P3D v5 Installers Now Released

Hey Mr. Halpern - thanks so much for bringing this great bird to P3Dv5!  I've just done a quick circuit around KICT, hand flying, and no problems occurred.  And, I left FXAA ON, and mipmaps ON - no problems reading the G1000 screens on my system.  Will do more testing w/flight plans, autopilot, etc....

Jim

The P3D V5 Mustang (beta) is doing really well so far.
HDR Lighting should be off, otherwise you can't see knobs and buttons.

Remarks for both versions, P3D V4 and V5 (which are already really nice!):

- One little thing that would be very easy to fix: the Mustang's PW615F engines deliver 1,460 lbs of thrust. It originally was designed and advertised with 1,390 lbs, but from serial number one all aircraft were delivered with 1,460 lbs thrust. 

- Autopilot: FLC (= IAS) mode is frequently leading to very unstable flight. Standard is climb with FLC 170 KIAS / M0.44. 

- Battery on EMER should last for 30 min and only power display PFD1. No lights except dome light, no electric gear, no flaps, no speedbrakes, no normal brakes on EMER. You use EMER in case of both GEN U/S.

- Stand-by instruments are all electric, not by vacuum or mechanic. Battery for 30 min after normal battery is off. 

- CAS messages do flash, until acknowledged by button.

The installer gets to the end where it says  "INSTALLING-SEEKING" and stops right there and i get a "Not Responding"

Update,

I check the P3D V5 files and infact the F1 Mustang was there. So i ran P3d V5 and it works. Thank you for bring the Mustang back into my P3D V5. It was missed. I know this is a Beta, Small issue that i see is, The landing and taxi lights bleed into the cockpit. But so far so good.

Ed

Thank you,  I will test fly tonight.

Update,

Works perfect! 

 

Did you recalibrate the throttle axes for the new installation?

 

Hi Ed, did you replace the .air and .cfg file? The last link in this thread is just for the model (mdl) file to address lights bleeding into the cockpit. The .air and .cfg zip is higher up.

Working nice!  Thank you Steve!

Ed

Those turbofans on the Mustang are FADEC regulated. No complicated climb schedules.

All the N1, N2 and ITT are pretty spot on.

Idle Fuel Flow is a bit low (80 pph vs. 120 pph RW).

Putting 1460 lbs in the aircraft.cfg, not changing air file, did the job to me to get the same performance as in the real aircraft.

You have to manually point the Navigraph installer to the P3D V5 folder until Navigraph can change the installer to do it automatically.

Everything from FSL A320 to PMDG777, even Captain Sim 767 is buttery smooth, and the Mustang is as well until as i said the G1000 comes to life. Then it's jumping between 100fps and 30 which turns the simulator into a stutterfest.

There is clearly something going on here with the G1000 simulation, maybe forcing it to run on another core, IIRC there was an option to do so?

Thanks

Framerate isn't the issue, really, the problem here is something else that seems to be cyclic and causes this stuttering. 

Needless to say i have a default aircraft as my P3D startup (in my case it's the default F-22), then when the aircraft select window comes up i then select the actual addon i want to fly with (in this case the Mustang), select an airport and start the simulator.

At the airport, click to power on the aircraft on the battery switch and it starts with that behaviour.

I will be away from my computer for a few weeks now, if there's the need, i will make a video upon my return in order to show the issue better.

Hi John,

I just did that and saw no decrease in fps/smoothness.  Still have not started cold and dark then set to BAT switch to ON.  That's next.

Well, sadly I've decided that the upgrade to V5 just isn't worth it to me.  Doing the dance and adding all my add-ons and buying a ton more just to get the sim to look and perform half as good as MSFS just isn't something I'm willing to do at this point.

Also:

Based on the HUGE sales success of the Aerosoft CRJ release (PMDG attentively watching the Aerosoft sales spike and releasing a new statement based on same), PMDG themselves are now Rushing to get there birds in MSFS.

 I would say the juice on this one would definitely be worth the squeeze!

EDIT: Reinstalled, same exact problems. As soon as the G1000 comes to life, it's a stutterfest. This only happens with the Mustang, any other addon during whole flights (even PMDG's 777 or 747 during 20 hour flights) don't show any stuttering at all.

Here's an example video, HD version might still be processing: