Post by Tom Goodrick on Oct 3, 2010 20:27:42 GMT -5
Yes that is the condition I see in a DC-3 I fly in FS2002. It is described as Jan Visser's DC3 painted bare metal by Mark Beamond. It has elaborate stairs that pop into place when you tap the "L" key. Of course that turns on all lights. If you are flting and decide to turn off one of the lights, the door opens and the stairs pop out.
I thought I had fixed up this plane so it had the right performance as determined last year in consultation with Charles Woods. But i was checking it out recently in preparations for some long flights and found that there was a consistent difference between the rpm of the left engine and the rpm of the right engine. It is a proportional difference that begins with engine start.
The thing is that I don't know of any way you can make one engine operate at a different rpm than the other except by setting the prop levers differently. When I saw this difference, I popped both levers up to full rpm and then drew them back together. That is the way I always fly twins. in the files, the engines (and props) are each setup by one set of engine adjustments in the files. The only thing you could do differently is to set an unsymmetrical location for the engines. That was not done.
Has anybody else encountered this?
I should add that, with the notable differences in rpm as shown above, the mp and fuel flow remain identical. That would point to the gauges as being at fault. But I use exactly the same panel in other twins. (Yes, I do not use a historical DC-3 panel.) The problem does not appear with those other planes, such as the Baron from which this panel was directly copied.
I thought I had fixed up this plane so it had the right performance as determined last year in consultation with Charles Woods. But i was checking it out recently in preparations for some long flights and found that there was a consistent difference between the rpm of the left engine and the rpm of the right engine. It is a proportional difference that begins with engine start.
The thing is that I don't know of any way you can make one engine operate at a different rpm than the other except by setting the prop levers differently. When I saw this difference, I popped both levers up to full rpm and then drew them back together. That is the way I always fly twins. in the files, the engines (and props) are each setup by one set of engine adjustments in the files. The only thing you could do differently is to set an unsymmetrical location for the engines. That was not done.
Has anybody else encountered this?
I should add that, with the notable differences in rpm as shown above, the mp and fuel flow remain identical. That would point to the gauges as being at fault. But I use exactly the same panel in other twins. (Yes, I do not use a historical DC-3 panel.) The problem does not appear with those other planes, such as the Baron from which this panel was directly copied.
