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Apparently the SR20 Entegra will not work on a silicon Mac (but it will under Rosetta, I am sure), although the SR22 Entegra will work natively on the newer Macs. I presume that "they" have not yet done what is necessary to get rid of Gizmo64 for authentication - and, maybe, Gizmo is used in other functions of this particular version of the plane. If you run the SR20 with X-Plane 12 in Rosetta, it will use the provided Gizmo, and will work perfectly. Ben Russell wrote a version of Gizmo to work on "M" Macs - Gizmo64 LTS. You can buy it for a small sum, and others (and me) have found that it works on just a few of the older planes in the X-Aviation fleet that would work in X-Plane 12 in Rosetta, but seem to be OK without Rosetta, using this version of Gizmo. The SR20 Entegra does work, using this version of Gizmo. However, to be fair, this is not really approved by X-Aviation, and they are working to eliminate Gizmo throughout their "fleet", and implement their newer activation system. Some planes (the IXEG 737 is one) were apparently using Gizmo for a lot of their functioning, and just won't work properly with this LTS version. The only downside of having to start XP12 in Rosetta is a small frame hit. If you are on a new Mac, it will hardly be noticeable, but may be a nuisance on (say) an M1 machine. I don't know.

@UncontrolledAirSpace Hi there. I have no problems with any other plane with a 530, a 430, or even a combination of the two. As I said above, even the 2 530s work together fine in the AFL Kingair. It's just the 2 530s in the 525. I've been using XP for years, and been an X-Av customer also for years :-)

@Pivot Luck? Hmm.... On Discord, my only reply was from someone who has the same problem. I'm sad, because I have bought every product that TS has produced, and have had such good support from them in the past. As I have tried this on Intel and silicon Macs, and users of Windows have reported this too, it's not like I am a unique case. Although @Pils suggested it may be a Laminar problem, the Airfoillabs Kingair has the two GNS530s, side by side, and they are working perfectly. In the meantime, I can fly this without the 530s, and get by...... I would bet that a far larger number of customers are on Windows, and can use the 750s that are not available for Macs. So, most (probably) customers don't see this happening, as they have no need to use the 530s.

@Pivot Hi. You will see, from an ealier post, that I did use Discord - but to no avail. As I have since investigated further, I'm going to post again there, and add the screenshots I later made.

@UncontrolledAirSpace I did post in Discord, for a month from near the end of September to near the end of October. Not a word from the developers, which is why I'm so disappointed. In the past, I have had replies from Coop (or Cameron) very quickly indeed in this forum.......... I suppose it's worth another go. After all, this is not a cheap add-on (not that should actually affect any issue), and it's a pity that quite a few of us on Macs and in Windows have come across this bug, and there is neither any resolution, nor any acknowledgment of the posts. It's out of character. X-Aviation has great products, and (usually) stellar service.

On 12.4.0-b1, using a Mac Studio. All 3 versions of the BN2-T have loaded with no problem. I'm, sadly, still waiting for Coop to answer me about my problem with the GNS 530s version of his otherwise wonderful Citation 525 :-(

I was about to take this up with Laminar, but I was updating my Airfoillabs KIngair 350, when I remembered that it does have dual GNS530s - I had forgotten that this was another example of such a set up. Anyway, I had a look at the GPS version, and the two 530s work perfectly - VORs identified, frequencies work and the radials and distances are displayed as they should be. So, I must conclude that if the Kingair works properly, but the 525 doesn't, it is not a Laminar problem. Please can Coop or whoever take another look at this?

At this time, there are two activation systems in use by X-Aviation. The older (and still the prevalent one) is with Gizmo, but the newer version is diferent. Are you on a Mac or PC? Have you filled in the new activation window that appears with the C525 - maybe a silly question.....

@androsvandorx and @UncontrolledAirSpace At last, others seeing this problem I was beginning to wonder whether I was a unique moaner!!! I started to prepare a bug report for Laminar, but am not in a position, currently, to provide them with an ideal report / log.txt. I'll do it, probably around Christmas time. In the meantime, if either or both of you, can beat me to it with the bug report, it would be great. It's really odd that even GPS1 can't show identifiers, radials or distances because GPS2 is also a 530. I could maybe rationalize that GPS2 might not work properly for some reason with this bug, but for everything not to work is surprising.

@Pils No, I didn't ask Laminar, because I don't have the problem with other planes that have the 530/430 combination. Both GNSs work normally with these. This plane is the only one (I think) that I have ever had that runs two 530s side by side. I would guess that most users are in Windows, and a lot may be using one or other of the 750s, which we Mac users cannot, sadly. Or they use the FMS. I really wondered whether anyone else (Mac users) have come across this, but no one has said so. I'm sure Coop or Cameron have used the 525 on a Mac at some time, and if they don't see the problem, then I can certainly ask Laminar. Anyway, thanks for coming back to me! Note, in the screenshot, I'm fairly close to Fort Lauderdale/Hollywood International (KFLL), and both 530s are tuned to the FLL VOR 114.4

I'm somewhat disappointed that no one (Cameron, Coop or forum member) has come back to me, after I reported a problem with the 525's GNS 530s. I reported this in the 525 support forum here, and also in Discord. As I have the problem, both on an M4 Mac in Tahoe, and an Intel iMac (using an older MacOS), it can't be a faulty installation - and, anyway, I deleted and re-installed to eliminate that possible cause. It's very unlike X-Aviation not to reply. I've always had stellar service.

