That’s a great repaint! Hopefully the radio silence means the dev is hard at work. Let’s not forget that this addon as well as a few others suffers from precipitation within the cockpit, which from my research, can only be addressed by editing the 3D model to include an exclusion box around the area which should be enclosed. To me this is far more annoying than having to tune the radios myself.
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Looks great!
Only one small note or remark:
These two pipes are the exhaust of the engine, so they are very hot when the plane operate, so I could not be painted (otherwise the paint burn down from it) So maybe it sould remain as on the original livery.
Anyway, did you plan to share this livery somewhere with the P.149 owners? At flightsim.to or anywhere else?
Yes, eventually.
If you look at any pictures of refurbished P149’s you’ll see those exhaust pipe covers are all painted. In fact, those are basically ejectors, the exhaust pipes are inside them, and the space around the exhaust pipes in the ejector is the exit the cooling air entering at the front. The engine compartment has a series of baffles that direct cooling air to various locations in the engine compartment, and the ejectors allow the air to flow through, and I imagine add some thrust as well.
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No update news on fb?
Sorry for asking but I haven’t spybook account.
I don’t have a FB account, and their page has Jan 16 as the latest post. The dev also seems to have stopped responding to emails.
Thank you for the update.
Doesn’t sound good, hope he’s ok.
Yeah, their FB page is silent and they aren’t responding to comments.
When will this beta end? 
I sent an email yesterday asking about progress and just got a reply saying that work is in progress but they have a few more bugs to close.
I guess it’s taking longer than we’d all hoped, but that’s the way with software.
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Thanks, that’s good to hear. I’m perfectly happy flying it as is, I’ve been flying the plane quite a bit lately 
I have seen 3 betas until now, the autotone was solved in the first already, but there are more todos, the bended prop issue was solved in the first one, and than came back in the third… 
The developers can’t tell when will it be it ready, just that they would release a perfect update.
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thanks to answering my question
Unfortunately, it seems the public screams when everything’s not perfect, but, given there’s only one comm in the plane, I would have appreciated an update with just the autotune in it.
Bent props issue? I don’t know that one? Are people complaining because the props are bent in the hangar when you first see it? Eh, change from livery and back and it’s fixed. Is there something else?
What else are they solving?
I’ve been flying the plane a ton lately. No issues except for the auto-tuning radios. Not a huge deal, but would be nice to get a fix. But I’m not going to die without it
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There is an issue where if you and a friend are both flying this plane ( and the AT Simulations Cri-Cri) in multiplayer, the LODs are jacked up and you only partially see parts of the planes. I think the P.149 is totally invisible, actually.
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“Eh, change just change the frequency by mouse on the radio and it’s fixed…”
Please take into consideration that, there are issues what you want to solve, and there are others what another players would like!
Personally I don’t care so much with the autotune function, rather I prefer tune the frequency from H.O.T.A.S., but this also did not solve until now!
I can agree with the developers they want a very good job, solve all issues and release a perfect update.
These are the issues and todo list collected by the developers:
- canopy shaking in hangar
- bended prop issue fixed
- COMM radio autoset
- DG gauge improved
- multiplay
- pilots outside bug fixed
- cockpit warming
- wind sound from windows
- aircraft description
- COMM sound need to check
- COMM adjustments with devices
- glass on lights
- manual gear down
Cockpit Warming?
I thought Pilots outside was fixed? (I’ve never seen it)
I’m imagining invisible multiplayer is just because they only created the single LOD? I’m imagining if people want to fix that now without waiting for the update they could point the missing LOD’s to LOD0 somehow?
Glass on Lights… I assume the nav lights, or is that fixing the flashing on the landing lights?
I was happy to see the update fixed the blocky nav light effect. But, has anyone else noticed that the starboard nav light is out now… I keep meaning to see if I can fix that.
Weren’t people saying it rains into the cockpit? Or am I thinking of a different plane? I haven’t seen it myself but I know it’s a thing. Even in the real plane 
Aircraft description… Yeah, I’m still trying to figure out how to get the “type” callout to work with ATC, for this and other planes. That one’s got me stumped.
The only reason I’d want the comm autotune to work is there’s just the single comm radio, so I can’t set up frequencies ahead of time. But, I like that idea with the HOTAS, I could use some unused switches or buttons on my controllers to tune the radio.
DG Gauge improved? Are they thinking of adding the DG/Magnetometer switch? I don’t mind the gyro precession, in fact I kind of like it, the DG in the Warrior I fly precesses just as badly
There also needs to be some kind of fix to the Comm radio modelled being entirely incompatible with the European 8.33KHz frequencing spacing.
But I don’t know if they hope to fix that in this release or of that’s a longer term goal.
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Another small issue to add to the list… In the english cockpit panel text, the text titles for the for the Beacon and Navigation switches are switched.
Are you talking about the fact that the dials don’t switch to certain numbers sometimes? Yes, that is a problem, too. I’m pretty sure that wouldn’t happen in the real radio no matter how old it was.
The fix for that is that is to spin the dials a few times back and forth, and, eventually, all the numbers are available.
But, it is possible to access 118.000 - 136.975 once the numbers become available for choice.
No, it’s that about 3 years Europe changed how they spaced out comms frequencies for all aircraft (changes came in earlier for planes flying above FL195 and then IFR aircraft)
To quote from a CAA page on the change
“25 kHz frequencies end with: 00, 25, 50 or 75.
An 8.33 kHz channel will have a 6 digit channel ending: 05, 10, 15, 30, 35, 40, 55, 60, 65, 80, 85 or 90.”
(For example I’m currently flying into Exeter EGTE and the Tower frequency is 119.805 and ATIS is 119.330)
Any old style of radio, such as the one being modelled in the 149 simply doesn’t handle these kinds of frequencies so you can only use it to talk on specifically exempt frequencies like the emergency frequency
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