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Hello All, This will serve as a formal forum announcement that we have released the version 1.1.4 update for the TBM 900. All customers who have purchased the TBM 900 up till now have been sent an e-mail by X-Aviation with complete instructions on how to obtain your update. We have made this a very simple process! For those that purchase the TBM 900 from today forward, your purchased download will already be updated to version 1.1.4 for you. What if I didn't get the update e-mail? If you did not receive your update e-mail don't fret! X-Aviation has updated our system to allow all customers to update with ease, regardless of whether you received an e-mail for the update! Here's what to do: 1. Login to your X-Aviation account here: https://www.x-aviation.com/catalog/account_history.php 2. Find your original TBM 900 download and re-download the file. It will download as the latest version! The following is a list of additions/fixes included: What's New / Changed: Added HUD circuit breaker. Deepened manipulators and fixed cabin pressure manipulator. Fuel indicator lines were misrendered and showing too low to the actual tank state. Fuel gauge lines should use a gradianted pattern, instead of a flat color. Added GPU exhaust particle effect. Added remap from X-Plane's TOGA_power to trigger our takeoff guidance and kill X-Plane's tendency to give full power as if we had A/THR. Added propeller tip vortices at high power and high humidity. Added FUEL SEL AUTO checklist item into the engine start checklist. Removed superflous AUX BP AUTO checklist item from the after start checklist. Implemented new airspeed and altitude tapes with better annunciator mode management. Implemented custom VS tape. Changed G1000 fuel units to gallons - should now show correct units in FPL fuel predictions. Fixed broken AP/TRIMS disconnect and AP off buttons in XP11.30. Switched to using tags for version IDs for more readable version strings. Use XPLMNavRef to avoid airports with inconsistent ICAOs in the X-Plane nav database confusing us. Implemented maximum climb torque and optimum cruise torque marks on the torque gauge. Squashed more marching ants. Added directly settable datarefs for all switches, so integration with external controllers and cockpits is simpler. Added direct set commands for all toggle controls to simplify integration for cockpit builders. Fixed broken alternate static port manipulator. Implemented DIMMER light switch on the overhead. Fixed missing approach pathways on ILS approaches. Adjusted rear seats so armrests are touching. Adjusted manipulators to reflect armrest changes. Fixed Nav/Strobe lights to be closer to the real thing. Chocks were sometimes misaligned. Added a vertical deflection dataref to align chocks to landing gear. EDM should be using the GASC-computed cabin altitude, not true cabin altitude. Bad fx_lin_multi field array could cause an assertion failure. Obstacle database was broken because FAA had switched to HTTPs and we weren't expecting that. XP11.30 reordered how the airport loading message is sent at start, leading to a double aircraft system init/deinit on aircraft reload via the Developer menu. Indicated airspeed computation was affected by pitot covers, yielding broken behavior for engine driftdown in windy conditions. Documented all custom switch datarefs + commands for cockpit builders. Can be found under Documentation/DataRefs+Commands.txt. Cockpit manipulator on MFD keypad for digit 0 has incorrect command assigned Fixed TerraMax license conflict causing TerraMax to sometimes deactivate momentarily. Fixed misaligned LOC with runway centerline. Added manual vertical realignment of GS transmitters with actual sim terrain elevation. As always, thanks for being a customer with X-Aviation. We appreciate your feedback and support! Enjoy these latest updates, and stay tuned to the forum as we continually announce the latest happenings.

Hello Folks, I just want to say that this plane is the best GA plane ever in my 23+ years of simming. I owned most planes, all the great birds , but this plane is one of the best if not the best. With that said, this is a simulator, not a game or arcade type environment. It is set up to simulate real aircraft. That means all rules apply who ever can make that happen. The more advance the sim the harder it is to fly. Why, because its like jumping in a real TBM-900 and starting it up and then try to fly it. No way, unless you are a real pilot and know your way around, and even then they must read the manual and all that applies. Hot Start decided to make it as real as it gets from A to Z. And your wondering why your having problems. In my twenty years , this plane is making me use all of my sim skills to fly. And I follow all the rules the best that I can. If you have never flown a complicated plane in the sim world, then it is best advised to start with say a 172. The sim world has become mush more advance than even . It all looks so real if you have the right set up. My set up Runs my system just fine. So the more real the sim aircraft, the more difficult to fly in the sim world, let alone in the real world. You back flipped your plane, because you did not know your plane. Just like in real life. Do you realize how much damaged you did by doing that. Thanks for the reframe reload, or you would have to be Jeff Bezos to afford it:) I have destroyed , crashed, bent and destroyed props in my TBM-900. This plane is the real deal, so I learn from my mistakes and fly better. I now fly like a pro or maybe close to a pro, and I enjoy learning more and more of this great plane. Its going to take months and a couple of years to master this plane. Go jump in a real TBM-900 and see if you can do what we do in a sim. we'd all be dead by now:) Treat it like the real deal and you sir will enjoy flying this plane. In the sim world that is. 6700k, ASUS Z-170 MB, GTX rgb 1070, 32meg ram.3T hard driv. Thx..………...RobertC

Great list of fixes but no fix for the vr issues

Since the day it came out I haven't flown anything else than the TBM, so I will be definitely looking into your new project! You guys rock.

Wow. Glad you made it to ground. With that much ice, I imagine you'll fall from sky flying to slow. Haven't experienced that much ice with the TBM...