diamonddriller

Looks fantastic. Should it be OK on an Intel iMac with the AMD Radeon Pro 5700 XT 16 GB card, or will it fry the Mac ?

You are going to be struggling a bit with a 4GB video card in a Macbook. I managed in XP10 with a 4GB card in an iMac, but found it was not great in XP11 - although it was still in OpenGL then. XP11 ran very hot, and I guess your MacBook CPU (and GPU) will be running hot, and the fans will be blowing away! With your airliners, you are spending most of your time up in the flight levels (probably around 30,000' or so), whereas a lot of your time in the TBM will be lower, where scenery will have much more of an impact. You may well be getting thermal throttling. Have you looked at the core temperatures?

No sooner asked for..........

Wow! Although not mentioned, the flickering of the GNS430s is gone, and one or both now pop out or back flawlessly, which I found a problem before. Also, on my iMac, it doesn't seem to be hammering my CPU like before. The core temperatures seem to be lower. Wonderful. I hope Coop and co. can do these fixes to the SR20 Entegras too. Thanks a million!

I don't think I have another developer's plane doing this. I don't remember seeing it before. It doesn't happen with your Mooneys or the Islander either. Anyway, I have the 2020 iMac with the AMD Radeon Pro 5700 XT 16 GB. Sent log.txt by PM. Then, again, to your own support system!

Hi. Not to repeat myself, but see the post in the SR22 section. Thanks. New iMac on Catalina.

On an iMac. When I pop out either GPS to 2D, the two screens in the console 430s start flickering or flashing - sometimes a lot, sometimes occasionally. The Avidyne screens are fine, and nothing else in the cockpit is wrong. It happens in all four variations of the SR22 and both of the SR20s I also get the occasional CTD when opening any of the Cirruses from another plane, but not when starting from fresh - but that happened also on the G1000 versions.

All the best. Loving the new Cirruses!

Hi Every time I buy or update any of X-Aviation products, Gizmo is downloaded, extracted and installed. Now, if it's a newer version than the one currently installed, then it's worth doing. However, if it is just deleting/overwriting an existing up-to-date version, this is a waste of bandwidth, and adds to hard drive wear and tear. In these days of SSD storage, however, there is the additional concern of the lifetime of the drive. It is said that they can accept between 3,000 to 10,000 writes to the same address, although algorithms spread out where stuff gets written to. My iMac is all solid state. Apple storage is expensive, and not easy to replace, without a tear down Surely, it is not too difficult to check whether Gizmo is already installed, and if it is and is the latest version, just skip it. If either condition is not met, then install as required. In the last few days, I have re-installed Gizmo four times....... You all may well laugh at me, as being a stupid old f--t, but thinking of these things keeps the brain going during these crazy times......... A bit tongue in cheek, but not totally pointless. Stay safe.

They look amazing, Coop. I have a little RW time with an Avidyne equipped plane in my logbook, and I think their logic and ease of use take a lot of beating. Looking forward to tomorrow :-)

My suspicion would be that, as this is a very old product - originally written for X-Plane 9, I think - the installer is still 32-bit, which Big Sur won't run, even on an Intel Mac. Rosetta 2 just won't deal with it on the M1. As the sales of this are probably very small, maybe Cameron forgot (or didn't bother) to redo the installer in 64 bit. Of course, that's just a guess, and there may be another reason altogether!

Yup! That worked. All good. That was quick

Just to confirm, Coop: It doesn't display them on my Mac either. The plugin and g5.cfg files are identical to the last version, where it all worked perfectly.

Managed to do it myself

Hi THis works OK, but I'd like to do the 1.20 upgrade, so I can pop out the panels on the menu. Any chance of a new g5.cfg for me please? BTW, I notice that my Sundowner G5 was not working properly, but saw that you had already offered a new g5.cfg file for that, and it worked perfectly.

That did it! Well done. Your earlier instruction to put it into the G5 folder was the hang-up. Funnily enough, I thought I'd tried putting the .cfg file into the root directory, and on reflection I had - but it was the earlier version, not your new and improved one Nice of you to take the time to indulge this old f--t! Take care.

Hi Coop. No, it didn't work. I know you have better things to do with your time, so I'm not stresed with this at all. It's keeping me amused for a few minutes, while we are still locked down! I still get the dark screens, and can only start up the G5s from a popup. You can see what the file structure looks like. I just duplicated the G5 plane and called it G5 1.2, and experimented in that. Or could that be the problem? I deleted the settings directory, which had the old cfg file. What is interesting to me is that, somehow, a new (slightly smaller) g5.cfg file gets created in the plane's root directory, and I'm attaching it here. g5.cfg

Looking forward to these. I occasionally, RW, flew an Avidyne PA28 (they had them for a while), and they are a lot easier to use than a G1000. Watching some YouTubers with Avidyne GPS nav/coms, their logic is so impressive. I'm a little surprised that they didn't make a heavier dent in Garmin's almost overwhelming adoption in the larger manufacturers' planes. We Mac users can't avail ourselves of the Reality XP Garmins. I wish Aerobask would separately license their version of the GTN 750, which is pretty good...... So, it's LR's Garmins for us - which is not the end of the world, as the earlier Cirruses were so equipped anyway. True to life :-) BTW, Coop, you may not have seen that I added a note to the G5 "update" for the Mooneys forum thread. It was not fully successful.

