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Sorry for quietness....the MU2 has been sitting at 95%+ done for the next update for a while. I decided last second to tweak the EGTs so as to have a proper crossover from Torque Limited to Temp limited at altitude...and that set off a round of flight testing I need to wrap up. The summer has just been packed full of activities, not all fun, lots of travel and its been a challenge to find blocks of time. Oshkosh is next week and is my last big activity for the year, so in speaking with Cameron, I plan to wrap up this update asap right after. ...and on a hopefully good note, XP12 new weather radar finally drops in 12.2 so I'll be squeezing that into the OEM variants, which along with the EGT will round out my "not done yet" list for the major features and I can then start messing about with improving the performance, systems accuracy and adding more liveries. -TK

Apologies, hard to contain the frustration. I have a couple of months left to finished my XP12 world tour in the Legacy RG, currently in Papua New Guinea, some crazy strips there. The clouds and WX are now amazing and look forward to the 737 at some point later in the year, again apologies for not being respectful and polite recently.

He wasn't talking to you. You're not a customer of the 737 Classic Plus. To those that are, yes, FREE. You can attempt to label years past as abandoned, but even those years from 2016 and on saw many free updates, including through the X-Plane 10 to 11 transition.

Sorry its not getting updated as fast as any of us would like. I wake up every day and have to make decisions about what to work on and balance my requirements against the customers. They never align for everybody and never will. Its not abandoned, it will get updated and updates will be free for many many years to come. -TK

What I believe happens is that people engage the LVL change while in MACH mode. This will make the speed control chase the set Mach number, and since the indicated speed rises rapidly for the same mach number in a descent (as temperature gets warmer and the speed of sound increases as a consequence), the plane will pitch down rapidly to achieve the necessary acceleration. If you disregard the automatic reversion to indicated speed (by setting the MACH mode again after it reverts to SPEED in the descent, for example), you can actually overspeed the aircraft easily, as at some point the set Mach number will exceed the VMO of the aircraft. Descent speeds in excess of 5000 feet per minute in LVL CHG while in Mach mode is something I have observed regularly in the real aircraft, especially when paired with a decrease in headwind in the descent. PS: Many pilots did not use FL CHG for the initial part of the descent for this very reason, rather using V/S to initiate a shallow(er) descent until the speed reference could be switched over to IAS and the FL CHG would work more stable.

Hi guys, @rkuhlmann is right about communication...guilty as charged for being too quiet. The 733 isn't dead. We will continue to work on it as able, and best I can tell, probably have free updates for as long as I can foresee (whenever those may be). For my MU2 customers who have watched me keep the MU2 relevant through X-Plane versions 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, and 12 over 19 years, you know what I'm talking about. (even though its been a while since the last update and I'm literally 99% done with the next one but need to get it out There have been things beyond our control that have made update efforts challenging (shit rolling downhill kind of things)...which you guys don't see, nor will I talk about, nor should you care about, but we have to deal with just the same. Not an excuse, an explanation. I acknowledge that communicating is something we could do better and I'm sorry about that. As I've said many times, my committment has always been to keep facing forward and never sit down and that's still the case. So ....open communication time.....where's my time at the moment? I'm working for Laminar again. I am rewriting their documentation set for developers to help train and enable more developers for X-Plane. This initiative began in February at the X-Plane dev conference and I've been in the midst of a heavy 'front loaded' time effort to build the infrastructure for these docs and there's some slight pressure to "show anything at FSExpo". For consumers (rather than devs), this doesn't mean anything.... I know that doesn't make anyone here feel better or fix their concerns now, but is the road I had to take to preserve my ability to work on the IXEG in any capacity into the future. I do foresee time to work on the IXEG again after a few more milestones are reached with Laminar....indeed I'm meeting with some folks at FSExpo to discuss ways for them to assist in the effort. I am committed to maintaining the aircraft, even though I'm not sure exactly when updates will be. We have a plan, we try and stick with it, sometimes we slip, but we have never "forgotten about it". I like to say the IXEG is "perpetually in my inbox". Roadmap is the FMOD sound conversions still....and then the system updates. I am sure I'll have to repeat this later, but the "updates" period will also be quite lengthy because of the aforementioned (shit rolling downhill) situation I have to deal with. Getting through this phase is akin to the large efforts required to bring the IXEG to V12 and was unforseen, but its here on my doorstep just the same. Trudging through it, complaints and all, is the only way to ensure the IXEG survives into the future and those updates eventually come. The IXEG still has a lot of old tech and rebuilding it completely anew is a big task. I'm sorry again about the silence. -tkyler

If you have Flywithlua installed you can fix the bank roll limit by creating a lua script with the following content: if (AIRCRAFT_FILENAME == "LES_Saab_340A.acf" or AIRCRAFT_FILENAME == "LES_Saab_340A_Cargo.acf" or AIRCRAFT_FILENAME == "LES_Saab_340A_AEW.acf") then function les_bank_fixer() dataref("SBankLimit","sim/cockpit2/autopilot/bank_angles_values","writable") SBankLimit = 27.0 end do_often("les_bank_fixer()") end

I guess you never looked. This plane was almost dropped completely for XP12, you should be happy you are getting an update at all. The fact the updates are free, should make you content to wait, even developers need to eat and pay bills, I can imagine your boss coming in and saying, that job you did last year, we want you to update it, but we are not going to pay you as its just an update. The fact we have any developers left is truly remarkable considering the self entitlement of so many users. Id pay for this plane again if I had too. Its really sad where this world has gone.