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Looking to find sometime to do a couple more fixes to cut a new release. Trying to do as fast as possible.

Depending on the lighting. If the instrument is backlit, will look brighter even in the day if you turn on instrument lighting. Here though, the instruments are not backlit, but each one has 1-2 lamps in front that cast light on the instrument. This light has no effect under day lighting, because of X-Plane.

Which plane?

In the Autopilot section, has a link for X-Plane's S-TEC 55 autopilot documentation, how's operation is identical. Here's the link: https://www.x-plane.com/manuals/S-TEC_Autopilot_Manual.pdf Also, there is a video tutorial for the Autopilot from Philipp, the guy who code it for X-Plane:

OK, it is a peculiarity of the Autopilot. You have to be below the glideslope and in ALT mode. Then press the APPR button and you should get both ALT and GS indications. When the glideslope needle is about 1/3 above the center, you must press the ALT button. The ALT indication will go away and only the GS will be visible (regarding the vertical navigation). Then the aircraft will follow the GS to the ground.

Do you mean does not?

You don't get glideslope deviation, or the autopilot does not follow the glideslope?

Sure she does! Check the online manual and if you have any questions, please ask! https://airfightergr.github.io/les_c23_docs/

@blondejfx there is an initialization issue, which will be fixed in the next update. Until then, there is a walkaround: Let the GTN650 to boot up normally. When you pass through the initial screens, you'll end up as your pic above. Let the unit to turn to COM mode. Press the small FMS knob to go into NAV mode. Turn the volume knob all the way down. Now turn the volume up. The NAV is now powered.

Thanks for reporting. I will look into this and let you know about a solution.

Open the file LES C23 Sundowner/objects/cockpit_objs/LES_Sundowner_cockpit.obj with a text editor (preferably something like Notepad++). 1. Search for "les/C23/avionics/gtn650/home" and change it to "RXP/GTN/HOME_1". 2. Search for "les/C23/avionics/gtn650/direct" and change it to "RXP/GTN/DTO_1". This will fix the issue. Of course will be fixed in the next update.

I added an option to control flaps via axis. I will try to release the update as soon as I can.

Very nice setup! I hope to enjoy it, with the Sundowner as well, to the fullest!

The tablet is stored behind copilot's yoke. See here in the online manual. https://airfightergr.github.io/les_c23_docs/all_acfs/lowrightpanel/. About the flaps, I will do some research and let you know. Probably you might need to setup axis with detents.

Correct. It's a bug that is to fix in the next update I'm working on.

I have started working (slowly) on the update and this is already done.

I tested, but couldn't replicate it. In the contrary, I has the opposite, no flag when it should have been a flag. I check my setup and found some interesting "issues". Anyway, I fixed it now for the 2.0.4 update. I think might have been some changes in the sim about the gyros in the last updates. Keep in mind that needs electric power from the inverter and flags will go out when the gyros are aligned.

This happens everywhere? If not, in which airport you were in when this happened?

I think this is mostly due X-Plane's "dark cockpit" issue. X-Plane does not show any extra lighting during the day, whatever you've fully turned on the lights or not. Expecting Laminar to fix it.

I don't want to be a ...downer (eh? Sundowner->downer, see what I did here?), but the market for such products is very niche. Even the work on updating C23 for XP12, with all the additions, was free, so there is any incentive to expand on that project.

Yes we can pump up the brightness, but can you post a picture with the lights at full intensity?

You can grab by the bottom and move it around as shown here:

@diamonddriller if you want please do an experiment. Duplicate the C23 folder. Rename the new folder with a "_500" at the end. From the original folder, delete the rsg_g500 and OpenGPWS plugins, from the C23/plugins/ folder. Also from the top C23 folder, delete the LES_Sundowner_G500.acf file. From the new "_G500" folder, delete all the .acf files, except the LES_Sundowner_G500.acf one. This way the G500 is separated from the other acfs, and the other acfs, separate from the G500. Test it if that's works better. If so, in the next update, I might separate the acfs to each own folder. Programmatically, I am disabling the G5 when is not in use. But, because the G500 depends on another plugin and and using multiple threads, it is impossible to disable them without crashing X-Plane. So G500 will be enabled, even when not used.

C23 comes woth libradio plugin, to provide better simulation of signal reception, but seems to create this issue. Remove the plugin from the C23/plugins/ folder, and reload the aircraft.