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Javier, I have taken the time to study the manual carefully and here's a list of some discrepancies i've found in the process. Most of them are minor and cosmetic bugs. Some might not be bugs per se, but rather my lack of knowledge of the real-life Jetstream. If that's the case, point it out, please. Mind you, those are observation made with 10.20 b7 [32-bit]. If you are not able to reproduce it using 10.11 (didn't check myself, sorry), then treat them as hints on what you may need to fix in the future patch when 10.20 is out of beta! Bugs: GPS on / off knob doesn't work (or at least it doesn't blank out the GPS screen). WXR on/off switch is OK. DH can be set in 10ft increments only. Is it like this on the real plane? Flight Director cannot be switched on independetly of the autopilot. Weird. Or maybe it's like this on the real plane? Transponder mode selector knob is slightly off the labels "STBY OFF", "ON" and "ALT". Here's what i mean: When selecting ACT button on ADF radios, "ACT" word doesn't show up left of the frequency. COM and NAV radios are OK. Some of the needles on the instruments become dark as soon as you start dimming the lights. This applies to "INSTRUMENTS" and "ROOF" rotary knobs. Here's a screenshot showing left panel with "INSTRUMENTS" knob at near max brightness setting (but not at max!). Notice how some of the needles became fully dark instantly (Right ENG TRQ, both EGT, Right Fuel QTY, needle of the Turn Coordinator), while some dim through the full range correctly. Same happens to overhead panel when dimming using "ROOF" rotary knob. Right Ammeter and Voltmeter needles are already dark: This can pose a problem when you want to fly dark cockpit with only instruments and labels backlight on. Cabin lights (selectable from the yoke) lights up pretty much the whole cockpit area. Not sure if that's the way it's supposed to work, but it makes other cockpit lights somewhat useless when cabin lights are on. When flying with autopilot engaged, Flight Director pitch bar is always some degress up off the airplane silhouete. First pic when maintaining altitude, second when in a steady climb using VS mode. You can also notice this behaviour in the video below. According to manual, IAS mode should adjust pitch to maintain speed at the time of engagement. As you can see in the video, it's not entirely true. Here's what i did when recording this video: - aircraft is maintaining 9000ft, heading mode, speed 175 KIAS - selected 11000ft in the altitude window and armed ALT SEL - VS mode selected, TCS used to establish shallow 500 fpm climb rate - adjusted power to maintain 170 KIAS in the climb - here's the funny part: IAS mode is selected so it should maintain more or less current 500 fpm climb rate, but instead it pitches up abruptly until it captures climb speed of 140 KIAS (why?!) - climb continues at 140 KIAS until proper altitude capture occurs at 11000 ft [ make sure to watch in 1080p if you want to see all the details! ] http://youtu.be/cbly31htVjY Feature requests / Suggestions: Addition of altimeter pressure setting in hPa (instead of inHg) would help a lot when flying outside of US! :] Right hand seat armrest is non-movable. It can be somewhat inconvenient when flying from right seat. It would be nice if you could make wiper PARK switch operational (i think i know why you dropped that - model dataref animation vs. plugin interaction?) That's all... for now! Javier, i hope you're ok with me pointing out so many - mostly subtle - bugs. I'm impressed how a single man could build this plane from scratch, including 3d model, animations, acf file and programming side of things. Quite an achievement i must say! I hope you will continue to nail all those little imperfections and show everyone else how it's supposed to be done. Even if you don't have PMDG budget!