A nice loooong list of goodies here.  

"Hey @everyone, we are excited to announce v0.5.0 of the G1000NXi is launching in the Marketplace! This update includes some exciting new features, such as user holds, auto CDI slewing and switching, a revamped autopilot/FMA, many more map options including weather and traffic, and more. This update also addresses a long list of bugs – you can see a summary list, along with a more complete list of added features, in the release notes. As always, this is an Early Access Opt-In Beta, so there may be bugs or missing features! Please give us feedback and reports on Discord in our nxi-early-access channel. Head to the sim Marketplace to grab the NXi, or go to Content Manager to download the update. You can find the release notes here: https://www.workingtitle.aero/packages/nxi/2021/08/26/nxi-release-v0.5.0.html Thanks and enjoy the update!"

 

New Features

• Automatic CDI switching for ILS approaches
• Automatic CDI slewing for ILS approaches
• TCAS traffic display on the MFD and PFD maps
• Completely overhauled AP guidance system including new ILS guidance and manual hold guidance, and all proper armed modes
• Revamped FMA with new FLC speed value, proper arm -> active transition green alerting, failed mode yellow alerting, and AP disconnect yellow alerting
• Ability to select map terrain modes (Absolute and Relative)
• Map waypoint display settings
• Map declutter
• NEXRAD
• Settings persistence for wind display, SVT, baro units, map terrain, NEXRAD, waypoint display options, traffic, which PFD map is displayed, and more
• Manual holds via the FPL menu
• ADF tuning and selection of an ADF bearing pointer
• Display of the approach fix type from the nav data on the flight plan and FMA (IAF, FAF, MAP)
• Overspeed caution colors on the airspeed digits
• Overspeed barber pole
• Better XPDR menu now using sim-integrated ident events and simvars
• FPL page autoscroll and cursor disable
• New additonal VNAV toggle H event for hardware users (AS1000_VNAV_TOGGLE)
• Flight plan load from world map is now skipped for bushtrips (a plan can still be entered in the avionics)

Issues Resolved

• Fixed an issue where the PFD select airway menu would not close when the airway was loaded
• DF legs in the navdata should no longer ignore the provided turn direction
• Fixed a number of issues with incorrectly selected and/or calculated hold entries
• Corrected the mask of the attitude indicator ladder to avoid unwanted overflow
• Fixed an issue where some procedures would not load from the world map due to bad data from the sim
• Selecting an approach should no longer always cancel a DTO
• Fixed issue where vertical deviation indicator would disappear in APR unless VNV was armed
• VNAV vertical path calculator will no longer improperly consider departure constraints
• GPS bearing pointers should now show the bearing to the leg terminator
• Horizontal deviation indicator in HSI map mode should no longer show 0 deviation when in a NO DTK/NO XTK conditions
• CDI needle for GPS guidance should now properly hide where there is no lateral navigation guidance computed
• Airways should no longer be duplicated multiple times when a world map plan is imported
• On DTO and DF legs, XTK/DTK indications should immediately show the values for the final track to the fix instead of the initial turn
• Fixed an issue where the airport icon rotation on the map would rotate in the opposite direction for some icons
• Fixed some issues where approach navdata that indicated angle data was interpreted as an altitude restriction
• Fixed an issue where LNAV would sometimes immediately sequence past altitude-termination legs at the beginning of departures when they were first loaded into the flight plan
• Active VNV Profile should no longer show the wrong altitude when in a DTO
• Adjusted the artificial horizon, map, SVT topo colors even more towards the real units
• Fixed a number of SUSP issues related to procedure turns and holds
• Fixed an issue where approach altitude restrictions would sometimes fail to display when an arrival was loaded previously
• MFD page menu should now close using the CLR key
• PFD marker beacon alerts should no longer display out of sync when moving over markers rapidly
• MFD page menu now has the appropriate MFD specific styling
• Altitude restrictions should now apply to the beginning of, and not end of, a procedure turn or hold
• On the wind overlays, when wind speed is zero the direction arrows won’t spazz out

Known Issues

• Outer large COM knob only reduces frequency no matter the direction the knob is turned. This is an issue with the cockpit panel behaviors in the sim and has been logged with the MSFS team, but will not be able to be addressed in the NXi package as it is an issue with the base planes.
• Sometimes the flight plan loading from the world map screen is loaded incompletely; this can usually be solved by restarting the flight - we are working on nailing this down.
• World Map imports from Navigraph and Simbrief do not include airways, so airways will not be added to the G1000 NXi flight plan when the plan was imported to the World Map from one of these sources.
• User holds are currently supported for the destination or for runways; this is coming in the future.

Heads Up!

• GPS, LOC, and VOR modes now ARM! Be aware that you will need to be on an intercept course and within capture distance of the desired flight path before those modes will become active.
• The GPS flight plan sequencing will enter SUSP under the following conditions: when reaching a manual termination leg (holds, manual sequence) and when reaching the final leg of the plan. This is actually correct behavior. To exit out of SUSP (for example, if you got to the end of a plan and then loaded more waypoints), hit the SUSP softkey in the middle of the PFD.
• Changing the CDI source drops the autopilot into ROL mode. This is the correct behavior, intended to keep the airplane held in the same attitude until the pilot reselects appropriate guidance.
• When exiting a hold, do not delete the HOLD as it will cause flight plan issues. Press the SUSP key to continue with the flight plan sequence or go direct to another fix.

 

Edited September 2, 20214 yr by Jeff Nielsen

DA40NGX Mod with the NXI= Fun times

Looks very good in the G58.  Is there a refined list of aircraft that utilize this NXi?  For instance I keep seeing the TBM and King Air 350 on some lists but the Garmin implementations/permutations for those two do not seem to comply with NXi improvements. I have an upcoming trek from Chicago to Oakland, CA, and back to Chicago and the G58 Baron is a bit of a slug for that distance compared to a hi-perf prop or turbo prop GA.  My fallback is the Realair TDv2 in FSX SE.

