Thanks for the kind words! Glad you're enjoying it. It is a super fun little airplane. I assume you're speaking of MSFS 2024? Unfortunately, the MSFS 2024 avatar system is much less friendly to us developers with lots of limitations that weren't present in MSFS 2020. For instance, there is no character scaling available, so many of the characters that I had scaled by 98-99% in 2020 are enough for them to now have their heads in the ceiling and feet through the rudder pedals. We also can't control the visibility of the characters programmatically, unlike 2020, and I know that some of my users don't like having a friendly co-pilot. For this reason, I have temporarily disabled the copilot figures in MSFS 2024, hoping that Asobo will restore some of these functions. In the meantime, it's possible for you to add the co-pilot back yourself by editing the navigation_graph_pilot.cfg. There are probably many tutorials to this effect that you can find online, but you should also just be able to uncomment the copilot section that I've left in there. If you have any questions about that, let me know!

@Aaron-Anderson I wanted to tell you that I have struggled to touch down smoothly with this thing since release, but I followed your technique and focused on rounding it out and flying it on and I had the smoothest touchdown I have ever had in the Starship in MSFS 2024. So smooth I wouldn't have known it was on without the sound of the tires. @Black-Square and your tip about not holding off the nose told me I should fly that on too, and I managed to both remember and execute despite my giant idiotic grin after the mains. Left the greasiest streak I've ever put to pavement in real life or in the simulator, fantastic advice!

Hi Martyn. I just wanted to give you a quick reply since you took the time to write this out. I have also intuitively noticed this behavior with my own software, and I did investigate what was causing it at one point. This was several years ago, but I believe there was a fuel-flow-based simplification that I made that was likely the cause. Unfortunately, I didn't see a clean way of fixing this at the time. I suspect this behavior might go away when I start using some new fuel flow calculations available in the sim (2020 & 2024) courtesy of Working Title. If it still persists, then I will revisit the cause and see if I can come up with a solution after sitting it on it for a couple years. Thanks for your thorough explanation!

And finally a good studysim float plane.