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It's not beta anymore 🙂 Update your sim, it's released, and it's wonderful!

I can verify it, I actually did a career mode mission with a very short flight in the Vision, did an ILS 17 to KCVO, it was just beautiful on landing. On a related topic, career mode in SU2 has really surprised me, I'd given up on it last year but man is it nice now!!

Yes, I really like that mod, use it for anything except the A350 which has it built in. 🙂

Oh cool, I didn't know the Arrow had that, did you know that you can also click on that rectangular area on the right side of the AP panel and then the mousewheel becomes the pitch control? I had just always set it to 0 when I got to an altitude I wanted. I'll have to hunt for this spot you're talking about. It's surprising but right now I prefer the Arrow handling over the Comanche! Cheers! Jack

Sigh, every time I try and do actual loading of a GA aircraft in MSFS it drives me to distraction. The stupid EFB interface for the arrow shows only 3 passenger positions, but guess what, when you try to set either of the two beside the pilot it INSISTS on making both positions the same value... ARRRGGGGHHHH! I was going to use this with OnAir which likes to really load in the weight, and that did not work out very well... How hard would it be to add a page to the JF tablet to load this plane properly 😞

Yes, I found that you push one of those little white buttons on the AP, I think it was the top one, that it magically leveled off. I got real confused with the Arrow because I thought it would behave the same, but it doesn't.

I've flown the IV now a couple times in both 2020 and 2024, I think its awesome, while I was flying my Cherokee I always dreamed of upgrading to an Arrow, but I just could never quite justify the added cost. Annuals are always a BIG yearly expense, and add the turbo and retractable in each year and YOW, it's some bucks believe me. Of course simmers aren't usually aware of such issues. You know Asobo added the walk-around thing to give immersion, what I wish they would do is add real hangers, there's nothing like having that morning run to the airport, opening up your hanger and preparing for a flight. Somehow MS has never done that, it would add so much! I don't know whether I'll end up flying the III or IV more going forward but both of them are excellent.

What about the III, does it handle ok for you? I've not even tried to fly the IV yet so I can't say anything about that. Also no experience whatsoever with a T tail.

"excessive" is a subjective thing, but I did my PPL in a Cherokee 180, this feels completely reasonable to me, GA planes in the sim are often so bizarre in handling that maybe your expectations are wrong? I don't know. In the real plane when you increase power you need to increase right rudder, you develop a feel for how much, and its a smooth and constant thing as you roll down the runway. I find this plane's behavior to be very true to that. What do you mean by "slow speeds", like in the pattern? Maybe a more complete description? Cheers!

YAAAAYYYY! I don't know if it was really this 0.6.1 update or me developing the magic touch, but I'm very happy to report that the autopilot is now working as it should. I was wrong about a couple of things before, the HDG mode is not a momentary, it should actually push forward and stay, it was refusing to do that for me before, now it works. Also now it follows the bug as it should. A second confusion I had, which a more careful look at the manual cleared up. The "hidden altitude control" let's call it, I had assumed this worked like "altitude hold", I was clicking it and expecting it to level off and it wasn't. That's not how it works, you click on it, and then when you bring your mouse over that rectangular area your mousewheel becomes the climb control. So, the TDS is working, AP working, plane handles like butter. I'm ecstatic!

It's 100% reproducible for me, I always use the task manager to kill it off, really annoying 😞

The AP has a HDG mode, it's supposed to follow the heading bug right?? Are you saying that you can just set that mode, move the heading bug and get it to follow that, because I've tried and I CANT get that to work. It works in the Warrior, so something is off here!

So, if you keep hitting that button in the tablet it cycles thru your options, which ones appear?? Also did you check the TDS installer as I suggested?? Of course given my discovery with the autopilot having the TDS there isn't a lot of help 😞

Sigh... I've been trying to make the autopilot in this thing work, and it's completely broken as far as I can tell 😞 It works in the Warrior, but in any of the Arrows I just can't get it to do ANYTHING! I'd love to believe there's some little thing I'm missing, if anyone here can tell me it works for them I'd be thrilled to know how?? After take-off and gear up, I'm in a run-way heading stable climb, I turn the AP on, that works in the sense that the rocker goes to on position, the runway heading is also where the HEADING bug is set, I push the HEADING button, it doesn't stay in position but I think its a momentary thing? but in any case after that moving the heading bug has no effect, i cannot get it to change course at all. I also have tried the "hidden" altitude capture spot, and that doesn't work either.... 😞 I've filed a ticket with JF, I was hoping maybe someone here can tell me I'm missing something??

I configure so the "slide" throttle on the side stick is also enabled, and use that during times I want a "non-detent" throttle control., like taxi. In the air you should be using AT, so use the panel to control it if for some reason you want to override the MCDU.