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

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    @SkipperMacz To confirm, there is no separate slaved heading source in the Commander 114. The reason you're seeing this is because these third-party GPS units seem to bypass a lot of the aircraft's actual systems logic and pull heading/air-data information directly from the sim. It also explains why Heading Up and wind speed/direction still work even while stationary on the ground (on the TDS at least, not sure about PMS). I know it is possible to code around it (I believe A2A did with WASM), but we haven't quite pushed Nick to the breaking point where he will start using WASM... yet...

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    @AlpraziTech I have now exactly the same issue as you, never happened before. The GTN 750 is not working at all, and the 530 is "working" but without GPS signal, so unable to use any of the maps. It shows as well the "NO GPS POSITION" message, and it doesn't go away at all. Playing on Xbox Series X.

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    After many weeks of tweaking and thinking of new ideas I believe I finally have my Bonanza exactly how I want it. I wanted mine to appear as if it had just gotten out of restoration and no expense has been spared to the paint and exterior and it really has been a fun project. The red is the same color swatch as Ferris Buellers "Ferrari". If I had a Bonanza in real life I would take any chance I could to get out of life's responsibilities to go flying much like I imagine Ferris would. Opting to get away from from the bright white exterior, I found a nice off white coincidentally that is used on a Baron at the field I work at. The gold trim I added a little noise to it to give it more of a gold sand look. The wing walk tape I cleaned up to also give it that just out of restoration look. The interior colors are Ferrari leather color codes from vintage Ferrari interiors. The emblem on the headrests was tricky to figure out as if you do the Beechcraft "B" it gets turned backwards on the right side passenger seats as the texture is mirrored and each seat does not have it's own texture. Searching for a solution I decided to go with the Beechcraft crest and was able to inlay that on the headrests. The black plastic panel I used "rook carbon fiber" from my sim racing texture library, it's hard to see but I feel like it adds a nice touch. The rest of the panel I used the standard Beech white. The insert on the yokes is a cocobolo pattern that I found and the same goes with the rear cabin woodwork. The carpets I cleaned up by finding a section of carpet and copy and pasting it over and over again to give it that brand new out of refurbishment look. Lastly, after attending the 2026 world aerobatic championships in Mason City, Iowa last week, I came home with a bunch of stickers from the teams attending and it got into my mind that I have all these aviation stickers from my time in the industry and if I had a Bonnie what would I do with them? I realized that I can put them on the tablet texture and I even added the outer edge to have the "Frankenstrat" colors of the great Eddie Van Halen and it's also a tip of the cap to Rob Holland who as a massive Van Halen fan. This started out as two of TimHH's aircraft. One was a custom paint that he did for me and the other was N19AT. I definitely recommend grabbing any of his liveries as they are top notch. And of course, huge thank you to Black Square for making such an awesome product![image: 0119f5b0-af1b-46f9-a7d4-e5e5ca4f95cd.png] [image: 1230a5d8-c4a0-4947-8a79-d3b9645981b3.png] [image: 18533f61-7392-4a86-a174-3be2be4e12dc.png] [image: 0e5c9da6-08e3-48a5-bb8d-1e3d0e58c668.png] [image: 3cfbdb1c-d5f1-46c4-9a30-8a1907c6ef67.png] [image: a22ac3e0-ffb5-4b2a-a248-f2b123228e2e.png] [image: 033991d5-8720-4fbc-b77e-90ea0c5b2db6.png] [image: 9ea073d9-1bb7-4c69-a0b3-4422ffb4ec25.png] [image: 965a70fa-6bcd-469b-b567-333fe4e00a37.png]

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    I’ve noted that when using the Visual Approach guidance of the TDS, the GS indicator remains fixed at the top of the HSI. Lateral guidance works as it should. Is this functioning correctly for anyone?

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    @Black-Square Hey Nick, hope all is well. Any word on the fuel burn discrepancy? -Crash

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    @Captain_J On the Map page, I believe it is Menu → Map Settings → Map → Heading Up. I believe the option is there, although I'm not entirely brushed up on how it works since I've never used it IRL. Garmin says Heading Up is available when a suitable heading source is connected, such as ARINC 429, RS-232, or an approved synchro heading source, such as the Bendix/King KI-525A HSI. The Century NSD-360A HSI itself is not listed as a compatible heading source. That said, the Collins RMI-30 requires a synchro-format heading input to function and the Century IV also uses heading information from the NSD-360A/Century compass system, which could plausibly include a bootstrap synchro output feeding both. It's therefore plausible that the same synchro heading source could also provide heading information to the GTN 750. Another interesting point is that the GTN requires a heading input, along with electronic TAS data (typically from an ADC) to calculate the Wind Speed and Direction Field. (A flight school I rent from found that out when they tried to equip an old 172n with a 650). Though none of this appears to be simulated by TDS/PMS, and the Heading Up option and Wind Field will simply work regardless of the aircraft.

