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  • For discussion and engagement about the Black Square Commander 114 MSFS 2020/2024

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    I tested as follows: used Spad, climbed to 11000 feet. It took a while, but finally got a disconnect. Turned off Spad, eventually got another. It seems at higher altitudes, there are much longer intervals between disconnects than my current flight at 6000 feet, have had six disconnects in about 12 minutes all with SPAD. I'm using SPAD to output a voice when it runs my auto-reset to NAV mode code. (In fact, as I type, it's now up to 11 instances.) Anyone else note a correlation between cruise altitude and disconnect rates?
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    I think I may have changed this very recently. If L:var_GyroRotationSwitch doesn't work, then you can use the native events until the next update: >K:GYRO_DRIFT_INC, and >K:GYRO_DRIFT_DEC.
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    [image: ea4fb366-27ff-4206-ac3f-2743c67f6e94.png] I'm amazed, and very happy, that the Bonanza has torn me away from my Sovereign+ addiction. Back to the basics in the very best of ways, thank you @Black-Square for such an immersive product. The backfire made me jump when I leaned too heavily
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    As a USA VATSIM flyer, when I fly the Duke with the KNS81 I like to try to use named waypoints when possible. As for which are legally allowed, the KNS81, I think, is only allowed to use Victor and Jet Airway waypoints, no T or Q airway points here. Reason being that V and J points are based on VORs while T and Q are pure GPS required points. Also, legally, you cannot fly any SID or STAR that requires GPS. They'll usually say so on the chart, or skyvector says which ones are RNAV. They'll have (RNAV) after the name whereas non-rnav sids and stars will not say RNAV after their name. One example i regularly use is the Bradley6 departure from KBDL. Let's say you want to go to VEERS. You get out little navmap and you find a VOR that overlaps KBDL and VEERS and then little navmap lets you draw a line from the VOR to VEERS that will give you a bearing and distance. You then put that in the KNS and it can setup its pseudo-VOR for you to fly to VEERS once in the air. Also, yes, according to Gemini you can use VOR/DME points and even latitude/longitude waypoints, but I like to make ATC's life easier and pick named points because I don't know if vatsim is setup for those kinds of points like IRL ATC's software is. As for equipment code. In USA, I use /I when using the KNS in Duke. It stands for "RNAV, NO GNSS, NO RVSM". /A is pure vor nav. /Z would be rnav, no gnss above FL290. (/w would be pure VOR only above FL290. I do that is the F28 when doing vor nav only)
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    @Black-Square Hey Nick, Will the new PT6 model be implemented for the starship in 2024?
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    @vliah There's a clickspot below the red "feather" label on the throttle quadrant to show/hide all the levers. You have an interesting suggestion. I haven't heard anyone else complain about this, because I guess they must have dual lever inputs. Unfortunately, overriding hardware inputs is always a decision made very carefully as a developer, because the last thing I would want is someone jumping in the airplane for the first time and not being able to get their hardware propeller levers to work for some reason. I'll think about if there is any other way to do this, though. Sometimes it takes few days, but I might come up with something when I least expect it. Thanks for the suggestion! I can definitely see how it would be helpful for some hardware.
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    @Jayman88 Did you check the Activation Details for Real Taxiways 2020 under the "Your Orders" tab on your Just Flight account? Unfortunately, I know that @Voice-of-Reason is away on holiday right now, but I will try to get you an answer from someone at Just Flight if one of the support staff does not see this post in short order. Sorry for the wait!
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    Breaking: I found a way to solve the problem It can probably be done smarter, but the way it was solved was to delete (or rename) the Packages folder, MSFS will rebuild it after a restart, copy Bsq King Air and Asobo King Air from MSFS2020 to the Community folder and restart the sim. I am soooo happy, because now I can run the Gps via Glassout. And it turned out that I was not the only one with this problem, my brother in law had the same problem. But @Black-Square : pretty pretty please with sugar on the top: please release a 2024 version. I got cat pictures
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    I can't wait to hop back into the TBM. Did my first long trip (Netherlands - Japan) in it when I first began simming 3 years ago! This looks fantastic @Black-Square
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  • Nick, are you tempted to create this gauge for the Twin Commander?

