If you owned it in 2020, the old Textron model is now available for use in 2024. Once you enable it, it will warn you that it will replace the Asobo model that came in 2024. If you allow it, you will now see it as one of the available variants.
Once you select it, for some reason it will retain that selection for subsequent flights and not revert back to the default G1000 cargo version. Also, you don’t have to perform a walk around as there are no covers or chocks in place. You can’t click on the door handle to enter the plane, so you’ll have to have something mapped to the “take control of character” command to get into the cockpit.
I did have one flight where the flight controls were a little wonky, but I don’t know if it was because of the older plane model or not. I had a lot of oscillation in the pitch. But several other flights were just fine.
Would be nice to know what the actual difference is between these models. Like does 2024 steam 172 use any of the new CFD flight modeling? Is there increased modeling and texturing detail? Or is the 2024 version basically just a 2020 port with some of the walk-around features added.
This may not be such a good idea after all. I’m still having flight handling issues with this aircraft. It occasionally noses over severely without any control input. It just did it feet from touchdown causing a crash.
This may not happen for everyone, who knows. So it might be worth a try. But I’m going back to the new version.