Well, it's now quite a time since I reported my problem with the 530s. I have also tried the plane on an Intel based iMac, and had exactly the same thing happening, so I doubt that I am an isolated case.... I'm somewhat surprised not to have received any comment from either Cameron or Coop. Very unusual. Also, no reaction from anyone in Discord.

No reply from the developer after a week...... I'll try Discord again

@EGT Interesting.... I haven't tried the 525 (with the 530s) on an ILS, and I wonder whether the GPSs will identify the localisers, as they certainly don't recognise the VORs. Are you (EGT) running in Windows, and do your 530s identify the VORs? As I'm on a silicon Mac, I wonder whether this is a Mac only problem. Coop has not come in on this yet.

Mac OS 26 Tahoe on a Mac Studio - X-Plane in Mac silicon mode. Both 530s won't recognise any VORs. They don't identify any. The radials - if they show anything at all - are wrong - usually displays 180, and the distances are wrong too. That bit of the display may not even show a radial or distance. The DME sometimes agrees with the GPS derived distance, but I may have to click its button once or twice. Often the ground speed and time is 0, but it may show some value which is way off. I can be doing 140kts, and it will say 25 or whatever..... My X-Plane is running in 12.3.0 b2. Could that be it? Log copy.txt

Support for Rosetta 2 is apparently ceasing (with some exceptions) in MacOS in 2027. I am now surprised that a large number (including many newer and terrific products) from the store have still not been converted to work natively in Mac silicon. As Macs have been using ARM based chips since late 2020 (5 years!), every piece of software that is now produced is for ARM based Macs, although some will still be universal, and will work on Intel Macs. Office stuff, photo-editing, music production, etc. - all work in Mac silicon, including vast numbers of little utilities. As far as X-Plane is concerned, virtually every developer of aircraft has its fleet working natively on silicon Macs. I love my X-Aviation aircraft, but I really don't want to rely on Rosetta (and keep having to change the X-Plane program to work in Rosetta) when I want to fly all those Gizmo reliant aircraft. I'm not too sure how much has to be altered - I guess all the mac.xpl programs have to be changed, but I have no idea how much Gizmo was integrated into the systems. Maybe the sales don't justify the effort.....

Well, the old exxpression: "No news is good news" does not apply - and I have my tongue in my cheek It'll be when it'll be. Of course, I appreciate the fact that developers are often a one or two-man band, and probably have a "regular" job as well. It's a lot of work, and (in this case) no real return, unless you charge an upgrade fee. Actually, I think that's more than acceptable. It's one thing to get bug fixes and the odd extra feature for free, but a rewrite of a lot of code for a percentage of the customer base is another matter, and a few dollars for that would be fine.

Any news on other planes in the "fleet" that are shortly going to be ARM compatible?

Thanks Coop!

Hmmm. I'll try again later, but the preselect was not working for me. I know how to use this, but maybe I got something wrong yesterday... We'll see. No, IAS was not being used. It sort of followed the commanded VS, but it was not that accurate, and when well off the selected altitude, it was nowhere near right. Flies very nicely, but taxiing can be difficult. ------------------- I just tried it again. Started with engine running (saves time!), and it worked properly! Yes, it wanders about a bit from the assigned altitude, but that is expected and realistic, as the air is not static! It does correct itself. So, as to quite what was going on yesterday, I have no explanation. If it happens again, I'll send you a log file. Thanks for your interest :-)

I have just upgraded to a Mac Studio, and run XP12 natively on the M processor (i.e. not Rosetta). I can't remember whether the stec-55x is supposed to have altitude preselect working on the Entegras - because my last Intel iMac couldn't run these planes without flashing screens, so I hardly used them, and stuck with the G1000s. Anyway, today, I found that altitude preselect (what I fed in on the Entegra PFD) was totally ignored by the autopilot. In fact, even the VS speeds were not kept to very accurately. Is this possibly a problem with the M processor? I had, earlier, tried the same plane in X-Plane 11 running in Rosetta, and the autopilot verged on being almost unusable for altitude control, and I gave up. I, so far, have had very limited experience in X-Plane using Mac Silicon, so I don't know what works, and what doesn't! I get super fps, which is a big plus.

Yes, I know. I have already done that. The funny thing is, I was sure I had mentioned this before, but I couldn't find any post from me about it, so I obviously hadn't. Thanks Cameron.

X-Plane 12.2.0b5. Now running on a Mac Studio in Sequoia. The 172 G5 installation seems to disable the Garmin GNS 530 and 430 popouts. No "hand" appears, and neither will popout, no matter where I click. As an obvious first try at fixing this, I deleted the 172 G5, and the G5 installer, and reinstalled the whole 2.2.0 setup, thereby installing a new 172 G5. No difference..... I had a look at the Islanders, and the GNS 530 popout works as normal, and the "hand" is there if I move the cursor into the screen. So, that's a bit odd....

@Pils M4 Max Studio. 40 core GPU version. That should be fine for a few years!

Thanks Cameron for your prompt reply. Those are enough to get me going Your systems requirements on the product page merely states the minimum version of the Mac OS, and I didn't see anything in the manuals, so your list is very welcome!