First of all i am totaly impressed that Alabeo/Carenado can develop an airplane not only good looking but with above average system deep. Beside the PC12 (with all its mods) the Eagle C421 is now my favorit from A/C.

Pros:

• The sound is amazing and IMO one of the best out of the box. Engine start and panning around the Airplane is such a soundpleasure.
   
• I am not a real pilot but with the "advanced physics" by Andi it brings so much fun flying the Golden Eagle.
   
• Like i sad, good looking with great system variety.
   
• They paid attation to details (taxi light pans, working cabin signs and clock, etc)

Contras:

• No user manual for all the switches, gauges and systems! Even freeware-airplans have a manual!
   
• VC panel lights are not seperatly switchable. To read the gauges at night you have to light up the hole cabin!
  That bothers me most.
   

Issues:

• The "AL421fuel_pump.wav" is missing in the sound-folder so i copied a file from one of my other airplanes into the folder.
   
• The "cold and dark" and "ready for taxi" start option lets miss many settings. The "StartWindowsAircraft.xml" file has so many wrong and useless entries (like PA44 or Malibu) so i corrected it to make it a little better functioning.
   
• The gauge "M877 Chronometer" is poorly modeled, so i corrected the look and made "LT" 24hrs and "FT" starting with 00:00 (instead of lokal time !!!). In this context i also made the cabin clock 24hrs.
   
• The gauge "Shadin Avionics DIGIFLO" is poorly modeled and the switches and mode-selections are messed up. I corrected it for myselfe so it works now (not totally realistic but) better.
  BTW i can not understand the developers! If they coded it one time correctly, they can use the gauge in all there planes and they never have to worry about it again.
   
• With Bert's solution in his first post (Title "Yaw Damper") the yaw-damper-switch is now working.
   
• I'm not sure if the weather-radar works properly. I had in rainy-conditions no radar reflection and in best-weather-conditions i had one! (under observation 😉
   
• The gauge-reflections on the VC right hand side are a little heavy so i customized a few textures to my liking.

My conclusion:
Not perfect but one of the best plane implementation from Alabeo/Carenado by now IMHO. I do not regret the purchase in any way and can really recommend this plane. One little step to get closer to A2A or Milviz...

Best regards
Raller

Edited April 21, 20197 yr by Raller

I must agree, as a 1976 421C owner, I love this plane and it helps me practice and stay sharp.  It has some minor issues that are a bit frustrating because the airplane is soooo good.  I wish they would take some feedback and issue an update.