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I ordered one… expecting it in a week or so

I got my yoke in January this year. It had an issue and Chris replaced it. The next yoke had an issue with the magnetic sensor, it had become loose. I fixed it with Chris’s instructions and it has been rock solid. The thing is built like a tank. I am saddened to hear that they have been unable to deliver more yokes, and he has gone silent. I hope he is okay, this seems very unlike him or totally opposite the way I was able to message with him about the replacement yoke and the small repair. He was very helpful and responsive. I hope he will be able to return to the scene and regain the lost trust of some customers and make newer versions. Also the 737 model. Tero

I don't care much for the small planes out of reach in real life anymore. A good flight model C172 would have been something else. Currently mostly flying Diesel-powered Cessnas, so that would be extra sweet. I also know they are getting more and more common in Europe. Our club has two! But like said, too bad. The A2A flight model is not something I buy into myself. It flies nice for the most part, but the real interaction for example in crosswinds seems very foreign to me. Kind of then makes the training aspect with the sim a no-go. Tero

Well that is disappointing news :(. I wouldn't have imagined that they ever cancel the Cessna. After all, it was Cessna that got people into Realair. Well, goes to show that in this business you can't rely on anything... And still it is so that there ain't a decent C172 around (flight-model!). Tero

Hi, Has the RA C172 been cancelled? Can't find it from the RealAir pages anymore? "Coming soon" section has been removed. Tero

Any update on C172 from RA ? Tero

Wow, the A2A video looks seriously impressive . Tero

It seems that both companies are doing the airplanes in a detailed and through fashion. Otherwise it wouldn't have lasted this long. Hopefully though, we'll get either of them this fall. I was kind of expecting the RA offering to shoot the market before last christmas . Obviously that was an error in my part, as these things do take time. Especially if quality is what they are after. Tero

Yes, it would be nice to get some update from the RA team. I guess they just are of the type who develop and just announce when it's ready . Nothing wrong with that approach. Nothing wrong with me (us) wanting a teaser either. What matters is what we eventually get. Not the wait, not how many teasers we got. I know the RA C172 must be really good. I am counting on it to be. A2A looks interesting too. I have no experience of their products, so my expectations on that front are rather low. I'd put my pennies in for the RA plane. At least when it comes to FLIGHT simulation side of things. That's what matters to me. Not how I can test the fuel. Tero

Ok, so nothing new at this point. Thanks. Tero

Hey all, Any news on RA C172 development? Tero

Yes, he had also saved many situations with Pause ON, to see if the init could be waited out. Init doesn't run when sim is on pause, so that doesn't help. I see it like this: on the situations saved on the ground, this is not a problem at all. Who doesn't have 15 seconds of time to spare to wait until everything is ready. But on situations saved in-flight, it seems to be more than a minor inconvenience as it prevents user from saving situations in any other kind of circumstances besides level flight, far enough from any point where the aircraft should be doing something on autopilot. Unless you can accept that during the init period, the aircraft will lose whatever maneuvering / profile it's following. Tero

Hi, I actually tried this method immediately after posting the initial question. Firstly I got some controller noise in Slew, so I mapped the "controller disconnect / ctrl+K" to one of his yoke's buttons. And another button for Slew. Then, as the flight was loaded, I first pressed "controller disconnect" and then "Slew". To keep the plane in the same place. It works. But, just as the timer comes to an end, (doesn't matter if you release the "locks" before the times ends or after it), for some reason the lateral mode of the autopilot disconnects and you can't re-connect it back. I tried this many times with many ways to slew and "unslew" during the init countdown, always with the same result as above. My friend was a little frustrated, and I have to admit, during the time that I was testing this plane, I never saved approach situations myself. So I didn't face this dilemma. He flies the NG for real (I was supposed to write "NG pilot" in the initial post lol) and would like to save different phases of approach. To practise raw-data "stuff". Is there any other work-around for this, or maybe even a fix coming for SP-next (don't know what it is) ? Tero

Hi, A friend (NGX pilot) is using the SW to shoot some approaches. He noticed a feature that I don't know how to go around. When you load a saved flight, plane fully configured for approach, you of course have to wait the initialization period. How do you go around the problem of the plane not responding and still moving forward on approach. Let's say you save it on short final and then resume it, it's not possible to control the aircraft during the first seconds, and finally once the init is over, the final is over too. Is there a way to resume a flight without the airplane moving, so that you can really resume from where you saved? Without ending up for instance crashing on the short final. Tero

Yeah, throw us a bone