Edited September 3, 20214 yr by fppilot

7 minutes ago, fppilot said:

Is there a refined list of aircraft that utilize this NXi?  For instance I keep seeing the TBM and King Air 350 on some lists but the Garmin implementations/permutations for those two do not seem to comply with NXi improvements. I have an upcoming trek from Chicago to Oakland, CA, and back to Chicago and the G58 Baron is a bit of a slug for that distance in regards to a prop GA.

• Cirrus SR22
• Diamond Aircraft DA40NG
• Diamond Aircraft DA62
• Textron Aviation Beechcraft Baron G58
• Textron Aviation Beechcraft Bonanza G36
• Textron Aviation Cessna 172 Skyhawk (G1000)
• Textron Aviation Cessna 208B Grand Caravan EX

Very nice indeed!

The TBM uses a G3000, so I would not expect it to show improvements (as yet..)

10 minutes ago, fppilot said:

Looks very good in the G58.  Is there a refined list of aircraft that utilize this NXi?  For instance I keep seeing the TBM and King Air 350 on some lists but the Garmin implementations/permutations for those two do not seem to comply with NXi improvements. I have an upcoming trek from Chicago to Oakland, CA, and back to Chicago and the G58 Baron is a bit of a slug for that distance compared to a hi-perf prop or turbo prop GA.  My fallback is the Realair TDv2 in FSX SE.

G1000 Nxi will replace any MSFS aircraft that uses the g1000

DA40NG, DA62, C172 g1000, BE58, G36, C208 and SR22

looks like we posted at the same time oh well.

Anyway, for that trip I'd love to see a Phenom E50P or the larger one the 55P which both could use a G1000 Nxi (the newer 300E uses the g3000 but the older 300 uses the g1000 which can be STCd to a nxi)

Edited September 3, 20214 yr by ryanbatcund

1 minute ago, mfahey said:

• Cirrus SR22
• Diamond Aircraft DA40NG
• Diamond Aircraft DA62
• Textron Aviation Beechcraft Baron G58
• Textron Aviation Beechcraft Bonanza G36
• Textron Aviation Cessna 172 Skyhawk (G1000)
• Textron Aviation Cessna 208B Grand Caravan EX

Thank you.  All of you.

Edited September 3, 20214 yr by fppilot

11 minutes ago, fppilot said:

I have an upcoming trek from Chicago to Oakland, CA, and back to Chicago and the G58 Baron is a bit of a slug for that distance compared to a hi-perf prop or turbo prop GA.

Have you tried the CJ4 (WT version)?

Edited September 3, 20214 yr by Bert Pieke

Just now, Bert Pieke said:

Have you tried the CJ4?

Prop or turbo prop for me at this point.  Never flew a jet in personal life.  Sticking to my base of experience.  For an upcoming flight on Monday, my second flight from KAPA in Denver to KSJC at San Jose, Ca., with the G58,  is projected at five hours.  That would be after a two and three quarters hours Monday flight from Kansas City to Denver.  Flying those two legs in the TDv2 cuts 35% to 40% off that time.

I have not flown with the WT G3000 since before SU5 and HFxs and my from scratch reinstall of MSFS.  But my experience prior to that was that I'd get halfway through a flight and experience an avionics freeze. I need to keep on schedule so cannot justify losing a couple of hours just to find I need to start over.  Its just how I fly.  As if I were adhering to an actual real time schedule IRL.

21 minutes ago, ryanbatcund said:

G1000 Nxi will replace any MSFS aircraft that uses the g1000

DA40NG, DA62, C172 g1000, BE58, G36, C208 and SR22

looks like we posted at the same time oh well.

Anyway, for that trip I'd love to see a Phenom E50P or the larger one the 55P which both could use a G1000 Nxi (the newer 300E uses the g3000 but the older 300 uses the g1000 which can be STCd to a nxi)

Yeah, not sure how many owners or operators are or have upgraded their base 1000s to the NXi.  We're the largest Phenom operator (XSR) and all our new ones came with the 3000s.  As far as I know we don't have any plans to upgrade the older ones.  We'll probably just keep replacing them with the e models (3000s) for the E55s.  Although the e models run in to MZFW issues all the time with that extra seat, even when the hard sink is taken out of the lav.  As far as our 100s go, we refurbed the ones we have, but no plans to buy new ones.  We have 2 more new CL350s coming this year also.  Off topic a bit, I know.

Edited September 3, 20214 yr by Jeff Nielsen

No that's an awesome tidbit of info thanks Jeff!

Are we now looking at the most detailed / functional default Garmin of any sim, past or present?

27 minutes ago, scotchegg said:

Are we now looking at the most detailed / functional default Garmin of any sim, past or present?

Probably not quite yet.....  I think the old Flight1 G1000 on the king air was the best G1000 I've seen (XP11 default G1000 is also very good).  Of course the trainer based RXP/F1 GTN and GNS units were the best imo.  But this unit is really something - it's really progressing rapidly and as for the rnav (gps) navigational performance - it's pretty close to real world imo.

9 minutes ago, ryanbatcund said:

Probably not quite yet.....  I think the old Flight1 G1000 on the king air was the best G1000 I've seen (XP11 default G1000 is also very good).  Of course the trainer based RXP/F1 GTN and GNS units were the best imo.  But this unit is really something - it's really progressing rapidly and as for the rnav (gps) navigational performance - it's pretty close to real world imo.

Speaking of the GTN 750, anyone know if this plays well with the PMS50 Mod

TIA

-B

The PMS GTN and GNS mods are done by the same guy.