I have had enough trying bad products from X Plane.org. None of them have worked correctly. Has anyone tried the Baron 58 in X plane 11 on an M1 Mac and bought it directly from Carenado? Was it worth it?

What makes it better than the freeware stock Baron ..???

If you are using XP12 do not use Carenado aircraft. They have not updated any planes for XP12. If you are using XP11 save your money. It is not worth the difference.

Carenado products are pretty that's where it ends. There is no support from them. You can get xpreality I think it is for default Baron if you want a better ver.

Edited July 5, 20241 yr by mjrhealth

Forget anything Carenado for XP12. There are a few dedicated souls who have perservered with all manner of modifications or patches - moderately sucessful from my observation. I tried the Navajo but got the Reality XP package. Looks good but I cannot get it started so count it as a bust as well. 3 or 4 others on the shelf (just in case really) besides there AC500 and the F50 were great and the PA23 actually works out of the box once you run it through plane maker to make it XP12. But it competes against X-Hangars Aztec and then there is the Restauravia Apache as well. Thranda do the 337 so really it is all the single lines and some other stuff like the SAAB 340, Beech 1900, and the XP800, Seen no mods or reports for the Carenado Baron. Think the Laminar version is so so! Never gives me that Baron feeling! No good Baron 55 either. Laminars engine cowls are wrong too they are too small. 

All up nothing happy for those who liked Carenado Alabeo!

4 hours ago, mjrhealth said:

Carenado products are pretty that's where it ends. There is no support from them. You can get xpreality I think it is for default Baron if you want a better ver.

It's "Reality Expansion Pack", or "REP". There's no such product as "xpreality"  (there is an XpRealistic Pro).

2 hours ago, Mgard78 said:

It's "Reality Expansion Pack", or "REP". There's no such product as "xpreality"  (there is an XpRealistic Pro).

Yep that's the one.

If you are keen for a fantastically made twin for XP12, I recommend the Jetstream Seneca II.

It is not on the.org shop for a reason and goes under the radar for too many I think. I foresee this will be GA product of the year 2024!

I tried the XP reality and it didn't work or load on my M1 Mac. This has happened before and X org doesn't give a word not allowed. Luckily PayPal does and they gave me a refund on it.

16 hours ago, flightwusel said:

If you are keen for a fantastically made twin for XP12, I recommend the Jetstream Seneca II.

It is not on the.org shop for a reason and goes under the radar for too many I think. I foresee this will be GA product of the year 2024!

I totally agree. It is a nice addon to consider by anyone interested in these type of aircrafts.

17 hours ago, flightwusel said:

t is not on the.org shop for a reason

That may be nice, but in theses days of credit card theft, some sensibly limit the places we use them.

That Seneca II looks well made.

 

btw. the autopilot screen on the Baron now is showing GA in the lower right corner. It was never there before...what is that and what control is it? I don't want it on.. and now my fuel shows zero....this is all since loading REP ..I deleted all the REP files I could find.... typical word not allowed....add ons destroying the installation..

Edited July 7, 20241 yr by 4df5

I ended up deleting the whole Baron folder cause it seemed hopelessly corrupted. I looked on the Laminar site to re download the Baron for XP 11 but as usual they made it difficult for anything that wasn't XP 12. I tried a few I found for free and after several that didn't work I found the stock Baron for 11 with a G1000.https://flyawaysimulation.com/downloads/files/24681/x-plane-11-baron-b58-with-g1000/ It seems to work so far but I prefer the analog....the G1000 Baron has a black background all around the G1000 and it doesn't look good because of that and the G1000 requires you to re assign many of your buttons........anyone know how to go into the files and change that background color to something else????if that is at all possible..

Edited July 8, 20241 yr by 4df5

Running the XP11 installer should fix the missing default Baron files.

The XP11 installer is on the older downloads page at the Laminar site: https://www.x-plane.com/desktop/try-it/older/

 

I found that and it fixed it. btw you might know about something...there is a website called flyaway that offers some free planes that have been modified for XP 11..example Baron 58 stock modded.

Some work and oddly some don't..must be a PC/Mac thing.( I look forward to going full PC in the future for MSFS 2024) ...anyway I tried a couple of the modded planes and not only was there appearance changed but the way the controls behaved seemed noticeably different. These modded planes were mostly people editing just some basic files....

1- so you can have access to a planes coding and change it????I didn't know that.....

2-You can change the way the throttle behaves in a plane????

3- Where do you get the files and do this??

4-Are all the files editable? I would have thought they were proprietary....

5-I would like to change the layout of the gauges in the stock analog Baron....is that possible?

thanks