Carenado PA-44 Seminole Review! - MSFS 2020 

Good to see "steam gauged" aircraft. So tired of almost every aircraft in MSFS being the G1000.

I did my commercial multi in the Seminole. It should have a little better performance with one engine out than what i have experienced in fs2020 but it is not egregious. You could have achieved better performance if you had maintained blue line and 0 side slip. One other tip would be to not lower the gear till you are sure of the runway. IRL this plane drops like a rock. The pitch is way too sensitive though lol.

Loved this in P3D, was installing in MS2020 while watching your excellent review. Subbed. :-)

Love the one engine continuing to run after the water landing lol. Great review.

This is my first time seeing your channel. I have to say I enjoyed it immensely. Great job on this review, and I was impressed by the calm, professional manner in which you reacted to a rather embarrassing situation with the landing on camera. Well done! (Subscribed!)

my fav add on so far to date at time of writing. done some good flights so far. nice review.

... Great review and lot’s of fun ... subscribed to your new channel👍

WOW ! very interesting, cutting one motor, something to try in this marvellous plane ! thanks for the review

LOL, I love the Seminole, gentle lil twin.

love your reviews

Hi Rach. Love this game and I’m thinking of getting it for Christmas. Keep up the amazing work as always and see you in the next video comments.😁👍

Great review as always

Oooo, was bored today, last day of work before vacation, trudging through and wondering - is ANYTHING on YT today? Something new? And Lo and Behold, an AvAngel review. Smiles all around :) Thanks for lightening my day again.

Carenado is renowned for quality GA sim aircraft since FS2004 days, prices are at times a bit steep but its still worth it, the Seneca V is my absolute favourite, apart from the flysimware 414., personally I enjoy steam gauges way more than glass... Its just more fun, interesting, and rewarding knowing you navigated by old school methods.

The Seminole is a lovely plane to fly. I’ve got about 20-ish hours in it so far, and comes a close second to the M20R for me.

Awesome review, I will be getting this as prefer steam gauges, and been looking for a nice GA twin for a while. Had this plane on FSX SE. not seen your channel before but subscribed. Really nice review. Maybe they will patch this aircraft as looks like a few things need tweaking.

thanks for the vid! just bought this one. FYI you should have the fuel pumps on during starting (think why the left prop didn't start right away) also this aircraft should only be stalled to the warning never the break! its incredably unstable while stalled IRL and goes into flat spin super easy!

Even though I already have the Seneca and both normal and turbo Arrows and have no intention or good reason to buy the Seminole, I can't help thinking how cute this plane is, having two engines on a cozy little 4-seater (and it's not much slower than the Seneca if at all), plus I always love your style of reviewing so I'm going back and watching the reviews of planes I wasn't interested in before. Very funny seeing you go into the drink, I assume you had crashes/overstress turned off? Keep the fun and awesome reviews coming.

Excellent review! Thanks

Very good handling

Nice review! Lol, first time I’ve ever seen a ditching in a review.

I'm willing to out on a limb and bet your a real pilot first time seeing your video and I have to say you actually review the plane unlike alot of other people who focus on the look and sound of the plane purses how it handles in the sim compared to real life and to answer your question they are quite a bit draggy when you lose an engine in a twin

Congratulations to your swimming certificate. 🏊😱😁 Strange parking position.

Was going to hold off grabbing this until Carenado fixed the Mooney. I couldn't help myself though. Only done one short flight so far. Lots to learn. Well, that water landing was unexpected. Hehehe...

Thanks for the review love, especially the engine out test. I just got the plane myself and will try it out myself! I noticed when you turned your flight into a cruise that the prop blades weren't actually in a feathered position, increasing drag. From the POH: "The propellers can be feathered only while the engine is rotating above 950RPM. Loss of centrifugal force [sic] due to slowing RPM will actuate a stop pin that keeps the propeller from feathering each time the engine is stopped on the ground. One engine inoperative performance will decrease if the propeller of the inoperative engine is not feathered." Looks like you'll have to quickly feather the dead engine when losing power.

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Great vid. Based on your comment I can confirm that single engine performance while not great irl but not that bad in sim Lol what was the elevation at your airport and also what flap setting where you using ? Max Irl 2 knocks of flap with a single operation. I’m also wondering why the engine did not feather properly. I’m thinking because the engine rpm was below 950 and below that the engine won’t feather .

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Anyone know if the Tritonsim G-450 portover is online somewhere? I only have the 550 and 650.

