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    You're looking for an L:Var that triggers the light, or an L:Var that indicates when the light is illuminated? For the latter, there are instructions in the manual under the "Annunciator Lights" section that describe how to access L:Vars for most of the annunciator lights in my aircraft. In this case, it should be L:var_MD41Message_EM_readonly. For the former, no such L:Var exists to trigger the light, since the lights all have complex behavior and I haven't been expecting users to drive them with their own logic, but if this is something you really wanted to do, you could add (L:MD41_MeggageLight, bool) or to BonanzaProfessional_Base_INT.XML in the block of code containing <NODE_ID>MD41Message_EM</NODE_ID>, directly before the line, </ON_CONDITION_CODE>.

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    Hi there, Currently doing a tour in the frozen north and I'm wondering if I'm doing something wrong or maybe the temperature drop after turning off the heater is a little bit too fast. It's mostly -10 to -20 degrees C outside, so pretty hardcore, and I take it into consideration. But still, when I warm up the cabin to +20C and just disable the heater on final, it drops to around -7 at touchdown. I've tried also disabling the heater AND fully closing this air inlet slider left from my foot, but it doesn't make a big difference. Is there something else that I can do to maintain the warmth inside for longer? I know it's a small thing, but I like playing around with the temp simulation, so want to make it feel as realistic as possible.

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    @kletzi said in Occasional aggressive pitch-down events on approach: Yesterday and today (2.1.2026) I had very aggressive pitch down in a reproducable setup on short final at ELLX runway 24. The airport is on an elevated plateu, together with the wind 25012KT this creates quite some turbulence when entering the plateu. However, with Starship this seems especially bad, causing a pitch down that I couldn't recover from (AP and handflying) at first, and finally managed to just barely catch with full elevator deflection when expecting it beforehand. I tried the approach with another aircraft and while it got violent turbulence as well, there was not nearly as much pitch down as with Starship. Speed is not the issue. With calm weather there is no issue. Is Starship especially vulnerable to this kind of turbulence? Should it be? I also had something similar happen at Rimini in the meantime, though it was higher up and gave me a chance to recover. It might be exaggerated in starship because of the methods the developer has to use to get the canard wing to properly behave and feel within the confines of the sim. I notice a few developers of planes with complex flight dynamics, specifically airliners, recommend setting the msfs turbulence from realistic or medium, all the way down to low. Low is not as fun but it might be worth the try to prevent this kind of odd behaviour.

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    For those having issues with Real Taxiways breaking third party airports, are these 2020 airports that you just dropped into 2024? I've had some bad bumps in the Feel There KSTL and on a whim I remembered this topic and excluded the KSTL bgl from Real Taxiways. Flat as a board now. Their KSTL has not been released for 2024, pretty much all my scenery is just 2020 stuff dumped into 2024.

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    @Norman99 Just to clarify, the Analog King Air and Analog Caravan do not have the turbine engine simulation that my later aircraft do, so this is expected for those older aircraft in my fleet.

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    Awesome! No worries at all, thank you for the update! Best Regards, Jakob
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    No saving state

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    I understand. Then I'll wait patiently. Best regards and fingers crossed.
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    It would be possible to publish a preview of the Caravan manual?

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    @Voice-of-Reason Hello! Delay is understood as it was holiday period. People are appreciative of black squares works and thats why so much passion. Looking forward to your update. Thanks
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    Request - G1000NXI Option For Future Black Square Aircraft In Development

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    Agreed, same reason I only ever use the G530 and G430 combo.
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    BLKSQ Baron Autopilot and Flight Director

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    I started up my sim to see if I could find out what went wrong and the whole thing was suddenly working as it should! Creepy. I will try to remember your gem - "can be fixed usually by just toggling the hot-swapping radio configuration." Cheers
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    Dynamic registrations - problems still exist post-beta

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    So, the dynamic registration still isn't working, but I use the tablet to set it and I'm okay with that. I also figured out, the state saving and hours issue is FS24, not BlackSquare. If I can get the program to shut down normally it saves the hours, etc, but most of the time it hangs and I have to shut it down through Steam, so no data is saved. I assume nothing is written to the state.cfg file until FS24 shuts down, is that correct? It would be nice if it wrote when I exited back to the main menu, then I could copy the stage.cfg out and back in before the next flight. Not elegant, but it would work.
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    Baron and Bonanza Pro - Flight Director Needs A Little Love