Never assume anything is a piece of cake I substituted the plugin for the newer version, and resited the .cfg file to the base directory. Loaded up - and "Yippee" - had the menu in the X-Plane plugins menu - and it worked! The G5 screens all sat where they should. Looked promising! However, the G5 screens were blank (as if they were off - the "glass" looked normal). Undeterred, I had a look at the popups and they were off, too. So, I turned them on, and they both fired up. Whether the HSI was properly slaved to the GPS, I can't remember but, unfortunately, the panel G5s remained blank, no matter how I tried to fiddle with the switches on them. I moved the .cfg file around, renamed it to g5.cfg, and back again to no avail. I think I tried all combinations, but gave up after a while. Re-installing the PB5 got rid of the menu, of course, but somehow made the G5s power up inside the GNS530 screen! Very odd. There they were with the AI and HSI side by side...... It was getting very late, so I gave up. Today, rather than re-installing (which lets Cameron's uninstaller work), I just totally deleted both the "M20 Collection" and the "G5 Aircraft Installer" directories, and replaced them from Apple's great Time Machine, so things were back to where they were before I started playing. It all works again. So, obviously, there is an alteration to be made, somewhere in a file, to let the panel G5s fire up in the M20. If it's a simple edit, I'm happy to try. For me, it gives me something else to do on a Saturday

Thanks Coop. I must admit, I'd thought about doing that, but held off until you or Cameron suggested it (just in case it might mess things up). Thank you both for the service. Of course, I would have always had the recourse of just installing again from the PB5 installer. Have a great weekend - well, as much as you can in these crazy times.......

As I said, I thought about that, but didn't see why, because the G5 set up was already in place. Anyway, I ran the installer - which immediately told me that it was installed! Looking at the Mooney again in XP, nothing had changed. I have already said that I have assigned a key combination to give the HSI popup - that took two seconds. Reading about the .cfg file reminded me that I have never had to fiddle with that - either before I upgraded to PB5, and certainly not in the Sundowner G5 nor both the Islander G5 versions. Inspecting further, I saw that there is no g5.cfg file installed from the PB5 installer into the Mooney M20 G5 directory, nor anywhere else in the Mooney tree. Reading the page you referred me to, indicates that G5 is now at 1.20. That would presumably be the version that installs the plugin to X-Plane's menu. The installer I had bought from you is v1.0, and appears not to have changed when I checked the download link in my account. When running X-Plane, I can list the loaded plugins, of course, and the AFM G5 appears in the list with the Islander and Sundowner, but not with the M20. So, obviously, the Mooney does not have the X-Plane menu yet, and I see that many of the plugin files' creation dates are earlier than in the latest planes. As a reminder, I use an iMac, and Catalina. It's no big deal, because my key combo gives me my HSI popup, if I need it, but I'm just surprised that the Mooney pack hasn't had an upgrade. Also, it seems silly to click on the HSI G5 and get the AI popup, when I can't imagine that getting the appropriate instrument up in 2D is difficult to accomplish........ Loooking at the weather in Texas, aren't you glad you are in FL?

I have the latest release (PB5) of the M20, but haven't flown the G5 in quite a while. I have also got the Islander with the G5, and that has G5 options in the X-Plane plugins menu. However, although the G5 gauges are in the Mooney, and they work just fine, there are no entries in the X-Plane menu, and I don't see the G5 plugin loaded either - which is strange. In order to see a popup of the HSI, I have had to asign a keystroke. Maybe I'm dreaming, but I'm sure I had a menu option in PB4. As an experiment, I just re-installed PB5, but it looks the same. Am I supposed to run my G5 installer again? The G5 files seem to be in the M20 already.

I just saw this, Cameron, and you know the subject of trim has been kind of done to death elsewhere. It is a bit frustrating to have this problem, when the "pilot" has verified that the C of G is well within the envelope, but that does not necessarily mean the the plane can be flown with neutral trim. However, there is another aspect to this. It's the entertainment value of the plane in the sim. At the end of the day, the number of customers who either have flown or aspire to fly a turbine Islander, in the real world, will be vanishingly small! So, if Coop tweaks things to make it a bit easier to fly, even though it may be marginally less true to life (and I have to assume that Coop has had input from RW Turbine Islander pilots, when he was adjusting these parameters), does it matter much? I would venture that it doesn't. 99.9999% of the customers who buy this plane will be happy if it trims a bit more neutrally. OK, let it need more down trim when lightly loaded, but it's obviously upsetting quite a few customers. I remember, many years ago, flying in a Seneca, where we had to put a sandbag in the back to make it usable! So, sticking some extra weight here and there is a viable solution Coop's latest tweak certainly improved things a lot, but this "problem" is obviously still catching the punters out! Enjoy your day.

https://forums.x-plane.org/index.php?/files/file/44825-avitab-vr-compatible-tablet-with-pdf-viewer-moving-maps-and-more/ If you haven't already, you will need to register with the ".org" in order to download. After unzipping, put "Avitab" into your X-Plane's /resources/plugins for Macs (or \resources\plugins for Windows). It does not go into the TBM folder tree.

Couldn't be easier. When you open the downloaded zip file, you will create a folder, in which you have an osx-installer (for Mac users) and a windows-x64 installer. Click on the appropriate one, and follow the prompts. Have your X-Aviation login details to hand. Also, make sure you show the installer where your X-Plane 11 folder is. That's the folder (the root X-Plane folder) that you have to select. Also, you will be given a choice of using a beta of Gizmo, or the stable version. Your choice, but I am still using the stable version! The installer will do everything for you, and the plane will appear in your plane selection in X-Plane - it is installed under \Aircraft\X-Aviation in the X-Plane folder tree. When you first start it, you will be asked to fill in your X-Aviation login details again in a pop-up. That takes care of the licensing. Then you will be good to go. Have fun!