Some comments on the module

Hi there,

 

 

nice module, I did a testride today. I did not read the handbook, I just noticed a few things that caught my eye. May be a misunderstanding on my side, a bug or a feature -I don't know and here we go! :)

 

 

1) The breathing sound in hard turns loops&cracks

2) When trying to stall at 90° pitch, the "AOA" and "speed" callouts are almost simultaneously. I think they should be ordered, so "AOA" is more important than "speed" or vice versa.

3) Altitude readouts for radar and barometric are per single feet. I believe it should be in 10' or 20' steps. Radar altimeter should also get more coarse with increasing alt.

4) Radar altimeter works until 45° bank and then quits. Depending on aircraft, radar altimeters work reliable to about 30° bank and then measure the slant distance. I think the formula is like sin((bank-30)*2)*RA + RA to estimate the slant distance above 30° bank

5) vertical speed in the HUD is sometimes -0 and sometimes +0

6) Pitch on the HUD is the "+"-sign, and on the PFD the top of the "w"? Not sure, if I read it right. The pitch differs by about 2.5° in my opinion.

7) In real life, a standard 360° turn takes two minutes. Bank is about (speed/10)+7, so a 30° bank at 230 kts should take 2 minutes. With these numbers, I measured 2:26 on the first run.

 

 

Also 2 graphical things:

The lighted buttons on the top right of the dashboard are hard to read if I don't zoom in. Perhaps a bolder font would help.

The indicators for the gear are somewhat plain, some gloom would be nice :)

 

 

Besides mentioning so many small things, let me say that this is really an interesting module with a lot of potential. Thank you!

Edited March 24, 2020 by frumpy

I get what you mean but most things in this module are designed 1:1 i.e. Exactly like in real plane simulator. So unless you can make manufacturer change.....

Devs have confirmed real altimeter is accurate and updates for every foot

thanks for the comments

 

6) + is gun cross, which has 2.5 bias

Edited March 25, 2020 by uboats

thanks for the comments

 

6) + is gun cross, which has 2.5 bias

 

Oh so that's why FPM can go higher than cross because it's not negative alpha. Makes sense.

Oh, so that’s how much the gun points down.....

Devs have confirmed real altimeter is accurate and updates for every foot

 

 

Yes, but youtube videos featuring JF-17 RL flight sims said wrong. Moreover, barometric altimeters don't provide such accuracy, specially at high altitudes

Which video of the simulator? This video of a JF-17 simulator shows it goes to every single digit of the altimeter, go to the 1 minute mark to see, 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9 they are all there

. So if there’s a video of a simulator that shows different behavior, I would love to see it, the refresh rate might be slow but it’s a precise reading every time. Does not mean it is actually precise to the foot, but that’s what the computer calculates, I’m sure there is more then 1 foot of error at higher altitudes, but doesn’t mean it can’t give you a precise number

 

You have secondary data from the GPS, also from the INS, and would it be so much for a modern computer to use VVI derived from GPS/INS as well as barometer to get a precise altitude?

Edited March 25, 2020 by AeriaGloria