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Old 04-22-2011, 04:19 PM
Blackdog_kt Blackdog_kt is offline
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Did you start your flight by selecting the cross-country mission?

I tried the Tiger Moth yesterday and there definitely is a crosswind implemented in that mission, it was weather-vaning to the right with the engine off. I guess this is also part of the reason people have problems with the Blenheim in that mission, as for some reason it spawns with rudder trimmed to the right (this one's easily fixed, just reset the trim), it has a pull to the right of its own due to prop and torque effects and on top of that you have the crosswind to deal with.

On another note, it seems that the Moth's engine controls suffer from similar bugs to the ones found in the two-speed prop Hurricane. It seems that mixture is correctly modeled with rich corresponding to the lever fully aft, but the throttle is reversed (full throttle should be forward, in the sim full throttle is aft).
The reason mixture and throttle are opposite of each other in the real aircraft is that when pulling the throttle back, the throttle lever has some sort of a pin that pulls the mixture back into rich to prevent rough running of the engine that could occur with low throttle and lean mixture.

However, in the sim the throttle is reversed while the throttle pin that pulls the mixture lever is working correctly. This makes it a bit difficult to start it up due to the levers interlocking in reverse (if that makes any sense) and messing things up with inappropriate throttle and mixture combinations that either choke the engine due to too much throttle/fuel or starve it of fuel.

That was with CEM enabled, i will try it again tonight to see if i can make it work as when started up and rolling it's actually easier to work around the bug.
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