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I stand corrected. I guess I should have gone back and double checked before spouting off. :-)

Its a command not a dataref, and it initiates the recalc of the cubemap for lighting reflections. And Ben Supnik did say this wasn't a bad idea to do, that is true. Not being so visually picky I haven't tried it myself, but I do know Saso did it in the CL650.

See you there! So nice to finally be having an FSExpo again with covid totally in the rear view mirror of life. ... and your NASA work behind us!

Excellent answer and summary of the flight sim diversity in terms of what people are looking for in a product!

Certainly that is the first place I plan to walk to when I get my VR headset and XP11 VR features are rolled out. :-)

@Morten I am curious if you can give us a brief summary of the changes coming to Gizmo that are necessary for IXEG v1.1 to work on XP10? Or maybe there is a Gizmo related thread somewhere I can read? Excited. Cheers, Justin

@mmerelles it seems you are entirely correct and that in HDG mode it does respect bank angle!

Yes no Gizmo error. But it seems to me that ground handling, and the propensity to Toyko drift on the runway has dramatically increased?! Cheers, Justin

@mmerelles that is great info to know! I believe I primarily just tested if the two datarefs were coupled and if bank changed, most likely in LNAV mode. I will test in HDG mode directly.

Does the bank angle limit work in the IXEG? My preliminary testing says it does not. When I turn the knob in the cockpit I see that ixeg/733/MCP/mcp_bank_angle_act dataref changes value. However the autopilot dataref sim/cockpit2/autopilot/bank_angle_mode does NOT change value. Perhaps the IXEG autopilot is fully customized in its handling of bank angle, but I see steep bank angles even at cruise. Cheers, Justin jsnapp1982

Jan, I post this opinion here only because you are in a much _bigger_ position to influence Austin than humble little me. But I things like this are an area where Laminar should work with the community to develop open engine models through community effort. Laminar only has so much time on their hands. And there are no doubt a lot of people who would love to contribute to such a product. Open sourcing such efforts is really the appropriate modern way of improving such details within a platform in my opinion. Cheers, Justin

Interesting. I had never observed any crashes with DRT and the IXEG ... on Windows.

That makes sense. I am just confused then what the new beta of Gizmo solves here? Maybe I am being dense.

New beta of IXEG or new beta of datareftool?

Spoken like scenery developer. :-) On the aircraft side there are several new systems changes. But in the context of this question one thing that will "hold back" a lot of plane developers is wanting to best adopt the new "metalness" PBR texturing and sound engine. Although I am not sure how planes that already use custom sound engines are likely to proceed on the sound engine front. It sounds like those changes won't be in the 1.1 update of the IXEG, to which I say "great"! lets get this plane back in the sky and clear all the air worthiness directives release by the virtual agencies and then we can worry about buffing up the skin to be nice and shiny. :-) Plane sounds great already!