Piston & Turbine Dukes

Since the Duke was the first aircraft I brought over to MSFS 2024, it hasn't received this fix yet. Do not worry

The standard stock sim binding Auto Throttle TO GA (or similarly named) has always worked well for me in Black Square aircraft that have GA buttons, however not every set of avionics (looking at you WT 530) supports it, and sometimes the aircraft has the button and no way to support it, either (looking at you Caravan).

Yes, exactly as you explain in your old post—the exact same thing is happening to me.

Any idea when that next update may be? I'm considering purchasing when it gets updated. Thank You.

OK, I'll grab some screenshots when I'm next able (but it might be a while). Best regards, John.

Just for the record, I tested this again with Grand Duke after the MSFS2024 SU6 update, and unfortunately experienced the same non-save behaviours.

Are you sure that you weren't using reverse at the moment? I had pushed the breakes with the reverse on a few times and tipped back as a result.

@Black-Square Have you seen this topic?

got it - button needed to be pulse/momentary....thanks

@Black-Square Thanks for help, your code works well, but I'll use it as a temporary solution. Is there any chance that you could output these needle variables to some simvars in a future update?

SU6 seems to have resolved ALL of the LOD issues inside of the cockpit - even the CO2 detectors in VR (woohooo). But not this one - the Duke's recognition lights are still inside the fence and blinding.

I suspect the engines might be damaged, possibly due to a hot start - I had similar symptoms after trying the CTRL E MSFS auto-start command when I was in a hurry testing a few things quite a while back. You can check and repair the engines via the menu system.

@BigRigDriver Since the Duke uses all third party avionics (except the KNS-81), flight plan importing and editing is up to the capabilities of whichever GPS you have installed and intend to use. However, I believe all the available options support importing Navigraph flight plans. Let me know if there's anything else I can help you with!

@MiRexer The Duke does not have a KAS 297B, which could explain your difficulties

@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.

@CdnCptMoustache I just looked into this, and that variable is only set to zero in the Turbine Duke, and Starship. There's a high probability it was a mistake, and I copied it over to Starship, but I will test things out and see if that's the proper solution before the next update. Thanks for pointing it out. This problem was on my list, but I haven't thought about it in a while.

An excerpt from the next changelog for you When the remote compass is slewed to an incorrect magnetic heading, the autopilot will now follow the HSI’s heading bug to this new incorrect heading.

Hi again, could I please get some support on my config. control bindings in MSFS2024 not saving on the Grand Duke (but all OK on the Stock Duke and Turbine Duke) - I'm at a loss to explain or fix it? I have to go ina and select the binding profiles (and aircraft livery) every time whenever I select the Grand Duke. Many thanks.