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I suppose I should demonstrate some form of life. I'll have to get with Jan on that as our radar (best I recall) had most of the features of the real thing. As far as "coming out soon", here's what I'll say....and this is overdue for sure....and I'm not going to convince anyone to believe me or not on the timing. It will get looked at and updated at some point. As sure as this is my 20th year actively involved in X-Plane work, it will continue to be so. A year and a half ago, things changed for me when Laminar announced its new store initiative in Montreal. I took a job with Laminar to completely rewrite its developer documentation. This was a "look to the future" for both myself and X-Plane, at the cost of 'now'. Laminar are looking to embrace a future generation of developers and we need to have better learning materials to engage this generation to develop for X-Plane, so I'm that guy....thats for Laminar. For myself, I needed more stability and a cushion, as the add-on market for X-Plane is still too thin to have any kind of long term security. Taking on this work with Laminar has allowed me to close out all other obligations and stay in the X-Plane ecosystem for the foreseeable future. The 'problem' for my customers and X-Aviation thus far, is that the initial phase or work to revamp and deploy the documentation was/is huge. New developer web site, new manual formats, a new, interactive PlaneMaker manual, lots and lots of rewriting, new illustrations...etc....and that has taken a good while to develop and received all my focus to get to what we call the "initial deployment" of the docs out the door. That initial deploy is not terribly far off. After the initial deployment, I will settle into a more regular time schedule that will afford me the time to get back to my own work. It has been my effort over the last year to try and achieve a point where I can only work on X-Plane endeavors between now and my retirment......and there have been personal hurdles along the way that are neither anyone's concern or business, but real to me just the same. It is my intention to crack open the MU2 and 737 again in early October, to resume work on my 'X-Aviation' things. I have discussed this with X-Aviation also. Between now and then I am focused on getting an initial deployment of the new docs out the door for Laminar. We will look at the IXEG radar early on for sure. I want to remain developing for X-Plane fully and it is my firm belief that this path i've taken was the required path to do so, and I apologize for the silence and delays. -tkyler

Hi! a happy owner of the HotStart Challenger 650, still don't learn how to flight it properly, but I hope in the future I will do. See you!

Hi Manfred, sorry for the late reply, I was on duty yesterday flying EDDF-KEWR.. Yes, this would have been my first guess - if the hydraulics are off (or failed) we simulate the so called "manual reversion" - the plane can still be flown with raw muscle power using the cables, but the flightcontrols are not powered, so they are very hard to move, like a car with the servo steering failed. We simulate this by making the controls move SLOW - the real controls are just HARD to move, but we can not simulate that...it may be possible with a force-feedback joystick like you have one, but those are still the exception for simulator users. I have flown that failure in the simulator a few times, and it is acceptable to have one pilot work the yoke with both hands (and the other one controlling the throttle on his command), because it is pretty much impossible to control the plane that way with only one hand on the yoke. Glad to hear that you are enjoying the plane, all the best, Jan

Guys, you are quite critical and in my opinion, IXEG 737 deserves attention and respect. Yes, there have been no updates for quite some time, but the developer wrote the reason. The second point, they are working on the update, in particular, improving the work of the FMS, radar in accordance with the latest updates of Xplane 12, as well as other fixes. I am a scenery developer in the past for Prepar3D, now MSFS and I understand the reasons for the delay, especially not so long ago, the development team gave a full answer to their plans and the reasons for the delay. Each of the developers has their own life, problems, for example, I live in a country that has been under military attack and has been at war for the fourth year. If you don't want to spend your money on something, don't spend it, no one is forcing you to do it.

I respectfully disagree. The lack of any weather radar functionality in the CL650 had made me temporarily shelve the aircraft. Too many times I got torn up in some CBs because I couldn't see them at night. WXR is the feature that many of us have been eagerly waiting for. I want to fly her again in all weather conditions.

I bought this plane back in 2017 and there is still no VNAV/PROG predictions, no HOLDs, incorrect VNAV behaviour. So in other words - no major update. I see no reason to pay the money either. Some say that some guys already managed to put out the most advanced aircraft ever created for any flight sim (CL60) but IXEG still has no HOLDs and proper VNAV.

Oh wooow, this was time-limited?! This is really annoying.. They will not get 85 bucks from me for the XP12-Update.. RIP IXEG for me..

This isn't an XPilot forum but some people use 123.45 as a shared air-to-air frequency.

Hi Pils and thank you for your answer, I selected the wrong item on the button assignment. I choosed "toogle autothottle system" instead of the "TO-GA". Now, when I do my checklist, N1-TO appears on the ATS screen on the glare shield.

View File N131KJ Hot Start Challenger 650 This is a livery for the Hot Start Challenger 650. To install, extract the zip file into the "liveries" folder. You can supply your own registration, N131KJ is not printed on the cowlings. If you enjoy my work, consider supporting me on Patreon to cover some of the horrendous Adobe-costs ;). You can find 8K versions of the liveries there. Submitter pilotdeviation Submitted 09/18/2025 Category Hot Start Challenger 650  

Greetings, Do you have a timeline when this will be added to your creations......B737, CL650? Thanks.

If you hear nothing from us, assume that the project is not abandoned but no work has been done on it that would warrant us sharing any progress info. If we abandon the project, we will announce this here - so if we don´t - you know it´s not abandoned.

Yes, there are plans to do so.

The last update was a year ago: The next update is well into development and hopefully will be out in beta before end of the year.

@Cameron Hello! How are you? Several of us are waiting for an update on this metal bird. Is there any way to find out about Take Command!'s future plans and its updates for X-plane 12? Thank you very much.

No, you will not be able to do this on your own. To be clear, you should also not expect a weather radar to be available in X-Plane 11. This is going to be a feature for X-Plane 12 once available.

The CJ has fully custom switches for most anything. They can be found in the X-Plane command browser under the prefix afm -> cj -> cmd All are listed in commands.txt in the CJ's aircraft folder -> plugins/cj_systems/resources