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The new C212 suggests that single-shaft turboprops can be modelled reasonably well but that clearly required a level of effort ini had no interest in putting in.

When I'm messing around with helicopters at very low level, especially unfamiliar ones, more frequently than I'd like.

Just to be clear about this specific issue - On my copy of MSFS 2024 when I crash into the ground, the sim DOES NOT display a black screen and end the flight - it instead triggers the Back on Track mode flinging the plane back into a random position and state in the sky. I have tried every assistance setting the menu and I have not found a way to turn it off.

You are going to have to back that up with some evidence as MSFS 2020 was "E for Everyone" as is X-Plane https://www.esrb.org/ratings/36840/microsoft-flight-simulator/ https://www.esrb.org/ratings/6005/x-plane/ -- edit -- Even CS3 was E https://www.esrb.org/ratings/23911/combat-flight-simulator-3-battle-for-europe/ So ESRB is going to allow you to shoot down other planes and keep an E rating but they would have a problem with ending a flight with a "You Crashed" message if you hit the ground too hard ?

I have a problem with risking losing the core of what it means to be a flight sim in the process of smoothing the experience for people looking for a light experience. I'm NOT trying to gate keep here, there is absolutely nothing wrong with ideas like Back on Track for people who want or feel they need it. It's about saying the only styl;e of play is with them forced on. Similarly, as I explicitly said in my earlier post, the problem isn't having a career mode, I use one myself in the form of FSE, but it's about the incredibly rigid nature of the career mode they have provided. Again this comes back to the idea of Asobo seemingly not to understanding that different people use sims in very different ways and raises the question about whether investing these resources is spending considerable resources on a career mode designed around the specific style of play is a good use of those resources. And looked at this thread to the one posted by MarkG earlier there are clearly areas of the core simulation that could use those resources, that people want Asobo to look at but that just doesn't seem to be important to them or MS.

MSFS '24 pushes it's curated experience to the front, a cynic might suggest because career mode is designed to push plane sales on the MP rather than third party stores. You've never wondered by the free flight button is the smallest on the screen ? Similarly why not offer an unranked open career mode that allowed any plane from any store but had no scoring ? As for P3D, the issue isn't that people didn't use it's rather than LM didn't care one little bit about them because there were a tiny rounding error compared to the money made from their actual target market and so made absolutely no attempt to respond to MSFS's arrival because without a commercial license it had no material effect on them. Finally crashing - I know of NO other sim in history that has had and equivalent of "Back on Track" that can't be turned off ? Do you know of one ? In essence 2024 is Asobo's attempt to create Forza Horizons for planes and the general sim aspects have suffered from the effort put into that focus.

Asobo in '24 have delivered a gamified experience pushing a specific way to play rather than the fully open world that has defined GA flight sims. Can you name another sim that doesn't allow you to crash ? Not one with an option to turn off crashes but one that simply doesn't allow crashing to have any consquences ? Whether that's messed up OrbX's business model or not is of absolutely zero relavence. As for knocking P3D out of the Home Sim game, I'm not sure that was quite such an impressive feat as you, largely due to the fact the the sim's License EXPLICITY banned that kind of use. That's a product not exactly going out of it's way to compete in the market.

What's the best way to suggest additional versions of a model to include on a page ?

Unfortunately it's sapping to see just those kind of issues being ignored by Asobo/MS, presumably at least in part because they don't fit the design they have for MSFS and consequently where they want to spend their resources.

Asobo don't understand flight sims or flight simmers. It's quite noticable that they talk about how the devs and designer have gained real world flight experience - which leads to design decisions like unskippable walk around because that's how real world aviation work. But there never seems to be anything about the devs and designers looking at classic and current sims and their communities and trying to understand what they are looking for. Instead there seems to be a desire to bring in gamification models from other genres and define how MSFS should be used rather than understanding how flight sims work and the inherrent openess that defines the genre. It's fine to offer a a career framework for people who want it, but putting a masssive emphasis on a single, rigid, one size fits all model never was going to work.

MS now seem to release multiple times through the week (at least for some partners) but the MP main update is still on a Thursday.

If it had been a HS/BAe 125 with an analogue or early EFIS cockpit it would have been very interesting but I'm not really sure what this model offers that's substantially different from any of the other PL21 based jets ?

I'm really hoping this one will fix the weather radar issues

That's a pity then.

The RNAV side of it yes.

The RNAV - NAV2 Radio bottom left of the Centre Navigation Panel when using the GNS-530 (See manual page 6)

I wonder if this update will add in the missing NAV 2/RNAV radio

I'm a sucker for a boxy-looking turboprop, especially one that don't use PT6 engines so I've looking forward to the CASA 212 for a while and it's available now on iniBuild store. Hopefully it will live up to promising previews.... https://inibuilds.com/products/project-max-c212-200-msfs

There are, aren't there.

Looks like the FF/LL Curtiss C46 and Boeing 307 which were originally Airplane Heaven models have been taken over by Inibuilds

You can hide the EFB but not (as far as I can tell) it's mount.

So what’s the current state of the A220 ? I’ve been away on holiday so not really tracked the developments since what seemed like a slightly rocky release.

Usually it's a need to start getting money in. Development is expensive and unless you have a backer with deep pockets and lots of patience a project that's gone on as long as this one needs to start seeing some RoI ASAP.

I'd need to check (I'm away in holiday right now) but I think I've managed to get data from the 146 via Spad.Next and display it on the miniCOCKPIT miniFCU. I could be totally misremembering though

The F28, 70 & 100 are really good as well