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Sunday Beaver Update 6 Hi all, A new update today, however this week was a little slow. Lots of things going on besides X-Plane development, but there was progress. Tuning of the cockpit lighting is still ongoing and you will see the current state in the screenshots below. Maybe the post lamps have to shine a little brighter on the panel, but this needs to be checked. Some re-work on the external 3D model had to be done, because one of the animations did not work properly due to the mesh setup. However, this seemingly tiny change affected 4 obj files and was more work in the end than expected, but it is fixed now. I also had a look into supporting external hardware like the Saitek switch panel, radio stack and the GoFlight equipment. I figured that XP is not really supported by this hardware and that one always needs a plugin to make it work, which is a pitty. I also got the impression that this external hardware works most of the time, if the developer of an add-on aircraft is using the standard XP datarefs and commands. Custom commands or datarefs always involves some extra work. Well, I try to support this as much as possible, but I won't limit myself to standard XP datarefs and commands, just to make external hardware work, because it would limit me in my development, because a lot of things will be custom without using XP standard. What I will do though is that I will provide a list of custom datarefs and commands and also what they are used for in the cockpit, so users will have the ability to customize the hardware plugin scripts from Sparker for example. I also did some coding, but it was more cleaning up a few things, because I like tidy and maintainable code. That's all for this week and I hope you like the following screenshots:

As of present day no news. This spring will have more news! But for now!

Take-off and landing of the SAAB 340A doing a circuit of NZCH at night with almost 0 visibility.

Yea its very nice. Switzerland is amazing.. tons cities beside lakes surrounded by mountains. The Lugano approach isnt too tough until the last dive into the runway.. you cant trust the GS indicator or PAPI lights either. Plus there is a soccer field just before the runway so I try not to buzz those guys too badly. Landing with 35 flaps is harder to land than 20 I think.. it really sinks quickly. Ahh I recorded a good approach live with FRAPS but my video only lasted 20 seconds or something... I saved the replay so I will try to do a commentary or something (but ugh there will be no sound) Oh well.. heres a picture at least

Same route as yesterday(CYOW-CYUL), but now with crosswinds and better weather. Flight time 48 minutes.

<br /><br />Yeah got it Tom. Like the sky themes. Clouds to personal liking, but the performance is good.

It's been here since the 2nd, and I don't think he's getting banned. He made a mistake. He trying to patch up. Give him a chance.