@Black-Square Thank you for the clear and honest explanation — that makes perfect sense now. I understand the limitation of MSFS using a single, rather crude crash detection system for multiple failure cases, and why this forces a compromise. While it’s not entirely satisfying from a realism standpoint, I appreciate the transparency and the fact that this is a platform limitation rather than a design choice. Thanks again for taking the time to explain it in detail.

Engine condition is stored in state.cfg, which is in your AppData folder for MSFS. The location differs based on your platform, so it's best to google it for the most accurate location. You should be able to make this change to get the effect you're looking for, but I still feel bad about your original problem, even if I'm not supporting the aircraft in MSFS 2024. It seems that many user are still able to use the aircraft in MSFS 2024 with no problems, so I do have to suspect that this is something local. The best guess I can offer is that the grey screens are the result of an avionics server crash. In order for this to only affect you, then it must be some 3rd party application or avionics running on your side. I know that's a bit of a broken record, but it's the best I have to offer. If you wanted to do some deeper exploring, the CoherentGT Debugger might offer some error messages that could be helpful in determining what's going on. I'm not sure if this will work without the SDK installed with developer mode running, but you can try entering http://127.0.0.1:19999/ into the URL bar in your web browser. If you get a bunch of blue links, please let me know, and I can tell you where to go from there.

@SadBucket I think the option (and I'm a great believer in options!) to simply remove by tablet is great for those that maybe think they have a ground crew for doing those things. That actually brings up something I don't know: do biz jet pilots remove the covers and things? How deep a preflight do they do? I had a buddy who flew in east Africa for the Red Cross for years and he told me about the flying but never once mentioned doing a preflight. I drove school bus for 30 years and my stories never mention the 10 minutes doing the pretrip inspection that we all had to do every morning. @Black-Square I guess I'm missing something when setting the park brake - I'll try that ASAP. edit: Got it!! A small possible wrinkle would be having to be within a certain radius of a removable element; it would lend more credence to walking around doing the preflight. Why be able to reach 20' to remove a cover? Okay, we can't jump up on the wing (can we?!) to remove the intake covers so there has to be a compromise. Have a great day. Bob

Some of the central components of this sim are actually out of the cockpit of the Baron that I flew. [image: 47f92613-787e-412b-a778-70911a36a087.jpg]

Clear, thank you for explanation. Next time I will try a less windy ramp to verify.

This sounds like something Just Trains Support could help with: https://www.justtrains.net/support

Ok thanks, I'm happy with that quick answer ---Louis cyyc

PMS sounds like a headache lately. I've been hearing people having issue's when the PMS is installed and not even being used.

@Black-Square I would much prefer a fleet of every model of the king air

@django1489 Not a problem and understandable. Nag away

Thanx for the feedback mate, good luck with your endeavour.

Sharing the short video I posted of a recent Starship flight, hope you enjoy it. FaceBook Video

@ThargorV8 @Black-Square With Vatsim and SI, GNA 340 works perfectly, just make sure you have the VATSIM "Monitor all" option on in the tablet options (I forget the exact name of the setting...). One thing I do want to mention is that I've noticed many addon liveries seen to cause the aircraft light's to appear brighter and a few other graphic anomalies despite them saying they are compatible with msfs2024. Frustrating, but I've been happy with the default liveries in the meantime.

simple answer, just use tds, its tremendously better than pms. 🫠

@lilycrose Thanks, good to know! I’ll dig into it a bit more on my end and see what I find. Really appreciate your help!

Thank you very much

Interesting. I had a vague recollection of this from many years ago, so this may have been in the code since the 90's. If you're working with any 3rd party binding software, I'm sure someone has coded a solution for this by now.

I hope this will be made available for purchase. This would make for an awesome addon for the addon. A G3X mod would be a Day 1 pucrhase of the Bonanza PLUS the mod for me.

Indeed, sounds like a fuel leak failure. Check the failures page of the tablet interface for "active failures", or click "reset all failures."