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    Now you're just teasing me...
  • Aspen Evolution PFD on BS aircrafs installed by me. (Implementation test)

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    This looks awesome! Would love to see it on the Caravan
  • Velocity Issues in MSFS 2024

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  • Propeller Strobe effects on newer BS Aircraft?

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    Thanks, appreciate if you can improve your prop animation for 2024. The vast majority of developers get this completely wrong, most of the Asobo default single engine prop aircraft are borderline unusable because of their terrible prop animation effects. Yours is not terrible at all, but can still use some polish when it comes to not seeing individual blurred blades. In reality you simply don't see those at all at medium and high RPMs, it's a clear disc, so no flickering when looking through the prop. Obviously this animation is less critical on twin props when one is not forced to look through the disc. But if you could carry over these 2024 improvements to the Bonanza, that would be superb
  • Piaggio P.180 Avanti I (The OG)

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    +1 to this - I also have the "other" one, and while it scratches an itch - a BlackSquare version with all that entails, would blow the other one out of the water. Something about the Avantis have always appealed to me, but sadly have never had a super high quality one in the sim that also functions to the level I'd hoped.
  • Suggestion: Clickable Pitot and Engine Covers for MSFS 2020

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    @Ratman I don’t really see this coming. I really think it is a detriment to continue to support MSFS2020. There is no walk around mode in 2020 anyway and the only way it could be a thing is if you click it in 3rd person and that would cause way more problems than it would be worth. It’s harder to support 2 sims and I think 2024 is actually more stable than 2020 right now. If you have the internet speed to support it I would absolutely make the jump if not, I would absolutely make yourself heard about a need for an offline mode in the MSFS forums because I think that is the only thing keeping people on 2020.
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  • Beech 1900D

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    Hopefully an Alpine Super Freighter variant for the freight dogs))
  • BlackSquare KingAir Professional for MSFS2024

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    @Matt_J25 Highly likely.
  • Black Square Duke/Baron inspired sim pit

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    Here's the rudimentary beginning of the Starship panel: [image: aae49598-9525-4412-ad67-07cc968a9742.jpeg]
  • Question about propeller physics in MSFS2024

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    i hope that would bring so much visual realism to the propellers !
  • New and improved state saving

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    @Black-Square said in New and improved state saving: @Bishop I've been up all night monitoring the 114 release, so I've been slowly working on the code rewrites required to bring this to all my other aircraft. Glad tp hear you're looking forward to it, because this one is a lot of work. Wow, I recall you mentioning somewhere on the forum long ago just what a time consuming project that would be.... Many thanks and appreciation! Wild to get that kind of enhancement for free.
  • Expanding options for existing avionics.

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  • Glass Out gauges for Commander

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    Glass out does a pretty good job of finding most screens and instruments (not all). Most of these are from glassout - they look exactly like the starship cockpit above. [image: 3c0b01b5-61dc-413a-9454-08c6e6eafa5a.jpeg]
  • Commander 114 Waiting Room

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    @Black-Square No problem! My wallet awaits! ️
  • Mooney M20J

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    @Butsey19 I used to fly an E model years ago (many years ago lol). I would absolutely love a C model too. I know I'm asking too much but it would be amazing if he did a release that included an early period model, mid period model, and late period model. So like a C then a K or TLS then the acclaim. I would drop some serious cash on that lol!
  • Commander 114 ... 'instructional demonstration'

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  • Turbo Commander Progress

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    Nick's statement that the Twin Commanders are "the first Black Square aircraft modelled and textured professionally" is the most unbelievably humble instance of "selling yourself short"... So stoked for everything to come. P.S. Mayhaps could we get an FAA Flight Check bird with the King Air? Although their B300s have a ton of modifications (to such a degree that they are hardly recognizable as KA300s), would it be possible to represent some of the superficial differences on the exterior? (E.g. the two window deletes on the left side, extra antennas, winglets.)
  • Request - G1000NXI Option For Future Black Square Aircraft In Development

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    @alanfernandes Yes you are correct but a lot of 3rd party devs have added in other features that aren’t included with the base working title avionics. Like for the G3000/G5000 Skyward developed a whole Datalink functionality with it and it has some protections built in. Especially now that we know that the King Airs are gonna be the 300 and the 1900D both of them could get garmins. The 1900D has a slightly specialized one called the G950nxi and the 300 has the regular G1000nxi.