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After a couple of flights with the 1.5 upgrade, I'm finding that - after the dual 750's of course - the feature I appreciate the most is the new state saving model. If you configure it for everything, you actually get pretty much EVERYTHING persisting over sessions, with the aircraft being in exactly the state you last left it, from the big stuff to the little. Everything! and I absolutely love it. Definitely hoping this migrates out to other older Black Square planes. Scott

Yep. To be clear, what 850 mode actually does is remove the torque limiter entirely. On takeoff, where you should have 850 mode disengaged and TO flaps selected, a limiter will (if things are working properly) limit you to approximately 100% and prevent you from over-torquing. You should still use care and not depend on the limiter, but I've not seen it fail yet. After selecting flaps up and moving the flaps lever over the gate to 850 mode, the limiter is entirely removed. At this point it's all on you not to over-torque past the limit (pedantic mode on - that's 121.4% 😆) and you should be careful not to exceed the red line on the torque gauge. If you do, the annunciator will illuminate and you risk engine damage. You do not want to do this (or over temp ITT) as it will drastically reduce your engine life. If you're used to flying more modern turbine stuff with FADEC you might not be used to this, but it's one of the reasons I enjoy flying the TBM 850 and Black Square's Turbine Duke as well. It's up to you, the pilot, to juggle torque and ITT properly. Of course, that's a sim thing - IRL, I'd take FADEC every time! Scott

Are you by chance using a 3rd party livery? All liveries need to be updated for the new version and per the TBM 850 support forum, you may see this if you have an old livery. See: https://community.justflight.com/topic/11522/v1.5-unable-to-load-tds-gtn750 Scott

Well, that is odd. Just looked and no mystery 207s have appeared in my available planes screen, but I'll take some of that magic free airplane mystery dust if you have any to spare. 😉 Scott

My apologies for giving out bad information. I assumed (always a bad idea!) that the process was the same with other vendors as it was with JF. Scott

This IS the new placement. If you didn't have the soundset before, there was no headset simulation and no clickspot as that was never implemented in the 850. If you had the soundset previously, the clickspot was on the hardware audio panel which is not available now if you use the two GTN 750s config. The difference between the stock soundset and the Echo19 one is significant in pretty much all regards, switch sounds, door sounds, startup sounds, prop sounds and so-on. If you're not hearing a difference, something is not right. And if you're not hearing much attenuation in the headset sim - again, something is not right in your install. When you click on the spot, you should hear a voice telling you it's been enabled. Not hearing that voice - again, something is not right in your install. Scott

The installer remains the same so there is no update at your vendor of choice. Just run the installer you already have (or re-download if you deleted it after the initial install) and it will auto-magically pick up the new version. Scott

The installer remains the same so there is no update at your vendor of choice. Just run the installer you already have (or re-download if you deleted it after the initial install) and it will auto-magically pick up the new version. Scott

As above - the headset jacks, mirroring the placement in Black Square planes which natively feature headset simulation. Scott

Glad you got it worked out - that's an obscure issue for sure. The Community 2024 folder keeps coming up. Curiously, I also use Addons Linker, have everything linked into Community and have never had an issue. I removed 2020 long ago, so perhaps that's why it doesn't matter. And yes - the noise reduction is an absolute requirement. I often leave it off until takeoff just to enjoy the sounds, but if I forget to turn it on before I'm in the air I can barely hear ATC. I kinda liked the old clickspot on the audio panel for the kinda, sorta real-ish button location, but the new location is far easier to find when I'm in "ah, nutz - what did ATC just say?" mode after forgetting to enable. Scott

Perhaps an obvious question, but sometimes it's the obvious we miss. Do you have either the PMS or TDS third party units installed? Scott

The original release took me from rarely flying the TBM to having it be one of my most flown planes. Definitely recommended. Scott

Yep, the hotfix is available with no need to DL anything, assuming you kept a copy of the installer. Easy-peasey! FYI, the headphone simulation clickspot is now the headphone jack location as it is in other Black Square planes which natively feature headphone sim. Note - the liveries have not been updated yet. That will likely take a bit longer. Scott

Confirmed here as well. If the sounds are enabled, third party GPS units won't populate. Even the bezels stay blank. Hopefully this will be a quick fix. Looking forward to flying with the dual 750s and finally having crossfill for this plane, but I'm also pretty much addicted to the Echo19 sounds. Edit: Those dual 750s sure do look nice in the panel! Scott

As noted above, Echo19 is aware and looking at it. If nothing else, the included liveries are gonna be busticated, and the click spot for the headphone simulation will be MIA when using dual 750s. Scott