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Yeah, it also requires an internet connection *EVERY TIME* you load the aircraft and try and start the engine. That's beyond ridiculous "copy protection". 😕 Why a developer would utilize such a method is beyond me, only the real customers get hurt in the long run.

I did a search for peoples opinions regarding this release and I couldn't find much of anything here on Avsim. The aircraft was released back in mid January of this year. ATSimulations Broussard Website I'm looking for some opinions regarding this aircraft, Specifically how it performs frame-rate wise in P3D 4.4, what the flight model is like and any other input folks might have regarding this excellent looking aircraft. This type of plane is the kind I love to fly in P3D, however I hate purchasing anything these days without the valued opinion from the Avsim Community. You guys/gals have always been bang on the mark in terms of what to expect when purchasing payware products over the years. Any input by current owners would really be appreciated! Cheers Andrew

Awesome, excellent work as always Bill. Thank you so much for fixing what should have been fixed by Carenado as well as bringing more realism to this aircraft, your work is greatly appreciated! Cheers! 🙂

@Clutch Cargo All of Carenado's float planes work fine in P3D 4.4. Very few of the older models like the C185 Bush have working switch sounds but that can be fixed easily by downloading switch sound packs in the Avsim library that use Doug Dawson's excellent 64bit XML sound gauge.

Does the old Lionheart Kodiak still work ok in P3D 4.4? I love that plane and never knew it had been updated...

@ShezA Question? I don't believe I asked a question bro, I just gave thanks to folks in this thread for their input regarding this aircraft. 😉

@simbol No over-clocking of the GPU was ever in use, I simply used Precision X OC for fan control, temperature monitoring and customizing the RGB lights on the card. Temperatures on the card have never gone any higher than 63C in full boost mode. I never saw a need to over-clock the GTX 1080Ti FTW as it boosts out of the box between 1860 to 2000 and running in 1080p native resolution with 4X SSAA the card never boosts at all in P3D 4.4 as I use a locked frame-rate of 30. May I ask what type of multiple monitor setup you're using and the operating system?

Thanks to everyone who contributed to this thread in one way or the other. It's helped me to make up my mind in terms of purchasing this awesome aircraft. Can't wait until I get home from work and jump into the VC. Cheers fellas! 🙂

Just thought I would "pay it forward" as I found this information buried *DEEP* on the Lockheed Martin P3D forum. I was having *MASSIVE* lag and frame-rates bottoming out into the single digits every time I went to undock *ANY* panel in P3D v4.4, just doing so would many times cause a CTD. The issue had stopped me from being able to undock *ANY* gauges and/or panels in P3D v4.4, even the native panel manager would cause the same issue. It took me several hours of searching through multiple forums to find out the cause but in the end it turned out to be EVGA's PrecisionX OC application that allows overclocking and custom fan control of Nvidia based GPU's that was causing the issue(s). As soon as I uninstalled PrecisionX OC v6.2.7 (the latest version available from august 2018 on EVGA's website) I was again able to undock any panel and/or gauge on any aircraft without any lag or massive impact on frame-rates. In terms of over-clocking and fan control, I am now using MSI's much superior Afterburner (beta version 4.6.0) It has yet to cause any of the issues I was having in P3D v4.4 and it also seems to have improved the overall smoothness of the sim. MSI Afterburner also includes a method to record video in game or desktop without having to install Nvidia's over-bloated Geforce Experience as the Afterburner application will hook into the same hardware encoder (NVENC) as Nvidia's ShadowPlay does. I am using a 3 monitor setup with an EVGA GTX 1080Ti FTW Gamer Edition with the Nvidia 417.71 driver release. I am running Windows 7 64bit with 32GB's of memory with an old i7 2600K overclocked at 5.2Ghz. I hope this helps anyone that might be having the same issue that I was having. Cheers Andrew

Thanks for the tip fellas, just bought this beautiful machine and man is she ever a work of art! Going to spend the night reading up on the G1000 and it's operations. 🙂 Cheers guys!

I am seriously also considering purchasing this awesome looking aircraft, however in the past I've never had very good experiences with Carenado's G1000 gauges that are basically the default FSX/P3D GPS dressed up in pretty textures, Carenado's glass panels have never been very smooth, they actually perform worse than the PMDG 737NGX with all of it's complex systems, panels and coding. How smooth does this product run when compared to the Carenado G1000's? Any input would be very helpful as I really want to buy this plane, it's looks simply stunning inside and out!

