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My experience on r/w CRJ-200s, which use the same engine as the CL650, is that each engine will consume about 1 quart of oil for every 8 flight hours. If you have been flying the Challenger a lot and never serviced the oil before, you might find it will take quite a bit to fill it the first time you do it.

Personally, an that is also the way our CL650 Pilots do it, I have always the frequency and course preset, so that if the transfer doesn’t happen automatically, I can do it manually.

Just tested it, and DatarefTool does load. But it doesn't seem to see the custom CL650 datarefs, even after doing a rescan of all datarefs.

There are a couple of ways that you can accomplish flying another approach or diverting to an alternate. During simulator training, we have transition from one approach another quite often. The first option is to re-load the same approach or a different approach (e.g. due to a runway change) by just going to the DEP/ARR page. Flying many different FMSs over he years (Collins, Universal, Garmin) there is one thing that I have learned. If you are flying the missed approach and plan to enter the missed approach hold, don't touch a damn thing until you're in the hold. Now, in the Collins FMS, re-loading the same approach or a new approach from the DEP/ARR page will not hurt you since if you load another approach into the FMS for the same destination, it's "smart enough" to load that approach AFTER the current missed approach procedure and missed hold. I don't know if this is simulated in HS650 this way off the top of my head (I believe so), but by reputation of its designer, I would not bet against it! If you select and load another approach in the Universal or Garmin FMS BEFORE you are established in the missed hold, you will wipe out the previous missed approach and missed approach hold if you try to load another approach before you are established in the hold. If ATC needs you to hold, or the instructor needs to see you enter the hold for grading purposes, your co-pilot is now a$$s and elbows re-loading the missed approach hold, and you are buying the beers at dinner that evening! Lesson: Wait until you are either in the missed approach or wait until ATC starts vectoring you for the next approach. Then load the next approach. You should be able to do that without any issues since the the DEST on FLT PLN page has not changed. On the DEP/ARR page, just select the desired approach. If you are diverting, there are two options. The first one is not simulated in HS650 and that is to use the ALT LEGS page. If you have an ALT entered on the FLT PLN page, then if you cycle through all of the LEGS pages to the very end and after you pass the last LEG associated with the destination airport/approach, you will go to the ALT LEGS page. This is where we will load the OEI escape procedure for takeoff, but it can also be used to load the waypoints for the flight to the alternate, which is usually "DIRECT", or something simple like that. If your CFP has a route to the alternate, you can load it on these pages. This will get you pointed towards the alternate airport until you can update the FLT PLN page and change the DEST entry on the FLT PLN page to the alternate so that you can bring up the approaches on the DEP/APP page. I do not use the SEC FLT PLN page for diverting because it will drop all the performance information, including my ZFW (PAX and CARGO load information if you use that) on the PERF page, and now I have to re-load all that to get my landing weights and VSPEED data accurate on the APPROACH REF pages. I just made more work for myself or my co-pilot. Same thing happens if I use the SEC FLT PLN for my OEI escape procedure. All my PERF data including my V-Speeds (e.g., VT) drop and must re-entered. That's a pain when climbing out at V2 speed and your V-speeds suddenly go away. Again, more work for you when already have enough work to do. More beers at bar that night for my long suffering sim co-pilot, too! Been flying the Collins FMS for nearly 20 years now. That's how I do it. I hope this helps! Rich Boll

Yep. Preselect is always VOR/LOC for both sides. I go to great lengths checking this since I understand its importance. I'll see if I get something reproducible.

I feel your pain. Pity. The 733 is such a great plane. But financially I can’t justify the move to XP12. It’s a sad aspect of the software industry. Development trumps existing customers. I always hope that the smaller guys would have the flexibility to keep their old customers in mind but sadly that hope has yet to be realised. Best of luck with XP12.

There are elements of PBR in the cockpit already, though not to the extent of the cabin for sure. I will make a pass over that at some point to determine how to best thandle this. Our techniques at the time didn't have the 'power' we do today with Substance Painter. So yea, I'll give it a look, but it will be gradual process after other things are handled first. -tk

I get an email each time this post is updated. One day, I'm gonna click open that email and it's gonna say, "It's ready. Get it now!" (or something like that).

It is now (thanks Pils)...and I'm still making my way back home. We're pretty much done with the issues list for deployment and only have to get though technical infrastructure and deployment prep, but as mentioned before, that's not an overnight thing, but it is the 'final leg' of this route. The plan is to get this 'port + compatibility patch' out, which I'm sure will result in plenty of issues reported, but then immediately begin addressing those issues and start the road towards our planned improvements. The obvious 'improvement roadmap' consists of converting our sound work to FMOD, improve FMS operation and finally a new 3D exterior, these are the things to bring the IXEG into 'modern times'. I'm sure this work will roll well into 2024 and the goal is to just keep going. After those obvious items are addressed is when will think about any other 'options' to the product. Its enough of a heavy lift job to overhaul this thing from 2009 tech as it is. -tkyler

When I unchecked the 'Use Zing plugin bridge' checkbox, all the issues were resolved!

Correct. Reflections from the surroundings. I'm considering reducing the reflectiveness in an update.