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There's always going to be a tipping point when the extra costs to support two sims becomes less than the sales you get from the older sim, irrespective of the size of the dev team. Whether anyone likes it or not MSFS2024 is the future (at least till MSFS 2028) and the user base of 2020 is only going to decrease from here.

Doe GPSV work with the default Avidyne unit ? That's generally closer in capability to the GTNs so I was wondering if that could provide the VNAV output.

My take is that complex, high quality work take time and that takes money - and this is a complex, extremely high quality plane so personally I think the price is more than fine for what has been achieved. However this is personal thing and no-one can say what's acceptable for another person, but at some point I hope that anyone who's interested in this kind of plane does get to fly it as it's superb.

It depends how you feel about commercial turboprops. My first impressions are extremely good and it has quite a different feel to the Q4XP - pretty much the only other option in the class on XP which is more expensive and also comes with a single variant. These last few days have been absolutely insane for releases and I can understand this one being somewhat lower on people's priority list but I'm impressed so far and it has the potential to be a stand-out aircraft.

One of the dials just above the Magneto/Starter switch controls the brightness of the indicator bulbs inside those switches. Turn it up and you shouldn't have a problem seeing when they are on

Quick reminder as someone on Discord was asking me about it - the G3X panel option isn't available at launch but is coming later.

Yeah it's pretty legendry for it's ability to operate almost anywhere from any field in any conditions. Even the US Special Forces have used a plane derived from AN-28 in the form of the C-145A Coyote

Yep - the first really good third-party plane for MSFS I bought.

It's a VERY AT Simulations Antonov aircraft. It looks good, sounds good, has an awful lot of controls to poke, has metric gauges and everything is in cyrillic. Oh and there's no GPS, no AP and the only nav system I've found so far is ADF (there is an HSI gague on the panel so there may be something better) Plus doesn't look to be a manual yet. I genuinely love it.

To give some context to what's happening a third beta release of the 8X came put yesterday and a fourth already has some fixes announced for it and I'm guessing may be out later today. So Aerobask are really pushing to get stuff fixed and ready for a wider release.

Bluebird might be in the PDT time zone but their publisher Just Flight is in the UK and it’s 2am BST (1am GMT) there. Personally I think there’s now almost zero chance of anything happening before about 8am GMT

They only made a certain number of keys available for the initial beta release so they wouldn't be overwhelmed by bug reports and support requests. Flight Factor did something similar with their initial B777 release. Once the initial issues are resolved it can be released more widely

Right now I think it's worth the money. It's not as obsessively detailed as the insane CL650 but it's also substantially cheaper and I'd say it stands up very well against the CJ 525 which is basically the same price as the 8X. Certainly There seems to be real depth here and some really impressive technological progression - I just did an approach into EDDF through a low cloud bank and the Synthetic Vision on the HUD was astonishing. I'd also say, at least for me, it feels a lot more approachable than the CL650. The 8X's avionics are intimidating when you first see them and definitely have their quirks but once you understand what they are trying to do and the UI language they are using to do it (plus how the model expects you to interact with the systems) it doesn't seem that difficult.

Bit late but the initial release has been and gone with all the keys now sold - pretty much taking out the .org store in the process. While it was available the price was $86.95

There been a critical bug and patches announced today for PHP which is a fundamental part of a vast number of services across the internet. The timing makes me wonder if MS as a massive cloud service provider has early access to the announcement and patches and have been progressively taking down patching servers including MSFS related ones reducing overall capacity. (This is of course entirely idle speculation as I sit on a train home from work and probably nothing to do with the truth)

There are a couple of videos out showing full start-up and flights. (They are in French so you are at the mercy of auto-translated subtitles if your language skills aren't up to the job.) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1iLupg2kdRQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MisyHpDPKkc

Try removing the Approach from the flight plan and see if it reappears. If it does it may be the same problem that's happening in the FlightFX Hawker 800XP. If it is the same problem FlightFX have asked MS/Asobo to push a fix for their plane but if it's happening elsewhere that presumably will need a fix from the devs for that plane.

You don't seem to get that you don't have any right to free speech on someone else's private property.

Yeah it was reported to FlightFX last week but there's no fix yet

I've seen (and occasionally been on the wrong end of) too many trigger happy mods on the topic to want to go near it.

It's LITERALLY MS's house so they get the set the rules. That's the same across the internet, including here, so you can choose to work within the sites rules or go to a different site with different rules you prefer.

I mean that pretty every forum, including this one, tends to view any discussion of piracy as a serious breach of it's ToS and liable to get anyone involved warned if not kicked off immediately.

Piracy isn’t the easiest of subjects to discuss on a forum for obvious reasons but research has suggested the economics can be a bit weird and complex

Screwing over paying customers doesn’t seem to necessarily be an improvement

Ini has published their October dev update which includes the announcement they are working on what they call the Global Jet which is "based on the [Bombadier] Global 6000, equipped with the Vision Flight Deck running Avionics Software Version 5.8, reflecting a configuration from around 2024." Obviously no details on price or release yet but if you are in the market for an ultra long range bizjet this might be a project to keep an eye on. https://forum.inibuilds.com/topic/41570-inibuilds-aircraft-development-update-october-2026/