First look at the Carenado Cessna 182 Skylane in Microsoft Flight Simulator

A first look at the Carenado Cessna 182 Skylane in Microsoft Flight Simulator. A bit bigger, heaver, and faster than the Cessna 172. Modelled nicely, great fun to fly, and good value too. As the 172 comes with the simulator, it's utility is questionable, but it's nicely done anyway.
Enjoy!
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[@wootle]

Carenado are the MASTERS at creating great looking visual models. Their texture work is impeccable.

[@stevesumner9988]

I have this aircraft, and do enjoy it. I'm still hoping A2A comes out with this someday. Well done.

[@squidge73]

Thanks for this one I am going to buy it tomorrow for my birthday. 🌵

[@Steve-ui1ej]

Another great video. I enjoy your videos, always entertaining and informative in a clear and understandable way. I picked up 3 Carenados on the sale but passed on this one. The 3 I got I enjoy flying. Thanks again.

[@jonbeckett]

Cheers :)

[@gregzapia]

When you pull the prop lever on a VP-equipped plane, it doesn't brake but accelerate as propeller drag reduces significantly.

[@GumperVanLier]

You purchased the plane! I enjoy this plane more than I thought I would. It has a turbocharger engine. The marketplace update to 1.6 was a plus but the yoke is not centered. It's an easy fix before takeoff. I noticed on Carenado site, they have a 1.6.2 update which fixes the pilot yoke center position. I guess I'll have to wait for it to reach the marketplace.

[@jonbeckett]

I didn't notice the yolk not being centred? I'll have to take a look later.

[@TuffGnarl]

The update notes on the marketplace are often not up to date on Carenado’s aircraft. Given that the aircraft appears to be using the Working Title G1000 in the video I think it is probably up to date.

[@mikecoffee100]

From this to the RG I realy Appreciate The Terrbly Honest Reviews nothing held back

[@lvwpy]

Thanks for another enjoyable video, I'm glad your health seems to be improving!

[@jonbeckett]

Getting there!

[@FTSAV]

Another great video. I have the C182T and really enjoy it. For immersion this aircraft, as well as the mooney, is one of the reasons why I decided to keep by velocity one over the Honey Comb as I like the immersion of having the vernier throttle/prop/mixture controls.

[@jonbeckett]

I keep hearing everybody saying how great the Honeycomb is - I'll have to invest in one one day :)

[@mikecoffee100]

You had me at not Study level lol but another good video thank you

[@jonbeckett]

Hehe :)

[@cheddarmx5969]

As someone who does all their flight training in a skylane they’ve done a beautiful job with the unwillingness to stall of this aircraft however the actual snap when it does stall is quit unrealistic it’s more of a snap to 15 to 20ish degrees nose down in my experience.

[@rolanddutton]

Great to see the 182 getting some love. I think it was the first add-on in the store and Carenado keep improving it. A couple of nice things are the turbo and Wx screen. Perfect for short field/hot/high/bad Wx where a Cub isn't capable enough but a Caravan or Kodiak is too big. I'm not sure about the engine modelling. The turbo keeps the MP high at say 12k ft, but only if you adjust the mixture. IDK though, never flown a turbo.

[@ryanzucker8345]

As fast as I can tell, their Seneca V is a better simulation of turbocharged engines. The manifold pressure is steady until critical altitude, regardless of mixture setting

[@ThorntonWillie]

Caranado to me are what I call medium built aircraft. They are not low end or on the high end but they scratch that itch for price to performance.

[@jonbeckett]

Yep - they are obviously targeted at the mid-market.

[@kennykanada]

Good video! I purchased this last year. Don’t fly it much because as you noted, the pilot view is way off. Must lower seating just to see very bottom underside of wing, so then can’t see out front.

[@jonbeckett]

It's not "off" - it's realistic. In the real aircraft, pilots have to crouch to see out sideways.

[@ignaciorufas5688]

A very good video and a very good tauch and go.

[@rayjennings3637]

I shouldn't think it will be much longer before we see the A2A version, which will have an accurate flight model and a more immersive feel with a proper walkaround, just as it was in the FSX/P3D versions.