@Soul Rebel Try this little trick I *STILL* do with P3D v4.4. After P3D 4 has finished loading, right click your taskbar in Windows and select Start Task Manager. Under the processes tab if you sort by memory you'll see 'Prepar3D.exe' right at the top. Right click on it and select 'Set Affinity', simply uncheck one of the processors and hit ok. Then repeat the same process as before but this time after selecting 'Set Affinity' select *ALL* processors. It's worked for me and my old machine since the first version of P3D v3. I'm running an i7 2600K at 5.2 Ghz with a GTX 1080ti and 32GB of memory, still runs 99% of all games/simulators fine.

This is definitely an issue on Garmin's end because it's also happening on the F1 versions. That and the fact that it throws the error messages right after clicking the 'power on' button on the Garmin Launcher Utility: Aviation_Trainer_Launcher.exe

I'm pretty sure everyone knows by now that A2A made free to any developer and/or ambitious editor their *AMAZING* rain effects that have now been incorporated into the A2A 172, 182 and the recently released Bonanza. I'm not holding my breath when it comes to Carenado taking the time to upgrade/update any of their aircraft as it seems they have about a one month window of updates for newly released aircraft, after that you're better served by the community here on Avsim and elsewhere. That said, I was wondering if anyone has plans at tackling the implementation of these rain effects on *ANY* of the Carenado/Alabeo aircraft? From a simple glance at the files it doesn't *look* like it entails any additions to the model file(s), something only the developer can really do. Anyone seen or heard any rumors kicking about? Having the rain effects on a couple Carenado planes would certainly increase the realism and "wow" factor. Cheers Andrew

I've always *LOVED* the latest PC-9/A from Iris and I recently just installed it into P3D v4.2. I had to updated a few of the gauges from Doug Dawson's website, however I'm stuck trying to find a replacement for the gauge file "dsd_fsx_axis_control.dll" and I'm not sure which Doug Dawson gauge "dsd_fsx_axis_control.dll" came from or even if it was updated for x64. I've also got flashing gauges in the virtual cockpit like there's a conflict between the panel lighting, anyone seen this? Any help would be appreciated or you could just send me a message if anyone has put together a package or something for this fantastic aircraft.

Just a FYI, certain files weren't updated when I ran the latest 1.1 installer which caused me to get a looping switch sound. After uninstalling the D18 first, then installing 1.1 everything works fine.

Just wanted to take the time to say thanks for *ALL* of your amazing aircraft repaints over the years. There's aircraft purchase decisions I've made in the past solely based specifically on your Alaskan real life repaints you've done, especially your awesome Carenado Cessna 208 ones. Cheers! 🙂

Thank you so much for all these wonderful repaints over the years Jankees, they are absolutely awesome and highly appreciated. 🙂

I'm always down for testing high resolution paints and taking screenshots Flieger. 🙂

Great paints, as usual, very nice work. I wish more painters worked on the new Carenado aircraft that have been released over the last 18 months. 🙂 Are you still planning to release that FedEX livery? I'm really looking forward to it. 🙂 Cheers bro. Nice work.

The GTN 750 works fine with the Seneca V with the Flight 1 G500/600 installed in the VC. Whether or not you don't mind viewing the GTN 750 inside the Carenado GNS 530 in the VC is up to you, but you don't need to buy the Flight 1 GNS 530/430 to use the Flight 1 G500/600 in the Seneca V. I haven't purchased this aircraft yet, but I know it will work as I've seen people here on Avsim with no issues, I'm using the same method on the Carenado P46T Malibu JetProp DL and it works fine.

For anyone wondering, this plane works fantastic with the Flight 1 G500/600 Garmin gauge/trainer replacement with the above panel mods for the Flight 1 GTN-750. Simply add the GTN750 using the Flight 1 GTN panel config. Then, swap the Carenado G500/600 with the Flight 1 Garmin G500/600 using the F1GNS panel config tool. Finally, make the edits to the panel.cfg that displays the GTN750 inside the 530 screen. Works awesome, excellent plane. Did anyone ever figure out how to get around the hard coded bezel click spot for the default 530 gps? I guess not all addon aircraft are as easy to modify as the amazing RealAir addons. 😉

They look FANTASTIC! 🙂

Yup, same issue here as well guys. Make sure you point this out on Carenado's Facebook page as well on the release post comments section.

Was this not taken care of in the latest 1.1 release?