Can we talk about the PC-24?

[TargetLost]

There is some strange things going on with this Aircraft in the simulation.

FUEL Issue:

Firstly the Fuel conspution seems off.
It can easly fly 0.7 mach at FL300 but if you do that the fuel lasts for 2 hours flights only.

So I decided to fly at 0.57 mach or IAS 220 at FL300 and a 2 hour flight uses half the fuel.
That is how it was in the last few flights... but this flight was different... I run out of Fuel midlfight after just 1 hours flight. Even if I had forgotton to fuel up ...which I haven't... it should still had half the Fuel from the last 2 hour flight and last close to another 2 hours.

Luckly I discovered the issue before I run completly dry and could do an emergency landing even with ATC comm but the mission failed.

Byway contacting the Airport is close to impossible..althpough EDDF is a major Airport yet I had to cycle several time through the ATC com list because it wasn't listed despite me basicly flying right over it.


FLAPS and TAKE OFF Issue:

I don't know hoe this plane flys in RL but I really have a hard time to get it off ground proper on a 1 km rwy.
Best take off so far seems to rotate and lift off at 120 IAS and head 10 degree upward.
You have to pull a lot more than on any other aircraft I know.
If you pull too little you will not make it over the Trees and if you pull too much you will hear the stall alarm. I tried with 8 deg flaps and 15 deg and I can't tell what is better/safer,

Now Flaps should increase the lift but I observe that whenever I set the flaps in approach it reduces the lift. This makes the vertical speed very nice controllable with just the power however it makes the short rwy take off difficult.
I wonder if this is realistrc.

Also when there is the slightest side wind the aircraft immediatly after nose up starts heading extremly strong into the wind and I fail to give enough rudder to prevent it from disalign with the rwy and heading right to the trees on a narrow rwy.

Now I never had a crash with that aircraft.. but maybe 10 heart attacks on take off already.
Take off with it just feels not safe to me.

MEDIUM CARGO Rwy Length:
This I already mentioned.. The medium Cargo Planes all need a minimum rwy of at least 1 km length yet the Career tends to create mostly mission with much sorter lengths.

THRUST Controller:
The automatic thrust is pumping all the time ..incerasing and decreasing the engine power.
The controller for this should be better tuned.

As last a good point:
I never had a problem with the Oxygen since the patch.

[TargetLost]

Looks like it is useing twice the fuel amount it should be useing.

The simulator Fuel consumption is is twice the FF amount shown and the Fuel End time half the Time that is displayed. Somehwere you must have made a mistake with the factor 2. eighter with the FF or the End time.

Likely both.
I see that a single engine displays the same FF as the value on the MFD.
The used Fuel fits when the displayed FF is doubled. (I guess this hsould have shown the total FF not the one of a single engine) The dispalyed End time has to be halved that it adds up but likely that is auto corrected when the FF is corrected to the total FF.

[TargetLost]

Just had a complete shutdown of the Aircraft Mid-Air.

I was about to take over from the autopilot and disableing the AP and any still lightened Autopilot Button when all of a sudden... the aircraft was cold and dark glideing at 3000 Ft with no engine and no instruments except the BackUp.

There was not even a Shutdown procedure but an instant aircraft state reset as it looks like.
Everything was switched back to Off.

I restarted the engines mid air (as proper as it can be done if you can't switch to ignition..why is that?) but the instruments didn't came back.

I landed with the standby instrument. The plane is a good glider and I had the airport in sight already so no big issue..

But ..that shouldn't happen.

Before the flight I did a plane maintenance and had all systems green or new.
I had the plane fully filled up and had still half the fuel right before the unsheduled shutdown.

Sooo .. not good.

Would like to change to a bigger Jet plane now but seems there is none working?

My criterias are:
* It has to work
* It has to have a modern cockpit
* The 737 Max is not allowed to fly in my virtual world.

Would prefer an Airbus (A320 and/or A330) but I will even accept the 787 temporary if it has to be... just give me any working plane to fly please to continue my career.

Currently I am stuck with the PC-24 cargo and would really like to fly passengers like in a real airline soon. Isn't that what career was meant to be for us to do?

[katamshut]

When starting you should trim the pc-24 up 3.5 degree (displayed in the lower MFD) and then the takeoff is much easier. On top you can add flaps to it to get even easier up in the air.

While flying cruise you might check the wind on your left pfd in the bottom right corner. The wind plays a significant role when flying high. It can reach quickly a wind of over 100 kn against your plane what means you will lose this amount of speed during cruise and therefore your max range. Since MSFS provides real live weather you can find lots of top information on public wind sites where you also can set your cruise level and see where the best winds are for your route. Then inform ATC to switch to the best levels. I use this site for best weather / wind information: https://www.windy.com/

On the right you can set the hight (set it nearest to your cruise level), on the bottom make sure you use the correct time (now). Use levels that provides back wind (best) or side wind. Avoid levels with wind from the front.

Next, AP will always speed the plane up (103%) and then lower it once the AT is reached. I assume this is not how the AP should react. Therefore I use manual speed and set it to a constant level to avoid this. Same for heading, I avoid using NAV and set a HDG so the plane won't fly right and left the whole flight. For the ALT I set the VS to zero since this mode is much more stable than ALT Hold mode and avoid lots of up and down's during the flight.

With this procedure I was able to fly A32n from Zurich to New York.