Turbo Commander Progress
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Been flying the crap out of the turbine duke amazing product. Used to fly all the king air series IRL and the way the turbine duke sounds and operates is hands down top notch. I also flew the 690B IRL and is my favorite turbo prop to date beside the Cheyenne 400LS. Reason I’m inquiring on this side of community is trying to get in touch with the DEV team to see if I would be able to help with testing as i fly daily in sim and in VR. 17 years experience IRL in most turbo props and last gig was straight 525. (Really looking forward to the 690) also waiting on the B200
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Been flying the crap out of the turbine duke amazing product. Used to fly all the king air series IRL and the way the turbine duke sounds and operates is hands down top notch. I also flew the 690B IRL and is my favorite turbo prop to date beside the Cheyenne 400LS. Reason I’m inquiring on this side of community is trying to get in touch with the DEV team to see if I would be able to help with testing as i fly daily in sim and in VR. 17 years experience IRL in most turbo props and last gig was straight 525. (Really looking forward to the 690) also waiting on the B200
@Grauadler Glad you're looking forward to it. I've actually been doing screenshots and preparing a news update about the Twin Commanders for very soon. I've had a lot of people get in touch with real world Commander experience, and one of them was nice enough to host me for sound recording and flying so I could learn the feel of the aircraft first hand. I will add your username to the growing list if the time comes that I need more testers. Thank you very much for volunteering!
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@Grauadler Glad you're looking forward to it. I've actually been doing screenshots and preparing a news update about the Twin Commanders for very soon. I've had a lot of people get in touch with real world Commander experience, and one of them was nice enough to host me for sound recording and flying so I could learn the feel of the aircraft first hand. I will add your username to the growing list if the time comes that I need more testers. Thank you very much for volunteering!
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@Black-Square can’t wait but these soon news are taking toooooo long
@ramonesg I wanted to have the news update done for Monday, but my house was struck by lightning last night causing some damage, and I'm still discovering what has been fried. The strike blew some light switches straight out of the wall and across the room! Luckily, all my aircraft are safe, but my video editing computer (which I was using at the time) seems to have received some damage. Hopefully I will be back up and running with a recovered disk this week, and there was no actual damage to the hardware.
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@ramonesg I wanted to have the news update done for Monday, but my house was struck by lightning last night causing some damage, and I'm still discovering what has been fried. The strike blew some light switches straight out of the wall and across the room! Luckily, all my aircraft are safe, but my video editing computer (which I was using at the time) seems to have received some damage. Hopefully I will be back up and running with a recovered disk this week, and there was no actual damage to the hardware.
@Black-Square sorry to hear that but glad to hear you're ok.
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@ramonesg I wanted to have the news update done for Monday, but my house was struck by lightning last night causing some damage, and I'm still discovering what has been fried. The strike blew some light switches straight out of the wall and across the room! Luckily, all my aircraft are safe, but my video editing computer (which I was using at the time) seems to have received some damage. Hopefully I will be back up and running with a recovered disk this week, and there was no actual damage to the hardware.
@Black-Square sorry to hear my friend
Hope everything is well now!
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I’m excited to see the Garrett TPE331’s get Black Square love. I can’t wait to fly low, loud and fast in undisclosed locations around the world.
@McOatmeal I am too! Im looking forward to USFS flying with it personally.
Oh and I must say- The 17%APR attached to your post had me rolling!! Dont stress it too much, the career does get better. -
@Black-Square I never did get a response to several emails I sent to you after you said you were open to my help. FYI
I realize it's early and probably/hopefully to be fixed, but in today's update it shows two shots of the Turbo Commander shut down with the props feathered. This is an abnormal condition and they should be flat/zero pitch if properly put on the start locks at shutdown
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Hey @Black-Square I was wondering: Does the upcoming Commander still have the same shortcomings with the mixture and the leaning procedure? I know you told me that you where going to solve this in the future, but I dont remember if the solution was coming with the commander or the twin commander
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Hey @Black-Square I was wondering: Does the upcoming Commander still have the same shortcomings with the mixture and the leaning procedure? I know you told me that you where going to solve this in the future, but I dont remember if the solution was coming with the commander or the twin commander
@xender Fixed for all future products. That includes the 114, and 685. I saw your post on AVSIM too, so feel free to let anyone there who is curious know too.
