It was only announced yesterday but the Aerobask Diamond Da42 is now available for XP12 ONLY on the X-Plane.org store for $39.95

If you've seen their Da50 or Da62 in XP12 then it won't surprise that it's another little beauty.
It's perhaps a little less exciting than either of it's bigger siblings but its a well equipped, modern (very) light twin that's simple to fly, looks great, sounds amazing (the twin engines sound like the angriest wasps in the world) and seems to handle impecably.
(It's also extremely frugal with the Jet-A if you were thinking of using it one of the career sims.)

https://store.x-plane.org/Diamond-DA42-NG_p_1695.html

I have both the DA50 and DA62  - both are superb aircraft from my favourite developer.  I wonder though if the DA42 is different enough from the DA62 to warrant a purchase.. From the description it seems to be very close to the DA62 in features.

Sadly I hard pass for me at this moments as it's only for XP12. XP12 is still an unfinished sim, with limited weather options, no weather API (no ActiveSkyXP and historic weather), and some of other plugins and LUA I still use in XP11 are not compatible. I hope Aerobask will do XP11 version too.

1 hour ago, Pe11e said:

Sadly I hard pass for me at this moments as it's only for XP12. XP12 is still an unfinished sim, with limited weather options, no weather API (no ActiveSkyXP and historic weather), and some of other plugins and LUA I still use in XP11 are not compatible. I hope Aerobask will do XP11 version too.

XP11 versions seem extremely unlikely.

Honestly I understand that as I feel XP12 is a significant advance on 11 and there seems little to be gained from the extra work creating lesser versions of the same plane.

To clarify a little - from my limited conversation with XP plane devs my understanding is that the new features and technologies that can be applied to pure XP12 planes make it a substantial improvement on a XP11 plane or an XP11 plane upgraded to XP12 and there's a knock on effect that means that porting that plane back to XP11 would be almost as much work as creating the XP12 version in the first place.

(But I'm not an XP dev so I may well have not understood or not quite grasped what I was told ,so...)

Edited January 12, 20233 yr by Matchstick

1 hour ago, MrBitstFlyer said:

I have both the DA50 and DA62  - both are superb aircraft from my favourite developer.  I wonder though if the DA42 is different enough from the DA62 to warrant a purchase.. From the description it seems to be very close to the DA62 in features.

It's quite a bit smaller and lighter than the Da62 (not much heavier than a single engine Da40) so handles ( and sounds) quite differently to it's larger sibling.

So while they are both G1000 based light twins they each seem to have a distinct personality when flying.

31 minutes ago, Matchstick said:

XP11 versions seem extremely unlikely.

Honestly I understand that as I feel XP12 is a significant advance on 11 and there seems little to be gained from the extra work creating lesser versions of the same plane.

To clarify a little - from my limited conversation with XP plane devs my understanding is that the new features and technologies that can be applied to pure XP12 planes make it a substantial improvement on a XP11 plane or an XP11 plane upgraded to XP12 and there's a knock on effect that means that porting that plane back to XP11 would be almost as much work as creating the XP12 version in the first place.

(But I'm not an XP dev so I may well have not understood or not quite grasped what I was told ,so...)

That's a shame. Although I plan to move to XP12 as soon as I see a chance. If ActiveSkyXP isn't updated to support XP12, I'm not sure will I ever migrate to the new platform that support only live weather, and even that doesn't work as intended.

I already have DA62for both XP11 and XP12, not sure though is it a good idea getting DA42 too. I saw the trailer, heard the sounds, and I started drooling haha. I love immersive airplane addons, even if they are similar to what I have already.

As I mentioned above the Da42 and DA62 do feel like like different aircraft to fly (to me at least) and yeah you're absolutely right that the sound of the Da42 is really quite something 🙂

One of my favorite planes...previously provided by ALABEO in XP11, but now wonderfully provided by Aerobask for XP12....Awesome!   ...and with WingFlex?!  So nice.

I purchased it and glad I did, handles very nicely.  Trim is excellent, not twitchy like many aircraft.

10 hours ago, rparson99 said:

One of my favorite planes...previously provided by ALABEO in XP11, but now wonderfully provided by Aerobask for XP12....Awesome!   ...and with WingFlex?!  So nice.

I'd never realised that Aerobask had released a Da42 for XP10 till I saw the announcement video for this one.

Very glad they decided to revive it for their anniversary 🙂

I am VERY tempted but x-plane will have to get quite a bit better (especially in VR ) for me to invest any more into it at this point. I'm sure that day will come but I'll patiently wait until it does.

11 hours ago, MrBitstFlyer said:

I purchased it and glad I did, handles very nicely.  Trim is excellent, not twitchy like many aircraft.

To be honest I still didn't encountered a twitchy trim in XP11. All addons handle very nicely although few of them (GA stuff) have pretty high roll and pitch rates, like a jet fighter.

3 hours ago, Pe11e said:

To be honest I still didn't encountered a twitchy trim in XP11. All addons handle very nicely although few of them (GA stuff) have pretty high roll and pitch rates, like a jet fighter.

I find some aircraft have trims that react too quickly, but this DA42 has a great trim.

between the Aerobask DA42 and DA62, which one is better re. visual modelling or looks better in x-plane 12, any suggestions? simulation and flightmodelling wise I assume they are very close, they cost both the same 39.95

I think the DA42 was released after the DA62, so is the DA42 more advanced from a simulation point of view because it is only compatible with xpl-12?

unfortunately the G1000 looks awful and fuzzy in both 😀, just like the GNS 530/430. why can LR not come up with state of the art graphics like others do? they all look out of focus as if I needed glasses.

which one would you recommend?

Edited April 4, 20233 yr by turbomax