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I haven't found one yet and I'm desperate to know what the buttons on the armrests do !

Then maybe it's time to start talking to customers about when we'll start to see the results of the development ?

Unfortunately at the moment the devs attention is focused on the CL650 and the TBM900 isn't getting the attention it could do with right now.

One problem I'm spotting with this new version is I cannot get the FD/AP to engage. I've checked the AP Turn wheel is centred (to the extent of checking the dataref value in Spad is 0) but it nothing seems to work. Is there a trick I'm missing ?

If the plane is dependent on third party plug-ins that haven't been updated with Apple M1/M2 support then there's not much anyone other than the plug-in developers can do. However if the Mu-2 is only reliant on the Gizmo plugin there is now an experimental version of that that's supposed to now include native Apple ARM support https://blog.x-plugins.com/2023/02/gizmo64-version-23.html I've been using that for a couple of months on PC and it's worked with all the X-Aviation planes I've tried including the Mu-2 so stability seems to be OK on PC at least.

In the meantime has any consideration been given to a very basic patch to at least allow the plane to fly in XP12 ?

Thranda stopped working with Carenado back in 2019 and moved onto doing their own planes. https://forums.x-plane.org/index.php?/forums/topic/197780-thranda-and-xp11-carenado-c208/#comment-1803422 They do still work with Just Flight on their XP aircraft and just released on the first XP12 updates for the JF planes. As for Carenado themselves there's zero evidence they have any interest in X-plane at all at the moment.

Some of the XP Carenado planes had the distinct advantage that the conversions were done by Thranda who were able to improve on the originals (and also open them up to for Simcoders REP support).

I can definitely appreciate that with the stock aircraft but I personally lean towards a little more latitude when it comes to optional system and add-ons - allowing people the option to choose to some extent what feels right for them to fly, whether that exactly matches the real world or not

This is flight simming- I suspect 90% of what we do would be frowned up by one regulatory body or another

Just installing the updated version of the RSG G5 avionics and it got me wondering if there's any chance of a version somewhere down the line of the Mu-2 with support for this for people who want a bit of glass in the cockpit but don't want to go full G500 ?

Excellent news. REALLY hoping this update fixes the crash problem with XP12 :)

Any progress on this in the last couple of months ?

Support for the SteamDeck + is currently being added to Spad.Next to allow you to not just read the switches and dial but to dynamically update the button display including simple gauges. (The Loupedeck will hopefully be getting support for setting labels and images as well at some point)

I was hoping that the RC5 fix to scenery data might be related to the CTD problem and have resolved it but that doesn't look to the the case - just tried with a fresh XP12 RC5 copy with only the G500 installed and I'm still getting the crash. Is there any progress identifying what might be causing the issues coming at the problem from the RSG side ? (included a copy of log.txt from the clean instance just in case there's something useful there) Log.txt

No problem, if you need any more information or logs please let me know.

That's odd as a number of people have found the G500 started CTDing when it's powered from XP12b5 (?) onwards. I've just tried a fresh install of G500 with an empty mod Plugins, just default files in Custom Scenery folder and only the LR aircraft and C172-G500 in the Aircraft folder and it crashed with the attached log.txt generated when the battery was turned on. Is there any additional logging for the G500 (or possibly OpenGPWS plugin) that can be enabled to see what's happening ? Log.txt

That's very odd as it's causing a CTD on mine and a number of other user's PCs very shortly after powering on - seemingly at the point the left display would start showing the map.

I notice the XP12 screenshots include the G500 but it seems that the current G500 version isn't compatible with recent XP12 beta releases - does this suggest there's a XP12 G500 release on the near horizon ?

Is there any news on the G500 rework ? The XP12 specific version of the Beech Sundowner is apparently about to release with a G500 cockpit so it'll be a pity if we don't have the working avionics to go with that.

I understand that but the v2.0.2 release is usable in XP12 so I'm trying to find out if there's any information on whether this patch changes that.

There's nothing in the patch notes on XP12 compatibility for this patch, so should be assume it's kinda working in a similar manner to v2.0.2 ?

I'm seeing problems with the G500 stalling then crashing the sim after it's powered on in an aircraft with the latest beta 0.3 release.

That's great - if it's a paid update that's fine to keep the Saab going on for another generation.

Is it safe to assume the Gizmo licensing system is working XP12 as well then ?