Hi,

I'm very late to the party but yesterday I finally caved and bought the Blacksquare Turbine Duke (I bought the Piston on Day 1 and told myself I wasn't interested in the Turbine. It's been chipping away at me ever since! 😄).

Of course, everything is absolutely stunning and I was a fool to wait so long.  But there is one thing that I can't suss out;

In the tablet settings, there is an option for "beta annunciator".  I like this convenience in the Black Square TBM. It adds a fictional 'beta' annunciation to the main annunciator panel, to show when the prop is in beta.

In the Turbine Duke, I have the setting turned ON but I can't for the life of me find any annunciator.   I can't see it on the main annunciator panel, nor anywhere else on the panel at all.

Anyone got any clues?    PS... Yes, I did read all 160 pages of the manual.  I kinda like reading long flight-related manuals. Not saying I didn't miss it though 😉

Edited November 18, 2025Nov 18 by JYW

The annunciator is a red light on one of the engine gauges - the torque gauge, if memory serves.

5 hours ago, JYW said:

Hi,

I'm very late to the party but yesterday I finally caved and bought the Blacksquare Turbine Duke (I bought the Piston on Day 1 and told myself I wasn't interested in the Turbine. It's been chipping away at me ever since! 😄).

Of course, everything is absolutely stunning and I was a fool to wait so long.  But there is one thing that I can't suss out;

In the tablet settings, there is an option for "beta annunciator".  I like this convenience in the Black Square TBM. It adds a fictional 'beta' annunciation to the main annunciator panel, to show when the prop is in beta.

In the Turbine Duke, I have the setting turned ON but I can't for the life of me find any annunciator.   I can't see it on the main annunciator panel, nor anywhere else on the panel at all.

Anyone got any clues?    PS... Yes, I did read all 160 pages of the manual.  I kinda like reading long flight-related manuals. Not saying I didn't miss it though 😉

Having flown real one(s) have never seen a beta annunciator... so you aren't missing much :)

4 minutes ago, Flyfaster_MTN002 said:

Having flown real one(s) have never seen a beta annunciator... so you aren't missing much 🙂

Yup, the beta annunciator is purely a sim aid to help with throttles that don't have detents to help you judge when you're in beta range. From the manual:

"An optional power lever beta range annunciator has been added to the annunciator panel for those who do not have hardware or software detents for their throttle input. The annunciator is enabled by default, but can be disabled from the options page of the tablet interface."

This says it's on the annunciator panel, but as noted above, I believe it's actually on one of the engine gauges (torque IIRC).

1 hour ago, martinboehme said:

Yup, the beta annunciator is purely a sim aid to help with throttles that don't have detents to help you judge when you're in beta range. From the manual:

"An optional power lever beta range annunciator has been added to the annunciator panel for those who do not have hardware or software detents for their throttle input. The annunciator is enabled by default, but can be disabled from the options page of the tablet interface."

This says it's on the annunciator panel, but as noted above, I believe it's actually on one of the engine gauges (torque IIRC).

The more effective way to simulate or model  beta is audible, not visual. The big change is the pitch sound change which is very loud.

1 hour ago, Flyfaster_MTN002 said:

The more effective way to simulate or model  beta is audible, not visual. The big change is the pitch sound change which is very loud.

And in fact, there's a very audible click when the throttles settle in to their lowest point before entering beta.  I use that sound more than I do the annunciator - though I do have the feature enabled.

 

Scott

On 11/18/2025 at 6:29 PM, martinboehme said:

The annunciator is a red light on one of the engine gauges - the torque gauge, if memory serves.

Perfect! - found it.

Many thanks for your help 👍