Michele Longhi

Update for anyone stuck like me: I bought Gizmo64 LTS and replaced the plugin. The aircraft now works natively on Apple Silicon. Now just for the comedy value: Challenger 650: 124$ Native Gizmo64 LTS: 13.60$ So the final “working” setup costs the price of a glass of decent red — yet the official recommendation is still “run the entire sim under Rosetta.” That’s the absurd part. The fix is tiny, the performance cost is not. This isn’t about technology — this is about caring for all customers. I’ll leave it here. Cheers

Sure. Even Ben Russell himself states that X-Aviation will eventually move away from Gizmo. What I’m trying to understand is this sentence: “And if it’s never updated, it’ll never have support.” What does that practically mean? Is the current position simply: “If we update it someday, fine. If we don’t, then Mac customers will never have native support.” Because that reads less like a technical limitation, and more like a policy choice. I’m just trying to get clarity. If the current stance is “no native Apple Silicon support until Gizmo is removed, even though a native build exists”, then at least that needs to be clearly communicated to customers.

Same here on Apple Silicon (is anyone still flying X-Plane on Intel Macs in 2025?). What I find strange is that the Gizmo developer (Ben Russell) already offers a native Apple Silicon build. So the solution literally exists right now. For clarity: the plugin costs 14 dollars on the developer’s website. I’d pay it, and I probably will — even just for testing — if it actually makes this thing work. But that’s not the point. This is a matter of principle: if a native build exists, the distributor should be shipping the native build. Full stop. Rosetta isn’t free, at all. It costs FPS, not lightly. We’re not talking about a spreadsheet — this is a real-time simulator. Running the entire sim under Rosetta in 2025 to support a single plugin doesn’t look like a technical limitation. It looks like lack of interest in supporting Apple Silicon customers properly. I’ve opened a ticket as well. Still waiting.