22 minutes ago, nippa said:

With SU3 I decided to instal the aircraft to stop the short redrawing of the instruments.

Seems to me it made no difference and now we have the dreadful beacon. 

Hopefully there will be an update but currently the lighting is a mess.

That is exactly my experience with it as well.  
If they could fix the beacon and the slow loading instrument redraw, then I would be happy with it.

I really want the B55, but as it (from what I have seen) mirrors the beacon issue in SU3, I am worried it might share the slow instrument redraw issue as well.

The other Carenado aircraft don't have these issues, although they do have other ones - anyone else have the duplicate landing / taxi lights in front of the C210 and 182Q now? Like small glowing orbs in front of the aircraft when it gets dark?

If it isn't down to Carenado (and because it was good it SU2 I don't think it is), then hopefully Asobo can fix these issues in SU4, along with the over-strong landmark lighting of a night time.

Edited August 20, 2025Aug 20 by bobcat999

3 hours ago, nippa said:

With SU3 I decided to instal the aircraft to stop the short redrawing of the instruments.

Seems to me it made no difference and now we have the dreadful beacon. 

Hopefully there will be an update but currently the lighting is a mess.

Yup.. only workaround is to turn off the Beacon,  for now. 😉

4 hours ago, bobcat999 said:

I really want the B55, but as it (from what I have seen) mirrors the beacon issue in SU3, I am worried it might share the slow instrument redraw issue as well.

The other Carenado aircraft don't have these issues, although they do have other ones - anyone else have the duplicate landing / taxi lights in front of the C210 and 182Q now? Like small glowing orbs in front of the aircraft when it gets dark?

If it isn't down to Carenado (and because it was good it SU2 I don't think it is), then hopefully Asobo can fix these issues in SU4, along with the over-strong landmark lighting of a night time.

I'm passing on the B55. I'd rather spend the twenty-five squid on a takeaway curry and wait on BlackSquare now.

The duplicate lights was introduced in SU3 beta. Nevertheless Carenado seem to be accumulating what is now a small mountain of generally insignificant but annoying bugs.

Eighteen months ago they did fix a lot of this small stuff in their 2020 offerings on a plane by plane basis.

Time for them to the same thing in 2024 me thinks....

15 hours ago, DD_Arthur said:

I'm passing on the B55. I'd rather spend the twenty-five squid on a takeaway curry and wait on BlackSquare now.

In real world terms, the B55 is quite a different plane from the B58, just as the V35 and early F33's Bonanza's are quite different from the 36 Bo's.  I have a soft spot for the Baby Baron having spent a lot of time in one, and would still like to have one is MSFS even after the new 58's appear from Blacksquare, but... yeah.  Just not this one unfortunately. 

I'm in for the curry.

 

Scott

Chicken Tikka Masala for me as well at the moment!  

I love Carenado's airframes and texturing, and I can even overlook some of the systems omissions or inaccuracies, but they need to do a few bug swats occasionally. 
They have never been good at that.  Just push the current one out the door then straight on to the next one.

2 hours ago, bobcat999 said:

I love Carenado's airframes and texturing, and I can even overlook some of the systems omissions or inaccuracies, but they need to do a few bug swats occasionally. 
They have never been good at that.  Just push the current one out the door then straight on to the next one.

Indeed.  While I prefer the more complete stuff from Blacksquare or A2A, I'd be happy with some of the Carenados for occasional use if they'd just clean up one or two silly little things.  Back in the FSX/P3D days, Bert Pieke did yeoman's work at doing a lot of that cleanup, to the extent that I'd only consider buying a new Carenado plane if I knew Bert was buying it.  And there were a few that I really enjoyed flying once those things were taken care of.  I put a lot of hours into their 337 Skymaster, for example.  Not perfect, or 100% authentic, but I still enjoyed it.

Now, with the Marketplace planes essentially locked up...

 

Scott

5 hours ago, tttocs said:

In real world terms, the B55 is quite a different plane from the B58, just as the V35 and early F33's Bonanza's are quite different from the 36 Bo's.  I have a soft spot for the Baby Baron having spent a lot of time in one, and would still like to have one is MSFS even after the new 58's appear from Blacksquare, but... yeah.  Just not this one unfortunately. 

I'm in for the curry.

 

Scott

I'm in virtually exactly the same boat as you. Spent my early career flying charters in a C55 and fondly remember it as the best-flying aircraft I ever got my hands on. Sadly, but not unexpected, Carenado will not do it justice, even though it looks pretty enough. Never much liked the Milviz effort either, but I'd certainly would prefer theirs. No idea if that's even on their list to do.

I'm now holding my breath for the Blacksquare Twin Commanders instead.

6 hours ago, tttocs said:

Indeed.  While I prefer the more complete stuff from Blacksquare or A2A, I'd be happy with some of the Carenados for occasional use if they'd just clean up one or two silly little things.  Back in the FSX/P3D days, Bert Pieke did yeoman's work at doing a lot of that cleanup, to the extent that I'd only consider buying a new Carenado plane if I knew Bert was buying it.  And there were a few that I really enjoyed flying once those things were taken care of.  I put a lot of hours into their 337 Skymaster, for example.  Not perfect, or 100% authentic, but I still enjoyed it.

Now, with the Marketplace planes essentially locked up...

 

Scott

I recommend their F33 actually.  Bert did a mod somehow lol.  Seems to work with the GTNxi just fine now.  Tim and I did a few paints as well.

For what it's worth, Carenado did get back to my bug list email regarding the B55.  So there is a hope they may fix it.

Edited August 22, 2025Aug 22 by ryanbatc

Something that i have noticed,

 

As per the norm, Reviews of the B55 have come out and on all that i have watched, None of them seem to have the "Beacon" issue. 

When you watch all the review video's, You see the rotating beacon on, But appears to be working normally. Could it be a "steam vs Marketplace issue?

That only happened post SU3

59 minutes ago, Ed_S_Pilot said:

. Could it be a "steam vs Marketplace issue?

The rotating beacon worked beautifully on SU2 ; a really impressive animation.

After SU3 it stopped working for both the Baron  55 and the Bonanza F33 so we wait for the next version.

2 minutes ago, St Mawgan said:

That only happened post SU3

Happened on the F33 pre-SU3

Edited August 25, 2025Aug 25 by Ed_S_Pilot

From Facebook - 

Important notice for our customers:

After Microsoft’s Software Update 3 (SU3), some visual effects, such as intensity and positioning, may appear altered in the B55 and other aircraft. We’ve already submitted updated versions with fixes to Microsoft and expect them to be available in the MSFS2024 Marketplace very soon.

Thank you for your patience and continued support.”

A revamp for MSFS2024 of their B1900D with somehow updated avionics, G1000 for ex. would be really cool!

Just an idea...

Well it seems the beacon issue has been fixed.....