So I did 2 flights in that freeware King Air!!! Spectacular! The first one from San Juan to Port Au Prince was uneventful...The second one was from Port Au Prince to Havana but I had to divert to alternate because of a bad fuel calculation I made (entirely my fault)... while on approach, I may have pushed the engines a little too far because ATC told me to climb back up another 1,000 feet but I already descended past it due to earlier clearance, but when I attempted the climb, I pushed ITT a little far and the engine #2 quit on me. It created an instability, so I had to disable AP and fly manually after feathering the prop. It was a lot of work and barely any time to fiddle with G1000 but it was in all kinds of things that contributed to my lack of situational awareness - FD was guiding me to a waypoint I no longer had time to reach as I needed to land ASAP. Hand flying a turboprop with one dead engine while trying to fiddle around with a G1000 that is preventing me from seeing where the runway is because terrain is turned all the way up, it's a mountainous area, and everything is red, so I can't see my FPL very well and it's an RNAV approach, so no time to do anything. I had to visually figure things out and ended up crabbing onto the runway, touching down on the piano keys and then using the rudder to straighten it out. 

Challenging and nail-biting experience for sure, but how much fun!!! I definitely will be doing more flying with it. I may actually enjoy it a little more than the AirFoil Labs one! Somehow!

17 hours ago, UrgentSiesta said:

I ran into some bug in the Turbo v11 + REP flying in v12 where the landing gear don't visually retract

There was a discussion about this on the org. It could be that editing the ACF with a newer PlaneMaker version disrupts the SASL plugin in some way. See the replies starting from here: https://forums.x-plane.org/forums/topic/297836-gear-doesnt-retract-anymore/#findComment-2889322

29 minutes ago, Bjoern said:

There was a discussion about this on the org. It could be that editing the ACF with a newer PlaneMaker version disrupts the SASL plugin in some way. See the replies starting from here: https://forums.x-plane.org/forums/topic/297836-gear-doesnt-retract-anymore/#findComment-2889322

Thank you!

I will have to go with a clean reinstall as initially recommended by SC because I haven't modified a single thing.

The interesting consideration is that this computer is only a couple months old, so almost everything is newly installed.

P.s.: I was assuming this was a visual bug because I could hear they hydraulics running, etc, just no visual retract.

I'm actually going to try it again before the reinstall and see if the aircraft speeds up after the retraction (which would point more to a visual bug). Just point of curiosity....

I like the Torquesim C525 or the older but still nice Jrollon SF260.  I also like the Aerobask Lancair Legacy - green airspeed arc ends at 220 KIAS so it's quite the speed demon.

Also I highly recommend the TDS GTNxi.  The 750 and 650 comes in the same package, supports Navigraph charts and data and I heard a rumor that cross fill is in progress as well.

All of those planes work with TDS.

4 hours ago, ryanbatc said:

I like the Torquesim C525 or the older but still nice Jrollon SF260.  I also like the Aerobask Lancair Legacy - green airspeed arc ends at 220 KIAS so it's quite the speed demon.

Also I highly recommend the TDS GTNxi.  The 750 and 650 comes in the same package, supports Navigraph charts and data and I heard a rumor that cross fill is in progress as well.

All of those planes work with TDS.

Yes, I own the TDS module for MSFS and use it literally for all of my GA flying - I have the Pro version... I think it's a matter of having a few XP aircraft that utilize it for me to justify the additional purchase of TDS for XP. I have WAY more aircraft in MSFS that use it. 

Has anyone tried PAE g36 with REP ?, I have always been partial to bonanza.

5 hours ago, Aglos77 said:

Has anyone tried PAE g36 with REP ?, I have always been partial to bonanza.

 

On 4/18/2025 at 5:49 AM, Bjoern said:

There was a discussion about this on the org. It could be that editing the ACF with a newer PlaneMaker version disrupts the SASL plugin in some way. See the replies starting from here: https://forums.x-plane.org/forums/topic/297836-gear-doesnt-retract-anymore/#findComment-2889322

(Edited)

Okay, I'm going to chalk this up to some type of Operator Error, some subtle idiosyncrasy between the JF addon and REP, or something in the Persistence settings.

Essentially, with REP DIS-abled, everything worked as expected.

With REP EN-abled, I had the gear retract failure problem.

While trying to Tshoot the problem, I was doing hot starts on the runway, and even air starts on long final. Kept repeating

Figured I'd park it, wear it out to new, and do a by the book Cold Start with absolutely everything off as it would be IRL.

Et voila! It's back to working properly!

Hate to admit it, but the problem was likely the nut holding the yoke... 😁

Edited April 20, 20251 yr by UrgentSiesta
Solution

Be careful with Beta 3 with Nvidia in certain conditions there is vram problems

On 4/16/2025 at 10:57 PM, mjrhealth said:

There is also a freeware king air done by real pilots

https://forums.x-plane.org/files/file/89178-king-air-c90b-evo-g1000-blackhawk/?page=17&tab=comments#comment-414955

 

On 4/17/2025 at 2:20 PM, BostonJeremy77 said:

So I did 2 flights in that freeware King Air!!! Spectacular! The first one from San Juan to Port Au Prince was uneventful...The second one was from Port Au Prince to Havana but I had to divert to alternate because of a bad fuel calculation I made (entirely my fault)... while on approach, I may have pushed the engines a little too far because ATC told me to climb back up another 1,000 feet but I already descended past it due to earlier clearance, but when I attempted the climb, I pushed ITT a little far and the engine #2 quit on me. It created an instability, so I had to disable AP and fly manually after feathering the prop. It was a lot of work and barely any time to fiddle with G1000 but it was in all kinds of things that contributed to my lack of situational awareness - FD was guiding me to a waypoint I no longer had time to reach as I needed to land ASAP. Hand flying a turboprop with one dead engine while trying to fiddle around with a G1000 that is preventing me from seeing where the runway is because terrain is turned all the way up, it's a mountainous area, and everything is red, so I can't see my FPL very well and it's an RNAV approach, so no time to do anything. I had to visually figure things out and ended up crabbing onto the runway, touching down on the piano keys and then using the rudder to straighten it out. 

Challenging and nail-biting experience for sure, but how much fun!!! I definitely will be doing more flying with it. I may actually enjoy it a little more than the AirFoil Labs one! Somehow!

Thank you, guys!

I generally don't deal with freeware for a number of reasons.

But based on your recos, I gave this one a very brief flight and managed to neither crash nor damage the aircraft (much?), maybe due to the previous practice in the AFL King Air.

I tell ya, having a High Fidelity King Air WITH a G1000 is a really nice option.

Definitely going to give this one some more in depth investigation!