I have the immense privelege and pleasure to own two of these wonderful machines in the real world, a 1966 PA-24 260B and a 1965 PA-24 260. I was also on the testing team for this aircraft. Scott and Jake and the rest of the A2A team have made a masterpeice.
This plane is fantastic. Simple enough for beginners and deep enough for veteran. A great flight model, precise. Best overall plane i have. I owned the tbm 850 blacksquare and the cirrus vision jet. The tbm is much more complex, magnificient, a very good failure model, not as good as the comanche. but a bit more tricky to fly. The cirrus is really fun, a great great feeling with its flight model, maybe too simple to operate, no failure, and a few features missing.
great review of this amazing GA aircraft, I have an odd question however, I see at [19:44] you rotated the course heading bug somehow with the mouse, I have been searching the entire controls options section for this key to assign to bind my controls.. could you share this key please.. its not under course or CDI bug ? keep the great work coming..
Oooh, you're a sharp eye. If using mouse you'd just mouse over that knob with the yellow arrow on it and use your scroll wheel, but the reason you didn't see that is I have it i mapped via AAO to my Beringer Xtouch Mini on a knob... That control is mapped to VOR1_OBI_INC or VOR1_OBI_DEC depending on which way it is rotated. At about 1:50 in the video you can see my xTouch controller on top of the Bravo... the right most knob is the control I was using and my paper template there is marked HDG/CRS
@@kurtvwSims arrrrr mate your a legend... finally! I've asked this question on multiple FB MSFS groups including ASOBO and nobody had a clue.. I searched many times the controls but stupid me didn't think to look at VOR hahaha.. thanks again this wasn't a big issue but sometimes doing things with the radio with HOTAS is simpler and fast .. 👍
@@paulcrocker7347 You're welcome! Between the Bravo and the Xtouch I spend a lot of time doing maps, so let me know if you hit any other snags with it... This plane has a few custom controls, I think I located them all (at least everything I needed to find). The Flysimware planes have a lot of custom code too. It can get to be quite a scavenger hunt. I don't know about other mapping programs, but in AAO under scripting it has a window that lets you see variable or simEvents in real time. Makes it easy to find these things, you just get that open, and then move the knob or switch by clicking on screen and it shows what actually happened internally. Then you know what to do.
I have the immense privelege and pleasure to own two of these wonderful machines in the real world, a 1966 PA-24 260B and a 1965 PA-24 260. I was also on the testing team for this aircraft. Scott and Jake and the rest of the A2A team have made a masterpeice.
love the comanche!
This plane is fantastic. Simple enough for beginners and deep enough for veteran. A great flight model, precise. Best overall plane i have. I owned the tbm 850 blacksquare and the cirrus vision jet. The tbm is much more complex, magnificient, a very good failure model, not as good as the comanche. but a bit more tricky to fly.
The cirrus is really fun, a great great feeling with its flight model, maybe too simple to operate, no failure, and a few features missing.
Really good review. Thank you
Thanks for watching!
Great minds. I did the same with the carb heat using a usb stick cap for a control knob. Very pleasant review it's real easy listening, cheers Kurt
Maybe I should get into hypnosis... 😁
great review of this amazing GA aircraft, I have an odd question however, I see at [19:44] you rotated the course heading bug somehow with the mouse, I have been searching the entire controls options section for this key to assign to bind my controls.. could you share this key please.. its not under course or CDI bug ? keep the great work coming..
Oooh, you're a sharp eye. If using mouse you'd just mouse over that knob with the yellow arrow on it and use your scroll wheel, but the reason you didn't see that is I have it i mapped via AAO to my Beringer Xtouch Mini on a knob... That control is mapped to VOR1_OBI_INC or VOR1_OBI_DEC depending on which way it is rotated.
At about 1:50 in the video you can see my xTouch controller on top of the Bravo... the right most knob is the control I was using and my paper template there is marked HDG/CRS
@@kurtvwSims arrrrr mate your a legend... finally! I've asked this question on multiple FB MSFS groups including ASOBO and nobody had a clue.. I searched many times the controls but stupid me didn't think to look at VOR hahaha.. thanks again this wasn't a big issue but sometimes doing things with the radio with HOTAS is simpler and fast .. 👍
@@paulcrocker7347 You're welcome! Between the Bravo and the Xtouch I spend a lot of time doing maps, so let me know if you hit any other snags with it... This plane has a few custom controls, I think I located them all (at least everything I needed to find). The Flysimware planes have a lot of custom code too. It can get to be quite a scavenger hunt.
I don't know about other mapping programs, but in AAO under scripting it has a window that lets you see variable or simEvents in real time. Makes it easy to find these things, you just get that open, and then move the knob or switch by clicking on screen and it shows what actually happened internally. Then you know what to do.
Thank you, Nicely done.
Cessna 414 is great, but the new Blacksquare Piston Duke is the actual king in Twin GA.