yeah, in addition to those failure items, it would be good if they were linked to maintenance items that you needed to do before each flight (if enabled). check the brakes, fluids, tubes, 100hr, etc). and if you don’t, then those things you mentioned could randomly break. i had an airline flight delayed recently because the pilot, during his walk around, noticed brake fluid leaking onto the tarmac (more than normally allowed). they fixed it within 30 mins, but it was interesting to watch the walk around, diagnosis, and solution happen in real time
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Pet peeve: The area is called the “Ramp”. Tarmac is the material that some (but not all) ramps are made of. And if the pilot is finding a problem like that on their walkaround, maintenence probably screwed up. The pilot’s walkaround on an airliner is largely symbolic. There’s not a lot that they can actually access to check (except, of course, low down things like the wheels and brakes).
But the walk around is probably more important in smaller planes and twin otter is certainly in that category in my opinion.
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Surely if a liquid is leaking onto the ramp that is made of tarmac then the liquid is leaking onto the tarmac. That’s 100% a correct and accurate statement.
You dropped your phone onto the field? Or dropped it onto the grass? I would drop mine onto the grass.
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Yes, but was the ramp made of tarmac, or something else like concrete? I know I am being pedantic, but it’s a peeve of mine. You see the word used incorrectly in the know-nothing media all the time.
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I’m actually more bothered by the fact that the aviation industry has misappropriated a word whose definition is “a sloping surface joining two different levels” to describe a large flat area for parking aircraft on. It’s wholly illogical. 
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Also isn’t it specifically an American usage, other countries may still use tarmac…which I believe originally was a small hard-surfaced area on a grass airfield, laid using road-makers…
Does apron sound better to you?
“a small area adjacent to another larger area or structure.”
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Hate to say it, but Tarmac has come to be used more or less synonymously with ramp or apron in the US at least.
Can’t argue that the media is likely, in part, at fault for this though.
So, just like the way we used to speak “about” subjects but now we speak “to” them (as though they could answer) you can technically have a “Tarmac” delay…even on a concrete ramp!
As for preflights, I’ve caught quite a few things
on them, even though I couldn’t see the entire aircraft. Cut tires, unsecured wiring bundles, leaks, and lots and lots of birdstrikes! 
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Has Working Title or Asobo announced they’re developing the Honeywell Apex avionics for MSFS2024? Otherwise, it seems unlikely this new Twin Otter will be the 400 series.
They are developing one for the PC12 and I think that can be applied to the twin otter too. Watch the msfs fsexpo dev presentation.
Interesting! In that case, I’d say a 400 series seems more likely because I bet they wouldn’t invest time in creating another avionics solution for just one default aircraft.
Thanks for the background. It still bugs me though. It has the feel of a word’s meaning being changed in popular parlance after it gets misused for long enough by a bunch of numpties. [shakes cane]
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NOOOOOOO 
I want my classic Twotter! It will be a terrible shame if they gave us only the -400… I really thought we will get a good steam gauge turboprop in default but now it seems clear it will be glass cockpit. I can’t even express my disappointment. Defeats the whole purpose for me.
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Hell yeah ten characters
Or leaves room to a another proper classic twotter
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Made by bagolu? 
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I don’t think so, that’s a very complex one 
That’s literally how any modern language came to be.
Common misconception: despite the name “Dictionaries” don’t really dictate how words are supposed to be used, they only document common usage.
Language is a living, mutating thing that is constantly being (re)shaped by everyone who uses it and not something that is being decreed by a higher power.
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