Have you tried FSUPIC?
You sure you got it in the down position? If you’re using a toggle gear command or the G key or whatever it’ll go to the middle position first and you gotta hit that key again to get it to go into the down position. If it’s still not coming down then maybe it’s damaged.
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Yikes!
I’ll give it another look, thanks
Caught me off guard when I took off and pressed the button I have on my throttle for toggle gear, didn’t notice that it was a three way switch and pressing it just moved it into the middle position, another press and the gear came up. Looking at the Input Config app that comes with the plane you can actually assign different commands to gear up, neutral, and down if you have a three way switch going spare.
Autopilot ain’t that hard to figure out. Just assign a heading on the HSI, flip the AP switch then press the mode button on the AP dial so it’s in heading mode and it’ll follow that just fine. There’s a button on the yoke to turn on altitude hold as well, or just trim it out. The manual covers some other features I’ve not tried yet although it’ll apparently somewhat follow a GPS plan but does require a bit of manual intervention.
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In the tablet under Controls / Advanced Options you can disable the 3-way gear switch if you’re using a 2-way physical switch.
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What does the third position do, Neutral?
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It’s just neutral. I guess up or down sends a continuous signal to the gear motor so after you’ve raised or lowered you flip it into neutral so it stops doing that.
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Right, gotcha. Never heard of that before. Neither up nor down sound a bit quantum uncertainty. 
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I think I’ve seen something similar before but I can’t remember where. Maybe one of the airliners and something to do with hydraulics? God knows, but it is a bit different from the usual GA fare.
The landing gear knows where it is at all times. It knows this because it knows where it isn’t.
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From what I have read here so far, accessing controls using other than the mouse may be tricky. I hope they have exposed various cockpit switches to LVARs, and the like.
They have this config app that lets you assign a bunch of stuff that I assume is LVARs:
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thanks TwotoneMurphy
for giving a whole features overview, he just mentionned this
I’m currently putting myself through the torture of adapting my FSX World Tour livery to the MSFS version before even launching the sim for the first time. 
To be honest, I never exceeded the download limit on any of my aircraft downloads. Download, save, backup. And most devs usually reset the limit when an update comes out that requires to download the aircraft again (Blackbird for example).
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Anyone else using XPForce for a Force Feedback joystick? Having some trouble. Can’t get it trimmed so that I don’t need any pressure on the stick. What it does in other aircraft isn’t working. Could be by design oder by user error. I can move the zone, where I don’t need any pressure on the stick by trimming up and down so that the stick centers, when I’m correctly trimmed. Alternatively I move the zone where I don’t need any pressure on the stick to the point where the stick is on the pitch axis.
But with the commanche both isn’t happening. Trimming doesn’t affect the force feedback at all.
I have a Honeycomb Alpha and Bravo and have had no major issues. I have clicked the A/P master on and used the A/P mode button with my mouse, but most of the other switches and controls are working. Did a flight just now tracking GPS path and it works fine.
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That does seem very backward, though very configurable
Just got the plane and flew it around for a bit, and it’s really nice! Feels different from anything else, more realistic… and it sounds awesome too!
That is to say, it sounds awesome inside. On the outside al lI hear is PROP noise, but no actual engine gurgling and droning away. I checked a video of A2A’s comanche starting it’s engine, and you are supposed to hear the nice sound of the engine as well as the prop.
maybe it’s a setting somewhere, but it’s seems very odd for a plane that focuses so much on sounds and the realism thereof. Ayone have an idea what may be going on?
Didn’t Scott do it with FS Realistic? Perhaps it’s that, can’t remember.
As a follow-up, Scott did chime in with a response to my question on avsim, and said this:
Hi Len,
Our flight model aerodynamics are 100% outside MSFS including wind physics (we read the weather conditions reported by the simulator). This is why the airplane feels different as it flies through the air. We started developing this system three years ago, and this has been a dream of ours for some time so I hope everyone enjoys it. It should feel very fluid and natural.
Scott
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