Bonanza Professional

Although I'm always interested in more persistance and aircraft ownership features, it's really the inconsistency of Asobo's state saving that's holding me back. I don't want to create all these ownership features, just for some users to find their progress erased on some random load of their simulator. That would be more frustrating than not having the features, in my opinion! In the meantime, this conversation might interest you. It's all about how to think about MTBF, and how it differs from other damage models.

Came here to also post an observation but this seems related so I'll post here too. I use a Streamdeck to monitor trim values, which saves mousing down to look all the time. I use (A:ELEVATOR TRIM POSITION,DEGREES) I have noticed the following on the Bonanza TC The plane loads in with my Streamdeck showing 0 degrees elevator trim If I enable Settings > Flight Interface > Instrument Tooltips - that also confirms 0.0 degrees On the aircrafts trim markers, its showing around -1.5 degrees (the first D below 0) Moving the trim to 0 on the aircraft trim marker is showing me +2.1 degrees from the sim I can see the plane marker ranges from -15 to +15 ish and the sim is -20 to +20 degrees, so I would not expect the numbers to be perfectly align. However the fact that 0 is not 0 did throw me off. If I bind a button to "0 (>A:ELEVATOR TRIM POSITION, NUMBER)" it will reset as above - sim showing 0, trim marker at -1.5. So this would explain why when the OP sets their trim to 0 is getting a +2 degree climb Maybe this is how the aircraft really is??

After some research I finally got the mixture lever for the A36TC to work with axis and Oh's by using IE:BKSQ_TURBOCHARGEDMIXTURECONTROLLER with axis min 0 and max 1 float rounding. I suppose this would work for spad.next as well.

Do you think that in the future, the consumption of motor oil and its replacement will be feasible?

Thanks, I was curious if your useable fuel figures were simply just a number. Silly me...

@Ape42 That's some fairly impressive RPN. Would you like a career with Black Square Simulations? Thank you for providing that for my users! I didn't know that automated scripts were possible with SPAD. That's very good to know, and seems like an optimal solution for this particular question.

You might be able to reliably retrieve that data from... C:\Users\[USERNAME]\AppData\Local\Packages\Microsoft.Limitless_8wekyb3d8bbwe\LocalCache\SimObjects\Airplanes\bksq-aircraft-bonanzapro[variant]\state.CFG (slightly different path for MSFS 2020)

Your welcome - good news is it remembers the checklist for each plane too - so you don't have to reimport them every time :). Let me know how you like the abbreviated checklist on the Baron and if I should take the time to make a similar one for the Bonanza. I've been refining my abbreviated checklist and will probably put out an update in a week or so.

@SebAvi Hi Seb. Thanks for applying your keen observation to my newest aircraft. I hope you don't mind if I reply in list form, since I've been receiving so much feedback lately. There should be a substantial impact on cranking performance, as it uses the same code from the Dukes. The increased friction, oil viscosity, and battery internal resistance should all play a roll. Engine performance should reflect the density altitude, but my sound designer and I have not made an attempt to capture a rough running engine during the warmup phase. I've received a lot of notes about this. This is one of the few features which I haven't taken complete control away from the simulator yet in my aircraft. I'm looking for a safe solution that I can roll out across my fleet. The easiest way to induce spark plug fouling is to leave the mixture at full rich at low RPM and low CHT. I have seen this effect many times in these aircraft, since I often have the simulator running in the background while I troubleshoot code. Thanks again! All your suggestions always make my aircraft better, so I'm always happy to listen!

@nrcrate said in Some Bonanza Feedback/Ideas: Since the last update, I can hear what seems to be the nose gear touchdown sound while taxiing occasionally, like the nose gear is skipping when it really isn't. I did not hear this before the last update I 2nd this

@CoolGunS There are cases where the path length can cause issues that prevent installation in the Community folder. In such situations, using the BROWSE option is a great workaround. Additionally, when troubleshooting, the Addon Linker makes it easy to add or remove add-ons from the Community folder—it's much faster and more organized than manually copying and pasting files

@Black-Square If you have a forum post or ticket open we could upvote it and maybe gain traction? I'd bet many of the devs over there fly your products...

Thanks for checking. Have you ever seen anything about the taxi ribbon not working with specific aircraft? If you said that it only worked on the exterior, I could imagine scenarios that could be under my control, but not so much the other way around.

Not SPAD, but FSUIPC. Here's what I ended up with for another user, for the Bonanza just use the _1 variable. https://community.justflight.com/post/43575 Both the linked post and a follow up a few posts down.

I can confirm that I'm on SU4 Beta and no problems so far as well.

Is it doing this in the aircraft selection visualiser, where you select liveries and change registrations etc or only after spawning in sim? If it's the former definitely worth having a quick look at the msfs payload and fuel I think (even though it should be managed through Nicks tablet for his aircraft) then if the weights are booked you can reset to everything empty...To sort it..pretty much what I did but it's only happened to me once so not extensively tested it

If you want the unit turned on but in STBY, you should set it to 1.

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