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Whats even more impressive to the Turbine Duke is it's stopping distance of 900ft. With its performance I wouldn't be surprised to get in and out of airports that have 1500 feet of runway. This will also depend on how you load your aircraft. Like some, I have also held out on picking up other aircraft until the Turbine Duke is out. We have been in the need of a well modeled turbo-prop for a very long time. :(

Make sure that Cold and Dark is selected from the configuration program and that your realism setting is all the way to the right on FSX.

Beautiful work Pete!!

An ILS approach in the Duke is very easy to set up. Assuming you are flying with the standard radios and not the Reality-XP Garmin units here is a brief summary:Lets assume you have been cleared for an ILS approach into runway 04R at KBOS (Boston Logan Int'l) KBOS Boston 04R ILS ApproachATC has cleared you to fly a heading of 360 at 2000 feet and expect an ILS approach to RWY 04R.- Tune your NAV1 radio to 110.30 which is the Localizer frequency for 04R.- Set the course (lower left knob) on your HSI to 036.- Make sure your NAV/GPS switch (towards the right side of the center part if the panel next to the radios) is set to the NAV position. - Assuming you are already at 2000 feet, your autopilot will indicate: HDG and ALT. (which is heading and altitude hold)You are approximately 20NM out from runway 04R at the present time and roughly 30 degrees off the final approach course of 036 into 04R. - Press the APP button on the Autopilot. This will arm the auto pilot to intercept the localizer and display LOC in small lettering on the autopilot.- Next set your altitude on the autopilot to 100 feet, but, do not push the VS button on the autopilot as this is your Decision Height. At roughly 16NM from the runway, ATC will tell you tour distance from the airport and clears you to 1800 feet for the ILS approach and to contact Boston Tower on 132.225By this time you should be nearing the point of the intercept on the localizer and will notice that the center of the yellow course line begins to move as NAV1 picks up the localizer frequency. Once the yellow line begins to center the autopilot will turn your Duke to the right for 036 degrees. Since you are at 1800 feet you are at the perfect height to intercept the glideslope. You will now notice two yellow chevrons on either side of the HSI begin to move showing the aircrafts relative position to the glideslope. Once the chevrons are centered in the HSI the autopilot will display "GS" letting you know that it is now perfectly tracking the glideslope. These chevrons are not displayed during normal flight. The aircraft will now automatically begin to follow the glideslope down to the runway. At this point speed management will be critical, because, any abrupt changes in speed will cause a deviation in the glideslope and cause you to be too low or too high. If your feeling good that your aircraft is set correctly you can switch off the autopilot and finish flying the ILS approach your self. If you wish to continue to let the aircraft track the glideslope you can leave the autopilot on. Remember this is a GA aircraft that is not equipped with autoland or VNAV so at some point before you reach the committed Decision Hight for 04R of 99 feet Radar Altitude, you need to take control of the airplane and land.Remember this is just a summarized description of one approach. Every airport is different but the procedure will be very similar. I recently took my Duke to Port Hardy, BC (CYZT) and shot the ILS to runway 11. I let the aircraft get me established on the ILS and then switched the autopilot off and hand flew the rest of the approach with a very slight crosswind. The Duke flew beautifully right down to the runway. Take some time and practice because this is one of the best planes out there to learn ILS approaches in. :(

Thanks!Headwinds on that trip were definitely messing with my speeds. I can't wait to have the power of two PT6's in this bird.

Those of you contemplating the addition of the RXP GNS series for the Duke will not be disappointed. I have the complete series including the Unlimited pack and with the 430/530 combo installed in the Duke. I use the 430 for flight plan following and the 530 acts almost like a MFD with the TAWS and TCAD active, which is nice since the Duke otherwise wouldn't have a way of monitoring traffic. With both units installed and running I also have no performance hit in Win 7 64 so they run great and look awesome with the integration done by RealAir. It may be expensive for the Unlimited pack but its worth the investment if you like GA flying.

I second this, I have had my EFB from Aivlasoft for about two months now and it is just fantastic. I also have mine networked through a router between my laptop and FSX computer. Setting up the initial network connections can be tricky, but once done, everything is automatic. Definitely worth the cost if you are all about situational awareness, flight planning, and flight tracking.

How old is the monitor? I had this issue once with a ViewSonic 19" LCD. The power light on the monitor kept going on and off. After further investigation 5 out of the 7 capacitors on the monitors power supply circuit board passed their life expectancy. 10 dollars in capacitors later and the monitor worked like brand new. Not bad considering I got the monitor for free.

