, a repaired propeller animation (the right propeller suffered from typonitis) and the engine gauges connected. The oil temp is off the chart (literally, the needle leaves the instrument) because I had oil temp only in F, not in C and somehow, I was too stupid to build me a recalculator on the fly. But the other ones look about right.

[jwocky]

@ITouchPods: After the changes, she flies still fine with the AP. no need to adapt. The only thing you may want to consider is a bank angle limit max of 35 degrees, the slider goes only to 30 yet.