Your personal reporter Angelique van Campen loves Florida, US and then in particular with the Orbx TrueEarth ortho scenery, but there’s more. And that more are aircraft. Although Angelique had her PPL lessons in New Smyrna Beach (KEVB) she drove from north top south, from, west to east to explore Florida.
In this new adventure she explores the Carenado SR22 GTx G3 for X-Plane 11 GA aircraft. A great aircraft for your IFR flights. That said, she tried to find all the ins and outs of this GA model and did that on a IFR flight from Key West to Daytona Bech International Airport.
Was it fun? Did you had any issues or did she like the aircraft. According to Angelique “it’s a great aircraft to practice, especially in combination with the installed X1000 from Laminar Research. The X1000 represents the Garmin G1000 with all the components that belong to this. Although the simulated G1000 doesn’t offer all what the real G1000 has, it’s still fun to fly this aircraft.”
Curious how it was? Curious what she thinks of it? Then you must read this comprehensive review link. Enjoy!
That’s the problem, Angelique. Some people can hear the whine, some don’t. Maybe Windows or MAC dependent? Here I am using Windows 10. I hear a whine when I switch on the avionics or the batteries of other aircraft, this one just manifests itself as loud and unpleasant.
My big bugbear with this aircraft is that when I switch on the battery, I get a really annoying whine which is loud enough to spoil the whole experience when flying this aircraft. I think they have used a default Laminar sound for this function, as it can’t be controlled with Carenado’s volume slider. Now, other folks have commented on this whine as well, but, on the other side of the coin, others say they can hear NO whine.
I thought the aircraft was really nice, the interior is the about the best “3d” effect I have come across, but I won’t fly it as long as that whine is present, it really is that unpleasant, especially when wearing headphones.
Do you use perhaps Ultra Weather XP or any other program that offers “environmental sound”?
The whine is there with no additional plugins and no additional scenery except that supplied with x-plane. It builds up after I press the Battery On” button. I selected the aircraft in 11.41 to make sure it wasn’t a beta issue. In fact the whine stayed there when I pressed the “x” to close the X-Plane window. The engine noises stopped but the whine remained until I hit the confirmation button to close X-Plane.
When I’m back home, Il’l have a look for you, but I can’t recall it had a weird “whine” sound.