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2 hours for Ben? He can code an entire system for an A380 in 2 hours!

Wow. Is that beast still around?? ; Ok, give me a day or 2 and I'll take a look.

Mistaking a civilian aircraft for a military aircraft has happened before. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_Air_Lines_Flight_007

Not in any way insinuating this is the airlines fault, but if there's a shark in the water, you stay out of the water. There were warnings in place for airlines not to fly over this airspace.

Flying over Ukraine airspace is a very dangerous flight path to take. Just found out that it's the shortest route and they flew the route to save money on fuel. Fact or fiction? Who knows. But if it's true, is this what price wars are coming to? Getting them there safely is a close second to making a profit??

Doesn't get much more incriminating than that.

HDR needs to be ON for the landing lights to light up the ground. They are custom lights (not textures) and can only be seen with HDR enabled.

Yes

The plug in is using x-planes sdk and the sdk doesn't allow it.

Yeah, you're pestering. Instant ban! Very weird. This has happened before...particularly to the Saab, where an animation would get corrupted for no reason. In the Saab, it happened to the landing gear and I had to dig up an old back up and re-animate it from scratch. I'll look into it and get an update out soon.

Highly unlikely. Newer cockpit would need new mesh, textures, code. Probably would need to be completely reworked from scratch. The cabin is deliberately left at "lower" detail than the cockpit for performance reasons. (The entire mesh, exterior and Interior is about 1.6 million polygons as it is) IF we even decide to modernize it, it would definitely be a paid upgrade and paid upgrades are often frowned upon by customers.

Does there need to be?

Thank you for the comments, gentlemen! Very much appreciated. If there are any support issues, please post them in the forums.

They certainly are. Retro-fitted. Some have a dual GNS

http://forums.x-pilot.com/topic/6905-amphibian-landing-gear-fix/

Yeah, keep cheering. I have to put up with an angry Spanish wife who has 2 sisters and 2 brothers...and every single 1 of them, including my wife, is a soccer fanatic. She ain't happy!

To calibrate the condition levers, you need to open the condition lever calibration utility in the Gizmo sidebar. The one major flaw in this is that you will have to calibrate it each time you open X-Plane. This is something we could not work around as it involves digging into X-Planes code and, as you know, that is not possible. Regarding starting from 3nm out from an airport...I don't know of ANY add on that uses a variety of plug ins that can do this without something going wrong. If you need to practice approaches, you could always do a circuit at your airport of choice and practice touch and go's. The tutorial, included in the Manuals folder, includes a startup section. We have also included a virtual checklist (opened using the Gizmo sidebar) which snaps the camera to the area where you need to be as you progress further along the checklist.

My pride isn't hurt at all. To be honest with you, you're the first person to say this aircraft is too hard to fly. I just think that saying it's a waste of money is quite a stretch. If you want to know what a waste of money is, buy something from Abacus. To address your issues... I can operate the Power levers with my throttle quadrant and I can use a separate axis with the Condition Levers once calibrated in the Gizmo menu. Rudder, ailerons, elevators all work flawlessly. The normal method of making condition levers is to use a default (generic) mixture dataref that is available in x-plane. We had to make ours from scratch to use a combination of mixture AND prop control. Not an easy task by any stretch. I spent many days, nights and weeks with Jim running through tests and modifying the flight model while Jim made changes to the code. In saying all this, landing gear, flaps, brakes, etc... all work. G raises and lowers gear. Flaps can be set by binding the command to a key or button. I'm not sure on the radios as I have gotten used to operating them using the mouse. I can't comment on other developers add ons or why they work flawlessly with your hardware. I don't have any of them and don't wish to speculate. It's not really that difficult to fly once you get a good flow going. Have you tried the tutorial? I made sure it covers many of the items needed in various scenarios of flight. If you just want to fly it, we implemented an Auto Start feature that gets you started. All you need to do is tune radios and set Condition Levers to Max. If we made it any easier, it'd be an Airbus.

I'm going to give you the benefit of the doubt here and strongly assume you didn't really think this was a waste of money. Even though you mentioned it twice. We spent an extraordinary amount of time in making this add on as realistic as possible, and we had to overcome quite a few obstacles in the process. The throttle quadrant alone took about 3 months to code with the condition levers taking up much of that time. Realism is something the x-plane community has been screaming for over the last few years and we worked very hard to deliver. So, PLEASE, I am politely asking you to choose your words carefully. Before dismissing this product as a waste of money, you could simply start by asking for help in the appropriate forums and we can take it from there.

Left image is the steering tiller. Right image is Oxygen.

This is likely the friction on the landing gear. This has been changed for the update. In the meantime, if you know how to make the change yourself, change the "rolling co friction" from 0.185 to 0.123

Not sure what you did, but it does work. Selected FMEE and tuned to 112.90

Best bet would be to take it to a computer store and have it looked at properly.

First thing you need to do is check that ALL your fans are working. Especially the CPU and Graphics card fans. I once put together a computer and the fan was properly secured and was hanging off the 2 bottom pins with the 2 top pins completely detached and the fan not doing much cooling. The computer would die after booting up. Also, check that all fans are free of dust. You would be surprised how many people don't blow the dust out of their PC case, particularly the graphics card. I've seen some PC cases look like the cookie monster was stuck inside. Take the acrd out and really blow all the dust out of it.. Make sure you earth yourself before doing so. Static electricity to circuit boards is like a lightning bolt to humans.

I'll have to load it up and check these items you mentioned. It's been pretty hectic around me, so I haven't had much of a chance to really check the forums. Give me about another day.