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I gotta tell ya, this CitationJet 525 has some of the best sounds I've ever heard in a flight simulator. Simply outstanding.

Agreed. I reenabled the Gizmo plugin, and my landing gear behaves as expected. Thanks Cam.

OMG. I'm loving this aircraft. The landing gear issue in my case was 3-fold. 1) X-Organizer app was disabling the X-Aviation plugin. 2) MalwareBytes was putting a plugin flie in quarantine, and; 3) I did not see my gear until I disabled the original Gizmo Plugin. Hope this helps someone.

I am spooling in with no gear. The suggestions in the link below don't appear to apply to my situation. https://forums.x-pilot.com/forums/topic/31849-cessna-525-no-landing-gear-or-operative-switches/ The aircraft really looks cool hubbering though. Log.txt

Coop, Congratulations on the product launch. It's in my virtual hangar, and I look forward to flying it. If I may go off-topic for a moment, the only aircraft I have keeping me tied to Gizmo is the SR22 Integra. Now that the Citation Jet has launched, perhaps you might circle back to Gizmo issue with the Integra? Thanks for all you do cause there's no way I could do it.

I enjoyed the CitationMax Stream. Wish I had caught it in real-time. The plane looks amazing, in and out.

I've enjoyed the raw sound test—now I can't wait to fire it up and make some noise that might just get me banned from the runway!

I've never heard that Austin personally has ever had an issue with .org, so I'm not sure he'd 'disfavor' it. While not grabbing .org when he grabbed .com might be considered a missed opportunity today, the environment at the time was probably different. Austin focused on the core product rather than ancillary details, IMO. The environment has changed since then. MSFS has demonstrated the value of attaching a shopping cart to the simulator, and I can't imagine that some of the staff haven't heard or experienced some of the war stories surrounding the .org. I have my own war story with .org, so I'm personally delighted to have a place to purchase products that do not support .org. Plus, I might no longer have to deal with extracting .zip files into folders. However, I'll always opt to purchase a product from X-aviation.com even if it's available at X-Plane.com.

Sweet!

I've learned that when I'm having an issue with anything in life, I should ask, Not what X can do for me, but what I can do for X. Maybe an approach to identify your issues, and report them as a bug for the next update might be a better approach. Just saying...

@Jim Michael I am finally back to flying, and my machine is running better than it ever has. I wound up throwing enough money at the problem. First, let's address your suspected issue. Your CPU is apparently damaged. Don't get your panties in a bunch; there is a fix (I enjoy being long-winded some days. I realize I could answer in 2 or 3 sentences) You will need to contact Intel and RMA the CPU. Unfortunately, you'll have to jump through the hoops that they'll put in front of you. If you're lucky, you may be able to return the CPU to the store it came from. I'd had mine for 3 months before the damage got unbearable. Yup! That's the fix. A new CPU. Here's my take on the CPU issue. Intel's CPU overheat protection system apparently does a terrible job. It's supposed to throttle down to avoid overheating. Mine apparently did throttle down because the system felt much slower than it should have, but I kinda ignored it It didn't throttle down enough to avoid heat damage. Why did your CPU overheat, you may ask. That's a great question. I choose an air-cooler. I'd read good things about the Noctua NH-D15 cooler, but the heat from the I9-14900 family was apparently no match for it. I bought a 2nd I9-14900 (the KF version as opposed to the K this time) and was able to run X-Plane beautifully with the NH-D15 installed. Since Intel claimed the issue was heat damage, I decided to go with a water cooler, the Arctic Liquid Freezer III 360. To my astonishment, the computer seemed to run much, much faster. I can finally see 80 & 90 FPS with relatively high graphics settings (albeit in cruise only). I'd never seen more than 45 FPS with the air cooler and Vatsim was a non-starter since I couldn't keep 20+ FPS, Anyhoo, I finally got my I9-14900K from intel, swapped it back in the computer and I couldn't be happier. I should mention that it took about 3-4 weeks from start to finish with Intel. Seems their reply time, (in my case) was about 3 or 4 days. Each email was prefaced with an apology for the delay in responding. Maybe they've sped up the response by now. Here's the reply you'd hoped I'd given - Heat damage. RMA or return the CPU, get a good water cooler. Hope this helps and good luck!

Care to bring me up to speed? JF from Just Flight? Posted where? Converting what?

Agreed. My story is quite similar. In 2017, when I started X-Plane I, too, was impressed with Carenado's aircraft. Then I learned how light on systems it was. I abandoned Carenado's PC-12 and started flying STMA's PC-12, which looked more like an XP10 version. Nevertheless, STMA's systems went a lot deeper and worked closer to the real aircraft, despite the antiquated textures. Back in 2020, I did a comparison of the two aircraft which highlights how lacking the Carenado version is.

Wow. I like what you've done with the screens. You might want to drop a comment into Russ Barlow's YT channel. He's been working on solutions for AirManager for years.