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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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    In 2024 you have made an empty profile for the Alpha and Bravo and thats the one you are using right?
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    Aspen Evolution PFD on BS aircrafs installed by me. (Implementation test)

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    Would it be possible to swap the King AP with the GFC 500 with some of his planes for niche hardware reasons? Just curious
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    Product updates?

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    Full state saving in the Starship? gulps Need to get those checklists ready!
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    Upcoming King Air Avionics

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    I'm all for providing choices for people, especially if they draw more people to check out Nick's excellent planes. I won't be using those big screens, but I'm sure they'll appeal to a lot of folks who don't want to fly analog. Having said that, in the forums and discords I'm in for so many flightsim devs, wow, every avionics suite under the sun is being requested of pretty much every dev. I'm glad I don't have to try to please everyone!
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    SU6 turbine engine improvements

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    external lights Black-Square aircraft

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    @Black-Square If you don't mind me asking, what do you change to make them more visible during the day? Something in the .fx file? Would love to apply that to my light mods on .to. You can DM if you'd like. Thanks Nick!!
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    No saving state

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    @Mustang said in No saving state: an 'export/import' feature on the tablet to save/load state files locally I feel the same way, and don't trust anything stored anywhere I can't keep on my desk. Unfortunately, the MSFS architecture purposefully makes it impossible to save files locally from JavaScript. The "work" folder is exclusively for WASM instruments, I believe, but don't quote me.
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    Just Massively Impressed

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    @Black-Square said in Just Massively Impressed: Thanks for letting me know! I often wonder how many of my users are out there flying my older planes, versus how much of this tends to be "fad" driven. I'm the kind of person who would pick a couple of my favorite airplanes and fly them forever, so it's harder for me to imagine how some users fly something new every couple of months or even weeks! The Analog King Air was my first purchase and the only reason I still have MSFS 2020 installed on my computer. I have all your other aircraft, but I always come back to the King Air. Really looking forward to the Model 300 in MSFS 2024!!!
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    Cessna 177 Cardinal

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    @Mad_X i am sorry, my english is very bad, i am not from the US. i dont understand what you mean, sorry
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    Question About Upcoming Updates

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    @Black-Square Hi Nick, looking forward to the upgrades....I see echo19 has created a soundpack for theTBM850....Will any of this batch of upgrades include an official BlackSquare TBM850 soundpack update? Cheers James
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    Suggestion: Iron Man Mode

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    Surely some self control is all that's needed there! Perhaps what would be nice is something like the old fsx a2a aircraft where on the pop up/tablet etc you can choose to inspect the aircraft which when lists the damage/wear and tear.
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    Turboprop engine starting simulation questions

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    Disclaimer, not a dev, info might be gappy or misremembered: FS9, FSX, and MSFS have for ever and always had essentially no way to realistically implement proper turboprop simulation due to core sim limitations, which I'm sure you might know. In recent years BS and a few other developers have managed to squeeze somewhat realistic behaviour out of the platform despite its faults, but still it's only ever been possible to properly recreate turboprop physics by running the addon's physics outside the sim which is rare (Majestic is the only one I know to have done it). Nick is a magician, but even so there's only so much that can be done in recreating a turboprop within MSFS, at least up until now. SU6 included a lot of turbine simulation improvements in its change log, hopefully this will translate to an easier life for devs and a more faithful recreation for us consumers. It's all hope for now though, I haven't seen any devs comment on it yet and it wouldn't be very surprising to find out that the changes hasn't helped all that much, but my fingers are very much crossed! Edit: Again, with no specific knowledge, it's also possible that the SU6 improvements could be great for a ground-up project, but require a complete rework of existing products. Just speculation.
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    Commander 690B engine variant

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    @Black-Square Nick, you told me to reach out to you via the support system a few times, and then confirmed that you received my email, but I've never received a response from you. This goes all the way back to Starship's release. I'd be happy to offer you any references/insight/testing you may need, in addition to access to my 840, if you'd like. If you're considering an MT 5 bladed propeller option, my airplane has them.
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    Velocity XL livery update with remastered landing gear area

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    Sunglasses

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    This would be really neat to implement!
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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...
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    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
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    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.
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    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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    Cabin temp indicators

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