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    I appreciate you having a look. Let me see about making a video. FYI, this is in relation to MSFS, not 2024.
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    Feature Request - Partial Panel Covers

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    @MiRexer It would.
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    Feature Request - Windscreen Covers for instant IMC practice

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    BlackSquare KingAir Professional for MSFS2024

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    @thecheesedip The 1900 would be a perfect addition following a King Air. Almost the same aircraft.
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    Black Square Aircraft

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    @KAPA-Flyer Yeah, I have to agree with you, too. When I bought those products, I wasn't looking for the Black Square level but for the "6 pack" "analog" look.
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    Add-ons Linker

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    @DocZ That's exactly what I've done with all my Black Square planes, no issues here.
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    Suggestion for next aircraft

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    Yes, the idea is cool, I would also like a plane, and even with a g1000. But while I'm enjoying the A36TC, I've already conquered 3 continents.
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    King Air in 2024

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    @Bishop I'd be very surprised if it weren't an analog. I mean when has Black Square ever not done steam gauges? Ok, Starship, but that doesn't count that 80s glass cockpit is rad.
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    Still no tail numbers in 2024, and no hours saved, in the SU4 Beta

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    I did find the tablet option for the tail numbers, thanks. And best I can tell, it looks like some stuff does save, I'll have to test further. I'm wondering if there's a workaround using a backup state.cfg file, pasted back in after the sim starts but before choosing the aircraft. Probably won't work, but maybe worth a try.
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    2024 BN2 for MSFS2024

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    The problem I am having is on the PC not xBox. I did try it on the xBox tonight and it was there. Same problem as last time I rented it. Main cockpit view was the ceiling. Could not get any other cockpit views with Ctrl-1-Ctrl-0. No I don't use Shift for views. Could not get any views I created to save.
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    Thanks for the updates, Starship 1.2 and Velocity XL 1.4

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    repair as expected change nothing. i guess reset won't as well, but i won't check that.
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    Black Square Tablet Features

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    Just my 2cents on this. I know some other developers have done this like FlightFX with the HondaJet and the VisionJet. The Piper Turbo Arrow also have Navigraph and Simbreif in the tablet which was suprising. I know other do as well in smaller GA aircraft and as someone who is on Xbox this is amazing as we do not have the add ons that PC users to do allow for a pop out or things like that. The other thing to consider would be developing a stand alone pop-out for Navigraph/Simbreif for the marketplace. Similar to what PMS50 just did with the GTN750. Xbox users can now use a pop-out GTN750 like the PC users do. One of the reasons I love this so much is that it now, for the most part, allows every aircraft to have Navigraph and Simbrief intigration through the pop-out unit. Just food for thought.
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    Turbo Commander Progress

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    @Black-Square I would like to hear a Boris 8 cylinder engine.... a nice io-720 would be cool
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    PMS5 GTN750 Lite Works Fine In The Caravan, Won't Start In The King Air 350

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    Ok, the last 5 times I tried it, it wouldn't work. This time I started flight sim to get you that screen shot and it fired right up... I dunno...
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    No option for G430 to be the primary GPS for most Blacksquare aircraft in the avionics selection.

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    @aeronautorbust said in No option for G430 to be the primary GPS for most Blacksquare aircraft in the avionics selection.: Is there a reason why the G430 STILL isn't an option to be used as the primary GPS? Indeed, there is! As you might have noticed, both the TDS and PMS50 GTN 650's can also operate as the primary source of navigation when no primary GPS is selected. I asked Working Title to provide the same functionality a long time ago, and I was politely told that this would be too difficult. I then proceeded to modify their code to create my own solution for this, and I can confirm that it was very dirty, difficult, and inconsistent. Just as recently as Flight Sim Expo this year (July), I spoke with a WT representative about this again, and referred to it as my most wanted feature. Perhaps the day will still come for this functionality, but in the meantime, we will both be patiently waiting.