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Nice! That is so good to hear, and every SAAB driver is going to appreciate that a lot. I'm kicking myself for sitting on the fence way too long before buying this addon. It is such a fun aircraft to fly, and reminds me a lot of a baby MD-80, with all of the quirky procedures. One last thing, that's not as important as the autopilot, would be a fix for the system status annunciator panel lights that don't illuminate during daylight. (L BETA, AUTOCOARS ARM, etc...). Certainly not a deal breaker, but the light show during start up and departure is unique to the 340, and would be fun to have working. Finally, you have a definite customer here for version 2 whenever it comes out. I absolutely love these "transition" aircraft; not quite all steam gauge, not quite electronic display, and just automated enough to make things interesting. Thanks again for updating the autopilot. Regards, Tim

Speak for yourself. Anyway, I think there are multiple factors at play here. The somewhat framerate intensive nature of the add-on. The real-life aircraft isn't easy to fly or so I'm told. XP 11's broken ground handling. There aren't a whole lot of high fidelity single-engine turboprops out there for XP so many of us jump in with no previous experience in this type of aircraft. Finally, I think our setups play a big role. For example, I have an old Saitek X52 that I have used for many years and try as I might I couldn't get the TBM airborne without swerving down the runway like a drunken idiot so I try my friends X55 Rhino and to my surprise I had no issues getting airborne.

Yes, rudder inputs do deflect the nose wheel in the TBM 900. From the Pilots Operating Handbook, chapter 7, Ground Maneuvers: Nose gear steering control is combined with rudder pedals and is fitted with a shimmy damper. When one of rudder pedals is fully pushed, nose wheels wivels about 20°. Steering may be increased up to 28° by applying differential braking to each side. I have no problems with taxiing or landing, but I'm struggling a bit with the takeoff roll too. I hope for 11.30 which introduces some improvements for axis calibration. Q8Pilot made a good video about upcoming xplane joystick response curves. (look for it on YouTube) He also mentiones in this video that he had very good results with the TBM 900.

Don't give away all the secrets at once, Jan.

https://www.harveynorman.com.au/htc-vive-virtual-reality-kit-consumer-edition-version-2-coal-black.html $939 AU dollars. To support a small but vocal fraction of the market. Then there's the issue of the hardware you own to run it. Buying a headset does NOT magically upgrade your PC. This isn't AAA games dev where we make $250 million dollars on launch weekend. I have a VIVE, I paid some $700 for it. My hardware is barely capable of utilising it. (970M GPU, Laptop.) It is mostly unusued and is currently boxed because life circumstance dictates that I don't have the space to set it up. Thankfully I have a laptop so I can remain productive even with limited space. Everything is a trade off.