Burning Bridges

how is the sound?

how many people have purchased the 430/650 vs 750?

Yes now that you mention it, I also crashed when I was flying in the Arctic. I assume that was due to icing like you say.

Yes I understand, you want to do it properly. I commend that! Just wanted to point out that it can be done in 10 minutes at home by using "Auto Adjust Image". It will mess up your wonderful textures but looks way better in X-Plane 12 as of this date (imo) Otherwise your Saab works beautifully in X-Plane 12 so I think more people should use it.

Thanks for the reply Cameron. Yes it worked when I used the installer. Some remarks. The Saab 340 works surprisingly well in XP12. Like, I was genuinely surprised. The sound effects appear even better than in XP11 (maybe imagination), autopilot seems to work well and I could fly it without real problems. The throttle levers sometimes get stuck but that was already a problem in XP11. All in all this is now my favorite "copied" XP11 plane in XP12 and works much better than all others (Zibo, FJS 732 etc). The only real problem is cockpit lighting. I could mitigate that by increasing blrightness on several cockpit dds files (basically I just used "Auto Adjust Colors". attached screenshots, one under good and another under extremely bad lighting conditions in the Arctic). It's only a hack but it can be done in like 10 minutes and allows me to enjoy this plane and fly it in XP12 already. How hard would it be to make a pure graphical update that only adresses the cockpit brightness?

is there a particular trick to activating it under X-Plane 12? I copied it from X-Plane 11 (including the Gizmo plugin) and I get an error message on activation every time. The credentials must be right, if I enter the wrong password the window closes much faster and there is no error message just "Activation Failed" Is there a special version of Gizmo 64 for X-Plane 12?

2 days later the Saab flies normal again. It really seems to have been a "case of the mondays" (X-plane weather broken). Thanks for the tips.

I tried to take off with icing protection but no luck. And the first 2 attempted flights were in sunny Spain.

Once I reach 6000ft the airplane starts to rock violently like in a thunderstorm, autopilot cannot keep the plane on course and I have to abandon flight I tried both the Cargo and Passenger version, same problem

Yes but there is an "n" missing. It says "authorized personel"

Do you use FSE? I noticed that FSE can put quite a bit of cargo weight on the Saab, theoretically so much that I can barely take off.

What do you mean with "hardware plugins"?

How high do you rate the probability that a plugin interfers with trim of individual 3rd party aircraft?

No stress, I am used to what we have now but under some conditions X-Plane lightings is way too dark and it makes me feel depressed. A way to better illumínate the cockpit would be great and would make me enjoy the Saab much more - if it is technically doable. Other airplanes have the same problem but the cockpit in Thranda airplanes is better in that regard, especially the Piper Arrow.

I can't stand looking at a dark cockpit for extended periods with a dome light doing nothing during daytime, even when the cockpit is completely in the shadow. Even though the Saab is my favorite plane in X-Plane, and tend to fly with planes with less fidelity because they have better lighting (Fokker 50 for example). A developer on another forum was kind to supply we with some info how to change lighting for the Piper 28, and it was just a few lines a confíg file. Is there a set of paramters how to make the dome light work like a real lamp taht illuminates the cocjput and not just a set of brighter textures during night? If my appartment is dark I can turn on the light, even during daytime. Also the overhead lamps are completely non-functional and would provide additional lighting. They are there because pilots need them, so they should work. It's weird to have working headlamps in every passenger seat but not the one for the pilot.

Which update? Since I bought the Saab there has not been a single update.

It's possible to replace the sound file for the hydraulic pump with silence or something less annoying. The pump can also be managed by switching it off during flight and on before landing. We have no real damage so this is actually a little bit of a damage control simulation on which you can discover some of the other switches you never use

Good to hear that you are making the update and that it will adress the autopilot. I hope it will not take forever though. After 200+ hours with your Saab 340 I am getting close to giving in and buying a Carenado.

The autopilot oscillates like mad. On my last flight it was swinging left and right during an entire flight of over 700 miles. I tried increasing throttle, disengagae autopilot etc, CTOT autocoarsen was all off.

I also see those windows quite often, for instance when I accidentally hit trim during autopilot operation.

no, if I am at any height and 10,000 selected I need to set it to 9,900 or 10,100 first

The AP in this plane is frustrating. Sometimes when I set vertical speed and push VS it resets everything an engages with an insane rate of 3000 m/min, potentially killing everyone. Often nothing at all happens when I hit buttons. I have to enter a new selected height first, click several times and wait until it eventually engages. I think this is all related to how the programming of this plane is able to read data from the sim, it seems to have severe restrictions. You can still fly the plane without problems of course, but you must learn how to make the AP engage and how not to let it kill you.

Ok, thanks this will be greatly appreciated and I am sure you see the problem. A short //comment or something would already help greatly, it doesn't have to be a whole essay

I am currently confused by the many LES/xx functions in the joystick menu and their naming I could assign all basic functions so far, some were already descriptively named, others could be located by try and error But I know reach a point where I get lost with some functions Namely HDG_Slave I first assigned this to "Autopilot Heading Select and NAV arm" (which was suggested in a video). The XP function but I now noticed that it does not visually act on the HDG_Slave button, so it is probably misassigned. This would also explain why the button rarely works for me and brings up the white Gizmo windpw. I did a full text search in thepdfs and it did not bring up a list of functions. To better make use of this plane from this stage on I think I'd need a basic list with what the abbreviations mean and any other descriptive text to figure out what the function does.

The white window sometimes comes up when I use Heading Slave or Trim. I succesfully landed on a field near Dresden and got messages that I was attempting to move the plane with chocks in place. It was hilarious, should have taken a screenshot.