Have you figured out how to fix the magnetos going nuts when you map them to an ignition switch? I have an ignition switch I made and the one on my Honeycomb Alpha. On the switch I made selecting left engine right magneto kills the engine and on the Alpha right engine right magneto makes it click on and off over and over doing random nonsense. Actually selecting left mag with the Alpha will make it constantly click as well.

Great video. That engine out performance is not very realistic, in our Seminoles you can easily maintain level flight above Vyse until around 7k feet or so, and especially in a descent for landing with gear down it's never been a problem maintaining blue line all the way in on the approach - of course, I fly at very low density altitudes, but that sim performance (or rather lack thereof) seems very exaggerated. Oh and btw, are you associated with GTA and a certain media company within it by any chance? Your voice sounds very very familiar lol

I purchased this airplane. If I try to lower the sun visor, or open the little window, or open the door (using the mouse) it crashes to the desktop every time. Even if the plane is on the ground with the engines off. I can open the door, and the baggage door using the tablet on the yoke, but the sun visor and window will crash the sim to the desktop if I click on either of them. Also, I suspect there may be a problem with the autopilot. When I try to put in a "direct to" flight it doesn't seem to work. I am a bit rusty with this autopilot, so it could just be me. Anyway, for a $30 + airplane I think everything should work as advertised. I do like the plane because it actually flies pretty well. Hopefully there will be a patch for these issues.

I've found two other bugs, one critical. Tuning the com and setting it to active doesn't seem to actually inform the sim of the radio frequency. I kept getting nagged by ATC to change freq and it only worked by using the ATC dialog to accept the change. CRITCAL: don't try to turn the knobs on the KN64. For me, instant crash to desktop, every time.

I bought the aricraft, worked fine for a while - now it is missing. :( Content manager says it is installed (though strangely if i cklick on it it has no version number and the delete button for it says "DELETE (0B)".

Brilliant review I couldn't have done it better myself and I am a professional pilot with 2500 hours of flight experiance

Great video, thank you. Do you know what the cargo capacity and seating numbers there are for this aircraft please? I am looking to use it with Air Hauler 2

I bought the PA44, but the altimeter doesn't work correctly with the autopilot, I put an altitude and it keeps going up. Never stops at the selected altitude

how do you engage the autopilot. I can't find the Engage buton

In the included checklist, in the emergency section, it says: For "one engine inoperative landing", Inop engine needs to be fully feathered, and gears and flaps should be lowered only when you are certain you will make it to the landing site, along with at least 90 knots indicated airspeed only during the very Final, with flaps to 25 degrees, again when you are certain you will "make field", not before. I don't think any of that happened here. You could have lowered the gears when you reached very close to the runway, like this: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-pL3aFdFBwu0.html in order to take with you as much airspeed as possible all the way to the runway. Your video was initially posted in AVSIM where real world P-44 pilots said your single-engine procedures were wrong. Speaking of the in-sim single engine performance, so far I can quote three real world pilots who commented on the single engine performance of this Carenado Seminole in MSFS 2020. One is a P-44 instructor, the other one has lots of experience and hours in GA multi-trainer but not in the P-44, and the last one again has lots of hours in the P-44 and is a flight instructor. The first pilot said single-engine performance of the sim P-44 is "unrealistically poor", while the second pilot said it's a "bit" poor but that's because he just "realized he has been flying this thing at gross weight with full seats in the sim so that just destroys single engine performance", and the last one didn't find any issue with the in-sim single engine performance, and said he could easily "cut an engine, secure it, make an approach then go around and land again.": www.avsim.com/forums/topic/589813-carenado-pa44-mini-review/?do=findComment&comment=4411230 Disclaimer: I'm not a real world pilot. I'm just quoting what real world P-44 seminole pilots said about the MSFS 2020 single-engine performance of this Carenado Seminole, and their comments on your video and the procedures you followed.

Hope you are doing well

The performance of the aircraft is fairly comparable to reality, it has no drag problem. You are not piloting it correctly (speed too low on approach, MP too low, sink rate too high ..) I invite you to read the POH.

She's not a happy chicky when things don't go right

Completely off! Stalls are all entered from slow flight speeds for the configuration of flight. A power off stall is an approach stall meaning the aircraft is configured for landing. A power on stall is a departure stall meaning the aircraft is configured like it would be on take off. Pattern altitude for GA aircraft is almost universally 1000 ft AGL. As for the drag of the aircraft most Pipers will sink like a stone if you pull the power all the way out.

Probably a great review if I could understand what you were saying. You gabble your words and change your pace. You sound like a self-absorbed 14-year-old. Nothing personal but pace yourself. Michael