engine70 Posted July 10, 2020 Share Posted July 10, 2020 It's been a while since I've done any flying, but I picked up the Cirrus SR22 during the recent Carenado sale, so I decided to do a test flight from New Garden Airport (N57) in Toughkenamon, PA to Ocean City Municipal Airport in Ocean City, Maryland. Tropical storm Fay is quickly approaching the Ocean City area so clouds were plentiful, but thankfully we beat the rain and the wind. Here are a few shots of the flight. Flying down the Delaware side of the Delaware River. Pennsylvania is in the back, New Jersey is under the left wing and Delaware is under the right wing The cloud layer is starting to thicken as we continue down the Delaware River Trying to find the runway through the clouds As you can see from the clouds, we didn't beat the storm by much As far as the plane goes, I like it so far. Taxiing using the differential braking is tough, but otherwise I think the SR22 is pretty well done. Hopefully I'll have some more screenshots for you guys soon. Thanks for viewing! Ryzen 5 3600X | RTX 2060 | 32 GB 3200 G.Skill RAM | 1TB Crucial P1 NVMe M.2 SSD Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Downwind66 Posted July 10, 2020 Share Posted July 10, 2020 Very nice Chris! Nice pics, great aircraft and a storyline to go with them! Rick :cool::cool: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rupert Posted July 10, 2020 Share Posted July 10, 2020 Nice shots! I always hated when I had to go scud running! :eek: Being an old chopper guy I usually fly low and slow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NMLW Posted July 10, 2020 Share Posted July 10, 2020 A nice little bird the SR22 and some fine shots of it. :cool: :cool: Larry Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
av8tor98 Posted July 10, 2020 Share Posted July 10, 2020 Awesome pics of the Cirrus. You shouldn't need differential braking with that aircraft...not unless Carenado fouled that up, too :P JOE- Asus P8Z68- V Pro; CPU: Intel i7-2600K 3.4ghz OC'd 4.6Ghz, 8G Corsair Dominator Platinum DDR3-1600, EVGA 1080Ti 11G ACX Cooler Samsung 500G OS drive, 3 WD 1T Raptor HDD Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DAVIDSTRAKA Posted July 10, 2020 Share Posted July 10, 2020 Looking good! What weather engine do you use? Senior Rookie Bragware: FSX Gold - Acceleration | HP Omen Obelisk Desktop | Intel Core i7 3.2 Ghz |16GB | NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 | 1TB HD | 256 GB SSD (Gaming Computer) REX Worldwide Airports HD AS16 + ASCA ORBX Global BASE ORBX Freeware Airports ORBX HD Trees [sIGPIC][/sIGPIC] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johncott Posted July 11, 2020 Share Posted July 11, 2020 (edited) Awesome pics of the Cirrus. You shouldn't need differential braking with that aircraft...not unless Carenado fouled that up, too :P Awesome plane and pics. Carenado actually did it right. The SR22 does have a free castoring nose wheel in real life and differential steering is needed at lower taxi speeds. Works really good with rudder pedals. John Cottreau Edited July 11, 2020 by johncott Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
av8tor98 Posted July 12, 2020 Share Posted July 12, 2020 Unfortunately Carenado doesn't do most of their aircraft correctly...in so many ways. Differential braking is not needed in MOST smaller aircraft like Cirrus. Perhaps Carenado made this a must but in real life this isn't a must...which is what I was referring to. Certainly some heavier singles need a bit of airflow over the rudder before taxi to get rudder effectiveness on the roll, but once that has been established, differential braking shouldn't be the be all and the end all to controlling the aircraft on the ground. JOE- Asus P8Z68- V Pro; CPU: Intel i7-2600K 3.4ghz OC'd 4.6Ghz, 8G Corsair Dominator Platinum DDR3-1600, EVGA 1080Ti 11G ACX Cooler Samsung 500G OS drive, 3 WD 1T Raptor HDD Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johncott Posted July 12, 2020 Share Posted July 12, 2020 Unfortunately Carenado doesn't do most of their aircraft correctly...in so many ways. Differential braking is not needed in MOST smaller aircraft like Cirrus. Perhaps Carenado made this a must but in real life this isn't a must...which is what I was referring to. Certainly some heavier singles need a bit of airflow over the rudder before taxi to get rudder effectiveness on the roll, but once that has been established, differential braking shouldn't be the be all and the end all to controlling the aircraft on the ground. My point was Carenado got it right and stand by that statement. I've flown the Realair Legacy with the castoring enabled, the Carenado SR22 and the Alabeo C400 which also both have castoring nosewheels and they behave the same. As you mentioned, one you have some momentum you can use the rudder for taxiing down a straight taxi way or down a runway. The three planes mentioned will do that. To make a sharp turn like doing a 180 degree turn at the end runway or a 90 degree from a taxi way on to a runway, you will need to use differential braking as would be the case in real life and these planes will do that as well. Not picking sides, Carenado vs whoever, just giving credit where it is due. Cheers, John Cottreau Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
engine70 Posted July 13, 2020 Author Share Posted July 13, 2020 Looking good! What weather engine do you use? Thanks, David! I use Active Sky 16 with textures from REX-4. Thanks for the comments everyone! Ryzen 5 3600X | RTX 2060 | 32 GB 3200 G.Skill RAM | 1TB Crucial P1 NVMe M.2 SSD Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DAVIDSTRAKA Posted July 13, 2020 Share Posted July 13, 2020 Thanks, David! I use Active Sky 16 with textures from REX-4. Thanks for the comments everyone! Thanks, I use AS16 but not the REX textures Senior Rookie Bragware: FSX Gold - Acceleration | HP Omen Obelisk Desktop | Intel Core i7 3.2 Ghz |16GB | NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 | 1TB HD | 256 GB SSD (Gaming Computer) REX Worldwide Airports HD AS16 + ASCA ORBX Global BASE ORBX Freeware Airports ORBX HD Trees [sIGPIC][/sIGPIC] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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