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slow but steady on the lighting...this is cabin emergency lighting. XP12 has really opened up new opportunities with its lighting engine, though a learning process. Trying to balance lighting effects for a natural look across multiple x-plane 3D objects with multiple light sources is an exercise is patience for sure, but as a simmer since 1981, I can't say I mind. It fascinates me how far these graphics have evolved. -tkyler

I understand. Pilotedge cost money and I am too cheap. I like IVAO because of their training documents. Training Documents IVAO is good stuff. You can look at them without an account or signing in. Easy to read and navigate. I do not look for ATC on the IVAO network. In the US and Canada it is rare you will run into ATC. And if you do it is Center online and I fly VFR without flight following. They do not bother me unless I enter Class B airspace. I never enter Class B airspace, I do not fly into major airports like KLAS or KLAX. And in Alaska, it very rare you will see ATC, unless there is an event taking place. The Las Vegas area, I know the North Las Vegas airport And the Henderson airport is Class B . Boulder City is uncontrolled airspace. Nellis AFB is military ops. What I have learned of the years is navigate your plane first. You are the pilot in command. Then Commutate. And turn right 10 degrees don't cut it with me either and my response would have been Unable, Request a heading. And you have to remain calm, don't get all freaky diky. I have a scratch pad close by so I can right the headings and transponer numbers down. I know PE has real world controllers for the lax artcc. And I have never had formal training. I could not fly an outbound VOR radius, again I would have requested a heading. I have never flown a real aircraft. And my Piper Arrow 3 does not have a digital heading read out. I have to use my FSTramp for my headings. Flying IFR, you have to be in contact with ATC at all times if they are online in IVAO. I had some ATC training from a real world controller many years ago. Interesting to say the least.

After releasing DC3 and C23, then I'll found sometime to see if it is possible a quick patch for XP12.

ESP has been removed for v1.0.1 of the Diamond which should be releasing shortly.

This appears to be an X-Plane bug relating to ESP on the Garmin AP. You can also see it "blip" the elevator if you click AP disconnect even with the AP already off. I've reported the issue so hopefully a fix is possible. In the meantime, the workaround is opening the aircraft in PlaneMaker, go to Expert, Autopilot Configuration and deselect "ESP and USP equipped". Best to make a backup of the ACF beforehand. You'll also benefit from avoiding an odd "saw tooth" feeling to the landing flare - don't know what ESP is doing there but it seems to nudge the nose up or down during the flare. I believe this needs Laminar Research to fix.

Here is the full AFM I had that I just found as well. DA40-NG-AFM-r3-complete.pdf

With the old version FMC as XP11 version you won't even able to do LNAV/VNAV, I believe RNPAPCH is as far as the real option can go. But there are some 737-200 have upgraded with totally different aviation for better GPS support, so I'm not sure if that could be a thing on -300

I would like to chime in here - I have worked with Tom on this over the last week intensively - previously I had test flown the 737 in XP12 (after we fixed the major roadblocks of even getting if flyable, like making the flaps work, etc.) and I had tuned the flight model. Tom worked hard on 3D modeling over the last months with little for me to do (I am too stupid for blender and those things) and now with him approaching the end of that work, I dove back into flight and system testing. The more I test, the more stuff shows up that does not work anymore, because Laminar changed things - and these changes are all improvements in modeling systems, yet they still leave our "old" way of doing/overriding them unusable. So in a very real way we have to redo a lot of the things we already did for XP11, it is not a quick conversion at all - and this is something we definitely underestimated when we initially said to "upgrade to XP12 for free". The move from XP11 to XP12 is not an upgrade, it is in many areas a repeat of the dev work work we already did for XP11. And I am thankful for most of our customers to be very understanding of the fact that we charge a small price to compensate us for this! I think the old 737-300 still has a lot of life in her, I thoroughly enjoy my "test flights" and find myself again and again to "just finish this approach" even though I was just testing some autopilot PID constant ... simply because it is fun to fly and looks great in XP12 . Cheers, Jan