I will see what I can do about bringing it back to the previous releases, as well. It's a little more difficult than flipping a bit, because of my turbocharger simulation, but now that I have examples on both sides of the chasm, I should be able to build a bridge, metaphorically speaking.
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@Black-Square I never did get a response to several emails I sent to you after you said you were open to my help. FYI
I realize it's early and probably/hopefully to be fixed, but in today's update it shows two shots of the Turbo Commander shut down with the props feathered. This is an abnormal condition and they should be flat/zero pitch if properly put on the start locks at shutdown
@CdnCptMoustache Have I not? I'm sorry, I thought I got back to everyone. I hope you don't take it personally. I just get a lot of mail in various forms.
Yes, I'm well aware. Rather than just have them always start on the locks (in which case you would never need to experience unfeathering them), the propeller state is saved from your previous flight to the next. Hopefully this will get users in the habit of following the correct shutdown procedure to put them on the locks. I've also included a tablet option called "Realistic Unfeathering" that defaults to off, so users unfamiliar with this part of geared turbine operation will not repeatedly hot-start their aircraft on their first attempt to fly it.
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@CdnCptMoustache Have I not? I'm sorry, I thought I got back to everyone. I hope you don't take it personally. I just get a lot of mail in various forms.
Yes, I'm well aware. Rather than just have them always start on the locks (in which case you would never need to experience unfeathering them), the propeller state is saved from your previous flight to the next. Hopefully this will get users in the habit of following the correct shutdown procedure to put them on the locks. I've also included a tablet option called "Realistic Unfeathering" that defaults to off, so users unfamiliar with this part of geared turbine operation will not repeatedly hot-start their aircraft on their first attempt to fly it.
@Black-Square ah good stuff. FWIW I've had to do manual unfeathering on the ground only 2 or 3 times in 2500 hours of Turbo Commander time. It's a required knowledge procedure but very, very rare to actually do. If I shut down without getting it on the locks, outside of a mechanical failure I'd call that a personal use issue
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@Black-Square ah good stuff. FWIW I've had to do manual unfeathering on the ground only 2 or 3 times in 2500 hours of Turbo Commander time. It's a required knowledge procedure but very, very rare to actually do. If I shut down without getting it on the locks, outside of a mechanical failure I'd call that a personal use issue
@CdnCptMoustache said in Turbo Commander Progress:
I'd call that a personal use issue
Something new Commander pilots in flight simulator will no doubt be very good at
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@xender Fixed for all future products. That includes the 114, and 685. I saw your post on AVSIM too, so feel free to let anyone there who is curious know too.
I will see what I can do about bringing it back to the previous releases, as well. It's a little more difficult than flipping a bit, because of my turbocharger simulation, but now that I have examples on both sides of the chasm, I should be able to build a bridge, metaphorically speaking.
@Black-Square That sounds amazing!!!
Please, pleeeeeeease port that back to your other products! I own them all and to me that's the only thing that detracts from the experience.
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@CdnCptMoustache said in Turbo Commander Progress:
I'd call that a personal use issue
Something new Commander pilots in flight simulator will no doubt be very good at
@Black-Square oh absolutely. I'm ridiculously excited for the detail you are no doubt putting into this. I've been waiting for endless years for a proper Garrett simulation
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Nick's statement that the Twin Commanders are "the first Black Square aircraft modelled and textured professionally" is the most unbelievably humble instance of "selling yourself short"...
So stoked for everything to come.
P.S. Mayhaps could we get an FAA Flight Check bird with the King Air? Although their B300s have a ton of modifications (to such a degree that they are hardly recognizable as KA300s), would it be possible to represent some of the superficial differences on the exterior? (E.g. the two window deletes on the left side, extra antennas, winglets.)