[@jonbeckett]

Hopefully :)

[@johnb7855]

You often use the side slip - in the real world pilots would extend the downwind leg, using their judgement, to arrive on final approach at the correct height.

[@jonbeckett]

Indeed - but then they probably fly the same plane on a regular basis and know it well :)

[@floridaflyboy7]

Nah he's good man I slip all the time irl, usually when coming in on mountainous approaches with terrain or tall trees to avoid rotor and low alt. Slips also fix a high approach pretty quick, in ga maintaining speed and glide picture is so much more important than getting a good glide angle imo

[@crevusllohcin]

The 172 is a4 cylinder and the 182 is a 6.

[@nealtrombley3955]

I still fly it.. I have flown a real 182.. so its close.

[@nealtrombley3955]

wish it had a 6 pack?

[@jvazquez53]

My first impression as soon as I loaded was not a good one. Every time was brought up, the pilot position was all the way down to the floor. I had to adjust everything. An update from the Microsoft store fixed this. On mine, the zoom in the cockpit (VR) does not works. It does not works only on this aircraft.

[@jonbeckett]

Yep - some aircraft don't work well with VR. I don't have VR, so don't have to worry about that.

[@jordancollins7714]

Did/do you have another channel devoted to DCS? Your voice sounds so familiar.

[@jonbeckett]

Nope - I have recorded a few DCS videos in the past though (a very long time ago).

[@Zumbosflightsims]

How do i use the towbar?

[@briancrawley8440]

What airport was this. I couldn’t quite make it out in the video commentary.

[@jonbeckett]

D83 Boonville - it's a great little airstrip in a shallow valley :)

[@Topcat1952]

Have you looked at the Seneca yet?

[@jonbeckett]

It's funny you say that - I've had it for ages - just returned to it to complete the set of videos. Keep an eye on the channel :)

[@Topcat1952]

@@jonbeckett Thanks. Just saw the video appear. 😀

[@kosys5338]

I have never had my sim pause like that not sure that it is a server thing.

[@jonbeckett]

It's odd. Whenever it does it, the multiplayer aircraft vanish and then load back in. I'm running in Ultra, so it could be related to that too.

[@kosys5338]

@@jonbeckett I also run pretty much on ultra I have tweaked a couple of settings but for the most part I am running on ultra. I do have a fast internet speed not sure if that might play a roll. I have a one gig internet connection. I also run in 1440 and not 4k. For graphics I'm running a 12GB 3080 and I do have 64gigs of ram. Does it happen when your not recording for KZbin?

[@jonbeckett]

@@kosys5338 I have 400+ Mbit

[@kosys5338]

@@jonbeckett I don't think it is a server problem otherwise the problem would be wide spread. It looks like a bottle neck problem for it to just pause for a sec or two then continue without crashing to desktop. Try lowering some critical settings and see if the problem continues. If the problem stops then there is a good chance you have a bottle neck somewhere in your system. Any how your videos are pretty good and very informative.

[@jonbeckett]

@@kosys5338 Recording the screen with OBS pretty much maxes out the processing - I know recording Ultra through OBS sometimes looks choppy - it's never choppy on-screen (running in 4K locally doesn't help either lol)

[@whammo11224]

I like the plane, I just really hate the way it sounds!

[@jonbeckett]

You can always put some music on ;) lol

[@crevusllohcin]

Funny, I thought it wasn’t too bad. I’ve certainly heard worse from Carenado. It certainly sounds like how a 6 should sound.

[@whammo11224]

@@crevusllohcin I know. It sounds exactly like the real airplane, which is to say, I don't like the way the real airplane sounds. It sounds like a very bad vacuum cleaner!

[@kenmunn4421]

How is the FD turned on?

[@jonbeckett]

I'll have a look next time I'm in it :)

[@kenmunn4421]

Certainly they didn’t for get it 😜

[@aerocatz.]

@@jonbeckett pls have a look

[@FrozenDonut]

Sucks it doesn’t have autopilot