@smokey01170 I’m feeling Thursday, considering what was said above, with regards to testing needed and staff away for the holidays. But I wouldn’t mind being wrong.

No update, since it's been the holiday season. I've been struggling with the recommended techniques for state saving since MSFS 2020, so I'm going to finally use this an an excuse to pressure Asobo to fix the issues once and for all. I apologize that we're going to be waiting for a solution from Asobo in the meantime, but the lack of hobbs time saving is the strong indication that this is a simulator level issue.

Excellent, thank you for the quick respond.

@Mark at first glance, you already do your own refueling, so all that really needs to happen is for you to look for the fuel truck to arrive, no? basically as soon as L:FSDT_GSX_REFUELING_STATE is set to 5, start the refuel. And maybe make sure the L:FSDT_GSX_SETTINGS_PROGRESS_REFUEL/L:FSDT_GSX_SET_PROGRESS_REFUEL is correct

Oh, I've already fixed this on several of my old aircraft (some of which may not have had a public update since then), but you should see it in the changelogs moving forwards. Sorry I never replied when I made the changes several months ago!

@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.

I addressed both of these with my sound designer well before release, and we spent substantial time trying to figure out what was going on. I don't remember exactly how that conversation resolved itself, but I'll bring it up with him again before the next update.

If it's always returning to this value, I suspect this is related to the broken state saving with SU4 that you may have seen others complaining about. Unfortunately, there isn't anything I can do about this, except pressure Asobo to look into this issue for SU5. In the meantime, there is currently a discussion on the official forums about a workaround with how you exit the simulator. That might be worth a try. Also, have you tried editing the state.cfg? I think others have had luck setting any values in there as they like.

@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.

Well the indicator seems to have resolved itself lol. Yeah I found an earlier message later yesterday talking about the oil door. Man there's a couple really weird things about the Duke - setting off a master caution for a normal operation with the oil door and no indication for cowl flap position!? Beech quirks

@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

Thank you for the detailed write-up, this might help me narrowing down the problem I've checked some vidoes on youtube searching for people with the same issue but sadly all of the youtubers only use the standard close view when going external, so even if they had the same problem they wouldn't know My hardware is super mainstream. i5 12600k, 5060Ti 16GB, 32GB, with the newest drivers, but I would assume if this would be a problem the issue would appear more under load and less when there's less going on, but it's always at the same ranges and the debug monitor doesn't show anything special when it comes to resources used. No special settings for MSFS2024 in the NVIDIA applications. In the sim everything is set to High (other than NPC and airports traffic, but I've also checked rising them to high). As of now, I have only found one person on the MSFS forums that has reported the same issue. An exciting mystery to solve, will continue investigating

I don't know if this was clear from above, but I just wanted to confirm that this is the intended behavior, and not a bug. This is very typical in aircraft with alternators and analog voltage regulators. It's actually often one of the first things that I hear real world pilots remark about when they test my aircraft, "you even got the low voltage light correct!" In my own flying, the cabin lights dimming and pulsing at low RPM while taxiing is actually a great indicator that you forgot to return the engine to an idle RPM of 1,000-1,200, which keeps the battery charged, and the engine healthy. Always happy to answer if you have any more questions!

The Navigraph takeoff perf calc for the Avro is inaccurate. Flex coming up as 50 degrees, sometimes the TRP does not even allow me to dial such high value in. Other times I run out of runway and climb out in a 100 fpm manner or even better, the jet nosedives to achieve the desired speed. Again, this is supposed to be a Professional stuff, allegedly study level. At this price range, I expect the devs to either provide a proper calculator (tool) or at least supply perf charts so we can properly obtain the required values. Otherwise the feature (flexi) is unusable, at least in a realistic manner. Derates absolutely require tools to determine their values.

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