Thank you RealAir! We have needed a Turboprop Twin in FSX for a long time.

Hello all. With the NGX on our heels, there is one thing I am wondering. Will we be seeing a BBJ variant for the NGX? Flying for the airlines can be fun but I really like just getting into a corporate jet and "picking the destination from a hat".~Nick

Some more updates will be coming shortly guys. I just upgraded to a new i7 system, so, I'm just getting all the settings tweaked and I will post some more screens and progress info once I'm finished. Thanks for the feedback, greatly appreciated!

I am actually in the process pf replacing the avionics with a combination of The Reality-XP Flightline N and GNS 430 WAAS combined with the Simflyer GPX-SX packages. The final package will have two options. Package one: Reality XP GNS430 only with all of the default Carenado radiosPackage Two: Reality XP GNS430, GMA 340, GTX 327 for Communication and Navigation Reality XP Flightline N for the S-Tec 55 autopilot, selector, and annunciator Simflyer GPX-SX for Nav Radio 2, and a KMD550 MFD with TCAS to replace the weather radar. At the present time I am in the process off reworking the beautiful night textures that comes with the C208B for proper illumination of the gauges at night and re-working the base VC panel texture to fit the autopilot annunciator correctly. Once finished the package will be available here on AVSIM for free (naturally) and will include the panel configs and the new textures for the night lighting.

Ask yourself this question. What if it was possible to remove the stock weather radar and put something else in it's place?

Ok folks I took a few minutes out of the avionics project to do some testing and tweaking and here is what I have come up with. In terms of power issues number one thing to check is that you do not have the Inertial Separator on all the time. I found that I did and it was causing quite a reduction in power.Second thing I managed to find is that there are a few settings in the aircraft.cfg file that control some basic parameters of the engine performance characteristics that you can tweak and yeild some much better climb and cruise performance. Posted below are the areas I changed on my Caravan using, believe it or not, the default C208B. Most of these parameters will control the power output and some specific functions of the engine. If you wish to give this edit a shot make a back-up copy of your original aircraft.cfg file first, in case you wish to go back to the origianl settings.[propeller]thrust_scalar = 1.0propeller_type = 0propeller_diameter = 8.83propeller_blades = 3propeller_moi = 40beta_max = 45beta_min = 15min_gov_rpm = 25520 prop_tc = 0.004gear_reduction_ratio = 17.4fixed_pitch_beta = 0low_speed_theory_limit = 80prop_sync_available = 0prop_deice_available = 1prop_feathering_available= 1prop_auto_feathering_available= 1min_rpm_for_feather = 700beta_feather = 88.0power_absorbed_cf = 0.9defeathering_accumulators_available= 0prop_reverse_available = 1minimum_on_ground_beta = 1.0minimum_reverse_beta = -14.0[TurbineEngineData]fuel_flow_gain = 0.011inlet_area = 1.0rated_N2_rpm = 33000static_thrust = 150 [turboprop_engine]power_scalar = 1.0 maximum_torque = 1865All you have to do is replace the sections in your aircraft.cfg with the ones I posted above and fly. After making these changes I did a test flight here is how my flight progressed:OAT 10°CClimb to 6500 @ 90% powerInertial Separator OffRPM set to 18001000 FPM climb rate117 KIAS during climb to cruiseITT was a bit warm at 740-780° (couldn't get an exact number as I forgot what it was)During cruise:Power set to 80%RPM set to 17008kt Headwind145 KIAS fuel burn rate 320PPHITT 695°So as you can see by my observations there was a good amount of improvement in performance and no sacrifice in economy or ground handling. Primary reason for this finding was the "static_thrust=" entry in the Carenado aircraft.cfg being set to "85" and it being changed to 150. So I invite anyone interested to give this a shot and post your feedback as I'm curious to see what other will experience.

You can turn the cargo pod on and off the the configuration manager. Hit: Shift+3 to open the configuration manager where you change some of the physical features of the Caravan

Hello fellow Caravan Pilots. I thought I would show you folks a preview of the avionics package I'm working on for the new Carenado Caravan.The package is a combination of the Reality-XP GNS 430 WAAS, FlightLine N, and Simflyers GPX-SX packages. There is still quite a bit of work to do to get things scaled and positioned as well as a new night lighting packages to compliment the avionics suite.So, without further ado, here is the preview:

Even if you use the Flight Simulator flight planner to make your flight plan or FSBuild (I use FSbuild and import them in to FS9) the Eaglesoft Citation X 2.0 has the ability to import the active flight plan in FS9 and add the waypoints to the FMS automaticly. Saves time if your're in a hurry. :(