BARGAIN Cessna Skycatcher for free

[Manny 1,293]

This looks like a nice small aircraft... I am flying this thing around and when approaching to land... I was tad low so I powered up a little and was light on the yoke and I was expecting it to climb, instead, it was going down (descending) faster.

 

IS this due to the good ole FSX Limitation? I have been flying the airliners for so long that I have not noticed this behavior in a while

 

 

[paulsk 2]

Now it is January 2019. I recently installed Prepar3D version 4.4. I also have (already quite some time) the problem of the black screens of the PFD and MFD gauges in the F1 C162 Skycatcher. Because of this problem I left this airplane unused for quite some time, but some days ago I started to "dive into the problem" and tried to find what could be the cause of the problem in this moment, within this latest version of Prepar3D (btw: I use the Professional edition). I discovered that Prepar3D has 2 options to activate log files. One is for the content. I activated it. The log reported a lot of errors that had nothing to do with the F1 C162 Skycatcher. But yesterday the "ContentErrors.txt" log stated clearly the source of the problem:

"[error.2]
error=C-style gauge failed to load: E:\Program Files\Lockheed Martin\Prepar3D v4\SimObjects\Airplanes\F1_C162 Skycatcher\panel\F1_G300.dll, Gauge: G300 PFD.  DLL is 32 bit.  A 64 bit version is required.

[error.3]
error=C-style gauge failed to load: E:\Program Files\Lockheed Martin\Prepar3D v4\SimObjects\Airplanes\F1_C162 Skycatcher\panel\F1_G300.dll, Gauge: G300 MFD.  DLL is 32 bit.  A 64 bit version is required."

 

So, now my question is: how do we get a 64-bit version of the G300.dll ?

[ThomasAH 61]

2 minutes ago, paulsk said:

So, now my question is: how do we get a 64-bit version of the G300.dll ?

I guess this would be as easy as convincing Cessna to sell you a real C162 🙂

Both C162 are no longer sold, so I doubt that any development will happen here.

I don't know if F1 is allowed to publish the source code (and still has access to it) so others could try it.

[PWJT8D 446]

I don't think there was ever any intention of updating it to 64bit. Once it was released for free that was the end of the line.

[paulsk 2]

Thanks for the replies!