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Hi all, I'm posting this not to trash the Braz, on the contrary, it's actually quite good, I particularly like the night lighting options, both internally and externally. Carenado have really stepped up their game in this department, This is really to compare notes with other end users, to see comparisons with others to see what's happening with each individual installation and whether they are having the same issues. For Clarity I'm running P3D version 4.5 without hot fix 2 applied. I have flown this type IRL some years ago, though I "file Dumped" a lot of the numbers. after flying bigger faster stuff. So Here's the stuff I've found so far : Torque - I cannot get any more than 90% on Take off at sea level, this is not correct you can over torque the brasilia by more than 120% , sure you'll cook the engines , but as with Whamil77's mods it can be programmed in the gauges. I hope Carenado or Bill (or anybody!) can rectify this. T6 Temp - The best I could get on an ISA Day at sea level was around 748 degrees, there are a various limits - Start, MCT, etc , but can definitely be exceeded during take off and climb an therefore cook the hot section of the engine. It definitely needs to be addressed and implemented as well. at least reflect the higher numbers in the gauges even if no consequence of a cooked engine for the take off phase and climbing to the higher flight levels APU - Fuel low pressure light amber warning stays illuminated after start. It should be off and light out. APU- it's seems to be a dummy switch. The battery will still draw power and go flat if left long enough leaving you a cold dark and dead aircraft. I would have the thought a work around for this would be to edit the CFG and make it a 3 engined machine with no propulsion, just a generator oversimplifying, that's all it really is. the only work around so far is using FSUIPC and checking batteries to infinite, so much for consequences though. EEC- this one is fine as none of the EEC switches on the overhead panel on aircraft I flew worked either. they were all inop and left in the manual position. Propellers - During start I'm noticing this issue and wonder if It's happening to other users as well. During manual start i.e not using the Shift-7 auto start panel, I"m finding during the start up procedure that on moving condition levers out of the feather detent the propellers are instantly spinning as a high speed disc (prop blur) in external view and internal view, However, if I use the Auto-start menu, they start to spool up nice and slowly at a linear rate as in the real world. During engine shut down (pulling the condition levers into the feather position) they now spool down in a more realistic fashion. Of note in version 1.0 they would instantaneously stop, so at least Carenado have fixed that part of the sequence. Night lighting - It seems the Flood lighting under the glareshield seems to be tied in with the taxi light. as in, from VC view If I turn off the instrument panel flood light switch, the dynamic light emanating from the the taxi light on to the airport ramp/taxiway/runway extinguishes also. VC artifacts- when viewing from about row 10 and rearwards internal view. shows the normal nacelle flap, but also what looks like an image of a rendered part of the nacelle flap in the extended position with a short artifact line extending out from it about half a meter long, this is while the flaps are retracted in the zero position. Well what I've found so far, without going into subsystems too far, electrical prop governor tests etc. The Brasilia is a pretty rugged machine, originally built to operate independently, from remote unprepared airports and has a lot redundancy built in, like five different generators from memory, making it a rather complex turbine for it's class. the it reminds me of an old british engineered Jag XJ. Feel free to add any bugs you may have found or comparisons, to see if these are valid and consistent issues amongst users and then maybe submitted as a support ticket to Carenado. Cheers T