ScreamingBreeze

As long as John was willing to fess up with his APH question (I had the same question), I have one of my own: Online, in POH nor elsewhere, am I unable to find max gear extend speed for the B60 Royal Duke The X-Plane POH does give flap speeds (with that same APH reference!), but the checklist says nothing of the gear beyond ... lowering it. Does anyone know, please? Thanks.

I said above that my Malibu was opening to a dark instrument panel, requiring lots of fiddling to illuminate it. The problem wasn't gamma, but shadows enabled in rendering. When shadows were turned off, the panel lights turned on. (Seems unique to this aircraft).

No, no annoying torque roll. But I did find several other annoying/frustrating things - all but one of which are resolved. It wasn't possible to set VS, at least not in any practical sense - you had to fiddle and fidget and fuss for literal minutes, and then go to pause (!!!) to change it again - it was that hard. Fixed by a Carenado update I couldn't break ALT hold - it just wouldn't release. Deleted and re-downloaded, and now ok The Carenado Malibu (mine at least) opens with a black panel every time. The only way to fix this is to go to Instructions and reenable the mouse click thing, then go to 3D view, scroll down to find the three panel lighting knobs after collapsing the yoke, followed by a return to Instructions to shut down the mouse clicks, (or you will have those white circles!) Someone suggested adjusting gamma to 3 or better. I'm at 3.5, and still firing up the Malibu in the dark. Any suggestions? Thanks!

Not finding reference to this anywhere in forums, so it might be a problem exclusive to me: can't get ALT holds to disengage on the Carenado PA-46 Malibu. ALT can be set at either of two panel locations (digitally or push-button), but remains engaged after depressing both prior to approaches - so the only way to disable it has been to turn off the AP/FD. Not good for ILS or LOC/non-precision approaches! Carenado can't replicate this, and the problem is unique to this aircraft. Anyone else come across this anomaly?

My old MacBookPro touchpad handled manipulation in X-Plane 9 well, as did the touchpad in the new MacBookPro purchased for X-Plane 10. Then I bought the Carenado PA-46 Malibu - and couldn't fly it. The need for a mouse became clear. There are only two USB MacBookPro USB ports: yoke, one, rudder pedals (hopefully soon), two. So I bought an Apple bluetooth wireless mouse, because it better mimicked a scroll wheel - not. No better than the touchpad. That was swapped for Logitech's MX Master bluetooth wireless mouse with ratchet wheel. A little VS tweaking by Carenado with their Malibu 3-2.2 update, and ... fixed. Yes, Apple mice have scroll capability, but no better, or not much, than their scroll pads. But they seem not to offer a ratchet wheel mouse, and that's the only way to get there from here with scroll wheel manipulators.

Yes, it would be neat if scroll-wheel instrument/course change, barometer adjustments, etc., were an option. Default mouse scroll-wheeling intro for some models in X-Plane 10 is very difficult with touchpad centric Macs. And it's frustrating and a shame - there are great products - most of the Caranado aircraft - that are potentially unflyable. Unless I happened to get a flawed download, but I suspect not. All I'm told is that I shouldn't be having the problems I'm having and should be able to disable scroll-wheeling in Plugins to revert to non-scrolling. Weird, I know, but the unchecked box still leaves scroll-wheel large and small arrows that - still - jitter around and are next to impossible to manipulate. I only suggest that other iOS/Mac people proceed with caution, lest this be a larger than "just me" issue.

When becoming a Mac user, I became (of necessity), an X-Plane user, and have been pleased, overall. On my first Carenado download (PA46 Malibu), I learned the scroll wheel was an issue, supposedly due Apple touch pads not having a wheel. I disabled the feature in Plugins, updated SASL, and found changing headings, barometer settings, etc., resulted in the same problem: imprecise knob/dial movement and, more disturbingly, the arrow-icon thing 'moves' - it jitters about unsteadily, defying precise arrow manipulation. X-Plane support advised that the built in MacBookPro touchpad was the problem, and a mouse was a must. OK. I bought an Apple bluetooth wireless mouse (only two USB ports on the MacBookPro), and ... same problem. I haven't given up, but neither have I been able to do more with the Malibu than VFR, dead-reckoning. If you want to reset a waypoint, change headings or do anything else mid-flight, I find pausing the sim to fiddle around is the only solution. Not satisfying. Or maybe there's something I'm failing to see.

Jason - The issue for those of us who otherwise successfully run X-Plane 10 on Apple notebooks (I have a 15" MacBookPro with 16GB and 2.2GHz processor), using a joystick/yoke and rudder pedals, is that there are only two USB ports, and the joystick/pedal/mouse port combo requires three. I was unaware of the phenomenon of scroll wheels activating controls when I bought the MacBookPro earlier this year. My bad? Maybe! Just wish there was a way to revert to the non-scroll option to fly my new PA46 Malibu! Guess the only option is using yoke/joystick yaw rather than real rudder pedals. Could be worse.