Aerofly also has an old wiki that's no longer updated I believe, but it's got a very basic tutorial on the King Air C90GTx.
aircraft:king_air_c90_gtx [Aerofly FS Wiki]
P.S. I hope that it isn't a problem that I post this tutorial in a different reply to reply to the OP, compared to my reply to ApfelFlieger's reply.
I don't have a video, but a link to a manual:
That one is for a Super King Air 200. In Aerofly we got a King Air C90GTx.
I've personally been using the Pilot's Training Manual for the C90GTi/GTx for a while now. It's the closest I could actually find to a Pilot's Operating Handbook, but it suffices I guess.
Links to the aforementioned manual:
6 King Air C90GTi-GTx Pilot Training Manual | PDF | Door | Aircraft (Scrollable, but with ads)
King air C90GTx Manuals | ManualsLib (Ad-free afaik)
The turbo-superchargers of the USAAF radial engines and the P-38’s Allison V-12 are still superchargers, the drive and control operation just differ. They were all remotely located from the engines as they required complicated air ducting and lots of space.
Disabling the complexity of the turbo and waste-gates of the turbo aircraft would be the easiest given their physical separation. The mechanical superchargers would have required modification of the engines to simplify the supercharger operation but it was done in the interests of reliability and maintenance economy.The Aerofly P-38 has a manifold pressure of about 36 inches at full throttle at take off from sea level. If the aviation authorities approve that or a very similar maximum manifold pressure for civilian use in a de-rated engine with the turbo disabled, which they very well might do given the war time permitted boost being about twenty inches higher, the full throttle height would be at sea level. There would be no need to throttle back in the initial climb until reaching a height where holding the maximum manifold pressure corresponded with the throttles being fully opened.
Without operating turbos there would be no critical altitude, the height where the engine’s automatic boost control has the waste gate fully opened.
I was kidding about the discrepancy between superchargers and turbosuperchargers.😅
But some ww2 turbocharged engines had a first stage engine driven supercharger, and a second stage turbo supercharger. My point was that the second stage could be disabled, leaving the first stage supercharger in operation. That first stage doesn’t necessarily need to have its critical altitude at sea level.
In any case the Allison V-1710 -111 and -113, found on the P-38L models, have a second stage turbo supercharger according to this table: Allison Piston Engine Specifications. However I can’t find the critical altitude of the first stage, which may actually be at sea level.
Not having secondary supercharging in American Warbirds reflects current operating practice. Have a look at this previous thread. Spitfires and Merlin P-51s have integral two stage supercharging so they would need high manifold pressures if ever introduced in Aerofly. The F4U Corsair had a complicated induction system.
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If only we were talking about an aircraft with a secondary engine driven supercharger, rather than a turbosupercharger😉. Besides that, even if warbirds have their second stage supercharger disabled, the critical altitude of the first gear would usually still be somewhere between 5000 and 15000 feet.
I believe the IPad Pro with M1 chip has trees (Pro with M2 certainly has, because I got it). I’m not sure if non- Pro IPads with an M chip have trees, if those IPads even exist
The last update was on the 12th of October 2024, so I wouldn’t get your hopes up. Unless I get an itch to play a lot of Aerofly again.
I believe that IPACS has added a whole bunch of airports that would have gone under the Global group on the map, but the high resolution aerial image areas haven’t been changed I don’t think.
Yes, thank you. I got a bit behind, but New Delhi should be added to the map now.
Thank you! I've updated the Map containing detailed airports too.
Just a short update from me. I should have added most of the airports, marked blue on the Aerofly Missionsgerät, to the map. This finishes what I set out to do, until IPACS details another airport. I may occasionally add an airport that I think is interesting, and that deserves to be on the map.
I've also renamed the map to "The unofficial Aerofly detailed airports & regions map", just for my own sanity, if I quit updating the map. The description also includes a date of the last map update.
The map now indicates if an airport doesn't have a long runway. Airports marked with a straight-wing aircraft only have runways shorter than 1500 meters (~5000 ft). So take a bit more caution if you're trying to use these airports with a Learjet or Q400.
If there are any questions or suggestions, please let me know.
That's all for now folks.
Jet-Pack (IPACS)/Jan , I think that you are asking a bit much from someone who isn’t on IPACS’s payroll. I put in all the airports manually, largely based on the Missionsgerät, since I only play on IPad myself. As ApfelFlieger is pointing out, this could probably be automated, but that’s beyond my skill level.
Concerning the lack of airports in America and Europe, it’s because that wasn’t the primary goal of the project. My aim was to make a more easy to use map, than what was available in the Mapbox in the Missionsgerät, that would show me where detailed airports are located outside of the regions from previous Aerofly releases. I’ve already stated this at the start of the thread.
Jan, I know that you are trying to prevents untruths from spreading (As we all should), but that’s not the case, as long as people can read. I do intend on adding detailed airports from Switzerland, Western USA, Northeastern USA, South Florida and Western Europe with time. Updating is another matter, but I probably make sure that the date, of the last update of the map, will be visible somewhere.👍
If only we could filter detailed airports clearly within the app…🤔 (The same is becoming true for the aircraft and livery selection screens by the way😂)
Here's the link: Aerofly detailed airports & regions
This map shows where Aerofly's high resolution aerial images, and detailed airports are located. It currently only shows detailed airports in area's where there isn't high resolution aerial imagery.
The airport data was based on the blue airports in the Mapbox in Armitage 's Missionsgerät, but Mapbox had a few issues. So I made my own in Google Maps.
I still want to add airports from the area's with high resolution aerial images, but that's probably going to take a bit more time.
It turns out that I'm one of those weirdo's that's willing too spend soo much time. In any case, here's the flight: Farrenberg - Schanis - Farrenberg, 148 NM or 274 km. The start was made using a single 'Quick lift up'. There was a 6 km/h breeze from the West, so that didn't really influence the flight, but maybe improves thermals🤷♂️, which are set to the maximum. Oh, and the battery of the ASG 29 ran out slightly after 3 hours, so the approach and landing was made without the flight computer.😅
Something tells me that this is more a challenge of spending enough time, rather than an actual measurement of skill in flying gliders.🙄
Most of us probably could keep a glider airborne in Aerofly in high thermal settings for 10+ hours, but not many of us are willing to spend that much time.😅
